Re: Scottish emigrant names help
in reply to a message by Lora
I think that the custom of turning surnames such as Kirk into given names is more widespread in Scotland itself than it would be in Ireland.I would bet that people with Scottish ancestry in the USA are more likely to give children names that they think are romantically linked to Scotland than other parents are. I think that Heather, Wallace, and Arran might be names with Scottish connections in this way.Skye seems to have first been used as a girls' name for a particular fictional character, the title character of the 1957 novel Skye Cameron by the American author Phyllis A. Whitney:http://www.phyllisawhitney.com/Skye%20Cameron.htmIn the novel the character is said to have been given the name because her father was born on the isle of Skye, but whether any non-fictional Skye has received the name because of a similar connection is unknown. :)
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Scottish emigrant names help  ·  Lora  ·  3/24/2007, 1:24 PM
Census records?  ·  genis  ·  3/25/2007, 6:52 PM
Re: Scottish emigrant names help  ·  Cleveland Kent Evans  ·  3/24/2007, 2:06 PM
Re: Scottish emigrant names help  ·  Lora  ·  3/25/2007, 5:25 AM