The band drew its name from [Sandy Denny's] 1968 composition "Fotheringay" about Fotheringhay Castle, in which Mary, Queen of Scots had been imprisoned.
Lyrics to the song Fotheringay written by Sandy, recorded by Fairport Convention on their 2nd album What We Did On Our Holidays, actually about Mary Queen of Scots herself...
How often she has gazed From castle windows all And watched the daylight passing Within her captive wall With no one to heed her call
The evening hour is fading Within the dwindling sun And in a lonely moment Those embers will be gone And the last of all the young birds flown
Her days of precious freedom Forfeited long before To live such fruitless years Behind a guarded door But those days will last no more
Tomorrow, at this hour She will be far away Much farther than these islands For the lonely Fotheringay
Don't know, possible I guess. The first written mention of the village Fotheringhay as 'Fodringeia' was in 1060. Then came the castle in about 1100. Apparently the surnames Fotheringay / Fotheringhay have been around a long time, according to this article possibly before 1066 A.D. So there might be a lot of people running around England today with that last name...
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