Wardlaw

The modern placenames of Wardlaw stem from the old English combination of watch and mound hill.

[4] Wardlaw according to Playfair in his British Family Antiquity, Vol.

The surname most likely traces it place of origin to Kirkhill, Highland within the Inverness region.

There the parish was formally called Wardlaw with origins tracing back to the 13th century.

[6] The first recordings of Wardlaw are said to have occurred around 1210 AD but the first certain recording appeared when "Henricus de Wardlaw was given a charter for half of the barony of Wiltone, in the county of Roxburgh.