Pourie History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

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Scotland

Early Origins of the Pourie family

The surname Pourie 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 Pourie family

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Pourie Spelling Variations

Spelling variations of this family name include: Pourie, Powrie, Powyre and others.

Early Notables of the Pourie family

Notable amongst the Clan from early times was

the Pourie family of Yorkshire

Pourie migration to the United States +

Some of the first settlers of this family name were:

Pourie Settlers in United States in the 18th Century

Jean Baptiste Pourie, who landed in Connecticut in 1763 2

Pourie migration to New Zealand +

Emigration to New Zealand followed in the footsteps of the European explorers, such as Captain Cook (1769-70): first came sealers, whalers, missionaries, and traders. By 1838, the British New Zealand Company had begun buying land from the Maori tribes, and selling it to settlers, and, after the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840, many British families set out on the arduous six month journey from Britain to Aotearoa to start a new life. Early immigrants include:

Pourie Settlers in New Zealand in the 19th Century

Mr. Joseph Pourie, British settler travelling from London aboard the ship "Joseph Fletcher" arriving in Auckland, New Zealand on 18th August 1859 3

Citations +

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)
Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)
New Zealand Yesteryears Passenger Lists 1800 to 1900 (Retrieved 17th October 2018). Retrieved from http://www.yesteryears.co.nz/shipping/passlist.html