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The following names have a territorial association with the Lindsay family.
The names Byres, Byars, Byers, Byre, Bier(s) and Buyers are derived from the old barony of Byres in East Lothian. This barony was held by the Lindsay family and gave name to the title 'Lindsay of The Byres'. This title is still used by a cadet branch of the family.
The surname has recorded ancient usage. In 1309 John de Byres was a monk in Neubotle, Midlothian. Thome de Byris was the owner of a tenement in Edinburgh in 1392. In 1534, there is a record of a Thomas Byrs being a burgess of Aberdeen. George Byris and Thomas Byris were successively ministers of Legertwood (north-east of Earlston) in Berwickshire from 1593 to 1653. John Byres was a well known merchant in Edinburgh who died in 1639. In 1690 the schoolmaster at Melrose was Thomas Byers. Andrew Byres was a burgess of Cupar in 1694.
The
family of Patrick Byres of Tonley is recorded as descending from John Byres,
a merchant of Edinburgh in 1610. Patrick was granted a coat of arms by Lord
Lyon in 1755. These arms show a blue shield on which is a silver chevron between
three golden martlets. Patrick's son, James, lived in Rome for many years and
became a well-known antiquarian. The family lived on their estate of Tonley,
in Aberdeenshire, until the 1950s.
Byres is a topographical name derived from Old English býre, meaning stall or cattle shed.
Cobb is a common name in the Brechin area – two-thirds of the county was held by the Lindsays and became known as the Land of the Lindsays. Malcolm Cob of Brechin held land in 1508 and John Cobb was known in Brechin in 1629. In 1528 there was a record of a place named Cobbisland in Brechin. A family by the name of Cobb helped pay for the building of a bell house at Novar in 1773 (10 km north-east of Dingwall).
Cobb is a topographical name derived from Old English cobb meaning 'a rounded mass'.
This is a habitation name from any of the various places so called from Old English cráwa Crow and ford Ford. There are several habitations in England and Scotland known by the name.
The first adequately recorded member of the Crawford family is John, step-son
of Baldwin the Fleming, of Biggar, who was given lands near Crawford which thereafter
became known as Crawfordjohn. Towards the end of the 12th century, William de
Lindsay came into Crawford and made the place impregnable by building Tower
Lindsay. The Crawford arms were gules a fess ermine.
Most Scots of surname Crawford, Craufurd, or Crawfurd, take the name from
the barony of Crauford in Lanarkshire. By 1296, there were three separate
Crawford families who did homage to Edward I for their lands in Ayrshire.
One Crawford heiress, Margaret, married Sir Malcolm Wallace of Ellerslie, and
gave birth to William Wallace, Scotland's greatest patriot. Another married
David
Lindsay, who is the ancestor of the earls of Crawford. Thomas Crawford
was a member of Mary Queen of Scots' household, and was active in investigating
the murder of her husband Darnley; he captured Dunbarton Castle with 150 men
in 1571, received the surrender of Edinburgh Castle in 1573, and was rewarded
with a grant of lands at Dalry. The senior branch of the family, the Crawfords
of Kilburney, Stirling, received a baronetcy in 1781, now represented by Sir
Robert James Crauford, 9th Baronet, who lives in Hampshire.
His arms display on a silver shield, two crossed tilting spears between four
ermine spots, surrounded by a checked border. There are over 20 other armigerous
Crawfords, including Michael Crawford of Australia.
The
name is now 80th in order of frequency of surnames in Scotland.
Crawfords, Deuchars and Fotheringhams are sometimes found wearing a variation of the Lindsay dress clan tartan.
The names Deuchar and Deuchars come from the lands of Deuchar in Forfarshire (13 km west of Brechin). The Deuchars of that Ilk were one of the oldest families in that area and held lands of Deuchar in the parish of Fern from about 1230. The Deuchars were first vassals of the Mowats and secondly the Lindsays. In 1369 Sir Alexander Lindsay of Glenesk granted a charter of the lands of Deuchar to William de Deuhqwhyr. In 1819 the lands were sold and the owner left Scotland for abroad.
In 1478 Duchar of that Ilk helped sort out an argument between neighbours. In 1569 Robert Dewquhir was a friar in Culross (11 km south-east of Alloa). John Dwichair was a shoemaker in Aberdeen in 1581. Alexander Dochar was a writer in Edinburgh in 1686.
In Gaelic deoradh means pilgrim or stranger and was also a term for someone who had custody of the relics of a saint: a Pethshire family of this name were for centuries custodians of the crozier-head of St Fillan. There are two places called Dewar in Midlothian which would provide local surnames: Thomas and Peires de Deware did homage to Edward I of England in 1296. Dewar is the family name of the barons Forteviot, and has become synonymous in Perth with the manufacture of whisky. Dewar has also given rise to a Mac name: the Skye family of Mac gille dheoradha (son of the Dewar’s lad) simplified their surname to MacLeora, sometimes spelt MacClure.
Deuchar and Dewar were often interchanged in the past as spelling was not as consistent as it is now. Dewar and Deuchar are both 'locality names' though Deuchar can also be an occupational name or nickname.
