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From: Curtis Bard <>
Subject: BAIRD Mention, and Some Info on Scottish Naming Conventions...
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2004 23:34:18 -0400

This message clip has a small BAIRD mention, and some info on Scottish
naming conventions (from another mail List):

Subject: Scottish Naming Patterns

I understand that the Scottish tradition was as follows: For males: the first son after the father's father, the second after the mother's father, the third after the father, and free choice after that.

For females: the first daughter after the mother's mother, the second after the father's mother, the third after the mother, and then free choice.
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Some Surnames and locations:

>HARRISON Yorkshire, Staffordshire, London (Highgate/Hampstead)
>POTCHIT Yorkshire
>FISHER London (Highgate/Hampstead)
>GRIFFIN Staffordshire
>STANLEY Staffordshire
>SMELLIE Lanark, Orkney, Glasgow, Tasmania
>STIRRAT Ayrshire & Glasgow
>BAIN Caithness
>MILLER Caithness, Swaziland
>SPENCE Orkney
>TRAILL Orkney
>SELKRIG Lanark
>WICKETSHAW Lanark
>MORRISON Perthshire, Islay, Dumbarton, Glasgow, Australia (Vic)
>BAIRD Renfrew
>HAM Australia (Vic)
>THOMPSON Suffolk
>AGGUS Suffolk
>BRIGHTWELL Suffolk
>LAWSON Clackmannan
>McNABB Islay
>MURRAY Dumfries, Renfrew
>GILLESPIE Dumfries
>HENDERSON Dumfries
>TICKET (TAKET) Dumfries
>CALDWELL Tyrone, Renfrew
>GRAHAM Tyrone, Ontario
>
Genealogists never die ... they just lose their census.

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