De-Anglicisation of Names

[freddie]

How about my name Hume ? (or the alternate spelling Home) It is believed that in olden times there was some kind of mark (tilde or umlaut) over the letter 'u', indicating the "oo" sound, and in an old charter the 'u' and it's mark somehow joined to form the letter 'o' - although the name has always been pronounced "Hume". Anyway, one school of thought is that it's from the old Scots gaelic word for a cave (modern spelling uamh I believe) but I always wondered where the first letter 'H' came from. Then under the name MacDuff I found reference to Iain Mhor nan-h-Uamh (spelling may not be correct!), 'Great John of the Cave', a son of one of the old MacDuff Earls of Fife. 'The Great MacDuff' aided Malcolm Canmore to defeat Macbeth in 1056 and granted him lands in The Lothians, which in those days included today's Berwickshire, heartland of the Clan Hume, so could this Cadet line of MacDuff have settled here, built the castle and called his territorial lands h-uamh which became Hume ?. Sounds like this story could be true after all. - What do you think.