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From: "Hugh Watkins" <>
Subject: Re: Leith Edinburgh 1901 and 1910
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 01:17:29 -0000
References: <SwFr8.2783$Ix6.17437784@news-text.cableinet.net>, <2f11eb04.0204072155.20cf33ca@posting.google.com>, <vCYs8.2510$YT5.15512817@news-text.cableinet.net>


"C. Rihan" <> wrote in message news:vCYs8.2510$...
>
> "Angus Macdonald" <> wrote in message
> snip
> >
> > Deuchars is most certainly a Scottish surname (and has nothing
> > whatsoever to do with the name Deutscher). It has its origin in the
> > County of Angus in Scotland, the connection being with the lands of
> > Deuchar there, and goes back into the mists of time - well, back to
> > the thirteenth/fourteenth centuries at least.
> > The name is pronounced as Dyoochars (Dy as Duke in British
> > pronunciation, ch as in Scots loch), stress on the first syllable.
> >
> > Angus Macdonald
>
> Thank you for this information on DEUCHARS origin. and also
> pronounciation. It is useful to know that it has been in Scotland
> for a long time.
> I have found a few in England BMD index too.
> Best wishes
> C.Rihan


Been drinking Deuchars bitter beer in a pub in Solihull

tonite
3 pints + a double Bells whisky

on the way home from Solihull Witers Workshop

cheers

Hugh W


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