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Author Topic: Matthew Smellie of Medrox  (Read 17587 times)

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Re: Matthew Smellie of Medrox
« Reply #36 on: Monday 22 January 24 15:05 GMT (UK) »
I recently found out that he is my great great grandfather and would like to dig deeper about my family heritage, I’ve learned a lot from the previous msg on this thread thank you all so much!

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Re: Matthew Smellie of Medrox
« Reply #37 on: Wednesday 24 January 24 15:57 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: zandsabar on Monday 22 January 24 13:19 GMT (UK)
By any chance do you know what Clan he was attached to?
He is very unlikely to have been attached to any clan. Like most of the people discussed in this thread, he was a Lowlander. Historically speaking, clans were a social feature of the Highlands, and most Lowlanders were not members of any  clan. It is an unfortunately widespread misconception that all Scots belong to a clan.
Never trust anything you find online (especially submitted trees and transcriptions on Ancestry, MyHeritage, FindMyPast and other commercial web sites) unless it's an image of an original document - and even then be wary because errors can and do occur.
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