----- Original Message ----- From: "Janet" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 12:58 PM Subject: [ARGYLL] Use of middle family name >I have a marriage certificate, for a marriage in Edinburgh in 1906. I've >had it for some while now and never noticed the middle name VIGROW there >before. I believe it to be Argyllshire in origin, [though it has been >found in Malta, in military records] if not in Mull itself where Elizabeth >VIGROW CAMPBELL was born. > > Parents: *Elizabeth VIGROW ROWATT m.s. CAMPBELL. > According to the forms of the Church of Scotland > > > My question: * Why would she keep a middle maiden surname [VIGROW] after > her marriage rather than her maiden surname itself? It is not her Mother's > maiden surname, must be her grandmother, perhaps? The name appeared as a > middle name on her sister's birth certificate which was in 1860; not been > able to check the actual birth of Elizabeth because she was born 1850. > > Has anyone come across the name? Where have you looked? The IGI comes up with 20 of them AGNES MACKAY VIGROW - International Genealogical Index Gender: Female Birth: 14 NOV 1869 Saint Nicholas, Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland 2. CATHERINE JANE VIGROW - International Genealogical Index Gender: Female Birth: 18 JAN 1866 Forres, Moray, Scotland 3. EMMA VIGROW - International Genealogical Index Gender: Female Birth: 09 OCT 1858 Kilmore And Kilbride, Argyll, Scotland 4. GEORGE WILLIAM VIGROW - International Genealogical Index Gender: Male Birth: 14 DEC 1871 Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland 5. ISABELLA VIGROW - International Genealogical Index Gender: Female Marriage: 26 APR 1864 Feltham, London, England 6. JAMES VIGROW - International Genealogical Index Gender: Male Birth: 24 JAN 1864 Forres, Moray, Scotland 7. JAMES VIGROW - International Genealogical Index Gender: Male Birth: 02 MAY 1864 Saint Nicholas, Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland 8. JOHN VIGROW - International Genealogical Index Gender: Male Christening: 29 OCT 1836 Saint Nicholas, Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland 9. JOHN VIGROW - International Genealogical Index Gender: Male Birth: 10 MAR 1860 Saint Nicholas, Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland 10. JOHN VIGROW - International Genealogical Index Gender: Male Marriage: 04 AUG 1866 Saint Nicholas, Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland 11. JOSEPH VIGROW - International Genealogical Index Gender: Male Birth: 11 JUN 1868 Forres, Moray, Scotland 12. M. W. VIGROW - International Genealogical Index Gender: Female Marriage: 11 SEP 1866 Campbeltown, Argyll, Scotland 13. MARTHA VIGROW - International Genealogical Index Gender: Female Christening: 12 FEB 1844 Saint Nicholas, Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland 14. MARTHA VIGROW - International Genealogical Index Gender: Female Birth: 16 FEB 1862 Forres, Moray, Scotland 15. MARTHA VIGROW - International Genealogical Index Gender: Female Marriage: 09 JUL 1869 Saint Nicholas, Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland 16. SARAH VIGROW - International Genealogical Index Gender: Female Christening: 18 SEP 1833 Saint Nicholas, Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland 17. SCOTT VIGROW - International Genealogical Index Gender: Male Birth: 09 MAR 1874 Dundee, Angus, Scotland 18. WILLIAM VIGROW - International Genealogical Index Gender: Male Marriage: 09 DEC 1857 Forres, Moray, Scotland 19. WILLIAM VIGROW - International Genealogical Index Gender: Male Birth: 02 JUN 1858 Forres, Moray, Scotland 20. WILLIAM VIGROW - International Genealogical Index Gender: Male Marriage: 02 JAN 1871 Edinburgh Parish, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland prev | next Prepare selected records for download regards Jill Bowis www.benderloch.org.uk/forum - Ardchattan history, geology, ecology, genealogy, weather, webcam, local forum www.kintaline.co.uk - where we are, what we do: Kintaline Plant and Poultry Centre