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I found the following among my Fathers notes from about 1967. Unfortunately he left no foot notes. Does anyone else have any information.
The name, with various spellings originated in a small valley of the Ayr river and is recorded in the 13th Century as an English, that is to say Anglo Saxon name, The valleys of the Ayr in Southwestern Scotland, unlike the people of the Highlands who spoke Gaelic, were settled by migrants from the North Umberland area and who fled the Normans in the 12th Century. These isolated Anglo Saxon communities had repulsed the Viking invasions. Thus the early migrants brought the English language with them in to an area that had been settled by Irish tribes. The English spoken was that of North and not yet affected by the Norman French.
Once settled, the difficulties of travel in and out of the valleys in the 12th and 13th Centuries kept the people at home. The deep inlets along the coast and the inclement weather made them avoid any long journey by water.
In the old tongue the name was spelled with a diphthong (æ) pronounced as ai or a (ed - with a dash over the a) . The name is derived from the old German word for hazel - hæsel – and in the old Norse hesli and a literal translation would be – Dwellers in the valley of the Hazels.
The migrants from Northumberland went west by way of the Tyne River and across the hills to Carlisle then up the Nith river and down to Ayr.
In the register – one John Heslop registered a deed of property in Ayr in 1414 and the name appears in the registry in York
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