Clan Cheyne

[3] According to the Collins Scottish Clan & Family Encycleopdia, the surname Cheyne is of great antiquity and is believed to have been of either Norman or French origin.

[2] According to the historian George Fraser Black, some early clerics confused the word for "oak" with that of "dog" and in error they styled the name Canis.

[2] The story goes that as the years passed and no male heir was born, that he saw two young ladies at a festival who far outshined the rest in beauty and accomplishment.

[2] He expressed admiration for them to his wife and the cruel fate which had caused to him to order the death of his two daughters, which had they lived would have been about the same age as the two beauties.

[6] Sir William Cheyne (d.1932) was a distinguished surgeon and bacteriologist who was a pioneer of antiseptic surgical methods in Britain.