Mac Bride   Origin  Displayed :  Scottish   Origins available : Scottish , Irish         Spelling variations include:   MacBride , McBride , Macbryde , Macbraid , MacKillbride ,  McGillbride , Macilvride , Mackelbreed , McBryde , Bridson , Brydson , Killbride , Gilbride , MacBridan ,  Macllvride , MacBraid , and many More.   First found in Arran, an island in North Ayrshire in the Firth of Clyde, where the name has long existed, although the name's earliest recorded roots are from County Donegal in Ireland.  According to legend, both the Scottish and the Irish branches are descended from the son of the servant of (St.) Brigit, the virgin Abbess of Kildare who died 524 A.D.   Some of the first settlers of this name or some of its variants were: Ant Macbride, who arrived in Georgia in 1734; Alexander McBride, who was recorded in Charlestown, SC in 1767; Anthony Mcbride, who was listed as a Scottish settler in Ontario, canada in 1821.   (Above is a small excerpt from our 1800 word history)

Mac Bride   Origin Displayed : Irish   Origins Available : Irish , Scottish         Spelling variations include:   MacBride , Kilbride , Gillbride , and others.   First found in Donegal where they held family seat from ancient times.   Some of the first settlers of this name or some of its variants were:  Oewn Kilbride who settled in Texas with his wife and two children in 1852;  Andrew Kilbride and his three children arrived in Boston in 1849;  Alexander, Andrew, Archibald, Bernard, Charles, daniel, David, Edward, Hugh, James, John, Mary, Michael, Neil, Patrick, Thomas and William McBride, all arrived in Philadelphia between 1840 and 1860.   (Above is a small excerpt from our 1800 word history)

McBride   The name McBride in Ireland is derived from the native Gaelic Mac Giolla Bhrighde Sept. which translates from Irish as ' a devotee of Saint Brigid'. The Sept was located in County Donegal in the North West of the county.  Some decendants may be of Scottish settlers in the seventeenth century.

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