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The Corrie family, also known as the Currie family, was a Scottish family which was once seated in what is today the civil parish of Hutton and Corrie, in Annandale, Dumfriesshire, Scotland. The leading branch of the family were the Corries of that Ilk. Members of the family are on record in the Middle Ages. The family held numerous lands, but lost the lands from which they derived their surname, with the marriage of an heiress, sometime during the reign of James V, King of Scots.
There are numerous etymological origins for the surnames Corrie and Currie, but the family derives its surname from the lands of Corrie, in what is today the civil parish of Hutton and Corrie, in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland.[1] The place name is derived from the Gaelic coire, meaning "cauldron", which was used in place names to describe a circular valley on the side of a mountain.[2]