Is my last name Jewish? Help!?

Probably not. And even if it was, it wouldn't make you Jewish - it just means that you have Jewish Ancestry.

Parchment Name Meaning and History

English: metonymic occupational name for a maker or seller of parchment (Old French parcheminier). This name is common in Jamaica.

McQuary Name Meaning and History

Scottish: variant of McQuarrie.

McQuarrie Name Meaning and History

Scottish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Guaire, a patronymic from a Gaelic personal name meaning ‘proud’, ‘noble’.

You'd know if you were Jewish :) It doesn't sound like those names were Jewish though. Ancestry didn't have anything for Myrie.

Any name can be Jewish.

When surnames were taken or assigned in Europe during the last millennium it wasn't impossible for legitimate sons of the same man to have a different surname and still each could have shared their surname with others with no known relationship. Jews and Christians shared the same surname. Many names in the U.S. are viewed as Jewish as a large portion of immigrants with certain names were Jewish while back in their country of origin the same name was used by Jews and non Jews.

Names with "stein" "stine" "stern" "berg" "burg" "vitz" "vich" "witz" "ski" "sky" etc are not necessarily exclusively Jewish. Also names like Jacobs or Jacobson are

not exclusively Jewish. One of the ways a surname was taken was to indicate a man was the son of another. Men whose given name was Jacob, their sons frequently became Jacobs or Jacobson. Christians gave their children names from the Old Testament. There are German Christians named Jacobs. I had a 3xgreat grandfather whose first name was Solomon. He was an Alsatian German. If surnames were being taken or assigned when he was living, it is quite possible his sons would have wound up with the name Solomon. My maternal grandfather was a Jew but Solomon's line wasn't. My Polish Jewish grandfather's family name was originally Altman which is German simply means "old man." There are Christian Altmans and Jewish Altmans.

Another thing to take into consideration is that Jews do not agree on what a Jew is.

Many Reform Congregations define a Jew by the religion alone. If a child is being brought up in their congregation and they have only one Jewish parent, whether mother or father, they consider that child Jewish.

Not so, for Orthodox and Conservative Judaism.

They define a Jew by the mother alone, not the father or necessarily the religion. If you have a Jewish mother even though you are not of the Jewish faith, they consider you Jewish. If you do not have a Jewish mother, but have a Jewish father, the only way you can be considered Jewish is to convert to Judaism.

Since traditionally surnames come from the father, you could have been born an O'Brien and be a Jew per the definition of Orthodox and Conservative.

http://www.jewfaq.org/whoisjew.htm

Myrie Name Meaning and History

Origin unidentified.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press,

You Myrie ancestor could be English, Irish or Scandinavian. You will have to do the research to know for sure.

Ask your Rabbi. If you don't have one, you are not Jewish.

Some of your ancestors may have been. They may not.