« Reply #154 on: Saturday 16 September 17 23:39 BST (UK) »
So Jessie is from the isle of Skye on her son's batism record
Shonnag,
I think that may possibly refer to her abode prior to living on Uist?
It's hard to know what the Priest was meaning but it seems to be a general sort of background thing as he obviously knew she wasn't a 'local' as everyone knows everyone else in those places & still do to this day
You will find (on Uist at least) it's a common thing when people refer to another, that 'other' person is referred to by their own name then their father's name & sometimes the g/father's name!
My g/mother was always known as 'Sine, Gilleasbuig 'Gobha' which is Jean dau of Archibald the Blacksmith & no surname ever mentioned but that's the same with everyone, the surname seems irrelevant
Annie
South Uist, Inverness-shire, Scotland:- Bowie, Campbell, Cumming, Currie
Ireland:- Cullen, Flannigan (Derry), Donahoe/Donaghue (variants) (Cork), McCrate (Tipperary), Mellon, Tol(l)and (Donegal & Tyrone)
Newcastle-on-Tyne/Durham (Northumberland):- Harrison, Jude, Kemp, Lunn, Mellon, Robson, Stirling
Kettering, Northampton:- MacKinnon
Canada:- Callaghan, Cumming, MacPhee
"OLD GENEALOGISTS NEVER DIE - THEY JUST LOSE THEIR CENSUS"