Posted on: Buteshire Scotland Queries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/Scotland/Bute/400 Surname: McCurdy, Makurerdy ------------------------- For more details about the descendants of Chief Gilkrist Makurerdy (c. 1420) to the middle of the 18th Century, see "The ancestral McCurdys, their origin and remote history" by H. Percy Blanchard The Covenant Publishing Co., London, 1930. I believe it is available on microfilm from the LDS Family History Library at local LDS family history centers.