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- "The Mures of Caldwell are immediately descended from Sir Reginald
More, or Mure, of Abercorn and Cowdams, who appears to have been
chamberlain of Scotland as early as 1329, the first year of the reign
of David II."
From the point quoted above, no specific lineage is provided (much
general history of the family is given). The following is interesting:
"Crawford, the Scottish genealogist, supposes Sir Reginald, the
chamberlain, to have been a brother of Sir Adam More, of Rowallan,
whose dau. Elizabeth, was Queen Consort of Robert II., the first of
the Stuart kings; but of this there is no evidence, and it appears as
likely that he sprang directly from the original stock of Polkelly,
and may be the same Reginald, who, together witha Gilchrist More,
signs the Ragman Roll in 1296, and whom Nisbet takes to be the old
Polkelly Mores, 'the root of the Mores, an antienter family than the
Rowallans."
(From "A Genealogical And Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of
Great Britain and Ireland For 1851," [see master sources for complete
citation], "Mure of Caldwell," pg. 900)
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