Origins The account of this family here given is based on that on the "Memoirs of the Somervilles; being a history of the Baronial House of Somerville" by James Somerville of Drum, de jure 10th Lord Somerville, 1631/2-1693, written in 1769 though not printed till 1815 when it was edited by Sir Walter Scott, according to "The Complete Peerage" "a rambling and prolix work". The Founding Ancestor of this Family may is there taken to be [Missing XREF c-somerville40011] of Carnarth in county Lanark, Scotland. |
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