The families of Moir and Byres

Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center, Andrew John Mitchell Gill

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929.2t'781g1142765C0L.L_ECT10NGENEALOGYJALLEN'^°Vl^lill lllMNIlilN 1111 ffil III mill83191833 014183THEFAMILIES OF MO I R ANDBYRES,and copies,This impression consists two hundredof fiftyzvhich this is No...//-2/.ofjya ia~a^j^r%^MOIR OF STONEYWOODOF TONLEYBYRESDTHEANOF MOIRFAMILIESBYRESMITCHELL GILLANDREW J.OF SAVOCKEDINBURGH : SCOTT & FERGUSONABERDEEN: D. WYLLIE & SONMDCCCLXXXV.KTED DY SCOTT1142765PREFACE.At first the intention was merelyto give an accountof the family of Moir-Byres of together withTonley,short notices of the families they are related to bymarriage, &c. In the search for information on thevarious heads, so much was got, connected more orless remotely with these families, that I thought it apity not to utilise what had cost so much time andtrouble to gather together. It is much to be re-gretted that admission has not been had to thedeeds and papers of the various families ; and also,through absence from home, I have been unable toexhaust several valuable sources of information, suchas the Burgess Registers and Sheriff Court Records,&c. of Aberdeen.It will be seen that the surname of Moir or Morecan fairly rank as one of the oldest in the county ofAberdeen, even without entering into the debate-able question of Ranald or Reginald More, Chamber-Iain of Scotland, being progenitor of the Moirs, aswell as of the Muirs, who, as will be seen at pagehad3, large grants of land in Aberdeenshire in1328.As ...

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• Nombre de lectures: 13
• Langue: English
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