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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Maine ‘descendant of Maine’, a popular early personal name of unexplained origin.
  • Martin Maney was born in about 1749 in Ireland, married in 1781 in Jonesborough, TN, and died on April 15, 1830 in Paint Fork, Yancey Co., NC.

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