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"This name originated in Ettrick Forest in Selkirkshire, with the first to use it appearing around the second half of the 15th century. This history traces the course of the family and their close association, primarily with the Pringles, but also with other families in the region. During the course of the 16th century, branches of the family were to be found in Kincardineshire, in the parish of Strath Auhin or Strachan, and in other shires in the southern part of Scotland. There is information on the Burnetts of Sauchen, Gordons of Merdrum, the Blackhalls, Lunans, Leonards, and Grays"--Container.
Excerpt from The Family of Cadenhead Cadenhead, like a great many other lowland Scottish surnames, seems to have had a territorial origin, and it is in Ettrick Forest, in Selkirkshire, that the locality is found from which it had been adopted. The Forest, as it was commonly called, was a Royal domain as far back as distinct history reaches. Its divisions were called Forest-steads, and were occupied, subject to the Royal rights, by tenants, for agriculture and pasturage, at rents payable partly in money and partly in cattle. These occupiers were called kindly tenants, and they seem to have enjoyed fixity of tenure. The Forest itself, and sometimes single steads or groups of steads, were often...
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