Just to muddy the waters a bit, I have more affilitaions for the name Paul.
The surname Paul is said to originate from what is now northern Denmark or southern Norway. In that time and place, some families who had encountered English missionaries took the names of popular saints as surnames. The Paul family in my genealogy were connected with Clan Matheson, and later affiliated with the House of Gordon, and probably found their way to Scotland in the early years of the 11th Century.
While the Stephen family, my direct predecessors, seemed to leave their mark all over the northeast, they were never considered a clan and do not appear on any list of septs that I am aware of.
Just goes to show that any notion of a coherent system of clans, houses, septs, kith, and kin falls well short of describing the complex interweaving of families over the centuries.
EPITAPH: Decades from now, no one will know what my bank balance looked like, it won't matter to anyone what kind of car I drove, nor will anyone care what sort of house I lived in. But the world will be a different place, because I did something so mind bafflingly eccentric that my ruins have become a tourist attraction.
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