Hello Jean, I don't know if it was across the board, but as far as my McGilvray research is concerned it appears that the family naming pattern was adhered to and if there were no James in the family it wasn't carried on. There were about six McGilvray James' born on the Ross recorded in the OPRs. What I have seen is that there are names that never seem to appear for McGilvrays on the Ross in the OPR records these are Andrew, Barbara, Daniel, Finlay, Grace, George, Helen. All of these names were used in other parts of Scotland. Certainly as far as James as a name for McGilvrays it was popular in other areas. Kind regrads Jan Peasnell ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jean et Jean Goichot" <jeanetjean@wanadoo.fr> To: "MULL" <SCT-ISLEOFMULL-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, April 20, 2007 12:02 AM Subject: [SCT-ISLEOFMULL] James > When searching the Argyll Estate Survey, I was struck by the rareness in > the Ross of the forename James. I began to wonder if in that place at that > point in time it was more politically correct to choose or use another > name. > Has anyone illuminating thoughts about this? > Jean > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SCT-ISLEOFMULL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >