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Heartily wielding the formidable family motto "With Virtue For Guide!" while boldly striding forth through the gathering mists of time immemorial, the proud, noble, and mighty Scottish surname of Elder is first found in Edinburghshire, where they had held a family seat from the most ancient of times- some say long before the arrival of Duke William of Normandy in 1066 A.D. Descendants of the Boernician tribes first utilized this surname as a nickname to describe the elder of two persons with the same given, or first, name.

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