Tour Scotland photograph of a Hotel Keeper Gravestone in the cemetery in Newburgh, Fife, Scotland. In memory of John Lawrie, Hotel Keeper in Newburgh, who died 11th June, 1876, aged 53.
This famous Border surname recorded as Lowrie, Lowrey, Laurie, Lawrie, Larrie, and others, is equally prominent in both England and Scotland, and also in the Irish province of Ulster. The early name recordings include: Coilbert Lowrie of Coldinham in 1497; David Lowry, a kings officer, of Edinburgh in 1529; James Lowrey, appointed a burgess and freeman of the City of Glasgow in 1600, whilst Gavin Laurie was an early governor of the colony of New Jersey, in 1757.
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