DE ABERNETHY, Hugh ¹

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  General Notes:

"The origin of the family of Abernethy is obscure. Lord Saltoun l gives it as his opinion that in the twelfth century its representatives occupied the position of lay abbots of the Culdee monastery of Abernethy, in Strathearn, and that it may therefore be concluded that they were not among the Saxon or Norman immigrants who, at various periods, entered Scotland from the south, but were descended from some ancient Pictish or Scottish source, or from some adventurous Scandinavian settler from the north.

The first of the family, however, found in historical record is Hugh, who lived during the reigns of Alexander I., David I., and perhaps Malcolm the Maiden. He appears to have died about the middle of the twelfth century. He had a son, Orm...."

from Scots Peerage (vol 7) ¹

Hugh married.