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From: "Alexander Paterson" <>
Subject: Re: [R-M222] New Tactics
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 09:06:48 +0100
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Another thing that complicates Scots genealogy is that people often changed
their surnames for health reasons.

One line of Lamonts that I've traced back to 1710 fled the Cowal peninsula
after the Lamont massacre in 1646 and used the surname Patrick while living
on the mainland. Over the period 1710 to 1718 a John Patrick and Findwall
Hunter registered the birth of four sons in Inverkip. Three of the sons
returned to Cowal as adults, married, and had children. One of them, whose
birth was registered in 1710 under the name Archibald Patrick, named his
children as follows:

Isabel Lamont b 1737
Donald Lamont b 1738
Duncan Patrick b 1742
William McFatrick b 1744
Mary Patrick b 1746
More Lamont b 1749
Duncan McPhatrick b 1752


So. Three Lamonts, two Patricks one McFatrick and one McPhatrick, all born
to the same parents, Archibald Patrick (Lamont) and Janet Currie, all births
registered at Inverchaolain parish.

It seems that at times, certain surnames were not good to have. So for
example, in the build up to the Jacobite uprising of '45, many Lamonts, (who
didn't participate in the '45), used other surnames. In the above case, once
the dust had settle after Culloden, the name Lamont was reverted to, but by
1752, by which time there were more Jacobite rumblings, the surname
McPhatrick was used.


Sandy




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Subject: Re: [R-M222] New Tactics

I just read through some of Iain Kennedy's web pages.

_http://www.kennedydna.com/Seventeenth_century_Kennedy_resources.htm_
(http://www.kennedydna.com/Seventeenth_century_Kennedy_resources.htm)


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