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Duries World-wide - The First
Durie Migrants
The family of Durie in Fife dates back to the
origin of the name in
the 1260s, when a younger son of the Earl of Strathearn was granted lands
called ‘Durie’ and took this as his surname. Stories about origins in
Normandy or elsewhere are pure mythology. The family gained real but
short-lived prominence in Scotland when George Durie became the last
(pre-reformation) Abbot of Dunfermline and his brother, Andrew, was Bishop
of Galloway. An elder brother, Robert was Durie of Durie and had the lands
in Scoonie, Fife. Considerable separate landholdings in Fife – Durie
itself, Craigluscar (home to the ancestors of the current Chief) and
Grange of Kinghorn – are all long-gone, but various branches of the family
remain.However, Duries have dispersed as
widely as any other Scots – what Maritime Historian Dr Eric Grahame has
called ‘the spread of the Scottish virus in the 18th Century’ –
but many of our migrations predate that. In order to help bring all Duries
worldwide back into the fold, the Durie Family Association hopes to
persuade as many as possible to contribute their family information and
pedigrees.
There is a section on Overseas Duries from an
historical aspect by Dr Bruce Durie in '750 years of Duries'.
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Wherever you are in the world, we hope you will feel drawn to adding your
name, brief details of your life, interests and family. Please send your
copy (in Word Document or Plain Text only) and if you wish a recent
photograph (in Jpeg) to the Secretary:
webmaster@brucedurie.co.uk. It will be reviewed and may be used in a
Newsletter &/or posted on the website. Any information you have on your
ancestors would be of great interest to our Family Genealogist,
Dr Bruce Durie. This information we would like to share, but only with
your permission and only with other Durie Family Association members.
Overseas Duries
There is a section on Overseas Duries from an
historical aspect, by Dr Bruce Durie, in '750 years of Duries'.
Click Here
There is a presentation given by Dr Bruce Durie to
the DFA AGM in May 2012: 'The Durie Diaspora - Where we came
from' in pdf format:
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There is a presentation given by Dr Bruce Durie at
the XXXth International Congress Genealogical and
Heraldic Sciences, September 2012, Maastricht, Netherlands:'Genealogy
across Frontiers'- Untangling the Scottish,
Dutch, French and American Durie/DuRy families' in pdf
format:
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Share your story
If you have a story or a history for us, please
send as a Word Document or Plain Text by email, accessible from our
Contact page. Photographs should be in Jpeg
format (.jpg).
All information will be reviewed and may be used
on the website and shared with the family genealogist.
We hope you will also help us build up our
extended Family Tree -
http://www.brucedurie.co.uk/TNG/
There is an historical information section on
Overseas Duries included in '750 Years of Duries' by Dr Bruce Durie.
Click Here
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