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Title: The Ferguson family in Scotland and America
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Ferguson, Martin Luther Ferguson, James, 1857-1917, joint comp
Subjects: Ferguson family Ferguson family (David Ferguson, fl. 1805)
Publisher: (Candaigua, N.Y. : The Times Presses
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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t from Fergus the First,absolute King of Scotland of the Milesian race, as he is termed in theannals of the Four Masters, but from his uncle, another Fergus.Fergus, says Hart, a son of Eoghan, who is No. 88 of the ONeill ofTyrone pedigree, was the ancestor of MacFearghusa, anglicised Mac-Fearghus, Fergus, and Ferguson. Eoghan was the son of Niall Mor, orsaid to be the 126th Monarch of Ireland. From Fergus his son (No. 89)the generations are given by name down to No. 105, Fearghus, and No.106, his son, Aodh MacFearghusa, the Fergus who founded the line of ourScottish Kings, the deep attachment of their people to whom is soquaintly expressed by the old Covenanter Baillie, when he says: Hadour throne been void, and our voices sought for the filling of Fergusschair, we had died ere any other hadsittend own on that fatal marble butCharles alone. It is curious that the Scottish and Irish traditions should agree so nearlyin deducing the Ferguson stock from the old Royal House of Ireland. The
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11 name was undoubtedly a favorite one among the Scots, though it is alsofound among the Picts, and it may perhaps be interesting to quote thephysical characteristics of the true Milesian race, in opposition to theother elements of the Irish population, from a passage taken from an oldbook, and preserved in OCurrys Memoirs and Customs of the AncientIrish: Every one who is white of skin, brown of hair, bold, honor-able, daring, prosperous, bountiful in the bestowal ot property, wealthor rings, and who is not afraid ot battle or combat, they are the descend-ants of the sons of Miledh in Erin. We may, I think, conclude that the original stock of Fergusons wasof the unmixed Scottish race. In Scotland the Clan, if not a numerousone, is certainly very widely spread. The late Dr. MacLachlan, an eminent authority on Celtic traditionand literature, once told me that he had come across old women of thename living in Highland huts, whose circumstances were of the poorest,but who rejoiced in pedi

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