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Re: Margaret Baillie my 2X great grandmother
« Reply #9 on: Sunday 19 December 21 18:25 GMT (UK) »
I have confirmed John's parents as Daniel Cameron and Margaret McIsaac through his birth registration. 
The information provided by son Hugh on John's death registration about John's  father being named Donald is in error.
Not altogether.

The names Donald and Daniel are sometimes used as variants of one another, even though they have completely different origins, so it's not unusual to find a Donald turning up as Daniel and vice versa.
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.