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Offline Marie Baker

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help with scotish given name mystery
« on: Friday 19 March 10 22:05 GMT (UK) »
Please can anyone help me with this.I have traced my family back to 1777 in Scotland.Now come across a female on a marriage document 1777,JACKIE GRIEVE, can find plenty of Grieves in right place and time but no JACKIES. Has anyone a clue what this child may have been baptised.

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Re: help with scotish given name mystery
« Reply #1 on: Friday 19 March 10 22:22 GMT (UK) »
Hi and welcome.  It might help if you posted some additional details such as precise date and place.  If possible include a scan of the marriage detail you have.

Nick
McLellan - Inverness
Greer - Renfrewshire
Manson - Aberdeen & Orkney
Simpson - Hereford, Devon, etc.
Flett - Orkney
Chisholm - Scotland
Wishart - Orkney
Shand - Aberdeen
Pirie - Aberdeen

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Re: help with scotish given name mystery
« Reply #2 on: Friday 19 March 10 22:40 GMT (UK) »
hi
its possible she was called Jacqueline, which has a few different spellings.......
you could try that.
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Orr, Adair, McCafferty,McCrorie and McCrory, Millar,Strachan, Lewis,Linn, Arnott, Scott,Kerr,McKinnon , Jeffrey or Jaffrey,Lambie, Findlay and Meechan Ayrshire Scotland.
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