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Dictionary of
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Origin and Etymology of the Surname ARBUTHNOT,
ARBUTHNOTT.
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From
A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames, by C. W. E. Bardsley,
A. Bardsley, 1901, and,
An Etymological Dictionary of
Family and Christian Names, by William Arthur, M. A., 1857.
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ARBUTHNOT, ARBUCKEL.
Bardsley has: A local name meaning "of Arbuthnot," "a
parish in Kincardineshire. The first of the family was Hugh de
Arburbothenoth, who assumed his surname from the lands which he acquired in 1105
with the daughter of Osbert Olifard, and on which his descendants have resided
for more than twenty generations": Lower's Pat. Brit. p. 10.
Arthur has: First assumed by the proprietors of the land and barony of Arbuthnot in
the Mearns, Scotland. The name is said to have been anciently written
Aberbuthnoth, which signifies the dwelling near the confluence of the river with
the sea, from aber, the mouth of the river, both, a dwelling, and neth,
a stream that descends, or is lower than some other relative object.
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