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SETON (Family)

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 703 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SETON (
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Family)  . The Scottish
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family of
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Seton, Seyton or Seatoun, claims descent from a Dougall Seton who lived in the reign of
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Alexander I .
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Sir
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Richard
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Maitland of Lethington counted seven generations between this personage and Sir
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Christopher Seton (d . 1306), the first of the
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house who emerges in
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history with any distinctness, but these links are not all supported by documentary
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evidence . The name was derived from the Anglo-
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Norman family of Say, the Anglo-Norman immigrant being supposed to have given the name of Sey-toun to the lands granted to him in
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East
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Lothian: The family honours include the earldoms of Wintoun (cr . 1600) and
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Dunfermline; of
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Eglinton through
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marriage with the Montgomeries; and through
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alliance with a
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Gordon heiress a Seton became the ancestor of the earls and marquesses of
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Huntly and
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dukes of Gordon . The Setons were connected by marriage with the royal family of
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Scotland, and also with the Dunbars, Lindsays, Hays and Maitlands .

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