Cavangh a Historical Surname from Ireland

In my other journal , on one of the first European settlers in NZ ON " CAVANAGH " ex escaping sailor prisoner Etc , i became interested in how that surname Originated . Here is the story on the "origin " of this surname by a reknown Irish Genealogist . In reading it i thought many " Cavangh's " in NEW ZEALAND would be interested . So here we go on how this human story became very interesting in devoloping over the ages from - 300 AD

The surname has sometimes been modified when an individual is raised to nobility. For example, in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, in Poland or in Prussia, "von" is usually added as part of the surname, and the most common spelling of Caomhánach here is "von Kavanagh", as used by Felix von Kavanagh, a Kammerjunker at the court of the Margrave of Ansbach-Brandenburg, and most of the family in Imperial Service. In the English speaking world we have at least one hyphenated su
Information submitted by Clann Chaomhánach Members( Who were royalty and their King was the King of Leinster , IRELAND. Some ancesters deliberately mis-spelled their surname to disguise it, or simply took another surname. Situations repeatedly cited are: the individual deserted (absent without leave) an organization (military or long service contract), or the individual changed the name to disguise his Irish heritage, or the individual was a "convicted" (justly or unjustly) criminal.

Finally, our member's information and records in the public domain very frequently show different spellings of the same individuals surname by the same recorder! A family in one parish register in Ireland has three different spellings of the surname by the same priest for birth, marriage and death entries of 5 individuals in one and the same family.

Roughly 85% of all people related to Caomhánach bear one (perhaps more) of the following names:

Cavanagh Cavanaugh Cavenagh Cavenaugh
Cavana Cavanna Cavanah Cavannah
Kavanagh Kavanaugh Kavenagh Kavenaugh

Soundex coding of these names shows that our ancestors spoke their name with either two or three accentuations (for example, Kav-na versus Ka-va-na), and thus it would seem that both pronunciations are legitimate.