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Duries World-wide - The First
Durie Migrants
The family of Durie in Fife dates back to the
origin of the name in
the 1260s, when a younger son of the Earl of Strathearn was granted lands
called ‘Durie’ and took this as his surname. Stories about origins in
Normandy or elsewhere are pure mythology. The family gained real but
short-lived prominence in Scotland when George Durie became the last
(pre-reformation) Abbot of Dunfermline and his brother, Andrew, was Bishop
of Galloway. An elder brother, Robert was Durie of Durie and had the lands
in Scoonie, Fife. Considerable separate landholdings in Fife – Durie
itself, Craigluscar (home to the ancestors of the current Chief) and
Grange of Kinghorn – are all long-gone, but various branches of the family
remain.However, Duries have dispersed as
widely as any other Scots – what Maritime Historian Dr Eric Grahame has
called ‘the spread of the Scottish virus in the 18th Century’ –
but many of our migrations predate that. In order to help bring all Duries
worldwide back into the fold, the Durie Family Association hopes to
persuade as many as possible to contribute their family information and
pedigrees.
There is a section on Overseas Duries from an
historical aspect by Dr Bruce Durie in '750 years of Duries'.
Click Here
Any information you have on your
ancestors would be of great interest to our Family Genealogist,
Dr Bruce Durie. This information we would like to share, but only with
your permission and only with other Durie Family members.
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