Intro & a question

[LaffingGravy]

Hi, I'm new to this forum. Thanks for having me. Seems like a fun and informative community.

Don't know if I'm posting this in the right place, but I guess this is just as good of a place to ask my question as any.

We got back from a second trip to Scotland this past September. We usually visit from the US whenever Scotland hosts the International sheepdog trials and build a trip around that event.

This time we visited Rosslyn Chapel. I love visiting cemeteries & along the path to the castle, were a couple of cemeteries that my niece and I explored. There was a headstone, obviously refurbished or new that had us stumped. The only word on it was "Proudfoot". Sounds like a name of a pet, but it's unlikely that a pet would have been buried in a human burial ground. Any idea, anyone, who Proudfoot might have been? We asked several people at the, and no one had any idea. Here is a pic of the headstone:



Any ideas?

Thanks!!!

[Polwarth]

Welcome.

Proudfoot is a Scottish (or Irish, or English, depending on which source you choose to believe!) surname. So, it is probably a family marker, not the name of a pet

[LaffingGravy]

LOL. Thanks Polwarth. That was quick and easy. I know of someone who had a long line of dogs, and she named them Proudfoot. Must have liked the name a lot. That's why my mind immediately went to "did someone bury a beloved pet there?". That and the marker was so small and obscure compared to the others in the cemetery. So my bubble of a noble beast sharing it's final resting place with people is poof!! Gone.

OTOH, isn't that an unusual surname? Curious of the origins of it.

Thanks!!!

[Polwarth]

I'm not too sure about its origins, and I think it is a fairly uncommon name. I had a teacher with that surname, but it was her married name, not her own - and I think her husband was an Englishman from Cumbria or thereabouts.

There might be more info to be found with a Google search?