Whats in a name??

[Jayne]

Hi
Im am still chipping away at my Scottish relatives albeit very slowly,  I have found a possible relative with the name Alexander Chalmers Burgess,

I am intrigued by the name Chalmers, I have searched to see if this may be a maiden name of a granmother etc, but to no avail, I know his own mothers maiden name was Lowrie,  so that does not fit.

Wonder if anyone can throw some light on this for me
Many thanks
Jayne

[toni*]

sometimes middles names were after employers or rich landoweners as a mark of respect.

[Gadget]

As toni says, it could be a local landowner or the minister or other local gentry - even a family friend. Mostly though, it was some family surname - have you gone further back than the grandparents?

In my family  Burgess as middle name went down to the great great grandchildren in the 1920s.

 I hasten to add that these were Kirkcudbrightshire Burgess and not Chalmers

I'm still trying to find a Smith 

Gadget

[ev]

hi jayne

middle names sometimes appear from nowhere
but sometimes might mean that your on the wrong track
you say its a possible match so if you can give some details
then maybe some RC might be able to help

ev  

[hume]

Hi Jayne,

Is this Alexander born 1873, or another? If so, the IGI says his mother's maiden name was Grant, not Lowrie.

I think I have tracked his father, John, back to Banffshire and his mother's maiden name was Morison. There's a few possible births for his mother, but none with Chalmers connections. As Toni said, it may not be a family connection, but rather friends and/or employers.

hume24

[Jayne]

Hi
Sorry my error it is Grant,  - Lowrie is the maiden name of my grt grandmothers mother,
Yes that is the same John well done did not know his mothers maiden name
J

[Jayne]

Gadget
You said Burgess went down as a middle name,  could this be the same for a name of James Watson Burgess

J

[Gadget]

It could - have you got any Watsons?

[Jayne]

Hi Gadget
Not sure yet , I have some RN records which named as follows

James Watson Alias Gregory Burgess, then I have found a wife Janet Watson Burgess. Problem is so much fits into this family that Im trying to seperate the two to determine if there is or not a link.

For example Gregory Burgess appears in the 1901 census as
Born Scotland on the vessesl a widower in Chatham Kent.

The above Janet W Burgess died in 1894 during childbirth, she was born in Scotland, and died in Chatham Kent,

I said this family were pushing me to the limits bless them

J