IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-3) 1.0 m |||22 S Ui 2.0 I.I 1.8 1.25 U ill 1.6 '^ w '/ CIHM/ICMH CIHM/ICMH Microfiche Collection de Series. microfiches. Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions Institut Canadian de microreproductions historiques 1980 Technical and Bibliographic Notes/Notes techniques et bibliographiques The Institute has attempted to obtain the best L'institut a microfilm^ le meilleur exemplaire original copy available for filming. Features of this qu'il lui a 6t6 possible de se procurer. Les details copy which may be bibliographically unique, de cet exemplaire qui sont peut-dtre uniques du which may alter any of the images in the point de vue bibliographique, qui peuvent modifier reproduction, or which may significantly change une image reproduite, ou qui peuvent exiger une the usual method of filming, are checked below. modification dans la mdthode normale de filmage sont indiquds ci-dessous. Coloured covers/ Coloured pages/ D Couverture de couleur Pages de couleur I Covers damaged/ Pages damaged/ I Couverture endommagde / Pages endommagdes Covers restored and/or laminated/ Pages restored and/or laminated/ I I D Couverture restaurde et/ou pelliculde Pages restaurdr s et/ou pellicul6es Cover title missing/ Pages discoloured, stained or foxed/foxei I I D Le titre de couverture manque Pages d6color6es, tachetdes ou piqudes Coloured maps/ Pages detached/ I I Cartes gdographiques en couleur I I Pages ddtachdes 1 s 1 Coloured ink (i.e. other than blue or black)/ Showthrough/Showthroughy V I I D Encre de couleur (i.e. autre que bleue ou noire) Transparence ^ Coloured plates and/or illustrations/ Quality of printprir varies/ I I d Planches et/ou illustrations en couleur Quality indgale de Timpression D e b Bound with other material/ Includes supplementary material/materii ri Reli6 avec d'autres documents I I D Comprend du matdriel supplementaire r( n Tight binding may cause shadows or distortion Only edition available/ D along interior margin/ SSeule Edition disponible La reliure serr6e peut causer de I'ombre ou de la distortion le long de la marge intdrieure Pages wholly or partially obscured by errata D slips, tissues, etc., have been refilmed to Blank leaves added during restoration may ensure the best possible image/ D appear within the text. Whenever possible, these Les pages totalement ou partiellement have been omitted from filming/ obscurcies par un feuillet d'errata, une pelure. II se peut que certaines pages blanches ajoutdes etc.. ont 6t6 filmdes d nouveau de fa9on d restauration lors d'une apparaissent dans le texte, obtenir la meilleure image possible. mais, lorsque cela dtait possible, ces pages n'ont pas 6t6 film^es. Additional comments:/ D Commentaires suppldmentaires; This item is filmed at the reduction ratio checked below/ Ce document est filmd au taux de reduction indiqu6 ci-dessous. 10X The copy filmed here has been reproduced thanks L'exemplaire filmd fut reproduit grdce d la to the generosity of: g6n6rosit6 de: Library of the Public La bibliothdque des Archives Archives of Canada publiques du Canada The images appearing here are the best quality Les images suivantes ont 6t6 reproduites avec le po.^sible considering the condition and legibility plus grand soin, compte tenu de la condition et of the original copy and in keeping with the de la nettetd de l'exemplaire film6, et en filming contract specifications. conformity avec les conditions du contrat de filmage. Original copies in printed paper covers are filmed Les exemplaires originaux dont la couverture en beginning with the front cover and ending on papier est imprimde sont filmds en commenpant the last page with a printed or illustrated impres- par le premier plat et en terminant soit par la sion, or the back cover when appropriate. All dernidre page qui comporte une empreinte other original copies are filmed beginning on the d'impression ou d'illustration, soit par le second first page with a printed or illustrated impres- plat, selon le cas. Tous les autres exemplaires sion, and ending the last on page with a printed originaux sont filmds en commenpant par la or illustrated impression. premidre page qui comporte une empreinte d'impression ou d'illustration et en terminant par la dernidre page qui comporte une telle empreinte. last The recorded frame on each microfiche Un des symboles suivants apparaTtr j sur la shall — contain the symbol ^ (meaning "CON- dernidre image de cheque microfic/ie, selon le TINUED"), or the symbol V (meaning "END"), cas: le symbole — signifie "A SUIVRE", le whichever applies. symbole V signifie "FIN". Maps, plates, charts, etc., may be filmed at Les cartes, planches, tableaux, etc., peuvent dtre different reduction ratios. Those too larp- to be filmds d des taux de reduction diffdrents. entirely included in one exposure are filmed Lorsque le document est trop grand pour dtre beginning in the upper left hand corner, left to reproduit en un seul clichd. il est film6 d partir right and top to bottom, as many frames as de Tangle supdrieur gauche, de gauche d droite, required. The following diagrams illustrate the et de haut en bas, en prenant le nombre method: d'images ndcessaire. Les diagrammes suivants illustrent la mdthode. 