Clan Lyon(s)

[scottishlad01]

Hello everyone,
iv been furthering my research on my family and i came across two different Clans with our surname, Lyon(s). I should also mention that both sides of my family has the Lyon(s) surname the name on my dad's side immigrated to Ireland during the great immigration. I of course thought the only one was the Lyon(s) who are a sept of the Farquharsons. I'v tried to google search an answear, but i usually only get some information on some random site where the Lord Lyon is mentioned.. which currently doesnt help me out. I guess the biggest question i have is if both of these clans are connected, maybe they split in two over a despute or some other reason. Well thanks for your time and any feedback would be a great help to me.

[Duthill]

What was the other clan ?

[Auld Chiel]

See: Clan Lyon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Clan Lyon is a Scottish clan associated with the lands of Glen Lyon in Perthshire, Scotland.

Origin of the name:
Leon, Normandy, France.
Although Sir Iain Moncreiffe, perhaps the greatest herald genealogist, believed his family were of Celtic origin and descended from a younger son of the Lamonts, the generally accepted view is that they descended from a French family called de Leon, who came north with Edgar, son of Malcolm III, at the end of the eleventh century to fight against his uncle, Donald Bane, the usurper of the throne. Edgar was triumphant, and de Leon received lands in Perthshire which were later called Glen Lyon. Roger de Leonne witnessed a charter of Edgar to the Abbey at Dunfermline in 1105.

[PeterSandy]

If your family name was Gaelic rather than French you may be interested in this possible derivation contained in Place Names: Highlands and Islands of Scotland by Dr. Alexander Macbain:

Nairn : in Gaelic Narunn ( PNarrunn) ; kSiath
Narunn and Srath Naruinn, Strathnairn;
Inbhir Narunn and Inbhir Naruinn, Nau'i],
town. The name belongs to the small
but important class of river names -hat
end in -ami, -unn, e.g., Comhann, Coe;
Liobhunn, Lyon ; Carrann, Carron. Mac-
bain regarded these as representmg the
Early Celtic ending -ona: they may, how-
ever, be names of river divinities in {he
genitive case, from an old nomniaiive
ending in -u; compare Domnu, gen.
Domnann; Manau, gen. Manann.