Tour Scotland travel photograph of the Margaret Spowart Memorial stained glass window in the Abbey in Dunfermline, on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit to Fife. In memory of Margaret, wife of Thomas Spowart, of Broomhead, 1879.
The Spowart surname is relatively popular in the Fife region of Scotland. Examples of the name recording include William Pourit, a witness at Torryburn on September 23rd 1716, and Agnes Spoward also of Torryburn on May 28th 1752. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of William Spowart, which was dated June 14th 1614, a witness at Kirkcaldy Church, Fife, during the reign of King James V1 of Scotland and 1st of England,
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