On Fri, 1 Dec 2023 21:16:56 -0800 (PST), Ahsanur R
<[email protected]> wrote:

Jason Gillespie - Greece

How did he manage to have an Irish, or Ulster / Scots name?


max.it

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In message <[email protected]>, max. it
<[email protected]> writes

On Fri, 1 Dec 2023 21:16:56 -0800 (PST), Ahsanur R
<[email protected]> wrote:

Jason Gillespie - Greece

How did he manage to have an Irish, or Ulster / Scots name?

max.it

According to Wikipedia:

"Jason Gillespie is a descendant on his father's side of the Kamilaroi
people of Indigenous Australians, and is the first acknowledged
Aboriginal male to become a Test cricketer. His mother has Greek
heritage and Jason is the eldest of the three children."

Which doesn't clear up the surname "Gillespie". I imagine that at some
point a few generations back, Australian bureaucrats probably decided
that all of the aboriginal people must have a surname and, whether by
the person's choice or at the whim of one of those bureaucrats, his
ancestor acquired the name "Gillespie".
--
John Hall
"Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people
from coughing."
Sir Ralph Richardson (1902-83)

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On Sun, 3 Dec 2023 21:22:27 +0000, John Hall <[email protected]>
wrote:

In message <[email protected]>, max. it ><[email protected]> writes

On Fri, 1 Dec 2023 21:16:56 -0800 (PST), Ahsanur R
<[email protected]> wrote:

Jason Gillespie - Greece

How did he manage to have an Irish, or Ulster / Scots name?


max.it

According to Wikipedia:

"Jason Gillespie is a descendant on his father's side of the Kamilaroi
people of Indigenous Australians, and is the first acknowledged
Aboriginal male to become a Test cricketer. His mother has Greek
heritage and Jason is the eldest of the three children."

Which doesn't clear up the surname "Gillespie". I imagine that at some
point a few generations back, Australian bureaucrats probably decided
that all of the aboriginal people must have a surname and, whether by
the person's choice or at the whim of one of those bureaucrats, his
ancestor acquired the name "Gillespie".

It's a very common name around here. I think it means servant of a
priest or bishop or something.
It's been claimed that McAnespie means son of the bishop but more
likely means son of the servant of the bishop.

max.it

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