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Hi Jeannie. Nice offer. I`ve got two queries- SWANSON OAL/AULD. Thanks. H.

Hilary SWAINSON,SWANSON - 'son of swan'. Swanson occurs mainly in Caithness. AULD - as a personal name Ealda is found in a charter 765 A.D. Auld was not uncommon in Ayrshire from early times. Auld is also used as one of the Anglicized forms of MacCathail, a name with which it has no connection in root or meaning. Latinized Aldius in Bute 1507 and in Ireland it appears as Ould. Jean

Hi Jeanie, I wonder is INGRAM on your list ? Thanks ...Heather

Thanks Jeannie. Hilary.

Thank you very much Jeannie, I found that very interesting. Especially as the majority of those names I have traced back to the exact places you mention. regards, Siobhan

Tracy BURNET,BURNETT - A variant of Burnard from the personal name Beornheard. About 1250 Patrick Burnard held lands near Gordon, Berwickshire. William de Farningdon of Roxburgh, probably one of the family, rendered homage 1296. His seal bears a cross of 4 pine branches, a cone in dexter base point. The Burnets of Barns who gave name to Burnetland in the parish of Broughton, claimed descent from Robertus de Burneville. HARDIE,HARDY - bold,daring. Hardy is a common French name. Several Hardies are recorded in the Commissariot Record of Dunblane in the 16th & 17th centuries. The Hardies of Crathie and Crathienard, originally Machardies, were a wild and extravagant race. Jean

Sam KNOX - The Renfrewshire family of Knox is derived from Crawfurd who, in the reign of Alexander ii received from Walter the Steward the lands of Knock in the barony of Renfrew. The lands were named from the remarkable prominence there called 'The Knock'. There was another family of KNOWS,KNOX or KNOLLIS in the parish of Deer, Aberdeenshire, quite distinct from the Knoxs of Renfrew. BLYTH,BLYTHE - of territorial origin from the old barony of the same name in Lauderdale. The place name still exists as that of an extensive farm. Blyth was a common name among Border Gypsies, a late 'queen' being Esther Faa Blyth d 12/7/1883. Other old forms of the name are Blyth and Blyithe. Jean

Heather INGRAM - from the OE. personal name Ingelram, later Ingeram. Sir William Ingelram was chaplain of Stirling 1476. As a forename it appears as Imgrie, Engram and Ingrm. Jean

Jeannie What can you make of McPherson? I'm sure son of Pherson but what else do you make of it? I visited the Macpherson museum in Newtonmore last year. Regards

Roy MACPHERSON - 'son of the parson' In the Book of the Dean of Lismore the name is spelt M'apharsone. A small sept of Campbells in the neighbourhood of Glassary, Argyllshire in the 14th & 15th centuries, bore the name Macpherson. It is known that a number of families of the Badenoch Macphersons settled in the Hebrides; and it is a modern mistake to suppose that nearly all who bear the name in those parts are really Murdochsons. Jean

Pam Sorry nothing listed for COWDELL Jean

Jeannie Thank you for your labours. Roy

Hi Jeanie, Many thanks for looking up Ingram for me. Heather

hi could you have a look at purvis i read once it was off scottish origin

pse could you look up the name GARTLEY many thanks brenda

Lorraine Haven't got Purvis but have PURVES - At the parveys(Chaucer) = at the church porch or portico of St Pauls where the lawyers meet for consultation. A family long settled in Berwickshire, which gave name to Purveshaugh. They were vassals of the earls of March. John Pureis was witness in Ayr 1562. The family of Purves of this Ilk were never a leading family and notices of them were few in the public records.. Jean

Brenda GARTLY - From the old barony of Garntuly now Gartly in Aberdeenshire. William Gartly was member of Huntly Corps of Volunteers in 1805 and 2 brothers of the same name from Auchterless served in the first Great War. Jean

Tracy SCOTT - a surname commoner in Northumberland than Scotland ' the great Border clan of Scott must have been settlers from beyond the Forth'. The first of the name recorded Uchtred filius Scott bears a good English name (Uchtred) 1124. Richard le Scot of Murthoxton 1296 appears to have been the first ancestor of the ducal house of Buccleuch of whom there is a definite record. The Scots of Balwearie became only by marriage with the heiress of the estate 1260-80. Michael Scot 'the wizard' was most likely born somewhere in the valley of the Tweed. Most of the trade of Lithuania in the 18th century was in the hands of Scotsmen and in the language of the country, the ordinary word for peddler is derived from Scot through the German Schotte. Sorry there is nothing listed for Flinn. Jean

Hi Thank you very much for the kind offer. I would be interested in. DOW DUNCAN DUNNET STIRLING Thank you in advance. Irene NZ

many thanks Jean brenda