Genealogical Records of the Dinwiddie Clan of Northwestern Indiana

Cover Genealogical Records of the Dinwiddie Clan of Northwestern Indiana

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: In a work on Border Clans by H. Dixon, examined by O. Dinwiddie in the Chicago Public Library, the following statements were found, each containing a different form of the family name. On page 82: That among "Barons and Clans submitting to the English" in 1547 was Laird Dunwoddy (of that Ilk or Maxwell) with forty-f

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our men. .Locality, Anner- dale. On page 86: Date 1587: That on the "Roll of the names of the Landis Lordis in the Borders and in the Hielands quhair"?qu equal to w?"men has dwelt and presently dwellis" is "Laird of Dynwyddie (of that Ilk or Maxwell)." On pages 87 and 88, that among "landit men" at An- nanderdail was Dynwoddie (of that Ilk or Jardine or Maxwell)." On page 108 it is stated that in 1603 the Border Clans were broken up. From "Crests of Great Britain and Ireland." Coat of Arms. "Dinwiddie, an eagle, wings addorsed and inverted, in dexter a guinea pig." Motto. "Ubi libertas, ibi patria." Where liberty is, there is my country. The ancient Barony of Dinwiddie and the adjoining one of Sibbaldie were at lengh merged into Applegarth. The Dinwoodies or Dunwoodies or Dinwiddies, like other large and ancient families, sent small families and individuals from their early home in Scotland into England, Ireland, and America, and many bearing these names are in various states whose connections cannot now be.traced. While, now, no Dinwiddie or Dinwoodie history in any continuous line has yet been given, and while no attempt has been made to give the connection of the family with Scottish life, which was not the design of this work, it is evident, from what has been given, that persons bearing the name in some of its strangely varied forms mainly in three leading forms?must have been living in Scotland from 1296 to 1603. About this time a sur...

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