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Balcathie Surname Definition:

BALCATHIE: From the lands of Balcathie in Angus. Between 1180 and 1214 Roger de Balcathin or Balkathyn appears as a charter witness (RAA., I, 58, 63, 25). About the year 1206 he was one of the witnesses to the perambulation of the lands of Rath, and c.

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BALCATHIE: From the lands of Balcathie in Angus. Between 1180 and 1214 Roger de Balcathin or Balkathyn appears as a charter witness (RAA., I, 58, 63, 25). About the year 1206 he was one of the witnesses to the perambulation of the lands of Rath, and c. 1214 he witnessed a confirmation charter by John de S. Michaele (ibid., I, 82). A later Roger de Balcathen witnessed a charter by Matilda, countess of Angus (ibid., I, 332), in 1254 he witnessed the perambulation of the lands of Conan and Tilloch (ibid., I, 366), and as Roger de Balkatliy he witnessed a charter by Richenda filia Vmfridi de Berkelay in 1245 (ibid., I, p. 200). Hutting de Balchathin witnessed a charter by William, son of Bernard of a gift to the church of S. Thomas of Aberbrothoc, c. 1222—1240 (ibid., I, p. 88).

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

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