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Re: Frustrated Sutherland Seeks Sutherlands
« Reply #207 on: Monday 29 March 21 10:52 BST (UK) »
Quote from: JenClark on Monday 29 March 21 09:57 BST (UK)
Sutherlands can certainly be a challenge to pin down....give me a unique last name any day  ;)
Er ..... According to Personal Names in Scotland, published by the Registrar General for Scotland, Clark was the 14th commonest surname in the ScottishBMD indexes in 1990 (903 occurrences), and Sutherland was 56th (436 occurrences) ....

I'll get my coat .... :)
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Re: Frustrated Sutherland Seeks Sutherlands
« Reply #208 on: Monday 29 March 21 11:14 BST (UK) »
Ha ha Forfarian...indeed! I reckon those Sutherlands all live in and around Caithness though ;D

My Clarks aren't Scottish, but the name is probably even more common in good ol' England where they hail from! Don't even get me started on them  ::)

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Clark, Sommerlad, Bowden, Barrett, Griffey, Sayers, Bridge, Walters, Pollard, Capel, Dibble, James, Lingard, Mensforth, Watts, Rutherford, Stainton, Chatterton, Tubbs, Thompson, Fulton, Booth, Sellwood, Edwards, Pitcher, Creech, Johns, Phillips, Roberts, Keast, Tregonning, Mason, Lancefield, Ibberson, Green, Case, Cook, Dunham, Porter, Pope, Hall, Welsh, Hellefield, Warburton, Fletcher, Foster, Stiles, Tait, Nicoll, Sutherland, McIntyre, Cole, Neal, Ladlow, Bellamy, Castleton, Barker, Yuill

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Re: Frustrated Sutherland Seeks Sutherlands
« Reply #209 on: Monday 29 March 21 12:07 BST (UK) »
Quote from: JenClark on Monday 29 March 21 11:14 BST (UK)
Ha ha Forfarian...indeed! I reckon those Sutherlands all live in and around Caithness though ;D
Yes, it was the 7th commonest surname in Highland Region, but only 106 of the 436 were in Highland.
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Re: Frustrated Sutherland Seeks Sutherlands
« Reply #210 on: Monday 29 March 21 12:20 BST (UK) »
That's because they have all moved  ;D

Wonder what the stats are for the 19th Century??
Clark, Sommerlad, Bowden, Barrett, Griffey, Sayers, Bridge, Walters, Pollard, Capel, Dibble, James, Lingard, Mensforth, Watts, Rutherford, Stainton, Chatterton, Tubbs, Thompson, Fulton, Booth, Sellwood, Edwards, Pitcher, Creech, Johns, Phillips, Roberts, Keast, Tregonning, Mason, Lancefield, Ibberson, Green, Case, Cook, Dunham, Porter, Pope, Hall, Welsh, Hellefield, Warburton, Fletcher, Foster, Stiles, Tait, Nicoll, Sutherland, McIntyre, Cole, Neal, Ladlow, Bellamy, Castleton, Barker, Yuill

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Re: Frustrated Sutherland Seeks Sutherlands
« Reply #211 on: Monday 29 March 21 13:06 BST (UK) »
There is or was a web site where you could plot the distribution of surnames from the 1881 census, but I haven't been able to find it today.
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Re: Frustrated Sutherland Seeks Sutherlands
« Reply #212 on: Sunday 22 January 23 14:28 GMT (UK) »
What if all you know is that your ancestor was recruited by the British to sail to America to fight in the Revolutionary War? He survived and decided to stay in America.
Alexander Sutherland b. 1743 Caithness Scotland, not sure how I know that
d 1843 Grayson County VA.
I do not know his parents info or if it is true he was from Caithness.
Last name of Sutherland but supposedly born in Caithness.

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Re: Frustrated Sutherland Seeks Sutherlands
« Reply #213 on: Tuesday 02 July 24 05:48 BST (UK) »
Hello there.  Jennie from Australia here and Catherine Gunn and John Sutherland are my 5x GG parents.  I am connected thru their son Isaac born 1808 in Watten and lived to a ripe old age passing in 1896 in Bruce’s Creek in Victoria Australia.  He arrived near to the goldfields in 1854 having travelled with his wife and 4 of his children.  It appears 4 older children remained at home in Scotland. They travelled on the ship Black Eagle which departed Liverpool on the 16th July 1854 arriving in Melbourne more than 3 months later on the 19th October 1854.   Isaac was a Carpenter and was engaged to work with a Mr E Holmes in Bruce’s Creek which is now known as Bannockburn. It’s a small town about 90 mins from Melbourne and I assume was much larger during the gold rush. I have visited his grave in the local cemetery and it’s full of my relatives and other Scottish families who moved to the area. His wife Margaret Buchanan had passed three years before him.  I’m sure l m related to several of you here    Nice to meet you all
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