http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scots-origins/ Scots Origins Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:49:51 GMT tommacgregor http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scots-origins/message/40016 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scots-origins/message/40016 Hello All, For a long time now I've been trying to solve the mystery of James Livingstone who married Janet Cooper at North Church, Dunfermline, Fife, in May Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:48:43 GMT coalburnuk http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scots-origins/message/40015 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scots-origins/message/40015 You're not alone, hen. I can't even get my Home (Scottish) site to load. Sometimes it works if you go through Google or some other search engine. Mostly it Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:48:38 GMT Robert http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scots-origins/message/40014 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scots-origins/message/40014 There are probably people on this thread who know more than I do about naming patterns, but "yes" there are patterns that run in families. The way I understand Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:48:32 GMT canadaeast_98@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scots-origins/message/40013 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scots-origins/message/40013 Usually the first born, male is named for the grandfather .  This happenes often.  In the case of the first female sometimes they were named for the Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:48:20 GMT seaslave@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scots-origins/message/40012 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scots-origins/message/40012 Hi there, Hopefully this will be of some help. First son is named for the Father's Father. Second son is named for the Mother's Father. Third son is named for Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:00:44 GMT gordoncrooks@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scots-origins/message/40011 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scots-origins/message/40011 Elaine: Well I don't have it written down as such but with experience with my own line and others that i have reseached, the object of the Scottish nameing is Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:17:48 GMT gordoncrooks@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scots-origins/message/40010 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scots-origins/message/40010 Morag: Since putting my original msg. on the board I have found out the Shank connection to my line it is: Samuel James Crunkleton married Mary Shank date of Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:17:47 GMT Elaine Rosenberg http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scots-origins/message/40009 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scots-origins/message/40009 Hi, I have been trying to work out family names in my husbands Scottish line. Is there a pattern to naming children etc. as some of the names seem to have Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:17:38 GMT Lee Hill http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scots-origins/message/40008 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scots-origins/message/40008 Hi Jim Many thanks for your searching. I too had found that birth and parents, but my father's cousin who had put that part of our tree together has the Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:15:33 GMT THOMAS FEARNS http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scots-origins/message/40007 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scots-origins/message/40007 Hello Morag,   Just gone 11.00 a.m. here in Melbourne, Australia so I'm just about to take my wife to the shops. Will get back to you soon because what you Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:38:55 GMT aswinde@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scots-origins/message/40006 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scots-origins/message/40006 Sometime ago I enquired about Denis Driscoll and Alastair found a convict by that name. However our Denis Driscoll has been now been found. He came on the Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:38:35 GMT Morag http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scots-origins/message/40005 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scots-origins/message/40005 Hi Tom Dont know if this will help you any, These ancestors all come from Camelon, Falkirk, have not found any from Fife, but who knows what will turn up next. Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:38:03 GMT tommacgregor http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scots-origins/message/40004 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scots-origins/message/40004 Hello All, Perhaps the only lead available to me to track down my Great-Great-Grandfather, James Livingstone is through his daughter, Janet Livingstone who Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:38:02 GMT Morag http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scots-origins/message/40003 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scots-origins/message/40003 Hi Gordon Thanks for info. The line that I am tracing are from Camelon, Falkirk. On birth cert. details appear as Andrew Burt born 1860, then on his marriage Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:37:58 GMT Jim http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scots-origins/message/40002 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scots-origins/message/40002 found this James Hill born 18 MAR 1820 Of, Gorbals, Lanark, Scotland father James Hill mother Jane Notman Hill (NOT Crighton) COULD THIS BE THEM ??????