McGeachie is a name of Irish origin, known in Gaelic as Mag Eachaidh, or, in the Ulster variant, Mag Eochadha. There was a M’Gachie recorded in Bordland in 1684, and a Neil M’Gechie in 1686, in Portadow, part of the Kilchenzie parish in Argyll. There is also a Robert M’Keachie recorded in Darnow, Wigtown, in […]
Clan Arnott People Dr Neil Arnott (1788-1874) A man of many talents including physician, public health reformer, inventor, patentee, lecturer and author. He was elected a Fellow of The Royal Society on 5th January 1838 with the following citation “Neil Arnott MD of Bedford Square a Gentleman well acquainted with the various branches of science […]
Kincaid Tartans: Kincaid Tartan
The Earldom of Sutherland is claimed to be the oldest in Britain. The Sutherland clan derive their name from the territory known as Sudrland by the Norsemen who had conquered much of the Scottish mainland north of Inverness. The family are thought to be of Flemish origin, descendants of Freskin, who is also an ancestor […]
The origin of the name is alternatively descriptive or geographic, though it is undoubtedly Gaelic. As a descriptive term the name may derive from ‘buidhe’ meaning ‘fair’ or ‘yellow’. It may also refer to Bute, the island next in size to Arran, that is called ‘Bod” in Gaelic, the genitive case of which is ‘Boid.’ […]
Moncrieffe Tartans Moncrieffe Tartan
An area of Midlothian may have given rise to this name. Possibly from the Anglo Saxon meaning ‘Place of the Crane’. The families that settled here and took the name owning lands around Edinburgh and Roxburghshire, the first recording of the name was Elfric de Cranston who is one of the witnesses to a charter […]
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