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From: "Shirley Mitchell" <>
Subject: Re: [MLN] Unusual names!
Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2001 06:07:39 -0000
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Hi Catherine et al

I had thought of that but cannot seem to tie it in as a surname anywhere! I have got a couple of generations further back but nothing so I will keep trying to locate and you never know if I am spoilt for choice of the next gen then this may be the deciding factor!

regards

Shirley
>Ballingall OGILVIE
>
>has anybody heard of this as a first name before?

Not this one specifically - but every so often you find someone with a
surname as a first name eg I have an ancestor who married (his second wife)
a Lockhart Ann Boyd which confused us , we thought at first she was Ann
Boyd Lockhart.

I think that many supposed first names these days actually came from
Scottish surnames. In our family Graham came down as a first name but it
was from an ancestor who had the Graham surname, originally it was used as
a middle name eg James Graham Miller who was named after his mother's
father James Graham.

In searching the old indexes I find hardly any Grahams, Douglasses, Keiths,
Craigs and many others that we now think of as Scottish first names, in the
19th century they were all used as last names. But occasionally you find
someone with a first name such as Hunter, Hamilton and others.

Catherine















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