Index of Names in Irish Annals: d'Exetra, Mac Siúrtáin

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Version 2.0, updated 10 May 2012

Family Name: d'Exetra, Mac Siúrtáin

Background:

Jordan de Exeter (d. 1258) was among the Anglo-Normans who came to Ireland in the late 12th and early 13th centuries. Through the early 14th century, there are instances in Gaelic records of men with Gaelic forms of de Exeter, which seems to have been interpreted as a surname by that time.

Sons of Jordan de Exeter carried the literal byname mac Siúrtáin 'son [of] Jordan' in Gaelic records. Over time, this byname became an inherited surname, with the head of the family using it as a title.

Spellings:

What we know as a set of Irish Annals are manuscripts that were each compiled during a particular time period, usually using older material as sources. For example, when the Annals of the Four Masters were written from 1632 to 1636, they covered events that occurred centuries and millenia before (including legendary history). So, when an entry in this set of annals refers to a person who lived in the year 738, the spelling used for that person's name is very likely not using the spelling that would have been used in 738.

Standard forms of this name (based on spelling systems of different periods) would be:

Early Modern Irish Gaelic (c1200-c1700) nominative form:	d'Exetra, Mac Siúrtáin
Early Modern Irish Gaelic (c1200-c1700) genitive form:	?, Mhic Shiúrtáin

Frequency & Dates:

Number of men found in the annals with this name:	22
Found in Years:

Research Notes:

"'son of Jordan' (v. Siúrdán); a patronymic surname assumed by the descendants of Jordan D'Exeter, an Anglo-Norman family who settled in Co. Mayo, but in 1571 were, according to Campion, 'very wild Irish'." Woulfe (p. 407 s.n. Mac {S.}iúrtáin)

Sources:

Further information about the surname Mac Siúrtáin, may be found in:

• Woulfe (p. 407 s.n. Mac {S.}iúrtáin).

The Sources page lists the Annals referenced below. Information about secondary sources is included on that page as well.

Raw Data

In the table below, I have separated individuals with a blank line. That is, when there are multiple entries in the annals that refer to a single person, those entries are grouped together.

Within the list of entries refering to a single person, I have sorted the entries primarily by orthography when it is obvious that what I am seeing is the same entry showing up in multiple annals. The entries that tend to use older spellings are listed first.

Special factors which may affect name usage are marked in the context column.

AN	indicates a member of an Anglo-Norman family
N	indicates a Norseman
R	indicates a person holding a religious office
S	indicates a person from Scotland

NOTE: The Annals referenced below under the code letters A, B, C, E, & F tend to use later spellings than the other Annals. In some cases, the spellings listed in these Annals may not be appropriate for the year referenced in the Annal entry.

In some Gaelic scripts, there is a character that looks approximately like a lowercase f, but without the crossbar. This character (represented by an underscored , e, in the entries below) sometimes represents e and sometimes ea depending upon the context of the text.

