Old Photograph Provand's Lordship Glasgow Scotland

Old photograph of Provand's Lordship, Glasgow, Scotland. Provand's Lordship was built in 1471 as part of St Nicholas's Hospital by Andrew Muirhead, Bishop of Glasgow, the Muirhead coat of arms is still visible on the side of the building.

Recorded in several spellings including Mairhead, Morehead, Moorehead, Moorhead, and Muirhead, this is a Scottish surname. It is of locational origin from any of the places in southern Scotland named with the northern Medieval English words " muir " meaning " moor ", plus " heid ", head or end of a valley. These places include Muirhead in the barony of Bothwell, and Mureheid in the diocese of Ross. The surname first appears on record at the end of the 14th Century. Early recordings include William de Murehede who witnessed a charter of lands of Cranshaw in 1401; Andrew Morheid, assizer at Lanark in 1432; David de Murhed,1 cleric in Glasgow in 1471; Richard Murhede, dean of Glasgow in 1491 and Thomas Mureheid or Moirheid, quarryman at Dunkeld, Perthshire in 1507.



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