| Administrative History | The name Loutit was originally Loutfoot or Lutfoot. John Smeaton Loutit was born in Kincardine-on-Forth in 1848 and educated at Glasgow University. He was licenced in 1873 and served as a missionary at Blackburn (Livingston), then as an assistant in parishes in Stirling and Comrie. He was ordained to New Pitsligo in 1875 and moved to Foveran parish, Aberdeenshire, in 1880, but was killed in a car accident in 1912. His son, John Harvey Loutit, was born in Foveran in 1884. He served in the First World War as 2nd Lieutenant in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, and received the Military Cross and the Croix de Guerre. After the war he worked at the North of Scotland College of Agriculture, which later became part of the University of Aberdeen. He died in 1968. |
| Description | Collection of genealogical notes, charts, correspondence, copies of birth and marriage certificates and other papers regarding the families of Loutit (earlier L(o)utfoot), Abercrombie and Harvey (or Hervey), 1738-1966 (mainly c. 1912). They also concern the families or surnames of Abernethy, Cunningham, Currie, Given (or Goven), Kelder, Lumsden and Turing. Also includes sketches of arms which J. S. Loutit sought to register at the Lyon Court, and of book plates designed for him. |
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