INNES OF INNES
Innes is not a clan, but a Lowland surname of the north-east, tied originally with the feudal barony of Innes in what was then called Elginshire, now Moray.
The name is toponymic, from the Gaelic inis or innis, which could mean ‘haugh pasture’, or perhaps refer to an ‘inch’ or island formed by two streams (in this case, the Spey and the Lossie).
The Innes surname starts with Berowald Flandrensis (meaning ‘Flemish, or ‘from Flanders’). Henry II of England expelled many of the Flemish from England, some of whom came north with King David and Berowald may have