[Standardized Gaelic form of this person's name] (modern literal translation of person's name)
Annals	Entry	Context	Citation (formatting preserved)
[Siúrtán d'Exetra] (Jordan de Exeter, d. 1258)
Co	1247.8	AN	Siurtan d' Exetra
C	M1247.7	AN	Siurtán d'Exetra
LC	LC1247.8	AN	Siurtán de Exetar ["Jordan de Exeter"]
MCB2	MCB1247.5	AN	Siurtan d'Esetur
Co	1248.5	AN	Siurtan d' Exetra
C	M1248.4	AN	Siurtan d'Exetra
LC	LC1248.5	AN	Siurtán dExetar
MCB2	MCB1248.2	AN	Siurtán d'Esetur
LC	LC1249.13	AN	Siurtán
Co	1258.7	AN	Serriam Connacht .i. Siurtan d'Esetra ["The Sheriff of Connacht, Jordan d'Exeter"]
C	M1258.10	AN	Siurtán d'Exter Sirriam Connacht ["Jordan de Exeter, Sheriff of Connaught"]
LC	LC1258.5	AN	Sirriam Connacht, .i. Siúrtán dEissétar
U2	U1258.2	AN	Siurtan Gaileang ["Jordan Gaileang [de Exeter]"]
[Siúrtán d'Exetra] (Jordan de Exeter, d. ?)
U2	U1270.3	AN	Shiurtan d'Eisetra
Co	1273.4	AN	Siurtan d'Exetra
C	M1273.4	AN	Siurtán d' Exetra
LC	LC1273.3	AN	Shiurtán Dexetar
U2	U1307.4	AN	Siurtan d'Eisetra
Co	1311.5	AN	Siurtan d'Exetra
C	M1311.4	AN	Shiurtán d'Exetra
LC	LC1311.4	AN	Siurtán Dexetar
MCB2	MCB1311.3	AN	Siurtan d'Esetur
[] (Simon de Exeter, d. 1284)
Co	1284.2	AN	Simand d'Exetra
C	M1284.5	AN	Siomand d' Exetra
LC	LC1284.1	AN	Simann Dexetar
[] (Meiler de Exeter, d. 1285-1289)
U2	U1285.7	AN	Mailir d'Eisetra
Co	1289.8	AN	Mailir d'Exetra
C	M1289.6	AN	Maoilir d' Exetra
LC	LC1289.7	AN	Maoilir Dexétar
[] (Stephen de Exeter, d. 1313-1316)
U2	U1313.1	AN	Sleimne d'Eisetra, tigherna in baile ["Slevin de Exeter, lord of the town"]
Co	1316.4	AN	Stiamna d'Exetra
C	M1316.1	AN	Slemne d' Exetra ticcherna an bhaile
LC	LC1316.3	AN	Sdiamna dExétar ["Stephen de Exeter"]
[] (Meiler de Exeter, d. 1314-1317)
U2	U1314.3	AN	Mailir d'Eisetra, tigherna Atha Lethain
Co	1317.4	AN	Mailir d'Exetra tigerna Atha Lethain
C	M1317.4	AN	Maoil Ir d' Exetra ticcerna Átha Lethain
LC	LC1317.3	AN	Mailis dExetra, tighearna Atha Lethain
[? Mac Siurtáin d'Exetra] (Meiler, son of Jordan de Exeter, d. 1333-1336)
U2	U1333.3	AN	Mailir mac Siurtan d'Exetra
Co	1336.4	AN	Mailer Mac Suirtan d'Exetra
C	M1336.3	AN	Maoil Ir Mac Siurtan d' Exetra
LC	LC1336.3	AN	Mailer mac Siurtan dExetar
[? Mac Siúrtáin] (Stephen Mac Jordan, d. 1355)
Co	1355.11	AN	Stiamna Mac Siurtan
C	M1355.11	AN	Stiamhna Mac Siurtáin
LC2	LC1355.10	AN	Stiamhna Mac Siurtan
[] ([unknown] Mac Jordan de Exeter, d. 1380)
D	M1380.3	AN	Mac Siúrtáin d'Exetra tighearna Atha Lethain
[] (John de Exeter, d. 1380)
D	M1380.3	AN	Seon d'Exetra
U3	U1394.3	AN	clainn Sheaain d'Eisetra ["the sons of John de Exeter"]
D	M1394.7	AN	clann t-Seain d'Exetra
[] (John, son of Meilir Mac Jordan, d. 1394)
U3	U1394.3	AN	Mac Siurtan, .i. tigherna baile Atha Leathain ["Mac Jordan, namely, lord of the town of Ath-leathan"]
D	M1394.7	AN	Mac Siurtain Sean mac Maoilir tigherna Bhaile Atha Lethain
[] ([unknown] Mac Jordan de Exeter, d. 1416)
D	M1395.16	AN	Mac Siúrtain d'Exter
D	M1395.16	AN	Meic Siurtáin
D	M1395.16	AN	Mac Siurtáin
D	M1416.11	AN	Mac Siúrtain d'Exetra
D	M1416.11	AN	Mhec Siurtáin
D	M1416.11	AN	Mac Siurtáin
D	M1416.11	AN	Mac Siurtáin
[? inghean Mhic Shiúrtáin ?] (Annabel? daughter of (John) Mac Jordan d'Exeter, d. 1419)
Co	1419.33	AN	Anabla ingen Meic Siurtan Dexetra .i. Seaan, uxur Uilliam meic Mailsechlainn h. Cellaig
[] (d. 1422)
Co	1422.7	AN	Milid mac Meic Siurtan Duib
[] (Richard Mac Jordan of the Wood, d. 1426)
D	M1426.15	AN	Risdeard Mac Siurtain na Coille
[] (d. ?)
D	M1426.15	AN	Mhac Siurtáin Duibh
[] (Jordan (the) Young, d. 1422)
Co	1422.16	AN	Mac Siurtan na Coilled .i. Siurtan Occ ["Mac Siurtan na Coilled, that is Siurtan Oc"]
U3	U1497.9	AN	Clann Shiurtain Moir Mic Shiurtain ["The sons of Jordan Mor Mac Jordan"]
[] (Henry, son of (the) Mac Jordan, d. ?)
Co	1448.6	AN	clainn Hanri meicc Meic tSiurtan ["the sons of Henry son of Mac Jordan"]
[] (Cecelia, daughter of Mac Jordan, wife of Richard Burke, d. 1485)
D	M1485.6	AN	Sile inghen mec Siurtáin ben Ricaird a Burc
[] (John, son of Mac Jordan, d. ?)
U3	U1486.34	AN	Seaan, mac Mic Shiurtain
D	M1486.15	AN	Sean Mac Siurtáin
U3	U1494.3	AN	Seaan, mac Mic Siurtain
[] (Thomas, d. ?)
U3	U1497.9	AN	Mac Siurtain a fell, .i. le Tomas
[] (William, son of William Mac Jordan, d. 1520)
Co	1520.7	AN	Uilliam mac Uilliam Meic hSiurtain
[] (Thomas Mac Jordan, d. 1584)
LC2	LC1584.25	AN	Mac Siurtain Baile Atha Lethain, .i. Tomass Dub

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