Last name: MCMASTER
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MCMASTER : This last name is indexed 28,650 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
MCMASTER : Scottish and northern Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac an Mháighistir ‘son of the master’ meaning ‘teacher’ or ‘cleric’. It could also be applied in the sense of ‘lord’ or ‘owner’. This name was sometimes Anglicized as Masterson.
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