"Ewing is historically stated to be the Anglified form of Ewen or Ewin, derived
from Evan or Evghan, which was in Latin Eugenius, and several of the ancient
"Kings of Scots" bore the name Ewen or Eugenius, one of them having been a
distinguised leader of his race in the great wars against the Romans."Another of the name (Devonaldus filius Ewyn) was witness to a charter granted
by Walter Steward of Scotland, in 1177, and in the middle of the Sixteenth
Century the Ewings acquired the lands, in County Dumbarton, which were an
ancient possession of the Earls of Lennox and they also possessed valuable
estates in County Argyll."The Ewings are of Scottish extraction, and were long settled in the West of
Scotland, but the branches of the family in American, to which this record
particularly relates, were of Schotch-Irish descent. The clan with which these
Ewings were identified was allied with the Campbells, as opposed to the
Gordons. The above is quoted from "The Ewing Genealogy With Cognate Branches"
by Presley Kittredge Ewing and Mary Ellen (Williams) Ewing and much of the
information on the Ewings was found in this book located in the South Carolina
State Library.Members of the Ewing family took part in the revolt of the Irish Presbyterians
in Coleraine, County Londonderry of Ulster, to the North of Ireland, in 1689
when the siege of Londonderry by King James II of England proved unsuccessful.
In the Battle of Boyne, fought on the river in that name in Eastern Ireland,
July 12 (N.S.), 1690, in which King James II opposed William of Orange, Captain
Charles Ewing took part on the side of the Irish Protestants under William of
Orange, and was awarded by the latter for his valor a silver-handled sword.
This sword was brought to America by a descendant of Captain Charles Ewing, but
was later stolen.
Camptain Charles Ewing, but was later stolen.
Her sister Mary married the emigrant Robert Ewing; in other woords, the
brothers married sisters.
"The Ewing family and name are very old. The first mention in History is a
poem in which Ewing was the second son of Fergus Erc, the first King of
Argoilshire, a part of Scotland. This poem celebrated an event that happened
in 483 A.D. which was the bringing of the Stone of Destiny from the Hill Terah
in Ireland to the convent of Columba.This historical stone was captured by Edward the First in 1236 A.D. and was
taken by him to London, and is now under the Coronation Chair in Westminister
Abbey. Tradition and history both say that the Prophet Jeremiah brought this
stone from Jerusalem to the Hill of Terah in the year 580 B.C. with Zedekiah's
Daughters, Tamar and Mahala, to Echoid, and the Ard Righ, or high king of
Ireland, and who was of the tribe of Judah and the family or Zarah.Echoid and Tamar Tephi were married and were crowned sitting on that Stone of
Destiny, and that Stone remained on the Hill of Terah for over a thousand
years. The Ewings are descendants of these two, and a collateral branch of
the Clan of McLachlan. The clan seat is Kilmore in Schotland. King James gave
to John 2000 acres of the fat lands of Baily Bun in Donegal County, Ireland, in
1614, and these lands are still in possession of the Ewing family. Ewing is
one of the oldest Scotch Clans. The clan breaks into light from prehistoric
times.Names used mostly by the Ewings from the beginning are: John, Samuel and
William."
References:
(1) Proving Your Pedigree, page 206.
(2) Index Card to Salt Lake Temple Records, No. 8420, Book 5 R, page 368.
(3) Index Card to Salt Lake Temple Records, No. 16313, Book 5 F, page 709.
(4) Index Card to Logan Temple Records, No. 672, Book H, page 19.