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MacKeachanfromKeach

MacKeachanfromKeach
Location
Concord, New Hampshire,
Birthday
December 01
Title
Do I need one ?
Company
Bead One, Thread Too
Bio
I grew up with one parent, my mom. When I was about 11 years old my mom worked at the Orson Wells Film School in Cambridge, Massachusetts and I spent many hours either at the Film School part or at the theater part. I was there so often that I had a running tab at the candy counter. I must have seen "Forbidden Planet" over 27 times ! The years I was the most involved with film and acting was around 1972/73, when i played Vera Sapleton in a short story called, "The Open Window". Sometime around 1978 I had an opportunity to take an acting class at Emerson College in Boston. My home life was toxic, however, and I was not encouraged to pursue an acting career. I spent some time away from the toxicity that was "Hartless" Place in Woburn and learned black and white photography from my uncle, Jack Radcliffe, who taught at a College in Maryland. Although Prof. Radcliffe wrote a recommendation for me to continue my photographic study upon return to the Woburn School System I was told that I could not take photography because I was not a Senior (in High School). Since High School had become a waste of my time I quit school and after working full time for 3 months had enough money to purchase enough materials to build my own (blk & wht.) dark room in the bathroom annex. My photography had to share space with the laundry, but it worked okay for awhile ... until the next family crisis came along. To enter the military I earned my G.E.D. I endured Basic Training, but became homeless after graduation on Fort Dix in 1983. In 1988 I lost my mom and half sister in a house fire and started to appreciate and research my maternal genealogy (Keach and Rawson). In 1995 I graduated from Rivier College, Nashua, NH with a BFA in Graphic Design, but have not become employed in that field. I have traveled to England and Scotland and continue to maintain a valid US Passport. I have one son, who is unemployed. I have one half brother, who is deaf. I have one cat, who stays inside. I live in one house. I drive a Nissan. I create with Adobe Photoshop (mac version). I bead with Delica seed beads and semi precious stone beads. I own and manage one small business. I live with asthma.

APRIL 5, 2009 10:42AM

MacEachain Motto Per Mare Per Terras

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Re: MacEachain Motto PER MARE PER TERRAS

Posted by: Monica MacKeachan (ID *****2406)Date: May 05, 2005 at 19:13:37In Reply to: MacEachain Motto by Gen Leaves of 6 
From the "Historical Research Center" I have the following "Family Name History"

MACKEACHAN

"Surnames are not just words or sounds. They originated as descriptions of the person for reasons of better and easier identification. These early additional names were discarded with each succeding generation. They described one individual and not his whole family. These names dated from the early Middle Ages. With regard to the Scottish surname MacKeachan this name is of patronymic origin. Patronymic surnames are those names which derive their origin from the personal name of the father of the initial bearer. In this instance, the surname Mackeachan, along with varients including Macceachan, Maceachain, Maceachen, Maceachin, Maceachan, Macechan, etc., is the anglicized form of the Gaelic surname Mac Eachainn which means literally 'son of Eachan'. The personal name Eachan is in turn derived from the Old Irish (the origin of Scots Gaelic) Eachdonn (attested in 1092) from ancient Ego-donno-s meaning 'horse lord'.

It has been said by some of the Mackeachans that they are in fact MacDonalds while Allan R. MacDonald claims they are really MacLeans. Indeed they are listed as a sept of the MacDonalds of Clanranald who claim descent from Ranald father of Donald. One of the earliest records of the surname is a reference to one Gillecrest Macachin who witnessed a charter by Roger de Scallebroc of land sin Carrik in the reign of William the Lion. Andrew McCachin was rector of Ardmuch in 1506 while Neill Makachyn and Malcolme Makachyn were killed in 1508. Ewan McEachan was a tenant under Chisholm of Eerchles in 1721. Many of the Mackeachan sept settled in the Canadian regions of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island where the surname is found today in quite large numbers."

THEIR MOTTO IS PER MARE PER TERRAS

OVER LAND AND OVER SEAS

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I have yet to find any living MacKeachans in Nova Scotia. It is my hope that someday I will be able to travel to Nova Scotia and spend about a week there ... mostly looking through archives, but some time out of doors, as I LOVE NATURE : ) (and the OCEAN is a big part that I do not get to spend enough time with : (