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Historical References

"GROAT. In 1496 William de St. Clair, earl of Caithness, granted to John Grot, son of Hugh Grot, a charter of one pennyland in Duncansbay, Caithness (Calder, Sketches of history of Caithness, 1861, p. 245). The name is also found in Fife, and till within recent years it was common in Dysart, being found there so early as 1545, when Christinn Grott and Walter Grote appear in record, and Henricus Grot in 1571 (Dysart, p. 14, 15, 36). Hugo Grot was chaplain in Wick in 1530 (Trials, i, p. 149"), and William Grot was retoured heir of Malcolm Grot of Tankernes, his grandfather, in 1632 (Retours, Orkney, 18). The name is most probably from Low German or Dutch groat (pron. grote), 'great, tall.' Robert Mackay, History of the house of Mackay, 1829, has a silly story of the origin of the name. Groit 1630, Grott 1726. "(The surnames of Scotland. George Fraser Black, 1866-1948)

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