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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Mike111: [QB] [b]The material that will soon follow is taken from: The Scottish nation; or, The surnames, families, literature, honours, and biographical history of the people of Scotland (1877)[/b] PREFACE. The work which is now presented to the world assumes, by its comprehensively national title, that the various and diversified information it contains is so illustrative of the Scottish nation, and of the origin and constitution of modern Scottish society, as to justify the adoption for it of a designation so conspicuous. Of any other country, it is true, an account of its surnames, families, and honours, would cast little or no light over the constitution of the society existing therein. Such an account would probably tell next to nothing of the earlier races out of which society was formed, because, in the case of any other nation, whatever might elsewhere be found to illustrate that part of its history, few indications in the^names now borne by individuals or families, or in its titles of honour, will be found to mark the tribes or institutions whence they sprung, or to be otherwise identified with the commencement of its national unity. This is a result to be found in Scotland alone; not uniformly, indeed, nor always without admixture of doubt, but certainly in a greater degree than in any other kingdom or state. Modern Scottish society, and Scottish nationality in its proper sense, may be said to have come into existence together. Hereditary monarchy, hereditary surnames, families, and honours, hitherto unknown among its peoples, were their common instruments for consolidation, for conservation, and for progress. To the Cumbrian, the Pict, the Scot, Norwegian, Dane, or Saxon, who, at various times and in various degrees, were spread over its soil, these distinctions were exceptional and comparatively unknown. In the early part of the twelfth century, the greater part of the country now constituting Scotland was in a state little better than that of chaos, and worse than that of anarchy. A contemporary document of a solemn character describes the southern portion (and it may be held as equally true of the northern) as having till then been occupied rather than inhabited " by diverse tribes of diverse nations coming from diverse parts; of dissimilar language, features, and modes of living, not easily able to hold converse among themselves, practically Pagans rather than Christians, living more like irrational animals than as worthy of the name of a people,"0 and even deducting from this picture for the exaggerations of a Churchman, enough remains to confirm the foregoing remark. The arrival of a new people of polished manners, military discipline, and Christian zeal, by giving new institutions and, for a time, a new language to this incongruous mass, created a nation and a nationality, yet without a so-called revolution or even a change of dynasty. The new race, whose presence was so beneficially felt in Scotland, came through England, yet were not of it. They were the Normans,—a people of the same original stock as many of the tribes above referred to, but refined and instructed by familiarity with the institutions of the South. This new order of things, however, might have attained to no permanence, or even if permanent, to no historic significance—at least in the sense which our title assumes—had not the silent but ceaseless immigration of the new race continued without interruption for nearly two centuries, in the course of which they identified their fortunes with those of a dynasty which, although sprung from an elder settlement of the population, was led by sympathy, education, and the necessities of their position, to cherish, enrich, and lean upon this new people for the preservation of their crown and prerogatives, and to cement their union by numerous family alliances. A revolution, which placed first one and then another family of the new race upon the throne of Scotland, completed the solidarity of the social union of races in Scotland, while it prevented fresh admixtures of foreign blood; and lastly and chiefly the practice of bestowing hereditary surnames and honours, and of holding all lands from the Crown, which obtained generally throughout • Diversse tribus, diversarum nacionum, ex diversis partibus affluentes, regionem prefatum habitaverunt. Sed dispari gente et dissimuli lingua, et varia more viventes, haut facile (inter) sese consencientes, gentilitatem potius quam fidei cnltum tenuerunt. Jquos infelices et damnate habitaeionis, habitatores, more pecudnm irrationabiliter degentes, dignatus est Dominus, . . . visitare.— Tnqvisition by David Prince of Cumbria {circa 1116). this period, and found a permanent and faithful record in charters and other public deeds, many of which are still in existence, insured to Scotr land the integrity and continuity of its social annals. The surnames traceable to immigrant Norman chiefs, or to the lands bestowed upon their retainers, constitute by far the greater portion of those peculiar and pertaining to vast numbers of individuals forming modern Scottish society. Under those derived from lands, not a few Danish and Norwegian names are to be found, which, in like manner as those of Celtic and Norman origin referring to personal or local distinctives, are to be recognised by their composition; yet, while of this latter class, even in the remote North we find in the names Fraser, Grant, Cameron, and others, undeniable proofs, notwithstanding their present use of the Celtic tongue, of a Norman or French immigration, the composition of the southern population is singularly manifested when the distinctive of an individual of the more ancient lineage is there, as in the case of a Fleming or an Inglis, expressed by the simple name of Scott. Anaceount of the origin or of the original holders of these surnames of the forefathers of the present Scottish people, cannot fail to be highly interesting to all classes at the present day. [QUOTE] [/QUOTE][b]Knowing that the White Mans Psychosis is ever present, I was not surprised to see that at the surname "Black" the author felt compelled to make the qualifying statement.[/b] [i]Black, a name, like Brown, White, &c., originally given, when surnames began to be first used, which in Scotland was not till about the beginning of the twelfth century, to persons in the middle or lower ranks who had no lands, from the colour of the visage or hair, or some peculiarity in he mental or personal character, and when the surname was not assumed from a trade or occupation, as Smith, Cook, Hunter, &c, or from the name of the father, with the addition of son, as Williamson, Johnson, Robertson,[/i] So people named "Black" weren't named Black because they WERE Black, rather they were named "Black" because what, they had Black hair? So what then are we to make of names like the following which clearly show that when skin color was NOT the descriptor, they clearly indicated so by adding a suffix. BLACKABY, BLACKADAR, BLACKALL, BLACKARD, BLACKBEAR, BLACKBIRD, BLACKBOURN, BLACKBUM, BLACKBURN, BLACKBURNE, BLACKDEER, BLACKE. BTW - How many ways can you bullsh1t BLACKBOURN (Black Born) or Blacke. Anyway, knowing that surnames with Black in them would just slow the thread down with needless arguments, I have steered clear of them. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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