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received for wife Marg-aret, daughter of Robert Bruce, Earl of 

 Carrick. His son obtained a charter for the lands of Colyn and 

 Roucan, near Dumfries, in which he is designated " William Carlo, 

 the King's sister's son." There are 20 proprietary names. 

 Middlebie, six ; Annan, one ; Dalton, one ; Dornock, one : Dun- 

 score, one ; Gretna, four ; Hoddam, six. With the single excep- 

 tion of Dunscore, these are all in Annandale. 



If we suppose that this family either got or gave names from 

 or to the parishes in Annandale, then we must consider Annandale 

 the first home of the clan. Ivon Kirkpatrick married Euphemia, 

 daughter of Bruce of Annandale. He received a grant of the 

 lands of Closeburn 1232. I make out 15 proprietary names. 

 There are only two in Closeburn. One of them is proprietor of 

 Threapmuir, concerning which there is a curious history. Kirk- 

 patrick held Capenoch in Keir, and in this parish Kirkpatrick is a 

 very common surname. Dryfesdale, five ; Dunscore, two ; Holy- 

 wood, one ; Keir, one ; Kirkmahoe, one ; Penpont, one ; Glen- 

 cairn, two. This gives ten for Nithsdale, and five for Annandale. 



The Edgars are descendants of Donegal of Strathnith. He 

 had a son who bequeathed his name of Edgar as a surname to his 

 descendants, and this is one of our earliest Scottish surnames. 

 His daughter was Affrica Edgar, of Dunscore. Dunscore seems 

 the cradle of the clan. There are three Edgars in Dumfries 

 parish ; two Torthorwald ; three Caerlaverock ; two Moffat ; two 

 Middlebie. There are five other parishes in which the name 

 occurs once. The name has decided Nithsdale affinities. 



The Maxwells are from the Solway border. Maccus was 

 their ancester, a Celtic-like name. Their home was Maccusville, 

 since ground down to Maxwell. David I. granted them lands. 

 They still linger in the vicinity of the Solway. Gretna, three ; 

 Dumfries, seven ; Holywood, four ; Langholm, two ; Kirkpatrick- 

 Fleming, two. Other parishes in which there is but one per 

 parish send the number up to 26. They don't seem to like the 

 hills. 



The Hunters are of Norman origin. A female marrj'ing the 

 daughter of Wm. Douglas of Drumlanrig strengthened the rela- 

 tionship of the family. Their original home was Barjarg, Keir. 

 The name in that parish was changed to Hunter-Arundell. Moffat, 

 3 ; Caerlaverock, 3 ; Holywood, 2 ; Dumfries, 2 ; Glencairn, 8 ; 

 Penpont, 3 ; Torthorwald, 1 ; and Tynron, 1. The happy hunt- 



