Begin forwarded message: > From: Dona Findlay <donafindlay@biscituk.com> > Date: 4 April 2006 16:39:51 BDT > To: tlarson@usfamily.net > Subject: Re: [SCT-ISLAY] Unusual Forenames > > Hi Ted, > > Thanks for the information, I will look up the original OPR record > for Kilchoman when I next visit Edinburgh. I am inclined towards > the name Hamish but cannot as yet find any link using the naming > rule although that may have nothing at all to do with it. Now I am > curious about the name Kamy as it sounds too modern for that era. > If I come across any more information I will let you know. > > Thanks to all who replied for their suggestions. Keep hunting. > > Dona Findlay > > > On 4 Apr 2006, at 13:39, Ted Larson wrote: > >> Hi Dona: >> When I transcribed the name of the 11 year old below in the 1841 >> census I read it as Kamy McDonald. I just went back and looked at >> the census page and still think that it is Kamy. The >> transcription of the OPR that I have lists the birth as that of a >> daughter with the name Hammy. I do not have access to the >> original OPR for Kilchoman. >> Ted Larson >> >> Dona Findlay wrote: >> >>> Hi List, >>> >>> I am researching the Macdonald side of my family tree and have >>> come across an strange first name in the baptism records taken >>> from the Finlaggan site. >>> This states that Hammy Macdonald was registered as a son of >>> Donald Macdonald ,1829 Hammy MacDonald was born on the 10th >>> January a son of Donald MacDonald and Marion Clarke, Kilchoman. >>> >>> The 1841 Census registers Hamy McDonald aged 11, farm servant >>> and living with Donald McFayden and resident on the Farm of >>> Grobolls. House Schedule No. Killarrow 6/7/2 but states that >>> this is a female person. >>> >>> Having found no other trace of this Hammy I wondered if anyone on >>> the list knows if this is a short version of Hamilton or Hamish >>> or could it be a female name ! >>> >>> All suggestions gratefully received. >>> >>> >>> Dona Findlay >>> >>> >>> >>> ==== SCT-ISLAY Mailing List ==== >>> To visit the website associated with this project, visit: >>> http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~steve/islay/data.htm >>> >>> >>> . >>> >> >> >> ==== SCT-ISLAY Mailing List ==== >> To find Vital Statistics for islay from the earliest records to >> 1875 visit: >> HTTP://freepages.family.rootsweb.com/~tlarson/bdm/ >> >