“Ev. (abb for Evangelical meaning: family of Lutheran, Protestant confession) - Scottish aristocratic family with the same name family estate in the county Forfar (Angus), from which John Cairncross as Royal Swedish cadet in the regiment Cronström, documented 1657, (National archives, Stockholm) and since 1664 as a lieutenant the Regiment Grothusen, son-in-law of the Royal Swedish Cavalry captain Berend Sonnenberg (raised to Swedish nobility in 1655), (owner of Korvenhof and Hoppenhof = 2 estates in Livonia) where his descendants carried the name (v. [=von, designating nobility] Cairnkors.”
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