Links;
http://worldnames.publicprofiler.org/
http://named.publicprofiler.org/
http://gbnames.publicprofiler.org/
2/2/2017
Added 6/8/2017
With spelling “Irvine”, land was obtained in Drum, Aberdeenshire.
Following added 6/24/2018 MSE;
http://www.clancarruthers.com/list-of-unruly-reiver-clans-of-1587.html
Clan Irwin Surname DNA Study – Y-DNA Classic Chart – FTDNA
“The Border Marches,” Reiver Surnames, Heraldry, and Place Names.
Brian Charlton MacDonald Moffatt
The History of Liddesdale…, Vol.1, By Robert Bruce Armstrong
Bonshaw Irving Tower
6/24/2018 MSE
Though, do not want to supersede, a high level genealogist such as James M. Irvine, and for great reason it is felt everyone has good reason to accept his concepts over my, but information indicated by the Armstrong of that Irvina region, and my life experiences living in the southwest US, where surname adoption by indigenous Americans is within the last century, which gives an outside the inner perspective on the thing. It is believed by me given the numbers of NPE of the given region near the Debatable Lands, that it was not NPE among the Borderers, that these border people near the Debatable Lands acquired surnames at a later date like Anglo-Scots would, on various Border names, making them look as though they are NPE, but in fact they are connected Y-DNA previously in the Debatable Lands Region to surname adopting. The Debatable lands is a region of surname incubation, like the southwest US, the Four Corners region where four states UT, NM, AZ and CO, meet on top of the Colorado Plateau is within the past century a surname adoption region for indigenous Americans, predominately Navajo. If you come the Navajo Nation-Reservation, over half the size of the UK, among the Navajo it is almost certain, that Y-DNA links would not be NPE, but previous a century or more ago before the surnames were adopted.
`12/3/2018 MSE
