When Helen Blair Or Hall was christened on 9 September 1689, in Scoonie, Fife, Scotland, her father, John Blair IX twin, was 49 and her mother, Margaret Dewar, was 51. She married William Scott on 24 July 1719, in Saint Cuthberts, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 4 daughters.
Scottish: habitational name from any of numerous places in Scotland called Blair, named with Scottish Gaelic blàr (genitive blàir) ‘plain, field’, especially a battlefield (Irish blár). There were families of this name in the Middle Ages taking their names from any of the places called Blair in Dysart parish Fife, Dalry parish Ayrshire, and Blairgowrie in Perthshire.
Americanized form of French Belair and Blais .
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