Brief Life History of Eleanor
When Lady Eleanor Bruce Countess of Carrick was born about 1334, in Carrick, Ayrshire, Scotland, her father, Alexander Bruce 1st and last Earl of Carrick, was 24 and her mother, Eleanor Douglas, was 18. She married William Cunningham Earl of Carrick from 0149 to 1368, in Scotland. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 2 daughters. She died on 22 June 1368, in Kilmaurs, Ayrshire, Scotland, at the age of 35, and was buried in Kilmaurs, Ayrshire, Scotland.
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Scottish (of Norman origin): habitational name from a place in Normandy, probably from Brix (La Manche).
Altered form of French Brousse .
History: The son of the Domesday baron, a friend of David I of Scotland, was granted by him the Lordship of Annandale in 1124, and his second son Robert became the founder of the Scottish house of Bruce. — This surname (see 2 above) is listed along with its original form Brousse in the (US) National Huguenot Society's register of qualified Huguenot ancestors.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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