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The Names Name Person(s) Linkage/Connection/Background Fleming Linkage unknown. Old Hutch James Fleming Dair’s Margaret Cran (Dair) referred to her father’s nickname as ‘Old nickname. Hutch’, based on the character in a film. Old Hutch is a 1936 American romantic comedy film, a remake of the 1920 film Honest Hutch. Lambie Lambie was the second Linkage unknown. name of James Flemings younger sister Elisabeth. (Elisabeth Lambie Dair, b 1880, d 7 June 1945) Second name of Elizabeth (Bess) Lambie Dair Kinnear Kinnear was James Linkage unknown. Fleming Dair’s mother’s maiden name. (Helen Kinnear, b 22 July 1842 ) Second name of William (Bill) Kinnear Dair and Helen (Nel) Kinnear Grant Dair Grant Third name of Helen (Nel) Linkage unknown. Kinnear Grant Dair Cargill Cargill was the second Linkage unknown. name of James Fleming’s In Scottish history, few names go farther back than Cargill, eldest sister. whose ancestors lived among the clans of the Pictish tribe. (Jane Cargill Mustard Dair, They lived in the lands of Cargill in east Perthshire where the b 30 September 1873) family at one time had extensive territories. The surname Cargill was first found in Perthshire (Gaelic: Third name of Mary Jane Siorrachd Pheairt) former county in the present day Council Milne Cargill Dair Area of Perth and Kinross, located in central Scotland. Cargill is a parish containing, with the villages of Burreltown, Wolfhill, and Woodside. This place, of which the name, of Celtic origin, signifies a village with a church, originally formed a portion of the parish of Cupar-Angus, from which, according to ancient records, it was separated prior to the year 1514.1 Findlay Second name of Emily Linkage unknown. Findlay Dair Ewart Second name of John Linkage unknown. Ewart Dair Ensign Charles Ewart lived from 1769 to 23 May 1846. He is remembered for capturing the regimental eagle of the French 45th Regiment of the Line at the Battle of Waterloo on Sunday 18 June 1815. Charles Ewart was born at Biddles Farm near Kilmarnock in Ayrshire in 1769. At the age of 20 he enlisted in the army, joining the Royal North British Dragoons, a cavalry regiment better known by its unofficial name of the Scots Greys. Ewart saw action a number of times 1 https://www.houseofnames.com/cargill-family-crest during the French Revolutionary Wars between 1792 and 1802, being briefly captured by the French on one occasion. At the time of the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 he was a 45 year old sergeant in the regiment and viewed as an expert rider and swordsman. He was said to be a heavily built man well over six feet tall "of Herculean strength". At the start of the battle the Scots Greys formed part of a heavy cavalry brigade held in reserve by Wellington. They entered the fray by passing through the 92nd Regiment of Foot, the Gordon Highlanders, completely surprising the French 45th Regiment of the Line who were engaging the Gordon Highlanders at the time. The French regiment broke apart and the eagle serving as the regimental standard was seized by Sergeant Ewart in the midst of fierce hand to hand fighting. Ewart was ordered to return the captured eagle to safety and took it to Brussels while the battle continued. Ewart's capture of the eagle rapidly entered folklore and he became a celebrity after being invited by Sir Walter Scott to address a Waterloo dinner in Leith in 1816. Ewart was promoted to ensign (second lieutenant) and retired from the army in 1821, moving with his wife to Salford near Manchester. Here he supplemented his army pension by teaching swordsmanship. When he died in 1846 Ewart was buried in the graveyard of a Salford church. The area was subsequently redeveloped and the graveyard paved over. Ewart's body was located and exhumed in 1938 and he was reburied beneath a large granite memorial on Edinburgh Castle Esplanade. He is also remembered in the name of the Ensign Ewart, a pub at the top of Edinburgh's Royal Mile.2 Tosh Second name of Anne Linkage unknown. The Tosh surname comes from the Tosh Dunbar Dair Anglicized form of the Gaelic name, Mac an Toisich. 3 Dunbar Third name of Anne Tosh Linkage unknown. Dunbar Dair The Nominal Roll for the Scottish Horse lists three entries for Dunbar (Alex, David and William). Dunbar is a coastal town in East Lothian on the south-east coast of Scotland, approximately 30 miles (48 km) east of Edinburgh.4 Ross Second name of Margaret Meg Cran (Dair) believed that this was the surname of the Ross Dair midwife who attended her birth. Dickie Nickname of Margaret The nickname probably came from Richard, the name her Dair father had selected for the boy he was expecting. Two other versions: named after the ‘dickie’ seat in the back of cars of the era (where she would have been placed as the youngest) or so named because she was like the dickie bird that was always tweeting. She is still called by the nickname by those who knew her as a youngster. 2 https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/usbiography/e/charlesewart.html 3 https://www.houseofnames.com/tosh-family-crest 4 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar .