wrote in message news:mailman.0.1368957764.3019.genbrit@rootsweb.com... From: "Geoff Pearson" <gspearson1647@hotmail.com> > Any one done a tree for our Nigel? The media say he has Huguenot > ancestors > but Ancestry also shows he has German gg grandparents from Frankfurt > named > Schrod - and they seem to be the origin of his stockbroking. They > were born > around 1840 and judging by the names we might expect they moved > because of > Jewish origins and problems there from. So a fairly cosmopolitan > ancestry - > out of line with his immigration policies. Of course I may have the > wrong > strand, in which case apologies to whomsoever feels they are due but > this > looks like the right family. Perhaps his current German wife can > check?> :One of those internet bucket shop genealogy houses - no names, no pack drill, :but you can probably guess which one I mean - claims the surname Farage has its :origins in the Western Highlands of Scotland and derives from the old name :MacFergus, meaning "son of Fergus". :If true, this makes poor old Nigel's reception in Edinburgh at the hands of a :bunch of Scottish fascist loons - as some of the media put it - a little :ironic! Nope. Farage/Farrage are not in Black's "Surnames of Scotland", so you can keep him south of the Border, thank you very much. The nearest is Fargie or Farrar, but even with the fuzzy spelling of pre-ww1 surnames, I think they're too far off. BTW did you know that if you translate "UKIP" from dutch into english, it comes out as "you chicken". ;} Lesley Robertson