urquhart Novice Hi, my name is Kimberly and other then my family I'm the only Urquhart I know. (that being my last name) If your an Urquhart or know one, just like say it up here, I guess 040603 ... many miles away hmmm, you are then descended from the people who built the castle by Loch Ness 040603 ... lou_la_belle hey! i know an urquhart. apparently pronounced "Erk-U-hart". interesting eh? (P.S. ashley, speak up and admit to your heritage!) 040603 ... Novice yeah, thats how i tell people to pronouce my name. Interesting thing thou I'm not Scottish 040603 ... notme http://www.urquhart.org/DNA.htm 040603 ... Novice I'm so far from Scottish it's a little scary 040603 ... notme i don't have any urquhart ancestors that i'm aware of, but i notice the name a lot when i'm researching. i think there must be quite a few urquharts out there today in the 1900 census of Omaha there were loads of them 040603 ... notme http://www.burkes-peerage.net/sites/common/sitepages/caurquhart.asp . 040603 ... Borealis the number of times I have had my last name mispronounced over the years is simply nauseating. starting with my elementary/junior school principal. you'd think..that with four siblings, not very far apart...and ten years at one school EACH, sooner or later, he'd get it right, but NOOOO... and funny thing is..its different each year...different for each kid each year. no lou..its not UR-Q-Hart technically, its an erKERT..though us out west prefer to say erKART. funny thing is I don't look scottish at all...got the latino looks from my dearest mother. 040603 ... Borealis novice, I think we should start a club. I know for a fact that there are only 12 urquharts in my city's phone book (which is pretty decently sized) and I'm only related to one of them! club it is. the.. I have a name that caused me to win elementary school spelling contests EVERY year, because every other kid could never figure out my last name. oh yes.. that and they couldn't spell period. period .. 040603 ... Novice lol, i think in my phone book its only one other person. And I know I'm not related to her. The interesting thing is my friends dad works with her, and her name is Kimberly Ann Urquhart. And I'm Kimberly Boma Urquhart 040604 ... notme number of urquharts listed in Canada411: alberta - 86 bc - 243 manitoba - 20 new brunswick - 101 newfoundland - 3 nova_scotia - 126 nunavut - 0 nwt - 0 ontario - 432 pei - 2 quebec - 34 saskatchewan - 29 yukon - 0 in summary, ontario, bc, nova_scotia and new brunswick have the most amount of listings for the surname urquhart in canada. number of urquharts listed in 411Locate: alabama - 55 alaska - 14 arizona - 20 arkansas - 17 california - 215 colorado - 44 conneticut - 41 dc - 10 delaware - 13 florida - 163 georgia - 59 hawaii - 11 idaho - 14 illinois - 52 indiana - 5 iowa - 22 kansas - 17 kentucky - 5 louisiana - 20 maine - 86 maryland - 30 massachusetts - 90 michigan - 93 minnesota - 20 mississippi - 1 missouri - 7 montana - 9 nebraska - 1 nevada - 17 new hampshire - 24 new jersey - 25 new mexico - 3 new york - 112 north carolina - 57 north dakota - 1 ohio - 23 oklahoma - 17 oregon - 27 pennsylvania - 58 rhode island - 11 south carolina - 27 south dakota - 7 tennessee - 9 texas - 109 utah - 8 vermont - 10 virginia - 109 washington - 76 west virginia - 6 wisconsin - 37 wyoming - 1 summary: california, florida, new york, texas and virginia have the most amount of listings for the surname urqhart in the united states of america. conclusion: ontario has the greatest amount of urquharts listed in canada and california has the greatest amount listed in the usa, with ontario being the top scorer in both countries. bc takes second place for canada while florida grabs second for the states. i was surprised to see that nebraska has only 1 urquhart listed today...a far cry from the dozens i saw listed in the 1900 census. overall, i would say it is not a very common last name in north america, in fact it seems to be rather uncommon in some places. 040604 ... notme sorry i spelled urquhart as 'urqhart' in my summary for US listings :-/ 040604 ... notme in the 1881 census of canada there are 749 urquharts living in canada. 381 of those are in ontario. bc has only 1 listed at this point in history. nova_scotia has 208, while new brunswick has 105. there are a total of 486 urquharts in the 1880 US census. looking closer, we find that at least 53 of these 486 are actually canadian-born urquharts who have moved south to various states (arkansas, califonia, wisconsin, new york, new hampshire, massachusetts, missouri, iowa, pennsylvania, michigan, colorado, kansas, and oregon). the 1881 British census lists 532 urquharts. at least one of them is from canada. *note: some of these numbers might be a wee bit off as sometimes people are listed twice in the census results. 040604 ... notme *california, not califonia 040604 ... notme sorry if that's a lot of numbers to digest folks, i am crazy about researching surnames and stuff. well there goes an hour of my day! 040604 ... notme *newfoundland should be: newfoundland & labrador 040604 ... ethereal coming from a newfie I'm not really sure it matters too much! we speak too fast anyway! 040604 ... notme heh! by the way, i was helping my oldest sister research the people who lived in her house before her, and some of them were urquharts, hence my rambling here. 040604 ... notme but i think i'm done now, ~peace 040604 ... Jess notme, you are such a sadass! Get a life, a least write on loads of different words! I can't blame you for getting addicted to Blather cos I am too! 040707 ... newme was notme "...such a sadass!..." oh hey, thanks. really. i love it when people insult me. it just makes me feel so good about myself. "...Get a life, a least write on loads of different words!..." what? 040707 ... Jess Sorry! I just thought it was odd you'd written on the same word loads of times! I mean, you always blather on urquhart! Why not try some other words!? Mortified to have caused offence! Thanks for replyin though! 040711 ... newme was notme oh no worries Jess. i see you're sorta new to blather??? if so, you might want to read: welcome_to_blather and blather_instruction_manual i don't "always blather on urquhart",...but i did write a bunch of stuff here, yes, on this blathe and many others. "...why not try some other words!?..." if you click on my name above where i blathed with the name notme, you'll find a whole big list of words i've blathed. too many words. "...Mortified to have caused offence! Thanks for replyin though!..." well peace_and_love and you are welcome 040712 ... Jess he he! You're rather funny! Oh! People keep telling me "I must be new"! Is it that obvious! It seems I've stumbled into an exclusive club! Everyone has their little conversation going on! Well! I'l keep checking here! Know anything interesting? Interested to see what you've written! Thanks for the link! I shall visit right away! Got to love you and leave you... for now! 040712 ... Stalkers of Jess that must be because its obvious 040712 ... Stalkers of Jess that must be because its obvious 040712 ... Jess Oh! Righty ho! Thanks for that! I've been doing my research though now so hopefully it won't be so obvious! 040713 ... Jess Was it not obvious to you that you'd written that allready! 040713 ... Stalkers of Jess Is it obvious to you that you spelled alright incorrectly? 040713 ... Jess No! I'm thick as sin when it comes to spelling! 040713 ... minnesota_chris this name means "blood eater" in Akkadian 040714 ... u24 I used to know richard urquhart (though I'm not sure if it had the second 'u') 040714 ... Novice I'm happy that you all find my new so interesting 040730 ... Novice my name sorry 040808 ... anne-girl this name keeps popping up it fascinates me, and I don't know why 040808 what's it to you? who go blather from