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It is used to refer to people or things of Norman, Anglo-Norman, French or even Flemish or Breton origin, [1] [2] but who are associated with Scotland in the Middle Ages like Scoto-Anglo-Saxon. [1] [2] It is also used for any of these things where they exhibit syncretism between French or Anglo-French culture on the one hand and Gaelic culture ...
The Norman-derived feudal system was applied in varying degrees to most of Scotland. Scottish families of the names Bruce, Gray, Ramsay, Fraser, Rose, Ogilvie, Montgomery, Sinclair, Pollock, Burnard, Douglas and Gordon to name but a few, and including the later royal House of Stewart, can all be traced back to Norman ancestry.
The surname of Crawford comes from the barony of Crawfordjohn, adopted by around 1160. The name is taken from the barony of the same name in Lanarkshire. [2] The early names of all of the principal Crawford families are all Norman, however some scholars have asserted an Anglo-Danish ancestry. [2]
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Sir Hugh de Paduinan (1140–1189) was a Scoto-Norman baron, Knight Templar and progenitor of the Clan Houston. Sir Hugh was granted lands in the historic county of Renfrewshire and gave his name to the village of Houston , deriving from 'Hugh's town'.
Morrison in England is traditionally believed to be a patronymic of Maurice/Morris, [1] introduced into England following the Norman invasion in 1066. In Scotland there is strong evidence that other surnames of Anglo Norman origin such as Moir, Muir and More, were equally influential as potential multiple origin points for the derivative of the modern spelling of Morrison.
The Normans: The History of a Dynasty. Hambledon & London, 2002. Loyd, Lewis C. The Origins of Some Anglo-Norman Families. (Harleian Society Publications, vol. 103) The Society, 1951 (Genealogical Publishing Co., 1980). Regesta Regum Anglo Normannorum, 1066–1154. (Henry William Davis & Robert J. Shotwell, eds) 4v.
The male line of the Nevilles was of native origin, and the family may well have been part of the pre-Conquest aristocracy of Northumbria. [1] Following the Norman Conquest, most of the existing Anglo-Saxon aristocracy of England were dispossessed and replaced by a new Norman ruling elite, and although such survivals are very rare, continued landholding by native families was more common in ...