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Brief Lives: The Legacy of Thomas Henderson and Elizabeth Walker Smart

Scottish naming patterns can be a great help when researching family history, but they can also be very frustrating when trying to write unambiguously about those same ancestors, and when a brother marries a girl with the same name as his sister and that sister is the one who is named after their mother, those matching cousins can end up with a grandmother, mother and aunt all called Christina…

Changing Names

The #52Ancestors prompt this week is changing Names, so I’ve written about my Desrez side of the family, whose French surname has been modified and mangled by Australians, and other English speakers for the past 170 years