The surname Porey 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.
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Early History of the Porey family
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Porey Spelling Variations
Spelling variations of this family name include: Pourie, Powrie, Powyre and others.
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Early Notables of the Porey family
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Migration of the Porey family
Some 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..
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