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- History of Home & Hume
The names Home and Hume were interchangeable in the middle ages, and mostly up until the 18th or 19th century. Both came from the same place, and either way it is spelled, it is pronounced the same (Hume). The name was originally taken as a surname by William Home.
Many years before that the land of Home is believed first occupied around 900 AD by a combination of migrating Norwegians and Danes. The Danes had been colonizing the east coast of now Scotland, and Norwegians, exiled from Ireland, populated the west coast. The two groups slowly began migrating southward, joining with the Danes and Normans coming north from "England".
From the Norwegians comes the names Holmes, Holme, and Holm; from the Danes Hulmes, Hulme, and Hulm. The word holm or hulm meant island or specifically river/marsh island, while holmr was "low-lying lands".
Previously, this area of Scotland was the home of the Druids and Celtic priests. With the push of Christianization, however many of these peoples were wiped out completely, and their traditions and ways were all but totally wiped out of existance. Only a few remain even today.
The last of six of the great Saxon kings was King Egbert, First King of United England [827-828]. (Egbert's second son was Alfred the Great, King of England).
One of his later direct descendants was Ethelred the Unready, King of England [968-1013]. In 1002 he married Emma ("Flower of Normandy" and sister to Richard, Duke of Normandy).
Their fifth child was daughter Elgiva who married Uchtred, Prince of Northcumberland.
Their daughter Aldgatha married Maldred.
Malcom II, King of Scotland (1005-1034) had one child Bethoc
Bethoc m. Crinan, Lay Abbot of Dunkeld, and had two children:
Duncan, King of Scotland (1034-1040)
Maldred who married Aldgatha
Aldgatha and Maldred had Patrick (Cospatrick I), Earl of Dunbar.
NOTE: From here down, I have a few conflicting stories -- research still in process. Any suggestions welcomed!
Earl Patrick had, by his first wife, a younger son Patrick to whom he granted the lands of Greenlaw (c1166). By his second wife Ada (daugher of William the Lion, King of Scotland), he had (g-)daughter Ada.
Patrick of Greenlaw had son William (Cospatrick III).
William married Ada, (g-)daughter of Earl Patrick. Ada had formerly been married to a Courteney and had at the time of that marriage received as a gift (in liberum maretagium), the manor of Home or (Ihom) located along the Tweed River in the Scotland-England border area of Berwickshire.
William assumed "Ada's name" and became William Earl of Home.
Clan Home was born.
From here descends what is below. Now, I'm missing about 400 years or so, but they should be along in not too long.
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SOURCES: Various and assundry web pages which quote:
History and Antiquites of Roxburghshire auth not stated
Survival of Scotland by Eric Linklater
Encyclopedia of Celtic Wisdom by John Matthewsand others.
"Ancestral Roots" 7th Edition, Weis, F.L.
"Northumberland" in "The Complete Peerage", Vol. IX, Cokayne, G.E.
"The Royal Descents of 500 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States" by G. B. Roberts
Also:
http://hometown.aol.com/ttrim36387/douglas.html.
http://www.dcs.hull.ac.uk/public/genealogy/royal/.
SOURCE: The Scottish Nation, by William Anderson on page 480.
"a gallant border chieftain, who, from his successful forays across the border, always fighting in a white jacket, acquired from the English, the nickname of 'Willie with the white doublet.'"
NOTES: 5th Lord Hume.
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