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  • Standard work in Scottish surnames now online

    BLACK, George Fraser ‘The surnames of Scotland, their origin, meaning and history’ New York : New York Public Library & Readex Books, 1962.

    https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?...iew=1up&seq=29

    This is an essential on anybody’s “shelf” and the 1962 edition is now searchable online.

  • #2
    Wow - had a quick look now off to find "my" names. Thanks for posting.
    herky
    Researching - Trimmer (Farringdon), Noble & Taylor (Ross and Cromarty), Norris (Glasgow), McGilvray (Glasgow and Australia), Leck & Efford (Glasgow), Ferrett (Hampshire), Jenkins & Williams (Aberystwyth), Morton (Motherwell and Tipton), Barrowman (Glasgow), Lilley (Bromsgrove and Glasgow), Cresswell (England and Lanarkshire). Simpson, Morrow and Norris in Ireland. Thomas Price b c 1844 Scotland.

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    • #3
      nothing came up for McKerrow

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      • #4
        Try page 623 for "Mackerrow".
        Good luck - I have used this book a lot........... I am writing up stories for my direct line and the first page of each is about the origin of the name.

        herky
        Researching - Trimmer (Farringdon), Noble & Taylor (Ross and Cromarty), Norris (Glasgow), McGilvray (Glasgow and Australia), Leck & Efford (Glasgow), Ferrett (Hampshire), Jenkins & Williams (Aberystwyth), Morton (Motherwell and Tipton), Barrowman (Glasgow), Lilley (Bromsgrove and Glasgow), Cresswell (England and Lanarkshire). Simpson, Morrow and Norris in Ireland. Thomas Price b c 1844 Scotland.

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