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I saw your reply and my apologies as to not answering sooner as I had a death in the family and I don't look as often at my second email address.

As you are an Auchterlonie it would be interesting to compare you DNA to mine as my Lonie line goes back to the 1640s in Fife. I am still trying to get back into the Angus area but at  that point we are well and truly in Pictland. Spelling is not that important as it depended on the scribe. My earliest spelling is Aughterlonie/Lony/Lonnie/Lonie from Balmarino Fife. My surname is Lonie.

I recently have had an interesting read about the Hill of Lownie which is where the land is that the Auchterlonie's took their surname from. Auchter (uachdar) scots gaelic meaning hill or summit and Lonie (lonidh) meaning pathway. The "Hill of Lownie" - Auchterlonie or in Scots Gaelic - uachdarlonidh. I have seen other translations such as a field of elk and or blackbirds, or high swampy ground - which is what it was when the battle was as the Picts hid in the swamp and then dealt to the English. The Battle Dunnichen.
 
Now getting to the nib of this find. This property still has a Pictish Boundary Stone - the "Girdle Stane". Its easy to find in the internet. There was a huge battle in the area where the Picts killed the English.

If you can send me your tree I will compare with the other Auchterlonie Trees that I have to see if someone else has already done the work for you.

Regards

Kevin Lonie

I see common ancestors surnames in your list. I descend from David Auchterlonie & Agnes Faulkland. My surname is Lonie the shortened form in the early 1700s. My line is through Edinburgh John (Auchter)Lonie & Margaret Simpson. My gggfather David Lonie & wife Margaret Scott left Edinburgh in 1858 to settle in Dunedin NZ.

Kevin Lonie

Thanks for the reply. The information was submitted by a Daniel M Fernie of Utah. He could be a LDS member. My mail was returned from his listed address. I understand your caution.

Have you read Blacks "Surnames of Scotland" it outlines the origins of Auchterlonie. From memory there are 26 variant spellings. My family name is Lonie being the shorten version of Auchterlonie. I can trace Lonie back to 1632 in Edinburgh at Glen Corse (Glen Cross) forgive my spelling. Mostly the were from Craig Millar and Liberton then Midlothian area. There were lots of families using both spellings in areas. There is a gentleman by the name of Walter Savage in Melbourne Australia that had tracked all the families and broke them down to clans during his research. My family left Edinburgh in 1858 for Dunedin New Zealand and I presently live in Queensland and I have some of Walters research papers. There are a lot of Lonie's in Australia and New Zealand.
Lonie from the Gaelic (somthing Lonidh) means a pathway. Auchter means "high" - as it comes from the area of the Ochil Hills in Scotland. Though I have seen it translated as "a field of blackbirds". Auchterlonie family coat of arms haves multiples of 8 buckles/scallops on the shield - aucht is 8 in german funny that ! From my understanding the Auchterlonie's lives amoung the Picts and they were east coast Scots so non clanish. There is an Ochterlonie Tartan but I dont know the background.

The earliest was Woutier de Aughterlowny - who signed the Ragman Roll in 1296 as an act of Fielty to King Edward Longshanks. Remember Braveheart - William Wallace did not sign it - so he was treated as a traitor.

When the Lonie's dropped the Auchter they often kept it as a 2nd or third christian name