Dear Jeanne It's entirely possible that the names of Little and Liddell (and its variations) are part of the same family. Have a look at the Team Liddell site: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~teamliddell/index.htm there hasn't been much activity lately - the main moderator James Liddell has been very quiet in the past few years, but it does have a lot of information. Best wishes on your genealogical search. kind regards Patricia Rand Liddell ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeanne Swick" <[email protected]> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2009 7:48 AM Subject: [LIDDELL] Liddell vs Little I am a new subscriber. My surname research is LITTLE It seems to me that Liddel Waters (river) in Scotland is such a close match phonetically to Little that it is a good possibility that they are variations of the same name. Does anyone know if this has been proven? Did it occur in a certain period of history? Is there any good research done on this? If anyone is interested and does not know this already, the National Library of Scotland site (nls.com) has a "Maps" section with all sorts of old maps available for anyone to look at......literally tons of them for the Borders region......Roxburghshire is where I was looking in particularly. Also there are Roy's Military maps; harder to look at but extremely detailed......all from the 1600-1700 range. Worth a look at the site if you've not done so previously. I apologize if I've duplicated material that has come across before :) Jeanne _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live™: Keep your life in sync. http://windowslive.com/howitworks?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_t1_allup_howitworks_022009 ------------------------------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.0.233 / Virus Database: 270.10.19/1942 - Release Date: 02/09/09 17:40:00

Thanks, Patricia. This is daunting stuff, but I'll continue donw the path :) Jeanne _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live™: E-mail. Chat. Share. Get more ways to connect. http://windowslive.com/online/hotmail?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_AE_Faster_022009