On another Rootsweb List to which I am subscribed we have been having a discussion about education which moved to people needing to put a cross because they could not write their name for the purposes of official record. It seems that it was not necessarily because a person could not read or write but that the requirement was to write a name in English, rather than Gaelic and some could not write their name in English. Could the historians amongst us tell us more about it? We know that not every person had an education sufficient to enable them to read or write but the incidence where language was the reason is of interest. I think we need to know rather than draw the wrong conclusions. Janet