Some notices of the surname of Shand, particularly of the County of Aberdeen

S H A N D.
As is the case with most other ancient proper names,
the surname Shand has been spelt differently, at different
times.* In the older writings it appears under the form of
SCHAWAND, SCHAAND, ScHANDE, ScHAND, and S.HAN. The
Latin form was, latterly at least, Schandeits (Fasti Abredo-
nensesj ; but, as we shall see by and by, it has been main-
tained, though probably on insufficient evidence, that Be
Campo was the Latin equivalent in earlier times. Originally
it would appear that the surname was entirely confined to
the north-eastern counties of Scotland, particularly Aber-
deenshire, and it is believed that, widely spread as it now
is throughout the different parts of the Empire, although
the name has never been particularly numerous, there is
not a family of Shands which cannot easily connect itself
directly with the part of Scotland to which we have just
referred.
There can, therefore, we apprehend, be little doubt that
all the families of this name are derived from one common
stock, and, judging from the frequency of the name, and
the earliest authentic notices in older times, its original
habitat seems to have been in the district comprising the
parishes of Turriff, Forgue, Drumblade, Auchterless, Cul-
samond, Fyvie, King Edward (Kinedart), Gamery, and
adjacent localities.
* In the Fasti Abredonenses another old name of the district, Strachan, is
spelt in no less than twenty-two different ways.
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