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BLYTH Family History

This ancient Scottish name is of locational origin, from the old barony of Blyth in the "lordship" of Lauderdale, in what is now the Borders region. The place was originally named from the Old English pre 7th Century "blithe", merry, cheerful, perhaps on account of its pleasant situation, or from a nearby river, which would have been so named for its merry, chattering sound. One James Blyth is recorded in ancient charters of the Earldom of Morton, in 1485, as a burgess of Dundee, and William Blitht was admitted burgess of Aberdeen in 1488.