1 2 3 1 1 CANADA ARCHIVES ex lihrii A ti T" •I ^*>¥V Note on the Probable Origin OF THE SCOTTISH SURNAME OF GEMMILL OR GEMMELL WITH A Genealogical Account of the Family OF Gemmill of Templehouse, Scotland BY J. A. GBMMILI^ OTTAWA. CANADA. ifffi Printed for private circulation by John Lo\'ell <Sr» Son Montreal 1898 I 1 /?K/^ 4 CONTBXTS PAGE On probable origin of the name Genimill 1.4 Gemmill of Teniplehouse and branches 5 The Temjlars and Knights of St. John and their Lands 5.8 Gemmell of South Thorn ]^3 Gemraell of Auchentiber iq Gemniell Rev. Andrew, B.D I3 Gemmells of Lugtonridge and Leahead inchiding Browns of Hill- house and Clerkland, Tennents, Mrs. Dr. Joshua Paterson, Donaldsons, &c., also Thomsons, Aitkens, Mrs. Macdonald, Mrs. Andrew McFarlane, Guthries, &c 13-18 Gemmills of Holehouse, including descendants in Canada and England 24-43 Mrs. Agnes Smith Lewis and Mrs. Margaret Dunlop Gibson .30-43 f NOTE ON THE PROBABLE ORIGIN OF THE SCOT- TISH SLxiNAME OF GEMxMILL OR GEMMELL. Authorities agree that the Scottish surname Gemmill or (iemmell is of Danish or Scandinavian origin, being a form of the Danish word gammel, Anglo-Saxon gamel, Old Norse gantaU, all signifying old or ancient} From history we learn that hosts of Danish rovers in- vaded England in the eighth and ninth centuries, and that they made extensive settlements in the northern half of En- gland. In the course of time a fusion of the existing peoples and their languages took place, and when surnames were adoDtod in England, about the time of the Norman Conquest, circumstances pointing to a Danish descent probably led to tlie adoption of the Danish word gammel, Anglo-Saxon gamel, first as a nick-name and eventually as a surname.- In Domes'day Book (A. D. 1080 to 1086) there is men- tion of several Anglo-Saxon thanes or tenants-in-chief and under-tenants of land bearing the name of Gamel, chief among whom was Gamel, the owner of several manors in Yorkshire and Staffordshire.^ The frequent occurrence of the names Gamel, Gammell, Gemel, Gamol and Gamul in the old English records * of the period shows that, shortly after the Norman Conquest, Gamel with variations in spelling was common in England. 1. Lower on nritish Patronymics aud Ferguson on Surnames, historian, ascribes a Danish origin to the name G&mel, The Norman quest, Volflvlp'Voo^* Con- ^""' '""^'"^"''"' '" ^^omes'dag Book, Vol. I, pp.xi, 422,477, 493; Vol. U, 115, Swf'm^m!'^ pp. '?''(? '^e Quo Warranto,, 124. 414 Calender , *iif pp. ; Charter Rolls, p. 376 : Return of Parlia- '"f*^'-?.'^'.'«uVol- 1. V.filJtotulide Oblatiset'finitnts in the Tow^r of&ndon, Tem^R^g John, 34, A), 36 Calender ' pp. ; of Documents relating to Scotland, Vol. I. Traces of the name Gamel, chiefly in connection with the Ecclesiastical establishments ^ are found a century later in that part of Scotland then included in ancient Northum- brio, but it is not until the middle of the thirteenth century that Gernil^ another form of the name Gamel, is for the first time found associated with the ownership of land in Scotland. According to Chalmers,^ the historian, the iiarish of Kirk- michael, Ayrshire, was in former times called Kirkmichael of Qemilstoun—obviously derived from a proprietor or settler of the name of Gemil—the church there being described in Latin charters as " Ecclesia Sancti Michaelis de Gemilstoun." " This church," he adds, *' was granted to the Prior and Canons of Whithorn in Galloway by John de Gemilstoun, the son and heir of John de Gemilstoun, Knight, wliich grant was confirmed to them by Robert I, in May, 1325, and by James IV in 1451." In the accounts of Eymeric de Maccuswell, Sheriff of Dumfries, of date 1264, Joannes de Gemilstoun is mentioned as indebted in a fine of <£15, and in the accounts of John de Twynhame, the King's Purveyor in Galloway, is an entry under date 1329 of a payment of £63 6 8 as part payment of a sum of money granted by the King to Lady Mary, wife of Jojin of Gemilstoun. ^ Joannes de Gemilstoun—probably the Knight above referred to— is mentioned in the Ragman Rolls as one of the Scottish barons who swore fealty to King Edward I at Ber- wick in 1296.'^ 1. Jlei/istrum St. Andrews {liannatj/ne Club), pp. 127, 224, 261 ; Spoitlsivod's History of the Vol. Church of Scollaiul,\o\.