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Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 933 people with the Adair surname? In that year Adair was ranked number 2653 for popularity in the UK.

"Thomas, the sixth Earl of Desmond, while on a hunting excursion lost his way, between Tralee and Newcastle, in the county of Limerick, where he was received and entertained by one William McCormick, whose daughter he subsequently married. At this alliance the family and clan took umbrage, and forced him to resign his title and estate to his youngest brother. He died in France in 1420, leaving issue, Maurice and John; Robert the son of Maurice returned to Ireland, where he killed Gerald the White Knight in single combat at Athdale, whence he received the name of Adaire. He afterwards settled in Scotland, where he married Arabella daughter of John Campbell, Lord of Argyle. "_{(The origin and signification of Scottish surnames. Clifford Stanley Sims, 1862)}

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"ADAIR. The tradition of the foundation of the family of Adair of Dunskey and Kinhilt originating from a fugitive son of Fitzgerald, Earl Desmond of Adair in Ireland, taking as surname his father's estate name seems too hypothetical for belief. Chalmers and others think that Adair is but a different pronunciation of Edzear (z -. /) or Edgar. It is a fact that Thomas Edzear or Odeir had a charter of the lands of Kildonan in the Rynes of Galloway from Robert i (RMS., i, App. n, 681). From the Bruce, also, various parties of the same patronymic had grants of land in Dumfries. Richard dictus Eager, for example, had a charter of the "place of Seneschar (Sanquhar) and half the barony thereof (RMS., i, 27). As Bruce died in 1329, and if Adair and Edzear are the same it is clear that the surname was located in Galloway much earlier than 1388, when the Fitzgerald of Adare is supposed to have acquired the lands. "As a matter of fact ...the name is...simply a form of Edgar, [the] progenitor being probably Edgar, son of Duvenald, a leader at the Battle of the Standard, grandson of Donegal of Morton Castle, a descendant of whom, Robert [sic, Thomas] Edzear had a charter from Robert Bruce of the lands of Kildonan, adjacent to which are those of Kinhilt. In confirmation of this we also find the name Edgar attaching to a hill on his property at Dromore" (Agnew, i, p. 220). In a footnote Agnew adds: "In the Lochnaw charter chest various deeds prove the name Edzear and Adair to have been interchangeable with the Galloway Adairs. In a charter dated 1625 the name is spelled in both forms on the same page." John Adair had a commission for a survey of Scotland in 1681 (RFC., 3. ser. xn, introduction). "_{(The surnames of Scotland. George Fraser Black, 1866-1948)}

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