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Excerpted from Surnames of Scotland Their Origin, Meaning and History by G.
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Sample names entries from Surnames of Scotland:
CAMACHA. A tribe descended from the Stewarts of Garth, "are called Camachas
or Crookshanks, from a bend or deformity in his leg, by which their
ancestor was distinguished from others of his name" (Stewart, I, p. 27).
MACCOMB, Maccombe. From G. Mac Thom, 'son of Tom' now often Englished Thom.
The b is accretionary. Gilchrist Makcome, a follower of the earl of
Cassilis, was respited for murder in 1526 (RSS., I, 3386). Roger M.Com
appears in Netherglen, 1679 (Kirkcudbright), and Robert McKome was charged
with being a disorderly person in the parish of Carsfern, 1684 (RPC., 3.
Ser. Ix, p. 574). In the Parish Lists of Wigtownshire and Minnigaff, 1684,
the name also appears as McColm, McComb, McCome, and McKComb.