Tour Scotland Video Sandy Dunn Window Abbey Church Culross Fife

Tour Scotland video of the Sandy Dunn stained glass window in the Abbey Church on ancestry visit to Culross, Fife. Window for Sandy Dunn, born 1965, died 1996 by Emma Butler-Cole Aiken. Text on this window is " This window is about giving and serving. It is about right wrongs past, present and future. "

This interesting surname, found in England, Scotland and Ireland, has a number of possible origins. Firstly, it may be of Anglo Saxon origin, from the Olde English pre 7th Century and Middle English " dunn ", meaning " dull, brown, dark coloured ", and was a nickname for a man with dark hair or a swarthy complexion. It may also have originated from an unrecorded Middle English survival of an Olde English byname, " Dunna ", dark. Secondly, the surname is widespread in Ireland, where it is the Anglicized form of the Gaelic " O'Duinn, Doinn ", composed of the Gaelic prefix " O ", male descendant of, and the personal name " Duinn, oinn ", from " donn ", black, brown, a byname given to someone with dark hair or swarthy complexion, as above. In Ireland the name is usually spelt " Dunne ", and the sept originated in County Leix and formed one of the principal families of Leinster where their chief was the Lord of Iregan; they were especially mentioned in mid 16th Century documents as hostile and dangerous to the English interest. Those who spelt their name Dunn usually came from Ulster, where they were possibly of Scottish extraction. Finally, in Scotland, the surname also derives from this Celtic origin, but may also be locational from the lands of Dun, Tayside, and Angus,, which derives from " dun ", fort.

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