WAs it common

[owenc]

for planter families to adopt irish spelling versions of their name? Mines is supposedly planter but right now we have an irish spelling. I think it changed in the 1800s. But why would they adopt the irish spelling? Did this happen often? I'm almost certain i don't have a gaelic name because the irish version originates in galway and i have absolutely no connection to galway? Theres something suspicious about this.

"as interchangeable with Cummins. O Coimin is first found in connacht: the family were erenaghs of the church of St. Cuimin Fada, and the parish of Kilcummin on the western side of the Bay of Killala is named after them. The form Commons is now the most usual in Co. Mayo. It is a name about which much confusion is inevitable. It appears a O Comain in Munster, whence come the majority of present day Cumminses (also called Commane) now found in counties Tipperary and cork. There they are sometimes called Hurley, through a mistranslation, caman being the Gaelic word for a hurley-stick."

As i say i have no relation to those families down there so i don't think its the same surname i'm just wondering why as planters they would adopt an irish spelling?

[kingskerswell]

Owen,
        See  http://www.comins.org/cummingsname.htm for details of the origin of your name.

Regards

[barbarax33]

Owen
My explanation is as you know your name was originally Miskimmin. You yourself has said something happened in your family for them to change to Cummins, whatever that was the people then would have heard the same stories of MISKIMMIN coming from the name Cummings they probably thought well rather than changing to something completely different well change to the name Cummins. The thought even today that Miskimmin comes from Cummins/Cummings I don't believe. We may have been aligned to the clan Cummings but I believe Miskimmin is a name in it's own right even though that leaves us not knowing where the name comes from. Just my own personal thoughts. I just can't see how McSkimming could have been mistaken for Cummings they don't even sound the same so anybody writing it down should have been able to spell it. 

[owenc]

Yea well I read somewhere that miskimmin means the same thing as Cummings. But it's just weird how they adopted the Irish version. I'm not sure why. I think that maybe they did that because miskimmins has a similar ending to cummins? I really don't know either way it's a mystery.