Spelling "Macquarie"
The MacQuarrie clan name is old, and of Scottish Gaelic origin. In early Gaelic "gaurio-s" is akin (or "cognate") to the Greek "gauros", both meaning "noble" or "proud", and is probably a common variant on a Proto-Indo-European original (the Celtic, Germanic, Greek, Latin, and therefore English languages and their variants and developments originated, as far back as we can go, in the Euro-Asian Steppe, above and between the Black and Caspian Seas, about 6,000 years ago, and are all related via the original Proto-Indo-European language).
In the Isle of Man the name has become Quarry, and in Ireland Gorey, or variants thereof. Today, the variants include "MacGuaire" (in which the "Mac" or "Mc" or "M'" is a Scottish Gaelic prefix meaning "Son of"), "Son of Guaire". This particular Guaire, if there was ever another one, or, indeed, if there was one at all, was a grandson of King Cináed mac Ailpín (Kenneth MacAlpin) of Dalriada (ruled 833-841 CE), Guaire himself being one of King Cináed's sons.
The MacQuarrie clan name is old, and of Scottish Gaelic origin. In early Gaelic "gaurio-s" is akin (or "cognate") to the Greek "gauros", both meaning "noble" or "proud", and is probably a common variant on a Proto-Indo-European original (the Celtic, Germanic, Greek, Latin, and therefore English languages and their variants and developments originated, as far back as we can go, in the Euro-Asian Steppe, above and between the Black and Caspian Seas, about 6,000 years ago, and are all related via the original Proto-Indo-European language).
In the Isle of Man the name has become Quarry, and in Ireland Gorey, or variants thereof. Today, the variants include "MacGuaire" (in which the "Mac" or "Mc" or "M'" is a Scottish Gaelic prefix meaning "Son of"), "Son of Guaire". This particular Guaire, if there was ever another one, or, indeed, if there was one at all, was a grandson of King Cináed mac Ailpín (Kenneth MacAlpin) of Dalriada (ruled 833-841 CE), Guaire himself being one of King Cináed's sons.