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The surname is also found in Scotland, where it is first
recorded in the early 16th Century. Variants of the surname include Scholar,
Scholard, Scholer, Schollar, Scholler, Scollard, Scouler and Scoular. The
name itself first appears in the early 14th Century (see below), while Henry
Scoular witnessed a sasine in Scotland in 1525. George and Ralph Scouller of
Huittoun, Scotland, were recorded there in 1665 in "The Commissariot Record
of Lauder, Register of Testaments (1561 - 1800)", and William Scular appears
in the parish of Cambusnethan in 1679. John Scouler (1804 - 1871) made a
voyage to the Columbia River, during 1824 and 1825, and later became a
Professor of Geology, Zoology and Botany, and was joint-founder of the
"Glasgow Medical Journal".
See also:
The
Families of Thomas Scouller & John Peter Nordwell (1985) (pdf) |
