About the Mc-Caffery surname
The surname Mc-Caffery is associated with a patronymic formation. The Mac-/Mc- formation is traditionally patronymic and means “son of” in Gaelic languages. A patronymic formation of this kind shows how an older personal name could develop into a family name. Mc-Caffery 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 “mccaffery”; this search variant can be useful when accents, spaces, or punctuation differ.
Pronunciation:
Èm-sé-ka-feu-ri/ɛmsekafœʁi/