Origin of Name of Kirkpatrick-Durham. 51 



men like the Abbots of Diindrennan and Glenlure, and John of 

 Carlisle and Bartram of Cardoness. The Dnrands were also 

 proprietors in Cumberland. I find in Riddell's Collections in 

 the Antiquarian Library of Edinburgh the very same names men- 

 tioned in connection with the Register of the Abbey of Holm- 

 cultram, viz., Durandus filius Christini . . . Bridoch relicta 

 Durandi filii Christini, and Michael filius Durandi." But though 

 they did not come into Galloway with Edward I. thev would 

 seem to have espoused the cause of the English King. Possibly 

 we may infer that they suffered for doing so, from the fact that in 

 1334 Edward III. was sending Walter. Duraunt supplies of corn. 

 That they had taken the unpopular and eventually unsuccessful 

 side may account for their gradual disappearance from the annals 

 of the district. The results of the War of Independence would 

 not be to their liking: the Galloway people might not take kindly 

 to them: and the new over-lords had many followers to reward. 



The family of Durand is traceable in the district as late as 

 1457 and 1477, when we find mention of a John Durant of 

 Terraughty. In the Register of the Great Seal of Scotland, 

 edited by Sir James Balfour Paul, we read that the King James 

 II. in 1457 confirmed to John Durant the lands of Traachty, 

 i.e., Terraughty, in the dominium of Galloway and Sheriffship 

 of Kirkcudbright. Again in 1477 King James III. confirmed 

 the charter of John Durant of Traachty, i.e., Terraughty, by 

 which, in return for the payment of a certain sum of money he 

 had transferred to George Merries, son and heir apparent of 

 Robert Herries of Kirkpatrick Irongray and his, heirs, the lands 

 of Terraughty, within the dominium of Galloway and Sheriffship 

 of Kirkcudbright. 



It is therefore sufficiently ob\ious that members of the familv 

 of Durant were landowners in the Stewartry, but I have not yet 

 been able to locate them in the parish to which I believe thev 

 afiixed their name. 



The statement of Symson was that the lands in the parish 

 belonging in his time to the name of M'Naight had pertained 

 formerly to the name of Durham. If you alter Durham to 

 Durand you have probably the historical fact. 



In more ways than one we might explain how Durand was 

 gradually changed to Durham. Probably the most natural ex- 



