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Originally Posted by Martian
Yours too, huh? I'm a Fraser of Lovat, we have a vast and storied history of beating other people up.
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http://www.tartanweb.org/clanhistory/auchinleck.html
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There are conflicting opinions on the origin of this family, with some saying that the lands lay in the county of Angus, while others recognise the barony of Auchinleck in Ayrshire, in 1300 the Laird of Auchinleck is believed to have followed William Wallace to Glasgow to Kill Earl Percy of Northumbria. John Aghelek, or Achinfleck, is the first record of the name in 1306. The name itself could be purely descriptive of the topography, with 'auchen' describing raised areas of land separating water, and 'lech' refering to death, in sense of barren land. One of the daughters of Sir John Auchinleck married into the family of Boswell. Alexander Boswell was elevated to the bench in 1756, assuming the title of Lord Auchinleck, and his son Jame was the famous biographer of Samuel Johnson. General Sir Claude Auchinleck was the British commander-in-chief in India until Winston Churchill assigned him to Egypt to lead the Aliies in their offensive there in 1941. He lead the British 8th Army at the first Battle of El Alamein, but was not victorious, and he was replaced by Bernard Montgomery (later Field Marshall Montgomery)
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That's us, on my mother's side, killers of Early Percy. Don't mess with us!
I also have a William Wallace in my ancestry somewhere, but I gather it was a popular name at one point and does not automatically denote a connection to the original.