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Question:Well. 'marron' means 'chestnut' In French.

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In 1865 58 births were registered for Marren (24) and Marron (34); nearly all the Marrens were in Co. Sligo and most of the Marrons were in the Carrickmacross area of Co. Monaghan. In 1890 there were 31, with the same distinction between Marren and Marron, but Marron were then much more numerous. In the Co. Monaghan Hearth Money Rolls (I 663 and 1665) O'Maran, O'Marran and O'Meran is found, while in the "census" of 1659 O'Merran was a "principal Irish name" around Carrickfergus, Co. Antrim. O'Meran appeared in a north Mayo Fiant. In Matheson's list of modern synonyms Mearn is recorded with Marron in Ballymena, Co,. Antrim, but this may be the Scottish Mearns of Kirkcudbrightshire. The Gaelic form of O'Marron is ó Mearáin.