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As far as a relation being a plantation owner, you are probably right. Sri Lanka and India, along with the caribbean have lots of plantations that still have Scottish names and roots. The Scots have a great reputation of travelling and commerce, generally because of the historical way they were dealt with by the English. I am not having a go at the English, I live there and am married to one. I only make comment about the earlier periods when England were the dominant force in Europe and further afield. Its because of that history that the Scots went into medicine, education and commerce and did very well from it. They also have a great reputation in relation to Battlefield Honours for hundreds of years within the British Military.

I am a Kilgour who is researching the male line of the family from Fife.
Apparently Falkland in Fife where the Kings of Scotland were crowned in ancient times used to be called Kilgour. In fact a small hamlet of a few houses nearby is still shown on my road map as Kilgour. There is just a farm there now, but there was an ancient churchyard at one time.
Apparently around the 500ad 'kill' meant Hill in viking and 'gour' meant goat. The place Kilgour meant hill of Goats and is on the slopes of the Lomond Hills in Fife.
I have traced my male line back to arond 1728 and all the family appear to stayed in roughly the same place give or take 20 miles until we moved to England for the coal mining in 1965. Most people in Fife through to mid victorian period were in the linen weaving and the Kilgours were no exception. Then they went into the mines where they stayed until my dad retired in the 1980's.
If that is any help as to the origins of the name, there you have it.

I am a Kilgour living in England but moved from Fife, Scotland in 1965. Have been recently trying to do the male line backwards from my dad as he passed away 18 months ago and nostalga sets in for a while.
My Great Great Grandfather Henry Kilgour appears to have been born in 1802 from parents George Kilgour and Cecilia Gibson.
Henry was one of 4 brothers and 1 sister. One of those brothers was Alexander Kilgour born 1797 who appears to have married Janet Norval. They also appear to have had two children George in 1831 and Margaret in 1828, both children died aged 1 year.
I used a couple of credits up with Scotlands people and found a death certificate for a Charles Norval who died in Ayr in 1862, aged 67 which puts him at being born 1797, which I believe is the age of the Charles Norval of your family line. He may be your relative, or I may be wrong but the ages correspond and he is the only Charles Norval registered as dying in Scotland in that period. I have attached a copy of the death certificate if it is of any help.