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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Scottish : habitational name from any of four places so called. One in Fife is found in old records (1128) as Pettnaurcha, a Pictish-Gaelic name meaning ‘the portion of the shot’. Others, including one on Loch Ness, are named with Welsh ar ‘on’, ‘by’ + cardden ‘thicket’.

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