Mary Buchanan Sproat Gravestone Dean Cemetery Edinburgh Scotland

Tour Scotland video of the Mary Buchanan Sproat gravestone in Dean Cemetery on ancestry visit to Edinburgh.The surname Sproat was first found in Derbyshire where the Domesday Book of 1086 lists the name was derived from the name of an ancestor, the son of Sprot. Further to the north in Scotland, the name was perhaps from Sprot, an Old English personal name, but more likely to be of Scandinavian origin. The tradition of those bearing this name in Scotland is that their ancestors were Saxons who came into Scotland after the Norman Conquest of England. The first recorded of the name in Scotland appears to be Hugh Sprot of Ur who witnessed a charter by Eustace Baliol granting the church and lands of Hur or Urr in 1262 to the monks of Holyrood All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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