I just read through some of Iain Kennedy's web pages. _http://www.kennedydna.com/Seventeenth_century_Kennedy_resources.htm_ (http://www.kennedydna.com/Seventeenth_century_Kennedy_resources.htm) He makes some interesting observations. These caught my eye: 1. Rannoch men were mostly using patronymics and not surnames well into the 18th century. 2. The people of the Appin of Dull switched over to modern surnames sometime earlier, by 1660 at the latest. This one is strange (to me at least). 'post 1743' Camiserichbeg features Niell McEwan vicNaill Kennedy and John McRory Kennedy his brother This is classic confusing patronymic material! But there is logic in the names, as John is the son of Rory and his brother is the grandson of Neill. Would anyone guess the following person is really a Kennedy? McEwin VcInduy alias McCorig of Leonachinbeg, Duncan, decree against him, 578 My question to Iain is did these men in Scotland have fixed surnames but just didn't use them (they seem to pop up now and then in between the patronymics). John

Another thing that complicates Scots genealogy is that people often changed their surnames for health reasons. One line of Lamonts that I've traced back to 1710 fled the Cowal peninsula after the Lamont massacre in 1646 and used the surname Patrick while living on the mainland. Over the period 1710 to 1718 a John Patrick and Findwall Hunter registered the birth of four sons in Inverkip. Three of the sons returned to Cowal as adults, married, and had children. One of them, whose birth was registered in 1710 under the name Archibald Patrick, named his children as follows: Isabel Lamont b 1737 Donald Lamont b 1738 Duncan Patrick b 1742 William McFatrick b 1744 Mary Patrick b 1746 More Lamont b 1749 Duncan McPhatrick b 1752 So. Three Lamonts, two Patricks one McFatrick and one McPhatrick, all born to the same parents, Archibald Patrick (Lamont) and Janet Currie, all births registered at Inverchaolain parish. It seems that at times, certain surnames were not good to have. So for example, in the build up to the Jacobite uprising of '45, many Lamonts, (who didn't participate in the '45), used other surnames. In the above case, once the dust had settle after Culloden, the name Lamont was reverted to, but by 1752, by which time there were more Jacobite rumblings, the surname McPhatrick was used. Sandy -----Original Message----- From: dna-r1b1c7-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:dna-r1b1c7-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Lochlan@aol.com Sent: 21 July 2011 03:57 To: dna-r1b1c7@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [R-M222] New Tactics I just read through some of Iain Kennedy's web pages. _http://www.kennedydna.com/Seventeenth_century_Kennedy_resources.htm_ (http://www.kennedydna.com/Seventeenth_century_Kennedy_resources.htm)