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From: Elizabeth Win <>
Subject: Re: SCOTLAND-GENWEB-D Digest V98 #256
Date: Sun, 5 Jul 1998 19:04:27 +1200 (NZST)


>From: "Annie & Bill Stuart" <>
>Subject: a place named sneddon
>I have been told that there was or is a place in Scotland named Sneddon.
>Can anyone give me some more information please?
Ask at your local FHC/public library/genealogy group to see who has a
gazeteer of Scotland or the British Isles. This will give you all the info
you need on any placename in Scotland.

Regards,

Elizabeth Win.
Hamilton, New Zealand.

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To:Patti Lindsay West.
>Subject: PETTIGREW
>Does anyone know the origin of the name PETTIGREW? A cousin and I have a
>complicated situation where we show Robert BARR married to Janet LINDSAY but
>buried with Jane PETTIGREW. Any ideas on how to untangle this one?

Sounds like he was married twice. Bear in mind that married Scottish women
often referred to themselves, and were often known by, their maiden-names.
Jane and Janet were also inter-changeable. If you can get their death
certificates (if they died 1855+) they will clear up the puzzle. Pre-1855
burial records should also shed some light on it.
Your local public library should have a book on the origin of surnames.

Regards,

Elizabeth Win.
Hamilton, New Zealand.

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