Haigs Of Bemersyde eBook

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Tradition precedes history — Date of earliest extant Scotch writ ings — Period of ascertained history in Scotland — Its bearing upon family history — The older Scotch genealogists; their manufacture of pedigrees — The Haig Family: great anti quity assigned to it by tradition — halleged Pictish origin Mylne''s Pictish genealogy of family: I. Druskine, last King of the Picts, a.d. 839 — 11. Hago, his son, carried in infancy over to Norway — III. Hago, a.d. 961 — IV. Arworth — V. Sueno, a.~d. Io38 — VI. Hago, a.d. Io7z-iio3 — VII. Petrus de Hago: shipwrecked on coast of Berwickshire, founded Bemersyde family, etc. — Pictish genealogy of family tradi tional and fabulous.