Scottish Family Names H-I
HAIG
NAME ON MAP: HAGA OLD COUNTY: Berwick DATE: 1165 MEANING: from OLD ENGLISH haga `enclosure'. A Petra del Haga is recorded in about 1165 and the family settled at Bemersyde in Tweedsdale. Although sold by the family in 1867, the house was bought by the nation and presented to Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig in 1921. The spelling Haig dates from 1412.
HAMILTON
NAME ON MAP: HAMILTON OLD COUNTY: Lanark DATE: 1378 MEANING: from an OLD ENGLISH place‑name, probably in Northumberland, although there are several others. The name derived from OLD ENGLISH hamel `cut‑off, maimed' and dun `hill'. A Wauter fiz Gilbert de Hameldone (Walter Fitzgilbert) was recorded in Renfrewshire in 1296. Having served under Edward I, he later supported Robert the Bruce and was granted lands at Cadzow, which subsequently became known as Hamilton. The first of the family to use the territorial name alone was David de Hamilton in 1378. From the family descend the dukedoms of both Hamilton and Brandon and of Abercorn.
HANNAY
NAME ON MAP: HANNETHE OLD COUNTY: Wigtown DATE: 1296 MEANING: BRYTHONIC `son of Sheanagh'. Gilbert de Hannethe was recorded in 1296; the name appears as John of Hanna in 1424 and, more correctly, as James Ahannay, the king's master gunner, in 1529.
HAY
NAME ON MAP: HAY OLD COUNTY: Perth DATE: c.1300‑20 MEANING: OLD ENGLISH haga `enclosure'. The Anglo‑Norman William de la Haye came to Scotland in 1160 and acquired the lands of Errol by marriage; he was created baron in 1178. The 3rd baron acted as co‑regent during the minority of Alexander III (1249‑86) and the 5th was confirmed as Hereditary High Constable of Scotland and Commander of the Royal Bodyguard by Robert the Bruce after Bannockburn.
HENDERSON, MacKENDRICK
NAME ON MAP: MacEANRUIG (in GAELIC ) OLD COUNTY: Argyll MEANING: the name has many variants: MacHenry, MacHendrick, MacHendrie, MacHinery, etc; GOIDELIC `son of Henry. It the Highlands it has often been Anglicized to Henderson ‑ as it always has been in the Lowlands. Tradition has it the the clan was in Glencoe before the arrival of the MacIains of Abrach, who were MacDonalds, and to whose chief they became hereditary bodyguards and pipers. The Hendersons of Caithness, a branch of Clann Gunn, descend from a 15th century younger son. The main Lowland clan, the Hendersons of Fordell in Fife, probably descend from the Henrysons of Dumfriesshire after the date of this map. A William Henrison was recorded in 1374 . The name also appeared in Liddersdale.
HOBKIRK
NAME ON MAP: see under place‑names. HISTORY: a territorial name of which the first record is James Hopkirk in 1574.
HOME, HUME
NAME ON MAP: see under place‑names. HISTORY: the name shown on the map is now the village of Hume, as the surname is still pronounced, which is within the original barony. Alden de Home appears in the 12th century.
INNES
NAME ON MAP: INEYS, DATE: 1226 MEANING: GOIDELIC innis `island'. It was the territorial name adopted by the family of Berowaldus Flandrensis (Berowald of Flanders) who was granted lands at Innes in Moray by Malcolm IV (1153‑65). His grandson Walter de Ineys was granted a charter in 1226.
IRVINE, IRVING
NAME ON MAP: see under place‑names. HISTORY: There were two possible sources of the name, one in Ayrshire (shown on the map) and one in Dumfriesshire (not shown on the map). Robert de Hirewine, recorded in 1226, was from the latter. The Irvines of Drum (not shown on the map) descend from William de Irwyne, armour‑bearer to Robert the Bruce, who was granted lands in the Highlands by the king.