48 Origin of Name of Kirkpatrick-Durham. 



SN^mson conipiled his " Description of Galloway ' ' Durand had 

 become changed to Durham, and has so continued ever since. 



My argument is as follows : — 



In the library of the University of Edinburgh one may obtain 

 the Calendar of the Laing Charters, edited by the Rev. John 

 Anderson. There under date 15th May, 1359, we find the well- 

 known confirmation by David II. of the Foundation Charter of 

 Sweetheart or Newabbey, which was dated 1273 — Quarto Nonas 

 Aprilis Aiiiio ab Incarnatione Domini MCC septingeniesimo 

 tertio. In 1359, presumably confirming the spelling of 1273, 

 the parish is called in this charter Kirkpatrick-Dorand. 

 " Dervorgilla, daughter of the late Alan of Galloway, in her 

 widowhood, grants and confirms to God and the Church of St. 

 Mary of Sweetheart, and the monks there of the Cistercian order 

 of the Convent of Dundrennan for the Abbey to be built, etc., 

 etc., . . . her whole lands of Louqrindelow and of Kirk- 

 patrick-Dorand." Thus in 1273 the parish was known as 

 Kirkpatrick-Dorand. 



Again in the Calendar of Documents relating to Scotland, 

 eaited by Joseph Bain, Vol. 2, No. 1702, tempore Edward 1st, 

 18th October, 1305, we find mention of a Charter to the Abbot 

 and Convent of Dundraynan of free warren in their demesne 

 lands of Gairstang, Newlathe . . . Aghencarne . 

 Barlok, the Isle of Estholm . . . Kirkpatrick-Durand and 

 Aghenkippe, in the County of Dumfries." By that charter it is 

 proved that before M'Kerlie's date of 1488, as much as 183 years 

 before, the parish was know-n as Kirkpatrick-Durand. 



M'Kerlie's objection that the adjunct Durham cannot have 

 originated in a family of the name, because he could find no trace 

 of a name Durham before 1488, loses its force when we discover 

 that there is trace of a name, not certainly exactly the same but 

 very similar 183 years before. 



[In case anyone should surmise that, because Kirkpatrick- 

 Durand is stated in the Charter to be " in the County of Dum- 

 fries " therefore it cannot be the same place as Kirkpatrick- 

 Durham, we may observe in passing that many of the other pro- 

 perties mentioned in the same charter, and stated to be in the 

 County of Dumfries, were undoubtedly in the district now known 

 as the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright. Thus Newlathe is Newlaw, 



