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Prendergast is a British and Irish surname.

Etymology

This toponymic surname may derive from prender from a Germanic word for fire or conflagration (cf. brand) where the b became p due to fortition and gast (cf. geest) from a Germanic word for wasteland or dry and infertile land meaning the location could have been a burn-beat area. Others think the name is a Saxonized form of Bryn y Gest from the Welsh bryn meaning hill and gest a lenition of cest which means belly or swelling or a deep glen between two mountains having but one opening. It could also lessly come from Pren-dwr-gwest, the inn by the tree near the water. The right etymology is probably Pen-dre-gast. The suffix ast (cf. gast) is of Welsh origin like the names of the cromlech chamber tomb of Penllech yr Ast (the chief slab of the bitch) or Llech-yr-ast (Bitch's stone), in Llangoedmor, Cardiganshire or Gwâl y Filiast (Lair of the Greyhound Bitch) or Carn Nant-yr-ast or Llety'r Filiast or Twlc y Filiast.^[1] Alternatively, the name may come from a lost Flemish settlement near Ghent, known as Brontegeest. Pembrokeshire had a significant Flemish population by the twelfth century.^[2]

People with the name

Catherine Prendergast, American scholar and intellectual historian
Charles Prendergast (1863–1948), Canadian-American artist
Declan Prendergast (born 1981) Irish hurler
Edmond Francis Prendergast (1843–1918), Irish-born Roman Catholic prelate and Archbishop of Philadelphia, who gave his name to Archbishop Prendergast High School in Philadelphia, U.S.
Frank Prendergast (1933–2015), Irish politician
George Prendergast (1854–1937), Australian politician, 28th Premier of Victoria
George C. Prendergast (born 1961), American oncologist and biomedical scientist
Guy Prendergast (British Army officer) (1905–1986), British Army brigadier and Saharan explorer
Harry Prendergast (1834–1913), British Army general, recipient of the Victoria Cross
Ian Prendergast (born 1980), Australian rules footballer
James Prendergast (disambiguation)
John Prendergast (disambiguation)
Kathleen Prendergast (1910–1954), Australian paleontologist and physician
Kerry Prendergast (born 1953), New Zealand politician
Kieran Prendergast (born 1942), British diplomat and former Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs at the United Nations
Mark Prendergast, Scottish 21st century actor
Mark Prendergast (hurler) (born 1978), Irish hurler
Mark Prendergast, guitarist for the Irish band Kodaline
Maurice Prendergast (1858–1924), American painter
Maurice de Prendergast (fl. 1169–1174), Norman knight
Mick Prendergast (1950–2010), English footballer
Mike Prendergast (rugby union) (born 1977), Irish rugby union footballer
Mike Prendergast (baseball) (1888–1967), American Major League Baseball pitcher
Orla Prendergast (born 2002), Irish woman cricketer
Paddy Prendergast (racehorse trainer) (1910–1980), Irish trainer
Paddy Prendergast (hurler) (born 1958), Irish hurler
Patrick Prendergast (academic), Provost of Trinity College, Dublin
Patrick Prendergast (abbot) (c. 1741–1829), last Abbot of Cong and guardian of the Cross of Cong
Patrick Eugene Prendergast (1868–1894), American assassin of Chicago Mayor Carter Harrison Sr.
Paudie Prendergast (born 1960), Irish hurler
Peter Prendergast (artist) (1946–2007), Welsh artist
Peter Prendergast (hurler) (fl. 1947–1952), Irish hurler
Peter Prendergast (referee) (born 1963), Jamaican football referee
Robert Prendergast (1864–1946), British admiral
Séamus Prendergast (born 1980), Irish hurler
Sharon Marley Prendergast (born 1964), Jamaican singer, dancer and curator, adopted daughter of Bob Marley
Shaun Prendergast (born 1958) British actor, playwright, screenwriter and novelist
Segismundo Moret y Prendergast (1833–1913), Spanish politician, President of the Council of Ministers
Terrence Prendergast (born 1944), Archbishop of Ottawa
Tessa Prendergast (1928–2001), Jamaican actress, fashion designer, businesswoman and socialite
Thomas Prendergast (disambiguation)
Tom Prendergast (Laois footballer) (fl. 1976–1987), Irish Gaelic football player
William A. Prendergast (1867–1954), American businessman and politician

Variants

Variants of Prendergast include: Pender, Pendergast, Prandergast, Brandergast, Pendergrass, Penders, Pendy, Pinder, Pinders, Pindy, Prender, Prendergrast, Prendergest, Prindergast, Pendergist and the (Gaelicised) de Priondargás.

In Britain

The surname may be connected to one or more of three places in Britain: Prendergast, now a suburb of Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, Wales;^[3] Prendergast, near Solva, also in Pembrokeshire,^[4] and; Prenderguest, near Ayton, Berwickshire, Scotland.

In Ireland

In Ireland, Prendergast is regarded as a Hiberno-Norman name and is usually derived from a 12th-century Cambro-Norman knight, Maurice de Prendergast, who was born in Pembrokeshire and came to Ireland with the Earl of Pembroke, Richard "Strongbow" de Clare. Many of Maurice de Prendergast's immediate descendants lived in County Tipperary and southern Mayo. Some assumed the name Fitzmaurice at an early date and some of the Fitzmaurices were later known as MacMorris.^[5]

References

^ Morgan, Thomas. Handbook of the Origin of Place-Names in Wales and Monmouthshire. ASIN 1150347619.
^ "Archaeologia Cambrensis (1846-1899) | Third Series No. XLI January 1865 | 1865 | Welsh Journals - The National Library of Wales". journals.library.wales.
^ "History of Prendergast in Pembrokeshire - Map and description". www.visionofbritain.org.uk.
^ http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10322613/boundary
^ "The Book of Irish Families, Great & Small by Michael C. O'Laughlin; booksaliveo.8m.com".

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