I would like to know where the last name of Ballantyne comes from.?

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Answer 1

Ballantyne is a variant spelling of Ballentine.

Surname: Ballentine

This name is of Scottish locational origin from the lands of Bellenden in the former county of Roxburghshire or from Ballinto(u)n in Stirlingshire. The name derives from the Gaelic "baile an deadhain" translating as "the farmstead of the dean". The surname is first recorded in Scotland in the mid 16th Century, (see below). One, David Bellenden cordiner (shoemaker) in Maybole appears in "The Register of the Privy Council of Scotland", dated 1630 and another David Ballenden in "The Commissariot record of Stirling", dated 1642. In the "modern" idiom, the name has six spelling variations:- Ballantine, Ballantyne, Ballintine, Ballentiyne, Ballinytne and Ballendine. James Ballantine (1808 - 1877) was an artist and author who executed stained glass windows for the House of Lords and published poetical works. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Sir Alexander Balindin, chaplin in Methven, which was dated 1563 in "The provostry of Methven", by T. Morris, during the reign of Queen Mary, known as "Mary Queen of Scots, 1542 - 1567.

Answer 2

This is all I could find on www.ancestry.com

Ballantyne Name Meaning and History

Scottish: variant spelling of Ballentine.

Sorry it isn't much.