MOREHAM, a surname
taken from lands in Haddingtonshire, now a parish. The de Morehams
flourished under Alexander I. and II., and in the Ragman Roll appears
the name of Thomas de Moreham pusnee, that is, the younger, as having
sworn fealty to Edward I. Sir Reginald More, lord-great-chamberlain
under David II., belonged to this family. He had sunk the last syllable
of his name. Removing into Stirlingshire, he resided on the north bank
of the Carron, at a place now called Scaithmoor, where he built a fine
house. He married one of the coheiresses of the Grahams of Eskdale, with
whom he acquired the lands of Abercorn in Linlithgowshire, once the
possession of Sir John the Graham, the “fidus Achates” of Wallace. Here
his family resided for some generations, and were known in writs as the
Mores of Abercorn. The sole heiress married Sir William Lindsay of the
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