As head of the Durie family I would like to welcome you to our new website.
It had long been an ambition of mine to find a
way to bring the far flung members of this important family closer together
and begin to piece together our history.
The title and
arms of Durie were returned to my
father Lieutenant Colonel Raymond Durie of Durie by the Lord Lyon King of Arms
in 1988.
I am immensely proud to have inherited them and I am very excited at the
launch of the website and what it means to the Durie family wherever they
are around the world.
It would not have been possible until
a few years ago when circumstance brought me together with Dr. Bruce Durie. We
shared a vision to bring Duries and descendents of Duries where ever they
might be together and thus to build up our fragmented history and hopefully
begin to put together archival material for future generations. Some parts
are comparatively well documented, others a complete blank. Please consult
the extensive Durie History
pages for the origins of our family and stories about some of its more
prominent members across the centuries.
The website and its supporting material has been
brought together by Bruce, and we look forward to expanding it with
information which we hope will come from other family members. There is a
wealth of genealogical data on the site, and a discussion forum to which members
of the Circle of Duries are invited to contribute. We hope that with these
exchanges we can begin to fill in this huge jigsaw puzzle which is the Durie
family history.
I would encourage you to join
The Circle of Duries, our
family interest group. We hope eventually we can bring Duries together
physically either here in Scotland or elsewhere that they can gather.
To help us fund our work we have opened a Durie
shop site which stocks a range of items I have chosen, all badged with our
family crest or based on our tartan. Wherever possible these are made in
Scotland. You will find the site at with instructions how to order at
http://www.vsecure.co.uk/durie.
.And please don't forget:
visitors