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   From: innes8@verizon.net   
      
   "allan connochie"  wrote in message   
   news:985_i.38928$9Y3.18934@newsfe1-win.ntli.net...   
   >   
   >>> this sept stuff is utter balderdash anyway but this is doubly so. You   
   >>> have invented a connection simply because an Innes became Duke of   
   >>> Roxburghe in the 19thC.   
   >>   
   >> I invented a connection that an Innes became Duke of Roxeburghe in the   
   >> C19th?   
   >   
   >   
   > Where do I say that. Reread my paragraph above which itself states that an   
   > Innes became Duke of Roxburghe in the 19thC.   
      
   !   
      
      
   >> There were no people named Innes or Hamish before - you amaze me!   
   >   
   > Surnames are a relatively late phenomena. The Innes mentioned is the first   
   > of that name on record. I cite both Professor Black's "Surnames of   
   > Scotland" as well as the Clan Innes website itself.   
      
   The clans split in the year 1100. Is that relatively late or early?   
      
      
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