This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: JEFFREY Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/XeC.2ACI/372.855.1.1.1.2 Message Board Post: Hi Lynne I would certainly like some more information if you have it. Although my family seem to have left the Dunbar area around 1840 and moved down south it would be good to see if there is a possible fit. I notice you say that the name Jeffrey is not huge in the area. I have done quite a lot of research into this over the years particularly processing the IGI data. In fact it is a very common name in the Borders, you only have to look at a modern day phone directory. It is most common in Berwickshire and East Lothian (Haddingtonshire), these tend to be spelt Jeffrey or Jaffrey with another concentration around Aberdeen up in the north east where it is often spelt Jaffray. Also there are a few over the English border in Northumberland. Please remember Berwick (upon Tweed in in England all be it by about 2 miles and Berwickshire is a county over the Border in Scotland. A long running dispute between the English and Scots, it has changed hands more than a dozen times in its history and does have a bit of an identity crisis. Hope this is all of help, l please let me have any info you have on your George and John(s). Regards Anthony