History of Home & Hume

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The names Home and Hume were interchangeable in the middle ages, and mostly up until the 18th or 19th century. Both came from the same place, and either way it is spelled, it is pronounced the same (Hume). The name was originally taken as a surname by William Home.

Many years before that the land of Home is believed first occupied around 900 AD by a combination of migrating Norwegians and Danes. The Danes had been colonizing the east coast of now Scotland, and Norwegians, exiled from Ireland, populated the west coast. The two groups slowly began migrating southward, joining with the Danes and Normans coming north from "England".  From the Norwegians comes the names Holmes, Holme, and Holm; from the Danes Hulmes, Hulme, and Hulm. The word holm or hulm meant island or specifically river/marsh island, while holmr was "low-lying lands".

Previously, this area of Scotland was the home of the Druids and Celtic priests. With the push of Christianization, however many of these peoples were wiped out completely, and their traditions and ways were all but totally wiped out of existance. Only a few remain even today.

The last of six of the great Saxon kings was King Egbert, First King of United England [827-828]. (Egbert's second son was Alfred the Great, King of England).

• One of his later direct descendants was Ethelred the Unready, King of England [968-1013]. In 1002 he married Emma ("Flower of Normandy" and sister to Richard, Duke of Normandy).
  
  

• Their fifth child was daughter Elgiva who married Uchtred, Prince of Northcumberland.
  
  

• Their daughter Aldgatha married Maldred.
  

  • Malcom II, King of Scotland (1005-1034) had one child Bethoc

  • Bethoc m. Crinan, Lay Abbot of Dunkeld, and had two children:
    Duncan, King of Scotland (1034-1040)
    Maldred who married Aldgatha
    
    

• Aldgatha and Maldred had Patrick (Cospatrick I), Earl of Dunbar.
  Earl Patrick had, by his first wife, a younger son Patrick to whom he granted the lands of Greenlaw (c1166). By his second wife Ada (daugher of William the Lion, King of Scotland), he had (g-)daughter Ada.
  
  

• Patrick of Greenlaw had son William (Cospatrick III).
  
  

• William married Ada, (g-)daughter of Earl Patrick. Ada had formerly been married to a Courteney and had at the time of that marriage received as a gift (in liberum maretagium), the manor of Home or (Ihom) located along the Tweed River in the Scotland-England border area of Berwickshire.
  
  

• William assumed "Ada's name" and became William Earl of Home.
  
  

• Clan Home was born
  

SOURCES: Various and assundry web pages which quote:
History and Antiquites of Roxburghshire auth not stated
Survival of Scotland by Eric Linklater
Encyclopedia of Celtic Wisdom by John Matthewsand others.
"Ancestral Roots" 7th Edition, Weis, F.L.
"Northumberland" in "The Complete Peerage", Vol. IX, Cokayne, G.E.
"The Royal Descents of 500 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States" by G. B. Roberts
Also:  http://hometown.aol.com/ttrim36387/douglas.html.
http://www.dcs.hull.ac.uk/public/genealogy/royal/.

First Generation

John Home

Nothing is known about John Home except that he was the father of Thomas Home.

Second Generation

Thomas Home

Thomas Home's birth and death dates are not known, however, he was alive in 1385. He was married to Nicola Pepdie (Papedy) and had:

1. Sir Alexander Home (grandfather to Sir Alexander Home, 1st Lord of Home; d. 17Aug1424; m. Jean Hay)
   

2. Sir David Home
   

3. Elizabeth Home (m. Thomas Kerr of Kershaugh)

Third Generation

Sir David Home

Sir David Home of Wedderburne -- 1st Baron (or Laird) of Wedderburne. He was born in or prior to 1413, and was married to Alice __?__. The The only child I have is David Home, 2nd Baron.

Fourth Generation

David Home

David Home was the 2nd Baron of Wedderburne. He was married to Elizabeth Carmichael (d. aft 1459), and had two children:

1. George Hume, 3rd Baron.
   

2. Patrick of Polwarth (d. Nov 1503; m. by 24Mar1490 Ellen Shaw; one child

   • Janet (b. by 1490; d. aft 5Oct1543; m. Andrew Kerr who d. 1545)

Fifth Generation

George Home

George Home was the 3rd Baron of Wedderburne. He was married in 1470 to Mariota (Marion) St. Clair, and and they had one child.

1. David Hume, 4th Baron

NOTE: There are some claims that there is a generation between this George and the David below. I have seen no names, wife, etc. to back this up. If true, David below would be the 5th Baron, his son the 6th and so on.
No info on George Home's death.

Sixth Generation

David Hume

David Hume was the 4th Baron of Wedderburne. He was married to Alison Isabella Douglas, a descendant of Scottish and British Royalty. I have two children listed:

1. Isabel, (m. Robert Kerr who d. Feb 1588)

2. David Hume, 5th Baron

David Hume, 4th Baron, died in July of 1524.

Seventh Generation

David Hume

Sir David Hume was the 5th Baron of Wedderburne, and he was married to Mariota (Marlot) Johnston(e) (d. 24Feb1589) and had son George Hume, 6th Baron.  Sir David died in Jul 1574.

Eighth Generation

George Hume

George Hume was the 6th Baron of Wedderburne, and he was married to Jane Haldane. His son was David Hume, 7th Baron.

Ninth Generation

David Hume

David Hume was the 7th Baron of Wedderburne, (unknown spouse) and had son George Hume, 8th Baron.

Tenth Generation

George Hume

George Hume (1650-1716) was the 8th Baron of Wedderburne, and he was married to Isobell Liddell. His son was James Hume.

Eleventh Generation

James Hume

James Hume was born c1647, Paisley, Renf., Scotland. He married Marjorie Johnston (b. c1647, Paisley, Scotland). The only known child is Barbara Hume. Both James and his bride Marjorie died 1682 while at sea coming to the new world.

Twelfth Generation

Barbara Hume

Barbara Hume was born in 1670 in Paisley, Scotland. She migrated to America c1682 when both her parents died during the boat ride over to the new world. In 1689 in Perth Amboy, NJ, she married William Hoge. They had 12 children:

• Mary (1665-1735, m. Marcus (Mark) Hardin, 10 children)

• Joseph (b. 1680)

• John (b. 1699) (our line)

• Margart (1700-1750, m1. 1720 Robert White, m2. Robert Wilson, total 9 children)

• William (c1701-1789)

• Alexander (b. c1703)

• James (1706-1795, m.1 Agnes Crawford, m2. Nancy Griffith)

• George (b. 1708)

• Nancy (b. c1710, m. Neale Thomson)

• Solomon (b. 1716)

• Zebulon (b. 1718)

Barbara died 1745 in Winchester (Fredrick Co), VA and is buried in Opequon Cemetery, Winchester, Va.