The clan Traill (Trail Family) is an ancient family of Lairds or land Barons and clergy in Fifeshire, Scotland. References to Trails as Barons are recorded from the year 1066 and references to the clan extend as early as the 9th century. The Trails are the original family of Blebo, later known as Blebo Hole or Blebocraigs. In the 16th century some family branches relocated to Orkney, Scotland. In the mid 17th century, Trails acquired and settled on land in America, in Massachusetts and in Maryland. The Maryland area, New Scotland 100, eventually became the city of Washington DC. Other branches of the family settled in Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
Variants of the name are Traill, Traile, Treil, Trale, Trayle, Tirell, Terrail, Tyrell, Tyrell, Treyl, Treyle, De Traill and the Latinized version Trailli. Some early census takers in America wrote Trial, at times.
People named Trail include:
- Walter Trail, Bishop of St. Andrews, 1380-1401; Laird of Blebo, Scotland
- Catherine Parr (Traill)
- Henry Duff Traill (1842-1900), British author
- Thomas Stewart Traill, Scottish doctor and naturalist
- Thomas Trail, American industrialist, mining
Traill may also refer to:
- Traill Island, Greenland
- Traill County in the state of North Dakota
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