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Fife / Re: Loch/Kilgour(look up,please)
« on: Sunday 03 August 08 15:34 BST (UK)  »
Hi JAP
Thanks
Read your reply,I'm clutching at straws as they say.Just getting nowhere fast with this name.
I'd better employ the services of "Poirot"

Thanks
Peter

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Fife / Re: Loch/Kilgour(look up,please)
« on: Saturday 02 August 08 09:48 BST (UK)  »
Hi JAP
Just read your post,it just shows how you can be thrown off the scent.
The Loch name could be a varient of the one you mentioned,the plot thickens.
Cheers Peter

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Fife / Re: MI fife
« on: Friday 01 August 08 11:40 BST (UK)  »
Hi Tom
I will talk to you later my other half is waiting for me,shopping etc.you know what its like.
cheers Peter

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Fife / Re: Kilgour and its connection to Falkland
« on: Friday 01 August 08 10:53 BST (UK)  »
Hi Tom
Glad you liked the story about the Kilgour's,I have a Isabella Loch King who married a Thomas lumsden about 1865/6 in my tree,he came from Kings Kettle,have not found much information regarding them.
There may be a link with the Lumsden's

Cheers
Peter

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Fife / Kilgour and its connection to Falkland
« on: Wednesday 30 July 08 19:31 BST (UK)  »
Hi all
I have been putting all my paperwork in some sort of order and came across this story about the origin of the name Kilgour.
Whateverthe origin of the name we know that it came from the Gaelic language.The Gauls carried it with them on their conquest to Ireland,and then the Irish carried it Scotland about the year 500AD.
One of the first to bear the name was a baby that was left on the steps of St.Thomas Church in Falkland Palace.The Child was raised by the kirk of the church and assumed his name.
The child was left there just after a great battle in which the clan of Douglas was almost wiped out.Legend has it that the child was a Douglas and was left there to save its life because the Douglas clan was outlawed by the crown.
Kilgour means" wooded hill" from the Celtic word for hill we get "kill"and from the Gaelic prefix kil which denoted achurch.
Another version is ahill of the goats,kil meaning hill and gour meaning goats.
Thanks All
Peter

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Family name
« on: Monday 28 July 08 16:19 BST (UK)  »
Hi Justmej
An interesting subject these middle names,I have a few in my tree-----------Kilgour
                    Graham
                     Loch
                     Knight
                     Baronet
                     Smith
                     Braid
                     Brown
These are all of my Scottish Side

I shall have to delve into these again

Cheers
Peter

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Fife / Re: Westwater's of Fife.
« on: Monday 28 July 08 10:35 BST (UK)  »
Hi Tom

I look forward to your postings,I never really followed any of the branches of my tree of that particular time,but,youv'e made it interesting.
Thanks
Peter

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Fife / Re: Westwater's of Fife.
« on: Monday 28 July 08 07:35 BST (UK)  »
Hi
I noticed that one Westwater married an Agnes Birrell,she would'nt be related to a Katherine Birrell from Easter Anstruther who married in 1680 to a King,her parents were Robert and Ewphame.
Peter

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Family name
« on: Sunday 27 July 08 10:37 BST (UK)  »
Thanks falkryn
Thanks for the explaintion,my maternal ancestors came from Kirkcaldy.My cousin has carried on the tradition and his son has the middle name of Kilgour.
It was justa long shot to see if there was any distant relatives.

Thanks
Peter

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