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evidence of the immigration of foreign adventurers, encouraged by 

 the Scottish kings. 



The current Scottish names of Sinclair, Mowatt (from Robert 

 de Montalt), Baliol, Grant, Hay, Fleming, Boyle, Bruce, Bisset, 

 Cumin (Cuming, Comyn), Corbet, Cheyne, Charteris, Montgomery, 

 Mortimer, Muschet, Russell, Norvel, Veitch (de Vesci), Weir (de 

 Vere), are, according to Cosmo Innes, all of continental ancestry. 



The Berkelais (Barclay), Hamiltons, Moubrays, were als 3 Anglo- 

 Norman families. There is a host of pure Anglo-Saxon names of 

 places which also gave rise to surnames ; e.g., Blackburn, 

 Braidwood, Brounlie, Brunton, Burton, Burn (or Burns), Chisholme, 

 Copland, Crauford, Cunninghame, Denham (Denholm), Edmonds- 

 ton, Elphinston, and Edelston, Greenlies, Halkerston, Hepburn, 

 Houston, Levingston, Maisterton, Preston, Schaw, Whyteford, 

 Skelton, Trail, Waddell, &c. This would show that the original 

 Celtic population of the Lowlands was subjected to a strong infu- 

 sion of Norman and Saxon blood. The counties of the west of 

 Scotland, except the west of Wigton, or Galloway, seem to have 

 experienced this foreign influence very much, and these were the 

 counties which, as we shall see, contributed most to the Scottish 

 element in the population of Antrim. Galloway, which also fur- 

 nished a large quota both to this county and that of Down, was 

 more purely Celtic. So late as 1672, as we learn, the Gaelic was 

 commonly spoken in Galloway (/. 12, Patterson's Lands and their 

 Owners in Galloway). 



I have now gone over in a cursory way the various modes of 

 naming employed among the people who at various times formed 

 settlements in this country, and especially in this county. It now 

 remains to apply the information thus obtained to the list of names 

 furnished by the County Electoral Roll. 



In the 1,357 names of the Roll, I find that 565 are Lowland 

 Scotch, 18 of which are Norman names. There are 234 High- 

 land names. There are in all 181 Irish names, and 16 Anglo- 

 Norman of the time of the conquest. The English names amount 

 to 251. The Welsh to 7. The Huguenots to 6. The remaining 



