Just out of interest, is it something peculiar to Perthshire and the surrounding area, or is it a general Scottish thing? -----Original Message----- From: perthshire-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:perthshire-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Sherry Sent: Thursday, 30 December 2010 10:02 AM To: perthshire@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [PERTHSHIRE] Military in Ireland and Daniel (Donald) McFarlane FYI - one of my Caddel family from Perthshire used both the forenames of Donald / Daniel. 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 145 of my spam emails to date. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len The Professional version does not have this message

Hi Kerri The two instances of Donald/Daniel in my tree related to someone born and living in Nairn (near Inverness) on the Moray Firth; and the other to someone born Daniel in the south of Scotland - in Kirkudbrightshire. But he fathered a child with my GG Aunt in Perth and became Donald for a while when living there; reverting to Daniel when he moved to Glasgow. Another example of two apparently different but interchangeable names in Scotland was/is? Patrick and Peter. The records I downloaded pertaining to my Gt Grandfather related to his discharge from the army on the grounds of ill-health. There were 4 pages which told me that he caught a fever when the regiment was in West Africa (the Gold Coast) in the 1870s and then developed TB during his convalescence. They also gave me a physical description and his date of joining the army and his civilian occupation prior to joining; and his army number. I wrote to the Black Watch museum to ask if they had any further information and the only additional information they provided was where his regiment was based during his years in the army. Scottish regiments, like English and Welsh regiments, are part of the British army (I mention this because I have found that Australians, like most other people in the world, including the English themselves, tend to think that 'England' is synonomous with 'Britain' which annoys us Scots (and Welsh) no end!). I have just begun to read 'The Fatal Shore' (my GGG Grandfather was transported for life to Van Diemens Land) and Robert Hughes manages to use the term 'England' and 'Britain' interchangeably - a bit like Donald and Daniel in fact. Aaargh! So, as far as army service is concerned there is no difference between Scottish and English regiments. Both served in Ireland. But if you could find what regiment Donald/Daniel was in then you should be able to find when his regiment was stationed there, and where. Best wishes Rhoda ----- Original Message ----- From: "kerriferguson" <kerriferguson@dodo.com.au> To: <perthshire@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2010 11:43 PM 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? >