| ![Show Contents]() Powrie History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms
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 Scotland Early Origins of the Powrie familyThe surname Powrie was first found in Angus (Gaelic: Aonghas), part of the Tayside region of northeastern Scotland, and present day Council Area of Angus, formerly known as Forfar or Forfarshire, at Erroll where they held a family seat in this wild and romantic highland territory. Powrie is in the Errol parish of Murroes, Angus. The first on record was Henry of Pourie who was juror on an inquest at Roxburgh in 1361. As very rare name, we must look to two centuries later to find William Powry, who was tried for the murder of the king in 1568, and another William Powyre was schoolmaster of Lynlythquow in 1583. 1 According to Border folklore, the powrie or redcap or is a murderous goblin. And Sir Walter Scott in his Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, the powrie is a spirit that haunts old castles, and that every ruined tower in the south of Scotland was supposed to have one of these spirits living there. Powrie Castle is a ruined 16th-century castle north of Dundee in Scotland. The castle was built on Wester Powrie, now a lost place. Much of it is in ruin today, but a separate fortified house has been converted into a private residence that survives today. Early History of the Powrie familyThis web page shows only a small excerpt of our Powrie research. Another 116 words (8 lines of text) covering the years 1568, 1609, 1670, 1689 and 1856 are included under the topic Early Powrie History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible. Powrie Spelling VariationsSpelling variations of this family name include: Pourie, Powrie, Powyre and others. Early Notables of the Powrie familyMore information is included under the topic Early Powrie Notables in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible. Migration of the Powrie familySome of the first settlers of this family name or some of its variants were: settlers who were recorded from the mid 17th century in the great migration from Europe to the New World. Migrants settled in the eastern seaboard particularly to Nova Scotia, and to Boston, to Virginia, and to the Leeward islands..
| Contemporary Notables of the name Powrie (post 1700) | + |
- S. M. Powrie, American politician, Candidate for supervisor of Bangor Township, Bay County, Michigan, 1921 2
- William Powrie (1770-1845), Scottish Dundee merchant and manufacturer with premises at East Chapelshade, father of James Powrie
- Dr James Powrie of Reswallie FRSE FGS (1815-1895), Scottish geologist, palaeontologist and astronomer from Angus, who amassed a major collection of fossils during his lifetime
- Ian Powrie (1923-2011), Scottish country dance musician and fiddle player best known for his many performances on the BBC show the White Heather Club
- Andrew Powrie, British actor, known for Between the Lines (1992), Duck Patrol (1998) and London's Burning (1988)
- Cameron Powrie, British producer and actor, known for Evita: The Making of a Superstar (2018), Buried Secrets of WWII (2019) and Frontline (1983)
- Greg Powrie, British actor, known for Tommy's Honour (2016), Outlander (2014) and Succession (2018)
- Kelvin Powrie, Australian research scientist, eponym of the Kelvin Powrie Conservation Park, formerly the Kelvin Powrie National Parks Reserve in South Australia
- FIona Powrie FRS FMedSci (b. 1963), English biochemist from Luton, head of the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology at the University of Oxford
- Olivia Elizabeth "Polly" Powrie MNZM (b. 1987), New Zealand three-time gold medalist and two-time silver medalist sailor, Olympic Champion at the 2012 London Games
- Black, George F., The Surnames of Scotland Their Origin, Meaning and History. New York: New York Public Library, 1946. Print. (ISBN 0-87104-172-3)
- The Political Graveyard: Alphabetical Name Index. (Retrieved 2015, November 13) . Retrieved from http://politicalgraveyard.com/alpha/index.html
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