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The Moffatts – Bannockburn to Ballybay, Blackrock to Baghdad

  The Origins Of The Moffatt Family   Family lore holds that the Moffatt clan descends from Andlaw, or Allan, a Norse Viking who settled in Scotland during the 10th century. His granddaughter married William de Mont-Alto, a Norman warrior from whom the ‘Moffatt’ surname apparently comes, being a gradual softening of the name via Montealt, Movat and […]