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Arbekie Surname Definition:

ARBEKIE: Probably from Arbikie in the parish of Lunan in Angus. The seal of Thomas de Arbeke is appended to an instrument of 1453 (Seals, 43; Macdonald, 36). Alexander Ardbekye of that Ilk (1476) sold an eighth part of his land of Thanistoun in the thanage of Kintore in 1481 (View, p.

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ARBEKIE: Probably from Arbikie in the parish of Lunan in Angus. The seal of Thomas de Arbeke is appended to an instrument of 1453 (Seals, 43; Macdonald, 36). Alexander Ardbekye of that Ilk (1476) sold an eighth part of his land of Thanistoun in the thanage of Kintore in 1481 (View, p. 576; Inverurie, p. 120), John Ardbekie in the Spittell is mentioned in 1595, and George Arbekie was juror on an assize in Auld Aberdeen in 1603 (RSCA., I, p. 331; II, p. 25).

— The Surnames of Scotland (1946) by George Fraser Black (1866-1948)
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