For many years it was thought that Baldwin of Biggar was the same person as Baldwin the Fleming and that the latter was the progenitor of the Fleming family in Scotland. It is an important debate in that the Fleming…
In recent years significant academic work has been done on place-names in Scotland with a view to understanding their origins. Place-names can potentially shed light on patterns of medieval settlement. Scholars have…
Genetic analysis is increasingly being used to complement more traditional studies of specific families and people groups. The Scotland and the Flemish People Project includes a DNA project that readers, who believe…
There are two key issues that need to be addressed at this stage in the Scotland and the Flemish People Project. The first is to identify the geographical scope of Flanders in the medieval and early modern periods and…
This guest blog is the second of two that examine the influence of the historic links between Fife, particularly the East Neuk, and the Low Countries, including Flanders, on its distinctive style of vernacular…
The Kingdom of Fife is known to be a part of Scotland where the Flemish settled and where their footprint can be discerned, even today. This guest blog is the first of two authored by Matthew Price that examine the…
This guest blog posting is the second of two that trace F. Lawrence Fleming’s personal search for his “Flemish” ancestry. In this posting he explains why he believes that the name “Fleming” would not normally have…
This guest blog posting is the first of two that trace F. Lawrence Fleming’s personal search for his “Flemish” ancestry. His many years of genealogical research have led to the publication of three books. These are…
A little known article written by Henry Lucas of the University of Washington in 1945 examines the life of the Flemish John Crabbe, who had a wide-ranging career as a pirate, merchant and adventurer, some of it…
This is the second of a series of blog postings that discusses Flemish rooted names occurring in Scotland and their origins. In the first blog posting in the series (dated 27 September 2013) we set out a list of names…