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Davidson Origins.


As with most ancient names, there have been many ways
the same name has been spelt. Davidson is one prominant one.
It is recorded that one clans woman was born
with her name spelt one way,married with it spelt
another and died spelt yet another.
The Pictish race arrived in Scotland from
Brittany about the 15th centuary B.C.
The surname Davidson is claimed to be
derived from this founding race.
More specifically the surname developed
in their original territories of Perth where
they were decended from the Catti tribe who
arrived in Scotland about 500 B.C.
The Davidsons became powerful in Badenoch
as their numbers proliferated and their possesions increased.
During the early history of the Clans they
were very warlike and fought with their neighbours.
About the year 1350 the Davidsons joined the Clan Chatten
Confederation when their chief Donald Dubh,married a daughter
of Angus chief of Mackintosh.
Enmity however soon arose amongst the federated clans,
leading to a dispute between the Davidsons and the MacPhersons.
This led to the famous battle of the North Inch of Perth,
fought in 1396 before their King, Robert 1st, of Scotland.
Only one Davidson survived.
They are now chiefly represented
by the Davidsons of Tulloch in Cromarty.
A small border clan Davidson arose in Roxburghshire
around the sixteenth Centuary, perhaps quite
inderpendent in origin.
Tulloch Castle in Rosshire was the residence of
the Clan Davidson chief.
The chief is also hereditary keeper of Dingwell Castle.
The Chiefship is presently vacant.




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