You may find this interesting..... Most Common Name in Scotland Smith, Brown and Wilson are the top three surnames in Scotland, according to a survey carried out by the General Register Office for Scotland for the years 1999-2001. There has been little change in the most frequently found surnames over the last 140 years. Smith has been the most common surname in all surveys since that covering the early years of civil registration. Over 1 in 8 surnames in Scotland begin with Mac/Mc but patterns of surnames differ widely in different geographical areas. The top 10 Surnames in Scotland, using a sample of over 335,000 names from registrations in 1999, 2000 and 2001 are, in sequence: Smith, Brown, Wilson, Campbell, Stewart, Thomson, Robertson, Anderson, Mac Donald and Scott. The top ten names account for 7.9 per cent and the top 20 account for 12.4 per cent of all the names. Information on the top 10 surnames in Scotland by area is available at http://www.gro-scotland.gov.uk/grosweb/grosweb.nsf/pages/01surnames together with analysis of surnames from the 1901 Census. Cheers, Jim

----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Bulloch" <jbulloch@xtra.co.nz> > Most Common Name in Scotland > Smith, Brown and Wilson are the top three surnames in Scotland, Man, do I agree with this! My grandmother was Jessie BROWN born ca. 1883 in the Glasgow area. There are hundreds of Jessie Browns. Doesn't help that her mother was also Jessie Brown nee Gurley. Father was James Andrew Brown....again, hundreds of them. LORI (Michigan USA)