Ewing Family Origins
Thor Ewing
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Thor Ewing is a writer, historian and historical performer in the UK; he has
published studies of Viking and Anglo-Saxon culture and translations of medieval
Scandinavian and Celtic poetry. He joined the Ewing Surname Y-DNA Project in
2007 (he is JT in Group 2*), and his own line comes through Lurgan, County
Armagh, in Northern Ireland. He is web master for the
Clan Ewen Society,
and his recent
New Notes on Clan Ewen
(2009) looks at how modern Ewings
and MacEwens originate in the clans of medieval Scotland.
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Who Were the Ewings?
Ewing Family J., Vol. 16, No. 1 (February 2010), pp. 1-9.
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"The surname 'Ewing' first appears in Scotland around
the year 1500. In his
Clan Ewing of Scotland,
E. W. R. Ewing claims that the name was used in Lowland
Scotland from a much earlier date, but all the examples
he lists refer to the use of the name 'Ewan' as a
forename rather than as a surname. However, from the
late fifteenth century through the sixteenth century the
surname becomes common, though spellings vary. The most
usual spelling is 'Ewyne', which is also the standard
sixteenth-century spelling for the forename 'Ewan', but
the spelling 'Ewing' appears at a surprisingly early
date (at least by 1566) and is used consistently in a
fairly well-defined area centered on Loch Lomond. Ewings
across the world today can frequently trace their origins
to this same small area of sixteenth-century Scotland. But
where did these Ewings come from? Why do they suddenly
appear here at this time?"
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Other materials prepared by Thor Ewing on the Origins of the Ewing Family
may be found on:
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Ewing Family Association
Web Site's Home Page
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Ewing Family Association's
Reading Room
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Ewing Family Association's
Reading Room's Articles and Report List
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