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Historical References

"KING. A surname of some antiquity and still met with in many parts of the country, Berwick, Fife, and Aberdeen. The first of the name recorded in Aberdeenshire is "Robertus dictus King" who bequeathed to the prior and convent of St. Andrews land in that shire which was the subject of a convention in 1247 between his brother's daughter, Coda, and the prior and convent (Sc. Peer., m, p. 588). A family of this name were in possession of Barra or Barrocht in the parish of Bourtie from an early period, and in 1493 parted with a portion of die land (Inventrte, p. 103). John Kyng was burgess of Perth in 1421 (RAA., n, 56), James Kynge witnessed sealing of an inquest anent a fishing on the Tweed in 1467 (RD., p. 359), John King witnessed a sasine in 1495 and Patrick King the same in 1525 (Home, 26, 35). Adam King (d. 1620), a Scottish scholar Latinized his name Adamus Regius. Some of the proscribed Macgregors are said to have adopted this name. "(The surnames of Scotland. George Fraser Black, 1866-1948)

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