That is interesting!! I'll need to check what made me think she was born in Crossmichael as there are a few Nicholas Hyslops around at the time!! I'll get back to you soon! Kay On 20 Aug 2011, at 21:08, Maisie Egger wrote: > Now then, Kay, MY NICHOLAS MONTGOMERY, whom I show was born 1791, > was married to ROBERT HYSLOP, 1761 (big age gap!). None of their > children bore the name Nicholas, however: Grace, James Mary, > Robert, Elizabeth. > > Nicholas was born in the Cottages at Mirronhill, Hutton and Corrie, > and died 20 Feb 1838, Crossmichael. Robert Hyslop (and I am > descended from the Hyslops) was born 1761and died 1834, Urr. I am > the 3rd great-grandniece of Robert Hyslop. Don't ask me how or if > this is some sort of parallel by year relationship to your 3rd gt, > grandmother! > > It looks like you and I are somehow connected! Nicholas was related > to me through her marriage to Robert Hyslop, of course. > > I'll be interested in your comments. > > I'll run this by my super sleuth Malcolm and see if I've gummed up > the works in dates, however. > > Maisie > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Kay McMeekin > To: Maisie Egger ; [email protected] > Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2011 12:24 PM > Subject: Re: [DUMFRIES-GALLOWAY] Fw: Girls' odd first names > > Maisie > My 3G grandmother was Nicholas Hyslop b 1805 in Crossmichael, > Kirkcudbrightshire. At least 5 female descendants also were > Nicholas. I have a Stewart Donnan b 1836 in Wigtonshire and a > Hepburn Hamilton born ca 1780 maybe in Ayrshire or Dumfriesshire. > Her granddaughter was baptised Hepburn Rae in 1868 but it > confusingly became Hebron in later docs, maybe the way it was > pronounced. In Aberdeenshire several Gardens (pronounced Garrin!) > I find it all fascinating! > Kay > > > On 20 Aug 2011, at 19:42, Maisie Egger wrote: > >> >> >> Just a comment: >> >> For the last decade or so I've noticed in this country (USA) that a >> lot of girls have been given what used to be considered surnames >> as first names: Hunter, Mackenzie, Lindsay, (Carson as in Carson >> Cullors, author), Taylor, Bailey, etc., and so it was rather a >> surprise to find two on on my tree, Gordon Duncan (early 1800s) and >> Nicholas Montgomery (1791), with surnames as forenames (or what we >> used to say Christian names). Even for a girl to be named Nicholas >> in 1791 must have seemed unusual as the original OPR entry was >> altered from Nicola to Nicholas. Where Gordon Duncan enters the >> picture, I don't know as her mother Margaret had just a very >> commonplace name. >> >> I am sure some listers have equally distinctive names on their >> trees. Nicholas Montgomery was born in May 1791 and so she was not >> named for Saint Nicholas ~ Santa Claus (or the Dutch Sinterklaas), >> December 6. >> >> Maisie >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] >> with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and >> the body of the message > > Kay McMeekin > Ayrshire > > > > > > Kay McMeekin Ayrshire