Surname has various spellings, including Scrimzeour, favored in the US, Scrymgeour, favored in Scotland, and Scrimgeour. For several genealogical documents about the Scrimzeour/Scrymgeour lines, see http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~garyscottcollins/.

Alt Given names: Elizabeth Ann and Ann Elizabeth.

[RWCollins]: Of Scottish descent. She was of the long line of Sir Alexander Scrimgeours at Dundee. One of the Alexanders is mentioned in "Scottish Chiefs". She inherited an estate in Scotland, and would have had a title if she ha been a boy, as the Scrimgeours have been hereditary standard bearers of Scotland for 8 centuries.

Scottish-American Heirs, 1683-1883 (ancestry.com, court, land and probate records):
Furman or Scrymgeour, Eliza, of Sumters [sic] SC, heir to grandfa George Scrymgeour of Thornhall, reg. 27 Jul 1835.

[Letter by Chandler Furman]: After James Scrimzeour died in abt 1805, she was in correspondance with her grandfather, George Scrimzeour, as a result of which she, her husband, and several of the older children went back to Scotland where they lived for a number of years.

Eliza was involved in a suit presented before the Scottish House of Lords to gain title to entailed lands and to the title of Royal Standard Bearer of Scotland. Some documents related to the genealogy of the Scrimzeours and Scrymgeours are available at http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~garyscottcollins/.

Resident of Sumter, SC in 1835.

Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s, ancestry.com:
Name: Eliza Ann Scrimzeour
Year: 1835
Place: South Carolina
Source Publication Code: 9760
Primary Immigrant: Scrimzeour, Eliza Ann
Annotation: Covers era prior to 1855. Compiled from correspondence and monument inscriptions, 17th and, mainly, 18th century. Prepared for the Scottish Genealogical Society. 6,470 emigrants.
Source Bibliography: WHYTE, DONALD. A Dictionary of Scottish Emigrants to the USA. Vol. 1. Baltimore: Magna Carta Book Co., 1972. 504p. 2nd pr., 1981. Page: 392
[Possibly this entry, giving her maiden name, is connected with her trip(s) back to Scotland to visit her family and/or claim a family inheritance.]

Compare ancestry at http://www.singletonfamily.org/.
LDS: burial: Bethel Churchyard, Sumter, Sumter Co., SC

http://pages.prodigy.net/sungela/firmyn_john.htm (Glenn Sungela):
Eliza descends from the Earls of Scrimzeour, Standard Bears to the Kings of Scotland from 1107 to 1668. In 1836 Eliza and her husband went to Scotland and established claims to properties in County Stirling, "Thornhall", "Polmont", and others, which she sold and returned to the US.


Ancestral Scrimzeour notes on the web:
Clan home pages: http://www.scrimgeour-edin.freeserve.co.uk/scrim_clan_home.htm
Pics of family castles: http://www.scrimgeour-edin.freeserve.co.uk/scrim/scriminfo/infoplaces.htm
Old castle and family info: http://www.electricscotland.com/history/castles/mains.htm

http://singletonfamily.org/cards/getperson.php?personID=I1865&tree=Singletons:
This is what I have on Eliza because of what I received from Thomas Furman several days ago. (4 Mar 92) SCRYMGEOUR- Standard bearers for the king for 800 years. Titles from knight to earl. Her father was prospective head of house, died on way to America. Eliza was born posthumus. When her son Richard was 19 she went to Scotland to claim title and estates. The family lived there for two years. Received large estate which was converted to money but failed to get title for son Richard. The title was Scrymgeour, Earl of Dundee.

http://pages.prodigy.net/sungela/firmyn_john.htm
Glenn Sungela July 2003:
Eliza descends from the Earls of Scrimzeour, Standard Bears to the Kings of Scotland from 1107 to 1668. In 1836 Eliza and her husband went to Scotland and established claims to properties in County Stirling, "Thornhall", "Polmont", and others, which she sold and returned to the US.

• Married: 5 May or 5 Aug 1814 in Charleston, Charleston Co., SC

1. Samuel Kirkwhite FURMAN b: 23 Aug 1818 in Beaufort Co., SC
2. Mary Scrimzeour FURMAN b: Feb 1810 or 1820 in Beaufort District, South Carolina
3. Richard FURMAN b: 9 Nov 1816 in Coosahatchie, Beaufort Co., South Carolina
4. Dorothea FURMAN b: 1820
5. John Howard FURMAN b: 18 or 19 Mar 1824 in St.Luke's Parish, Beaufort District,, South Carolina
6. William Brantley FURMAN b: 1825 in Cornhill Plantation, Sumter Co., South Carolina
7. Eliza FURMAN b: Aug 1826 in Sumter, Sumter Co., South Carolina
8. Julia Theodora FURMAN b: 5 Oct 1832 in Mt. Carmel, McCormick, SC
9. Scrimzeour Cornwall FURMAN b: 2 Feb 1835 in Beaufort Co., South Carolina