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From: "Douglas Clark" <>
Subject: Re: New Scottish Genealogy/Ancestral site launched
Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 18:02:17 +0100
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"Toni" <amheater@(BYE.SAILOR)cogeco.ca> wrote in message
news:9Cf7d.8206$...
>
> "Anne Burgess" <> wrote in message
> news:cjjrs9$1k4$1@hercules.btinternet.com...
>> > 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.
>
I was wondering why Clark wasnt there. At least I got back to 1850 in
Glasgow on SP.


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