The possible sources for this name all indicate the earlier pronunciation 'doonie'. Ó Dúnadhaigh means 'fortress-keeper' and gave rise to the Irish version of the name. O Duibhne, legendary founder of the clan Campbell, is mentioned in the 11th century Book of Deer. In Scotland, there was a barony of Downie or Duny in Monikie parish near Dundee (dun meaning hill or fortress) which gave the common local surname of Downie. The name occurs sparsely in the early records (in Arbroath, Angushire, Dundee, Aberdeen, Glasgow and the Orkneys) however, is now widely spread.
The surname Downey was an Australian First Fleet surname.
This Scots surname is derived from a place in Angus called ffodryngay in 1261 named after Fotheringhay, an estate in Northamptonshire. The name which acquired the characteristically English suffix of –ingham is derived from Old English fód-ring-ēg meaning 'island used for foddering or grazing'.
The estate of Fotheringham was held by the Scottish royal family in the 12th century as part of the honour of Huntingdon. When the Earl of Huntingdon assumed his alter ego of King David II and returned to Scotland in 1357 he looked kindly upon his former English neighbours; Henry de Fodringhay was in due course given land near Dundee, and his collaterals and descendants acquired further territories in Angus and around. Thomas Fotheringhame was provost of Dundee in 1454; the estate of Fotheringham near Forfar is still in the family. The name travelled to other parts of Scotland, including Orkney, and is now common in Glasgow as well as in Angus.
David Fotheringhame of Powrie, and his relations Thomas Fotheringhame of Bandean and Robert Fotheringhame of Lawhill were granted arms by Lord Lyon. The first dislays a shield ermine with three red bars; the second is differenced with a bordure; and the third is differenced with a golden buckle upon each bar.
Rinn in Gaelic (pronounced 'reen') means sharp point, and is a very
common place-name element with the sense of 'promontory'. Rhind is the
name of a farm near Fife, and there is a parish of Rhynd near Perth; the former
is probably the referent for Hugh del Rynd, who was a cleric of Bishop William
Lamberton of St Andrews in the early 13th century; and there are
numerous individuals in the early records whose names refer to the Perth Rhynd.
The surname spreads widely after this: William Rinde appears in Edinburgh in
1426 and Henry Rynde in Caithness a year or two; William Rynd was rector prebend
of Arbuthnot in 1548; John Rind is in Elgin in 1661. Alexander Rhind,
Egyptologist
and expert on Theban tombs, founded the Rhind lectureship in archaeology.
In 1672, Lord Lyon granted a coat of arms to Alexander Rind of Carse, Scotland, a "procuruer in Amsterdam in ye Province of Holland". These arms display, on a silver shield, three golden escalops upon a blue bend.
The surnames Summer(s), Symmers, Symers, Simmers and Somers are metonymics which derive from the old occupation of sumpter or pack horse driver (from Old French sommier, sommetier, meaning pack horse).
William Sumer is recorded in connection with the hospice of Soutrain in the early 13th century. Johannes Sovmer was a burgess of Perth in 1365, and Adam Summer (heir to Barthillomew Summyr) lived in Glasgow in the mid-16th century. David Sommer was in Ancrum in 1633 and John Symer was a burgess of Aberdeen about the same time. A family named Symmer who held their Angus lands from 1450 to 1750 are said to have changed their name to Seymour. In 1682 the Symmers of Baljordie were known as an ancient family and chief of that name. There was an Elizabeth Summer in Stonehouse in 1698 (8 km south-south east of Hamilton).
Summers is an Australian First Fleet surname.
The Afflecks do not have a Scottish territorial association with the Lindsay family; their link goes further back to Flanders. During the reign of David I a young man of the name Affleck arrived in Scotland from Flanders, and was given lands and a charter by the king to build a castle at Monikie in Forfarshire. The castle he built is still there, modernised in the 15th century, about eight kilometres from the coast and still known as Affleck Castle. His arms were argent, three bars sable - the tinctures of the Flemish family of Alost in the pattern of Oudenarde. A descendant of his sought an official position with the Lindsay family, and became armour-bearer to the Earl of Crawford, just as his ancestor was flag-bearer to Count Baldwin II of Alost on the First Crusade.
There is little evidence to support any Scots Gaelic derivation of the name Affleck from achadh-laec 'field of flat stones'. Some writers such as William Anderson in The Scottish Nation, describe such a definition as "simply absurd".
There are several Afflecks of interest. Lord Auchinleck, the father of
James Boswell, took his title from the family estate in Ayrshire. There
was a Patrick de Aghleke in Lanarkshire in 1296. Auchinleck barely survives
as a surname in Scotland, although it is remembered as 
that
of a famous World War II general. Affleck, appears mainly in the Borders
and Aberdeenshire. There are villages of Affleck in Lanarkshire and near
Dundee. James MacVicar Affleck of Edinghame, a surgeon on the island of Jamaica,
quartered his arms with those of MacVicar in Dec 1777. The Affleck of Edinghame
arms illustrate a silver shield with three black bars and a red bordure.
