Tour Scotland Photograph John Dandie Gravestone Leuchars Fife

Tour Scotland photograph of the John Dandie gravestone in the old churchyard in Leuchars, Fife, Scotland. Erected by Robert Dandie in memory of his son John Dandie who died 6th August 1872, aged 23.

Although the variant forms Dand, Dandie and Dandy are usually thought of as Scottish, the earliest recordings are all from English locations, the earliest Scottish instance being that of Andrew Kerr, son of the eighth Lord of Ferniehurst, who was known as " Dand Kerr " and died in 1499. The marriage of Esbell Dand and John Bukler was recorded at St. Oswald's in Durham on the 17th June 1554. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Richard Dande, which was dated 1279, in the Huntingdonshire Hundred Rolls, during the reign of King Edward 1, known as The Hammer of the Scots. Surnames became necessary when governments introduced personal taxation. In England this was known as Poll Tax.



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