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SETON (Family)

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 703 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SETON (See also:Family) . The Scottish family of Seton, Seyton or Seatoun, claims descent from a Dougall Seton who lived in the reign of See also:Alexander I. See also:Sir See also:Richard See also:Maitland of Lethington counted seven generations between this personage and Sir See also:Christopher Seton (d. 1306), the first of the See also:house who emerges in See also:history with any distinctness, but these links are not all supported by documentary See also:evidence. The name was derived from the Anglo-See also:Norman family of Say, the Anglo-Norman immigrant being supposed to have given the name of Sey-toun to the lands granted to him in See also:East See also:Lothian: The family honours include the earldoms of Wintoun (cr. 1600) and See also:Dunfermline; of See also:Eglinton through See also:marriage with the Montgomeries; and through See also:alliance with a See also:Gordon heiress a Seton became the ancestor of the earls and marquesses of See also:Huntly and See also:dukes of Gordon. The Setons were connected by marriage with the royal family of See also:Scotland, and also with the Dunbars, Lindsays, Hays and Maitlands.

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