This is true, what you say. Casts a sorry eye on the owner, doesn't it? But we would be remiss if we didn't think about this. I told you about the Innes fellow from Elgin.....and now have spent 3 hours or so going thru the books to find out how I knew that. I spend hours reading and absorbing info on the Innes clan, then don't go back to them for a few months, and go brain dead. When I find the story I'll email and tell you who it was. I seem to recall his sons were also involved in Jamacia as well. Goldie ----- Original Message ----- From: "CandROverson" <overson12@btinternet.com> To: <moray@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 1:11 PM Subject: Re: [MORAY] Moray Scots to Jamaica > Hi Goldie > > Re slaves with Scottish surnames. Many Black British who have come to > Britain from the West Indies, have Scottish surnames. It is a result of, > I > am ashamed to say, the many Scottish slave owners on the sugar > plantations. > Many black West Indians were descended from the children of slave owners > who > were 'over friendly' with their female slaves. And I think that it was not > uncommon for slaves to take on the surname of their owners. > > Rhoda > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "goldie and Lido Doratti" <lidogold2@shaw.ca> > To: <moray@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 7:10 PM > Subject: Re: [MORAY] Moray Scots to Jamaica > > > I can tell a story about a colored man >> with the last name of Innes who happened into a store in the western US. >> My >> step-brother was helping him select a pair of shoes, when the colored man >> noticed the name label on my step-brothers jacket; also Innes. Years >> later >> when I started doing genealogy, my step-brother asked me how this could >> be >> since I had told him the Innes family was from Scotland via >> Flanders........I have since wondered if the answer was that the colored >> man >> was one of the ancestors of the slaves on the plantation in Jamaica. > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MORAY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message >