Hi Mark, I heard this from a Doctor friend of mine near Cawdar. He had two cousins growing up by the name of Gow. One was a Thomas Gow, and the other was Andrew Gow(father and son. Do not know which was which) of Auchvaich, Kiltarlity, Inverness-shire. My friend told me they were Frasers but had taken the Gow name because of all the Frasers in the area. He said that the elder could recite twelve or more generations from memory. The elder erected a stone at Tomnacross across from the school with his kin on the stone. When I looked up the Gows at the Family History Center I found in the OPR microfilm many people by the name of Gow. I also found the Christening of Archibald Fraser the son of Simon Fraser(The Old Fox). He and some friends skipped school. Hiding in the Heather on the North Slope and watched the Battle of Culloden. Archibald was close to ten years of age at that time. Regards, Bob At 02:47 PM 10/26/99 +0100, you wrote: >Hi Bob, >Thanks for getting in touch. I am hoping that we can have a good rip-roaring >discussion on the '45 as the list develops. There isn't a day passes but I >learn something about the Jacobite era and I consider myself a good >Hanoverian (Sutherland blood prevails!!). I have never heard the suggestion >that Gows were ever Frasers and of course Gow is the Gaelic name for Smith. >Certainly the Smiths were in that part of Morayshire and Banffshire which >was almost half way between the two sets of Fraser lands, most people >forgetting that the Frasers of Lovat were and are effectively a "clan within >a clan" and that the Frasers are also based in north-east Aberdeenshire. >Regards, >Mark >Genealogist: Clan Sutherland >Co-genealogist: Clan Mackenzie >see my web-site: http://www.highland-family-heritage.co.uk http://thefrasers.com This site is dedicated to all people of the name Fraser!! Please join in The Fraser Discussion Forum