Rugby related I'm afraid, but I know FC are the Airlie birds because of a street name, but wondered how the street got its name. (That's the bit I still don't know). Looking for that, I found a bit that says FC's nickname from about 1865 to their move to the Boulevard in 1895, FC were nicknamed the All Blacks. This seems to pre-date the New Zealand lot, who didn't get the name until the Devon Express and Echo used it in 1905. So who or what was Airlie St named after?
Remembered in the song 'The Bonnie Hoose o' Airlie' which is mentioned in Robert Louis Stevenson's novel Kidnapped. The song commemorates the burning of the castle (some of the stonework is still black) by the Earl of Argyll, claiming to act on behalf of the anti-royalists, while the earl was away fighting for the Jacobite cause. And the NZ All Blacks were originally the "All Backs" because of the way they threw the ball about and were all mobile. Became All Blacks because of the kit of course.
There's quite a lot of Airlie's(streets and towns) around the world, I don't know about ours, but it seems most of them were named after the Parish of Airlie in Scotland(these Jocks were getting about a bit in the 1800's).
See there's two more things I never knew. A day without learning, as they say. I suppose it begs the question of why they chose it as a name? EDIT, I've just read a bit. Seems Airlie Castle was the home of the Rebels supporters, the Campbells, but Ogilvy stormed it, burned it and raped Campbells wife. It's good of us to keep such things commemorated I suppose.
Think when those houses were built it was traditional to let the builders name a street each so some called them after wives (Doris Street) or kids, maybe one was a Scot, or a rapist (pretty much the same thing in those days).
Looking at the street names around there; Cadogan / Albemarle / Gordon / Camden / Carrington & Airlie They are all Earls, Lords or Marquis titles. Could be as simple as that.
