Scottish Names

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Basic Information:

Scottish names can be Scots (related to English) or Gaelic (related to Irish Gaelic, etc.). Combining Scots and Gaelic in one name may be registerable, but perhaps not authentic.

See also Gaelic Names, English Names, Irish Names.

Sources:

Scottish name articles at Laurel website - http://heraldry.sca.org/laurel/names.html
Scottish name articles at St. Gabriel - http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/scottish.shtml
Archive of St. Gabriel reports - http://www.panix.com/~gabriel/public-bin/archive.cgi

Black, George F. The surnames of Scotland, their origin meaning and history (on the No Copy List)

Dictionary of the Old Scottish Tongue (DOST) - http://www.dsl.ac.uk/index.html]
Index of the DOST - http://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/scots/dost/

The Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1707 (RPS) - https://www.rps.ac.uk/ - starting from 1235, lets you toggle between modern and period/transcribed forms.

People of Medieval Scotland - This is a database of all known people of Scotland between 1093 and 1314 mentioned in over 8600 contemporary documents. http://www.poms.ac.uk/

Scottish Names 101 - http://medievalscotland.org/scotnames/scotnames101.shtml

Precedents:

Precedents of the SCA College of Arms - http://heraldry.sca.org/laurel/precedents.html
Morsulus Heralds Website - http://www.morsulus.org/ (to search the LoARs and Precedents)

Use the above links to be sure any precedents listed below haven't been superseded by newer precedents.

Collected Precedents of the SCA: Gaelic (Irish, Manx, Scottish) - http://heraldry.sca.org/precedents/CompiledNamePrecedents/Gaelic.html

Collected Precedents of the SCA: Scottish (non-Gaelic) http://heraldry.sca.org/precedents/CompiledNamePrecedents/ScottishNonGaelic.html

From the September 2013 Cover Letter:
From Pelican: Reconsidering Mac and Mc (and ending up at the same place)
In September 2007, Pelican ruled that Mc and M' were scribal abbreviations for Mac and hence unregisterable. Since then, we have found considerable quantities of new Scots language and Anglicized Irish data. Thus, we revisited the question of whether Mc was only an abbreviation through 1600, or if it had begun to take on life as an independent element. Alys Mackyntoich did considerable research in the Records of the Parliaments of Scotland, all of which suggested that Mc remained a variant of (and presumably abbreviation of) Mac until after the end of our period. Thus, we will not change precedent: both Mc and M' will be expanded to Mac for registration purposes. Individuals with names expanded to Mac should of course feel free to use abbreviated forms like Mc and M' as documentary forms of their name. http://heraldry.sca.org/loar/2013/09/13-09cl.html

WARNING: Do not cite this page as a reference. This page is on this wiki to make the content "searchable" and easier to find. If you find the information you seek here, go to the original sources (generally linked) to verify the information and use them for your documentation. Contact the editor-in-chief, Sofya la Rus, if there are copyright concerns or other issues.  sofya at calontiri dot info