Beatty
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| Family name | |
| Meaning | Diminutive of Bartholomew (patronymic); "one who held land on condition of supplying food to those billeted on him by the chief"; "public victualler" |
| Region of origin | Scottish borders, Ireland |
| Language(s) of origin | Aramaic; Irish Gaelic |
| Related names | Bate, Beattie, Beaty, Beatey, Betagh, Betty, MacCaffrey, McCaffrey, MacVitty, MacWatty, MacWattie, Watson |
| Clan affiliations | MacBain |
| Footnotes: Frequency Comparisons[1] | |
Beatty is a surname of Scottish and Irish origin. In the Scottish case, some have thought that it is derived from the name Bartholomew, which was often shortened to Bate or Baty. Male descendants were then often called Beatty, or similar derivations like Beattie or Beatey. The name Beatty or Beattie, others think, arose in Ireland from Betagh, a surname meaning hospitaller. A majority of people named Beatty or Beattie in Ireland are the descendants of Scots who came over to Ulster in the seventeenth century. Beattie is common in counties Antrim and Down, whilst Beatty is more common in counties Armagh and Tyrone. In Fermanagh in 1962, Beatty was the fifteenth most common name and was recorded as synonymous with the names Betty and MacCaffrey (or McCaffrey).
It is most likely that the name derives from Mac a'Bhiadhtaigh, from biadhtach, "one who held land on condition of supplying food (biad) to those billeted on him by the chief". In the rest of Ireland, the name Biadhtach (Betagh; "public victualler") was changed to Beatty or Beattie. In Scotland, the Beatties were a reiver clan in the Langholm area of Eskdale. George MacDonald Fraser has written about the reiving clans in "The Steel Bonnets : The Story of the Anglo-Scottish Border Reivers".
DNA testing on a Baty of Cumbrian descent has found close matches with others bearing the following surnames: Beatty; Beattie; Beaty; Baity; Beattey; Batey and Bates.
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[edit] Beatty as a surname
The surname Beatty can refer to:
- Sir Alfred Chester Beatty (1875-1968), collector of Chinese and Japanese art
- Beatty, fictional character from the novel Fahrenheit 451
- Bruce W. Beatty, Canadian graphic designer
- Chris Beatty (b. 1973), American football coach
- Chuck Beatty (b. 1946), former American football player and Texas mayor
- Clyde Beatty (1903-1965), American trainer of wild animals and circus performer
- David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty (1871-1936), British Admiral at the Battle of Jutland
- David Beatty, 2nd Earl Beatty (1905-1972), British politician
- David Beatty, 3rd Earl Beatty (b. 1946), photographer
- David L. Beatty (1798-1881), fifth mayor of Louisville, Kentucky
- David R. Beatty (b. 1942), Canadian businessman
- Edward Wentworth Beatty (1877-1943), Canadian lawyer and university chancellor
- James Beatty (engineer) (1820-1856), Irish railway engineer
- Jim Beatty (b. 1934), American former athlete
- Jerome Beatty, Jr. (1916-2002), children's author of the Matthew Looney books
- John William Beatty (1869-1941), Canadian painter
- John Beatty (1828-1914), American Civil War general
- John Beatty (delegate) (1749-1826), American physician and statesman
- John Beatty (illustrator) (b. 1961), American illustrator
- John Beatty (philosopher) (b. 1951), Canadian philosopher
- Joyce Beatty (b. 1950), American politician
- Linda Beatty (b. 1952), American actress
- Maria Beatty, American film director, producer and actor
- Mike Beatty, American politician
- Ned Beatty (b. 1937), American actor
- Paul Beatty (b. 1962), African-American author
- Perrin Beatty (b. 1950), Canadian politician
- Robert Beatty (1909-1992), Canadian actor
- Samuel Beatty (1820-1885), American Civil War general
- Scott Beatty, American author
- Sean Beatty, Viscount Borodale (b. 1973), heir to the Earl Beatty
- Terry Beatty (b. 1985), American comic book artist
- Warren Beatty (b. 1937), American actor
- William Beatty (1773-1842), British Navy surgeon serving with Lord Nelson
- William Beatty (Ontario politician) (1835-1898), Canadian busionessman and politician
- William H. Beatty (1838-1914), American Chief Justice
[edit] Places named Beatty
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[edit] See also
See the Beatty Project 2000 website [1]
