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Historical References
"BUTTAR, BUTTER, BUTTERS. These surnames are common to the shires of Fife and Perth and may be connected with the old name Buttergask, the name of a village in the parish of Ardoch. Butter was the name of an old family in Perthshire where they possessed the lands of Fascally, and the Butters of Gormock were a still older family in the same county. In 1331 we have record of the escheat of Adam Butir (ER., i, p. 356), and in 1360 William Butyr and Patrick Butirr are mentioned as collectors of contributions in Cowrie "super ylef" (ibid., n, p. 41). James Buttir, fisherman, received an ox-hide for making his currok (currach) in 1511 (Rent. Dunk., p. 117). Others of this name are mentioned in the Acts of Parliament and in Laing (Charters), and several individuals named Butter are mentioned in a charter of the lordship of Swinton of date 1656, and Butterlaw Loche, Butterlaw Syke, and Butterlaw Cairne are also named in the same charter (Stuinion, p. cxciv-cxcv). John Buttyr deponed to the right boundaries of the Monk Myre in 1546 (Cupar-Angus, n, p. 4). The name is also recorded in Dunrossness, Shetland, in 1602 but is now extinct there (Mill, Diary, p. Ixxxix, 187). It is also found in Orkney in the seventeenth century (Retours, Orkney and Shetland, 52, 58, etc.). The name is evidently of local origin (cf. under BUTTEBCASE), and it occurs frequently in the records of the Diocese and Presbytery of Dunkeld. The Butter road (an old drove road across the Ochils, from Old Gaelic bothar, a road for cattle) is in Kincardineshire. "(The surnames of Scotland. George Fraser Black, 1866-1948)
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for the Buttar Genealogy
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