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Irvine: of territorial origin, Irving in Dumfriesshire and Irvine in Ayrshire; the Dumfriesshire parish was the chief source of the name; the charter of the Barony of Drum dates from1324; an offshoot of the Aberdeenshire family appears in Shetland in the mid-1500s; in Northern Ireland, the name has become confused with the Irish Erwin. (p. 378)
Irvine: one and the same as Irving; from the place in Ayrshire, meaning green water (from the Brittonic ir afon); widespread in Scotland since the late Medieval period; The Irvines of Drum were the most important landed family of the name; at some point it migrated to Ireland. (p. 156)
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∙ 9y agoThe ancient Strathclyde-Britons who once ruled the Scottish-English Borderlands region conferred this proud and noble Scottish surname upon persons living in or near either Irvine in Strathclyde or Irving in Dumfriesshire. History's occludent mists of time have rendered a single origin evanescent.
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