Help! I'm looking to find out what a name is from my family tree. I'm not sure if the origin is Gaelic or simply old Scotch, and spelling in those days wasn't a sure thing, a lot of phonetics abounded. The name is Lawchwarit and it was the maiden name of my 11th gr grandmother who appears to have been born in Berwickshire. I had a mini epiphany lately that perhaps Lawch might have been Loch but I'm still stuck on the warit part. It would also be nice to know what the name might have become with the advent of regular spelling. If specifics are needed, my ancestress was Janet Lawchwarit, b. ~1612, and she ended up married to Patrik Geillies (Gillies). TIA!