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These Spaniards must have been busy, the same stories are told in the Seaboard villages of Easter Ross.
Anent the name Sophia, probably from the grand-daughter of James VI, daughter of the Winter Queen & ancestress of the present royal house! See the popularity in Scotland of the names George, Albert & Victoria! Check also the family names of the laird of this fishing community & who did he marry, minister ditto!
Skoosh.
That's my thinking too. My grandmother Edith Sophia b1884 was given her Hanoverian grandmother's name Sophia (b1824) and her Hanovarian gr/mother was named Marie Charlotte (Mary Queen of Scots/Charlotte of England?). I've found that in general there's an awful lot of babies given the same name as the then current favourite royal, whether it's the arrival of a new baby prince(ess) (e.g. Sophia), a new queen (such as Willm & Charlotte) or a newly crowned king, the country's Saint, or a popular local lord, actor/baird, etc.
In one of my lines I've got back to Huntingdonshire in the late 1500s with a father who had the given name of Radulphi/Randolph. There's an online book "Names and Naming Patterns in England 1538-1700", which suggests "Randolph" became popular due to an Earl Of Chester named Randolph. Question Mark: did that line of my family originate in the county of Chester and not Hunts?
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