Genealogical memoirs of the Duffs

8 Genealogical Memoirs of the Duffs.
very ingenious, sensible man, told me, Augt. 28,
1768, that the Estate of Findowie was possest by
a Family of his name for nearly 300 years, till
about 55 years ago they were bought by Logy
o' Drummond, and that the Heir of the last Fin-
dowie offered the present Logie a high price for
it, but was refused, and that he himself had ad-
vised him to call his present Estate Findowie ;
but he told him that he would look upon that
as a sort of impiety.
The same Gentleman said there was Duff of
Bonhard, and some other small Heretors of the
name in Perthshire, and a great number of sub-
stantial, well respected Farmers spred over all that
County, who are called Duff and M'Duff indis-
criminatly as being reckoned by them all the
same name, which is a certain prooff that it is so.
Mr. Lodge, in his Peerage of Ireland, gives it
as the opinion of Scots writers, that the name of
Duff draws its origin , from M'Duff, Thane of
Fife.
A learned Antiquary, in his Genealogical his-
tory of the Family of M'Intosh, says that Duncan,