Excerpt from Genealogy of the Dickson Family and Its Immediate Collateral Branches: With Notes on the Scottish Emigration to North Ireland Dickson is now the usual form in Scotland, but in England where the similar name is not a clan name, and where there are numerous different families who do not pretend to claim a common origin, but all derive their surname from being sons of various Dicks, it is almost in variably written Dixon. The clan are descended from the Keiths, Earls Marshall. This descent is proved by no less than three entries in the Records of the Lyon Office between the years 1672 and 1694. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.