The Humes of Ninewells
The Humes of Ninewells
David Hume's forebears were of a moderate affluence, and sufficiently distinguished to warrant some pride of race in their most famous son. The Hume genealogy reflects a strong family personality, its dominant characteristics being clearly discernible in the fragments of documentary evidence that survive. The Humes were, for many centuries, men of spirit, doughty warriors, and, as befitted a family that produced its share of men of the law and married more than its share of advocates' daughters, aggressively litigious men of affairs. The blood-lines intermingle, and the families intertwine. A simple clue to the devious interconnexions of the Hume family tree, as well as to the historical authority for David's spelling of his surname, is afforded by a long, flat, rectangular tombstone in the graveyard at Hutton, Berwickshire, just beyond and down the Water of Whiteadder from the Ninewells estate.
Keywords: David Hume, genealogy, Humes, warriors, family, tombstone, graveyard, Hutton, Berwickshire, Ninewells
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