Origin of Name of Kirkpatrick-Durham. 47 



Durham is understood to have been m the north of England, 

 where the city and county so called are, and to have obtained a 

 grant of the lands of Grange, in Forfarshire, from King Robert 

 the Bruce in 1322, which were afterwards known as Grange- 

 Durham. We trace none of the name in Galloway, and our 

 opinion is that Symson was wrong." So far M'Kerlie's objec- 

 tions. Let us now hear what can be said on the other side. 

 It seems to me that Symson was substantially right, and that 

 M'Kerlie had failed to discover the truth that was at the founda- 

 tion of Symson 's statement. 



It is unnecessary to lay any stress upon the fact that early in 

 the eighteenth century there actually was one Henry Durham, 

 who, in 1726, had sasine of what is now known as Durhamhill, 

 and also of a property in the parish called Holehouse. This 

 Henry Durham may or may not ha\e Ijeen an incomer. Of 

 course it is possible he may have belonged to the old stock. 

 More probably he did not. We need, however, say no more 

 about him. 



The chief argument has to do with the proprietorship of 

 Kilquhanity: and it is admitted — there can be no doubt of it — 

 that there were M'Naughts of Kilquhanity as far back as 1488, 

 and from that time on for about two hundred years, but there is 

 room for many things to have happened before 1488. It is quite 

 possible, and in view of Symson's statement it is probable that 

 there were proprietors of Kilquhanity before 1488 who gave 

 their name to the parish, and who afterwards became extinct, 

 not, however, without leaving some trace of themselves. We 

 must therefore look before 1488 for the family which gave its 

 eponym to the parish. 



I have now to present an argument which, so far as I know, 

 is entirely new (except that I gave a very brief sketch of it last 

 winter when reading a paper on a different subject before the 

 Society of Antiquaries of Scotland), and my intention is to show 

 that Symson had been rightly informed as to the existence of a 

 family, not called exactly Durham, as he said, but called Durand 

 or Duraund, D-u-r-a-n-d or D-u-r-a-u-n-d (the name is spelled 

 both ways), and that the name of this family was added as an 

 adjunct to the name of the parish, and that Durand or Duraund 

 became corrupted or changed into Durham. By the time when 



