Hi David:
Calgary was pretty quiet around 1271.
Gord
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From: "David W Bell" > Fotheringham
> This Scots surname is derived from a place in Angus called ffodryngay in
> 1261 named after Fotheringhay, an estate in Northamptonshire. The name
> which acquired the characteristically English suffix of –ingham is derived
> from Old English fód-ring-eg meaning 'island used for foddering or
grazing'.
>
> The estate of Fotheringham was held by the Scottish royal family in the
12th
> century as part of the honour of Huntingdon. When the Earl of Huntingdon
> assumed his alter ego of King David II and returned to Scotland in 1357 he
> looked kindly upon his former English neighbours; Henry de Fodringhay was
in
> due course given land near Dundee, and his collaterals and descendants
> acquired further territories in Angus and around. Thomas Fotheringhame
was
> provost of Dundee in 1454; the estate of Fotheringham near Forfar is still
> in the family. The name travelled to other parts of Scotland, including
> Orkney, and is now common in Glasgow as well as in Angus.
>
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