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From: "Toni" < (BYE.SAILOR)>
Subject: Re: New Scottish Genealogy/Ancestral site launched
Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 12:42:30 -0400
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"Anne Burgess" <> wrote in message
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> > but what are the 10 most common surnames in Scotland?
> > smith tested OK but is that number one in Scotland ?
> > Hugh W
>
> According to a booklet published in 1991 by the GROS:
>
> 1. Smith
> 2. Brown
> 3. Wilson
> 4. Stewart
> 5. Thomson
> 6. Campbell
> 7. Robertson
> 8. Anderson
> 9. Scott
> 10. MacDonald
>
> However if you add MacDonald and McDonald together they go into 3rd place
> and Nos 3 to 9 move down one place.

We have all 11 surnames [adding McDonald] within our Reidford [Mum's
paternal] family, plus several within the other side [Brown-Mum's maternal]
both with Anderson great-etc grandparents
[Shetland/Banffshire/Aberdeenshire]. Would have expected Clark to
included, so wonder where it is on the list? Have it on both sides too,
although we do know for certain one was transplanted from Devon to Shetland
to Glasgow, where he died in 1896.

Toni .. Ont. Canada.


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