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by Russell » Sat Jun 09, 2007 12:12 am
Hi Andrew
This was the Statutory entry of the marriage and we found that there were two family groups in Kinlochspelvie who used different spellings of the family name. The same applied to the Livingston(e) clan.
They all lived within a few miles of each other and some of the OPR entries for Births and Marriages are just as consistent in the spelling.
The gene pool in the area must have been quite small and they did not move around much so perhaps it was a simple method of differentiating between family lines.
A quick trawl through FreeCen looking at their neighbours turned up umpteen families who must be related with quite young children with different surnames obviously farmed out to their aunties, grand-parents, cousins, but almost impossible to sort out without doing a regional study.
Ho Hum Guess what we'll be doing for the next few nights
Russell
Working on: Oman, Brock, Miller/Millar, in Caithness.
Roan/Rowan, Hastings, Sharp, Lapraik in Ayr & Kirkcudbrightshire.
Johnston, Reside, Lyle all over the place !
McGilvray(spelt 26 different ways)
Watson, Morton, Anderson, Tawse, in Kilrenny
