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From: "Ray Hennessy" <>
Subject: Re: [ABERDEEN] Fergus de Brus
Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:17:02 +0000
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On 26/01/2008, Gavin Bell wrote, in reply to Colin Ferguson:

> I don't have immediate access to other large databases, but
> on the basis of what I have seen, in sources dating from the
> 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, these forenames are extremely
> rare in the written record.

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Gavin & Colin

I have a list of all the forenames transcribed by FreeCEN for
the 1841 Census for the whole of Aberdeenshire, courtesy of
Michelle Jeffrey.

There were 155K person records [male & female], and
2165 different names [c.55% female]. These included:
5 Bruce
1 Bryce
4 Fergus
8 Ferguson

Which seems to bear out your contention about rarity and the
[statistically insignificant] preponderance of Ferguson.

Best wishes

Ray

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