The original name of the Loudon's' of that Ilk was Lambkin. The last male representative of the Loudon's was yeclept Lambkin Loudon whose heiress was married to a Crawford in 1200, another authority states 1212. When surnames came into general use in Scotland at the end of the 11th. C. many land owners assumed the name of their lands, Loudon Hill being a volcanic plug which is visible for a great distance in Ayrshire, Ailsa Craig in the Firth of Clyde being another.

In another thread on this forum I pointed out that there was a local Ayrshire connection to the ballad 'Barbara Allan', could the Ayrshire connection have a much older folk memory attached to it.

In one version of the ballad 'Captain Carr' we have a definite placing of the ballad in the same area with Anderson stating that the home of the Loudon family, by that time by marriage Campbell, Auchruglen Castle, was burned by the Kennedy's of Bargainy in the 14th. C. resulting, as the ballad tells us, in the death of Lady Loudon and her nine children.

All conjecture on my part of course but does it not give food for thought that Skerrington could be Scarlet Town and London a misreading or mishearing for Loudon, this, with the addition of Auchruglen Castle and Lambkin to an area of some five miles radius is surely more than a coincidence.