Anne Another possible reason for the interchange of "Margaret" and "Mary" is the abbreviation of "Margaret" to "Marg", followed by a misreading of "Marg" as "Mary". I'm not suggesting that this is always the explanation but I have experience of one case where it was. Martyn ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Maye" <bmaye@ozemail.com.au> To: <SCT-ARGYLL-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, July 19, 2003 6:02 AM Subject: [ARGYLL] Name substitution > Further to this very interesting exchange, I am interested if there > are others who have come across the interchange of Mary & Margaret > (Peggy) in ARL. I think it has occurred in my family a number of > times, probably because of the similarity of the two names in Gaelic > to an 'English' ear. <snip>