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Marykirk Surname Definition:

MARYKIRK: "1745. A female child, found by two gentlemen on horseback, taken charge of by the session, given out by them to nurse, and baptized Joanna Carolina Marykirk" (Henderson, Banchory-Devenick, p. 250) (2) Alexander Marekirk, witness in Birsay, Orkney, 1534 (REO.

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MARYKIRK: "1745. A female child, found by two gentlemen on horseback, taken charge of by the session, given out by them to nurse, and baptized Joanna Carolina Marykirk" (Henderson, Banchory-Devenick, p. 250) (2) Alexander Marekirk, witness in Birsay, Orkney, 1534 (REO., p. 217), derived his surname from Marykirk in Sanday.

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

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