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Where do Macpherson Frasers come from in Scotland?
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Julie | Report | 7 Mar 2004 18:46 |
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Does anybody know which region of Scotland the name Macpherson Fraser would have been likely to come from? I've traced my ancestors back to India in the 1800s and now am at a brick wall - I'm assuming they came over from Scotland at some stage, but have no idea where from. Any ideas? Julie Tomlinson Rearching Tomlinson, Macpherson Fraser, Bloomfield Richardson, Payne |
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Geoff | Report | 7 Mar 2004 18:55 |
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You might find something here http://www.scotclans.*com/index.htm (remove *) It was much more common for Scots to use surnames as middle names in times gone by. |
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Julie | Report | 7 Mar 2004 19:11 |
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Hi Geoff Thanks for this tip. I did find both McPherson & Fraser - both appear to come from the same region which is interesting - around Aberdeenshire (unfortunately I have extremely poor knowledge of Scottish regions), which according to the maps shown was near Urquhart/Inverness/Badenoch. So it would be likely that the McPhersons and Frasers married. It's also been suggested that instead of the surname actually being M(a)cPherson-Fraser, that the M(a)cpherson bit was actually used as a middle name, gained from the mother's maiden name - is that what you meant by "It was much more common for Scots to use surnames as middle names in times gone by"? In which case I'm probably not looking for a James M(a)cpherson-Fraser, but a James M(a)cpherson FRASER ! And his wife would not have been Isabella Bloomfield-Richardson but Isabella Bloomfield RICHARDSON (with the name in Caps being the actually surname) - can anybody confirm that this would be right? |
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Geoff | Report | 7 Mar 2004 20:14 |
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Yes, that's what I meant re the surnames. My wife has a branch of Scottish extraction whose middle names all reflect earlier marriages. I think many of what we think of as "double-barrelled" names arise in this manner. I think in my transcribing for FreeBMD I have only come across one truly d-b name but hundreds with a family name as a middle name. If you are old enough to remember racing driver Jackie Stewart (a scot), his middle name is Young. |
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Unknown | Report | 7 Mar 2004 21:15 |
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Hi Julie, This is quite a useful site to find out where most of the people of the surname that you are researching were living in 1881. http://www.ancestralscotland(.)com/ Regards Margaret |
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Julie | Report | 9 Mar 2004 02:22 |
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Thanks all for your replies, it's confirmed what I thought, but of course made it more confusing as there's now more surnames to search! Thx Julie |
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