Yes, I think you are right! Because my father was a Douglas, I only really researched the Douglas side of the family, although I knew there was always some debate as to whether my grandmother was Jane or Janet McMaster. The first child of Hugh and Jane Douglas was named Janet, so I suppose my grandmother was actually Janet but known as Jane. Her mother was also a Janet, born Janet Richardson!My father knew his mother's name as Jane, so when I was born he wanted to call me Jane, in the Scottish tradition of naming the first-born girl after her father's mother. But as I was born on Christmas Day, my mother, who was English, wanted to call me Carol or Christine. She said she didn't want "plain Jane" so the compromise was that they changed the letters around and named me Jean. So, I am Jean, I was nearly Jane, and I should have been Janet!! The tradition of naming the first-born son after his father, often leads to the son being known by a middle name or a variant of his name. It took me a while to realize my uncle Alec, as I knew him, was actually named Hugh Alexander Douglas. Hugh after his father and Alexander after his maternal grandfather, the same Alexander that your husband was NOT named after. I would have sent this as a personal message to you but I couldn't get it to "go". Please reply
