This Family Tree is Dedicated to my Mom and Dad , Stephen and Daphne Ferguson.
This is a sort history of the FERGUSON Name. Derived from the Scottish and
Irish surname Fergus. (Son of Fergus) from the Gaelic given name Fearghus, Fear
meaning Man and Ghus meaning Vigor, Force. (Man of vigor and force ?).
The Ferguson Family is distinguished as a Clan which in the old days had to
be proven to have Clan status, by the ability to put 250 armed men ahorse within
the hour to defend their Clan, Lands and Properties. As well as providing fighting
men for their Leige Lord and King. The Ferguson Family of Ayrshire and Dumfries
first appears around the year 1100 in the ancient Fergus, Prince of Galloway's
Family records and can trace their ancestry to Dalriadian Origins. Fergus Prince
of Galloway died at the Abbey of Holyrood in 1161 and the Earls of Carrick descended
from him. The Ferguson Family of Argyllshire claim decent from Fergus Mor mac
Erc, a very early king of the Scots of Dalriada, who originally came from Ireland. |