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Please go to filshill.com and click on our family tree. The format is a table word document. I am working to transfer the info to standard format.
I have been able to find Filshill's back to the 17th century. The name appears in Scottish baptism records of the time.
I have some theories of where the family name comes from but no concrete proof.
Note the first names Jannet and Jonet, may be French? I have been planning a trip to Normandy to do somne research as the French do not have many resources online.
Note the first name Isabell and not Elizabeth. Maybe from the Iberian penninsula.
The roots of the Scottish people go back to persecution in Ireland and migration of Nordics. So that may also be a clue.
Only nobels, landowners, clan chiefs etc used full names back then. My current theory is that the Filshill name was derived from the name HILL. Maybe the son of a french maid who labored at the Hill residence: fils (son in French) + hill (Hill clan)! I am not aware of any clan from which Hill is derived though.
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