About the Mace-Sancere surname
The surname Mace-Sancere is associated with a patronymic formation. The Mac-/Mc- formation is traditionally patronymic and means “son of” in Gaelic languages. The surname may originally have expressed descent before becoming fixed as a hereditary family name. Mace-Sancere is a compound or hyphenated surname. For a particular family line, early records can show whether this form was long established or resulted from the joining of two surnames later in the family's history. In the normalization used for some LAFRANCE searches, the surname is also matched through the form “mace sancere”; this search variant can be useful when accents, spaces, or punctuation differ.
Pronunciation:
Mas-sansr/massɑ̃sʁ/