> From: "Ron & Mary Harris" <r_harris@sympatico.ca> > My Dad knew a man, in Scotland, called Johnny Nan. His name was actually John > MacDonald, but due to the overabundance of similarly named fellows in the > area, he was John - Ann's (Nan) son - MacDonald, or just Johnny Nan. Now try > & look him up on a census 100 years from now! _____________ My great-grandfather (born 1871 in Johnstone, Renfrewshire) had a sister named Agnes. Her and John's great aunt was Agnes (b. 1788), as was their ggg aunt (b. 1756 in Hawkshead, England from where my Brocklebank line descends prior to gg grandfather's migration to Scotland and his son James loving Scotland as though it were his own). My gg aunt Agnes had a daughter, Agnes (Boyd). She was called Nan or Nancy. That daughter had a daughter named Agnes (Marshall), called Una. Agnes's sister, Isabella (Bella) had a daughter named Agnes Brocklebank (McKinnon) and she was called Nan. Her other sister, Jeanie (Jean, b. 1892) named her first born daughter Agnes Brocklebank also and they called her Nessie. Yes.....I have this in writing, thankfully. How else would I ever remember it all! Jean Brocklebank