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Welcome to the Scatterty-Scatterday Scotland Website at Family Tree DNA! This website is a place for you to connect to other Scatterty and Scatterday relations throughout the world, to exchange information, and to learn more about your roots in Scotland and your connections to other people with Scattertys or Scatterdays in their family line.
The "Scaterdy lands" appear in records from at least as early as the 1300s. The name was spelled many ways: "the lands of Skatterty in the barony of Kineduart [the parish of King Edward];" the lands "of Skattirdy." "Skatterdie," "Skattyrte," "Scattertie," and "Scatterty" are only a few of the different spellings. Adam Watson, author of Place names in much of north-east Scotland (2013) and one of Scotland's foremost scientists, cites the pronunciation of this place name as "Sgaiteartaigh." Robert Gordon's Blaeu Atlas of Scotland (1654) records the land as "Scattertie;" one hundred years later, William Roy's Military Survey of Scotland (Highlands area map, 1747-1752) records the land as "Scaterdy" (both the Blaeu Atlas of Scotland and the Roy Military Survey of Scotland are available in searchable form on the National Library of Scotland website).
A William Scattertie and an Alexander Skattertie are recorded in court records from the early 1600s. They both appear as servitours, or "men-at-arms." As light horsemen, they appear up near King Edward, which is a bit below Banff by the North Sea, and around Insch, where a concentration of Scattertie family members settled.
Aberdeenshire is believed to be the only shire for which the complete 1696 Poll tax records survived. It includes a listing of all people in Aberdeenshire who are sixteen years of age or older who are not paupers. There are only sixteen individuals with the surname of Scattertie in 1696, nine of them men. Of those nine Scattertie-Scatterty men, one appears to be a younger unmarried man as he is working as a servant, and another one is a young man living with his parents. Given that there are seven adult Scatterty men in Scotland in 1696 (all near King Edward or Insch), it is quite possible that all of the Scatterties at that time are members of one extended family. These early records indicate that all the Scattertys and Scatterdays today have descended from these early Aberdeenshire Scatterties, and it is my hope that we can explore this through DNA testing and sharing stories of our Scatterty-Scatterday ancestors (J. Maxwell, 2017).
The "Scaterdy lands" appear in records from at least as early as the 1300s. The name was spelled many ways: "the lands of Skatterty in the barony of Kineduart [the parish of King Edward];" the lands "of Skattirdy." "Skatterdie," "Skattyrte," "Scattertie," and "Scatterty" are only a few of the different spellings. Adam Watson, author of Place names in much of north-east Scotland (2013) and one of Scotland's foremost scientists, cites the pronunciation of this place name as "Sgaiteartaigh." Robert Gordon's Blaeu Atlas of Scotland (1654) records the land as "Scattertie;" one hundred years later, William Roy's Military Survey of Scotland (Highlands area map, 1747-1752) records the land as "Scaterdy" (both the Blaeu Atlas of Scotland and the Roy Military Survey of Scotland are available in searchable form on the National Library of Scotland website).
A William Scattertie and an Alexander Skattertie are recorded in court records from the early 1600s. They both appear as servitours, or "men-at-arms." As light horsemen, they appear up near King Edward, which is a bit below Banff by the North Sea, and around Insch, where a concentration of Scattertie family members settled.
Aberdeenshire is believed to be the only shire for which the complete 1696 Poll tax records survived. It includes a listing of all people in Aberdeenshire who are sixteen years of age or older who are not paupers. There are only sixteen individuals with the surname of Scattertie in 1696, nine of them men. Of those nine Scattertie-Scatterty men, one appears to be a younger unmarried man as he is working as a servant, and another one is a young man living with his parents. Given that there are seven adult Scatterty men in Scotland in 1696 (all near King Edward or Insch), it is quite possible that all of the Scatterties at that time are members of one extended family. These early records indicate that all the Scattertys and Scatterdays today have descended from these early Aberdeenshire Scatterties, and it is my hope that we can explore this through DNA testing and sharing stories of our Scatterty-Scatterday ancestors (J. Maxwell, 2017).