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From there, a certain number of surnames, based on population, were sent to each barangay's parish priest. [6] The head of each barangay, along with another town official or two, was present when the father or the oldest person in each family chose a surname for his or her family.
The lands of the clan Colquhoun are on the shores of Loch Lomond. [2] During the reign of Alexander II, Umphredus de Kilpatrick received from Malduin, Earl of Lennox, the estates of Colquhoun, Auchentorily and Dumbuck. [2]
The Calhoun/Colhoun family is a prominent political family in the United States and is a key political family in U.S. history.The Calhouns rose to power in the South prior to the Civil War and today continue to hold political power and influence through private-sector leadership and control in the South as well as in the Midwest and in New England.
Colquhoun (/ k ə ˈ h uː n / kə-HOON) is a surname of Scottish origin. [1] It is a habitational name from the barony of Colquhoun in Dunbartonshire. [1] The Scottish Clan Colquhoun originated there. The name is possibly derived from the Gaelic elements còil ("nook"), cùil ("corner"), or coill(e) ("wood") + cumhann ("narrow"), or comh-thonn ...
[1] The second baronetcy in 1786 was created to rectify confusion over the first. However, a third branch of the family, the Colquhouns of Tillyquhoun, also continued to assert themselves as baronets until their extinction in 1838. Robert Colquhoun was thus titled the 12th baronet. [2] [3]
The Cojuangco (Kapampangan: [koˈ(x)wəŋku]; Tagalog: [kɔˈhwaŋkɔ]; Chinese: 許寰哥; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Khó͘-hoân-ko; Min Nan Chinese: [kʰɔ˥˧huan˨˦ko˦]) clan is a prominent Filipino family descended from Co Yu Hwan (許玉寰; Khó͘ Gio̍k-khoân), who migrated to the Philippines in 1861 from Hongjian Village, Jiaomei Township, Zhangzhou, Fujian. [1]
John E. Colhoun (1750–1802), U.S. senator and lawyer from South Carolina John Colhoun (plant pathologist) (1913–2002), British mycologist, phytopathologist, and professor of cryptogamic botany Mabel Colhoun (1905–1992), Irish photographer, teacher and archaeologist
Born into a farming family, John Colhoun preferred an academic approach to agriculture. [1] In 1930 he matriculated at Queen's University Belfast (QUB). [3] There he graduated in 1933 with a B.Sc. in botany, in 1934 with a degree in agricultural botany with first class honours, and in 1937 with an M.Agr. in mycology and plant pathology. [1]