Brief Life History of Niall de
Niall de Bruce, of Carrick was born from 1306 to 1315, in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland. He died on 17 October 1345, in Northumberland, England, United Kingdom.
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- Sir Neil of Carrick - The Peerage
- Niall Bruce of Carrick From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- The Scots Peerage: founded on Wood's edition of Sir Robert Douglas's The Peerage of Scotland (Edinburgh, Scotland: David Douglas, 1904), volume 1
Name Meaning
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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