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The origin of this name is uncertain, but it is thought to derive from the French Du Roi’, indicating that the family probably came to Britain with the Normans.
Some suggest that they came to Scotland with Queen Margaret in 1069.
They settled in Fife and although there are accounts of Duries in that ancient kingdom as early as 1119, it is generally accepted that they rose to prominence as administrators to Princess Joan, sister of Henry III of England, who married Alexander II(1214-49).
They were granted the estate of Craigluscar, near Leven, where a house, built in 1520, has a stone shield bearing the Durie arms and the initials of a George Durie and his wife, Margaret Bruce. Craigluscar remained in the family until the 1900s.
Burntisland Castle was built in 1382 and has an armorial tablet bearing the Durie arms and the date 1554 it and most of the extensive Durie properties were confiscated at the reformation and the estates were sold around 1614 to Sir Alexander Gibson who, when he became a judge in 1621, took the judicial title Lord Durie.
The turmoil of the reformation disrupted several Duries lives among these Andrew Durie, Abbot of Melrose and bishop of Galloway(1541) was despised by the reformer John Knox. Margaret Mcbeth, wife of Henry Durie, was renowned for her skill with herbs and was a favourite of Anne of Denmark attending the births of the royal children born at the Palace of Dunfermline and it is said she saved the life of Charles I when other physicians had failed.
In the late 17th century George Durie was a captain in Louis XIV’s Scots Guards and also a provost of Dunfermline.
The Duries were chiefless for some time until the recognition in 1988 of Lt Col. Raymond Varley Dewar Durie of Durie. He established his descent through his grndmother, Elizabeth Durie of Craigluscar, from Abbot George. |
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