Note: The Rootsweb Mailing Lists will be shut down on April 6, 2023. (More info)
RootsWeb.com Mailing Lists
Total: 1/1
    1. Re: [ARGYLL] Use of middle family name
    2. Ron & Mary Harris
    3. Hi again, I think we have discussed this fact before (or was it on another list?), but children were often given middle names that came from the father's employer too. My great great great grandfather, Hugh MCGREGOR (1802 - 1874) came from Balquhidder, Perth in the mid 1830s to work as overseer at 2 CAMPBELL owned farms, Inverneill & Taynish. (It is possible that the CAMPBELLs were some relative to Hugh, but no proof of that yet.) His son, my great great grandfather, was christened Dugald Campbell MCGREGOR in 1849. Another son was called Joshua Bowden MCGREGOR. I have heard that a Mrs. CAMPBELL was a BOWDEN by birth. A sister was called Ann Banner MCGREGOR but I have found no origins for the BANNER name yet. Mary in Canada

    10/21/2006 03:57:02