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DALGETY,
a surname derived from a parish of that name in Fife, or from the lands of
Dalgetty in Aberdeenshire, formerly belonging to a family of the same
name. An old half-pay ensign of the name, who had served in the German
wars, and resided in the village of Prestonpans, suggested to Sir Walter
Scott his celebrated character of Captain Dalgetty in the ‘Legend of
Montrose.’ De la gata of Del gato, is the old French or
modern Spanish for, of the wild cat, or of a party called after that
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