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ArchivesRe: questions on 2 surnames (read at your peril)
in reply to a message by Marc
Sorry, I'm bad at wording things but I'll have another go.
I know the Kerr left handed is supposed to be a legend, but the point I was trying to make is that they have houses with left handed turnpike stairs, suggesting they might have been, or at least one or a few were left handed and they played on it since, as I said it puts your right handed enemy at a disadvantage. Left handedness is distinguishing enough to be worthy of epithet, there is an infamous Scottish soldier who was known as Colkitto or Col Ciotach, also meaning left handed, a name which apparently he inherited from his father. Really my question could have been worded, what is the evidence that Kerr could not have come from Cearr in at least one case?
I understnad the difference between gal and gall, My confusion with McGinlay came from the fact that it's a patronymic meaning son of Fionnghal, yet apparently this first name Fionnghal has disappeared, leaving only it's simlar counterpart Fionnghall and its anglicised form. Is it not likely that the two similar names have been confused into the one anglicised form?
We must hang up in the belfry where the bats and moonlight laugh
We must stare into a crystal ball and only see the past
Into the caverns of tomorrow with just our flashlights and our love
We must plunge, we must plunge, we must plunge
I know the Kerr left handed is supposed to be a legend, but the point I was trying to make is that they have houses with left handed turnpike stairs, suggesting they might have been, or at least one or a few were left handed and they played on it since, as I said it puts your right handed enemy at a disadvantage. Left handedness is distinguishing enough to be worthy of epithet, there is an infamous Scottish soldier who was known as Colkitto or Col Ciotach, also meaning left handed, a name which apparently he inherited from his father. Really my question could have been worded, what is the evidence that Kerr could not have come from Cearr in at least one case?
I understnad the difference between gal and gall, My confusion with McGinlay came from the fact that it's a patronymic meaning son of Fionnghal, yet apparently this first name Fionnghal has disappeared, leaving only it's simlar counterpart Fionnghall and its anglicised form. Is it not likely that the two similar names have been confused into the one anglicised form?
We must stare into a crystal ball and only see the past
Into the caverns of tomorrow with just our flashlights and our love
We must plunge, we must plunge, we must plunge
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