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Hi all you Ewart researchers.
I attended the Irish Festival held in Dallas this weekend. One gentleman in a booth for the St. Andrews Society had two rather ragged, taped up books with surnames and their origins. I tell you of the condition of the books, because I think if they looked as they did, this man has been at this for quite some time. I inquired about Ewart origins, and he had heard the name (points for him right there!) and checked both books. One indicated the family came from Scotland to northern Ireland and the other that the name was of Scots or English derivation. He asked where mine settled, and of course when I replied in Washington Co., PA. he pronounced them Scots-Irish. I knew there had been Ewarts in England, but didn't know there was a Scotland connection, though I did know many Protestants of Northern Ireland came from Scotland. Just hadn't conisdered that my Ewarts were probably of that group. Sorry that I can not recall which Scottish shire the Ewarts were from. I also found several different "maps" there of Irish surnames, and one had Ewart listed around the edge with a coat of arms, but I couldn't find the name on the actual map. I looked particularly in Co. Antrim. No one was selling these maps today. :-(
Ida
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