« Reply #18 on: Saturday 20 May 17 10:45 BST (UK) »
Thanks again for your input, Forfarian. Yes, of course, the best way to analyze this is to do it the logical, scientific way.
So I thought I'd refresh my knowledge of Scottish naming patterns. The page at
http://myweb.wyoming.com/~msaban/SCTname.htmtitled, "TRADITIONAL NAMING PATTERNS IN SCOTLAND" is great. It explains how many people named a child after the (church) minister's wife.
So all this speculation about an ancestor named Helen Watson or Ann Wright is almost certainly barking up the wrong tree.
Green (Leitrim, Ireland); Brenan (Westmeath, Ireland); Toms (Cornwall); Pye (Fifeshire, Scotland); Joyce (Ireland); McCormack (Tasmania, Australia); Hockin (Thornbury, Devonshire); Prout (Treneglos, Cornwall); McGregor (Caithness, Scotland); Primrose (Cramond, Scotland); Rankin (Cramond, Scotland); Thomson (Govan, Lanark, Scotland); Walker (Govan, Lanark, Scotland); Leggat (Edinburgh, Scotland); Simpson (Edinburgh, Scotland); Drury (Kent); Elgar (Kent); Amos (Kent); Swaine (Kent)
