Last name origins & meanings:
- Scottish (Galloway) and northern Irish: from the Scottish personal
name Adair, also spelled Edʒear, a form of
Edgar.
- James Adair (c.1709–c.1783) was an Indian trader in
SC from 1735; he was born in Co. Antrim, northern Ireland. A certain
Baron William Adair, from Scotland, also settled in SC at around the
same period.
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