Morning all, There are numerous examples in Scotland of multiple names being the same name. David/Donald/Daniel Ian/John/Jack Alistair (all spellings)/Alexander Jean/Jane/Janet Elspeth/Elizabeth Agnes/Senga To give just a few examples. Happy New Year Mark -----Original Message----- From: perthshire-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:perthshire-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of kerriferguson Sent: 29 December 2010 23:43 To: perthshire@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [PERTHSHIRE] Military in Ireland and Daniel (Donald) McFarlane Just out of interest, is it something peculiar to Perthshire and the surrounding area, or is it a general Scottish thing?

Someone has just mentioned to me that "Jessie" is also a name used by the Scots for girls who carry another name but they couldn't remember which name it was. Do you happen to know anything about that as I have several "Jessie's" in my tree. A Happy and safe New Year to you also, Mark Kerri -----Original Message----- From: perthshire-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:perthshire-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Mark Sutherland-Fisher Sent: Thursday, 30 December 2010 9:06 PM To: perthshire@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [PERTHSHIRE] Military in Ireland and Daniel (Donald) McFarlane: Multiple names Morning all, There are numerous examples in Scotland of multiple names being the same name. David/Donald/Daniel Ian/John/Jack Alistair (all spellings)/Alexander Jean/Jane/Janet Elspeth/Elizabeth Agnes/Senga To give just a few examples. Happy New Year Mark -----Original Message----- From: perthshire-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:perthshire-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of kerriferguson Sent: 29 December 2010 23:43 To: perthshire@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [PERTHSHIRE] Military in Ireland and Daniel (Donald) McFarlane Just out of interest, is it something peculiar to Perthshire and the surrounding area, or is it a general Scottish thing? When replying to a message or a digest, please delete everything except the portion to which you are replying. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PERTHSHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter. We are a community of 7 million users fighting spam. SPAMfighter has removed 147 of my spam emails to date. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len The Professional version does not have this message

Kerri According to the 'Concise Dictionary of English Christian Names' .. "Jessie is the Scottish diminutive of Janet (qv), now often used as an independant name..." There is more, but not relevent to your question. Regards Ranald On 30 December 2010 19:33, kerriferguson <kerriferguson@dodo.com.au> wrote: