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Comment by Anne Kerr on July 23, 2009 at 8:12pm

to Burrow Digger:
I'm tracing descendants of Donald McCallum, born 1874 in Tarbet, Argyll to Archibald McCallum and Janet McEwan. He was married in 1898 in Glasgow to Catherine Lindsay, born 1873 in Largs, Ayrshire to James Lindsay and Mary Ann Boyd. Any information would be lovely!

Comment by Linda Smith on July 23, 2009 at 7:36pm

Hi,
I am researching a Campbell line starting with my great grandmother Iowinah Campbell b. 1846 in PA, USA; her father - Johathan Alfred b. 1806 also in PA; his father Matthew D. b. 1781 in Donegal, Ireland; his father Matthew b 1760 in Donegal, Ireland and finally to Scotland ... his father John b. 1720 in Argyll Shire; his father Allan b. abt 1685 in Ardchattan, Argyllshire; his father John b. abt 1660 in West Argyllshire.
I got most of my information from A History of the Campbell FAmily by John Carl Campbell @ 1991 and would like to know if it is in fact correct. I am fairly sure thru Matthew but after that I am having great difficulty finding confirmation. If possible, I would like to take the line further. I would appreciate any help I can get . Thanks

Comment by Carolyn Preston on July 23, 2009 at 6:38pm

My names are BONHAM-CARTER in Midlothian; and GORDON in Angushire and DUNCAN in Stirling

Comment by Cynthia A. Brewer-Dooley on July 23, 2009 at 6:07pm

Hello...My surnames are: McIntosh and Riddell. I will add more later, very excited to find this site.

Comment by Simone Kay on July 23, 2009 at 6:24am

Thanks for that one. No, I have not done that, but will!

Comment by Bobby Timson on July 23, 2009 at 6:03am

Simone, have you looked at the Census on the Scotlands People site? If you look up the people you do know you sometimes get the list of the entire family to include siblings living at home.

Comment by Simone Kay on July 23, 2009 at 4:04am

Hi all

I am new and from South Africa. I am trying to biuld my husband's familytree. He is a Kay from Glasgow. With the help of Scotlandspeople and Familysearch I have managed to trace back about 6 generations, but I have no siblings for any of the ancestors. Are there anyone who have Kay's in their database?

Comment by Dave Watts on July 23, 2009 at 12:36am

I have found that in my mothers family (Reid) that the eldest son always receives the surname of a certain illustrious scientist ancestor as his last given name. This has been perpetuated until the latest generation decided it just wasn't cool to do this!

Comment by Liz Loveland on July 22, 2009 at 4:49pm

In my experiences, the beginning of the list is pretty standard but the later part of the list varies somewhat from family to family. These are the ones I've found to hold true for almost all families:

First son is named after father's father
Second son- named after mother's father
Third son- named after the father

First daughter- named after mother's mother
Second daughter- named after father's mother
Third daughter- named after the mother

As others have noted, Scots were quite willing to reuse names of children that have died, so that can throw off the naming pattern.

Lastly, I have found it to be quite common to use the last name of the person one is named after as the middle name or to have the middle name be of a relative or other close person who has recently died. Between that and how commonly maiden names are recording, it's a nice change of pace from researching in so many other places!

Comment by Bobby Timson on July 22, 2009 at 2:31pm

Thanks Heather, that is great.

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