From: "Douglas Richardson" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups: soc.genealogy.medieval
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2007 4:25 PM
Subject: Re: Colin / Wilkin / Robin etc. (was re: nepos = kinsman)
On Dec 14, 7:06 pm, Renia <[email protected]> wrote:
Douglas Richardson wrote:
On Dec 14, 11:41 am, Nathaniel Taylor <[email protected]> wrote:
A propos this, does anyone have an opinion on the interchangeability
of
"Robinson" and "Robertson" as surnames?
The surnames Robinson and Robertson are interchangeable.
Not really. Robertson is the Scottish verion, Robinson, the English
version.
You're wrong again, Renia.
DR
Ok, Richardson is always correct. Can you tell what the Robinson tartan
looks like? There doesn't seem to be one.Robertson does have one
Sir Iain Moncreiffe of that Ilk, in his "The Highland Clans" page 235 tells.
The Robertson of Struan take their name from their ancestor Robert Riabhach
or "Grizzled Robert" Duncanson, 4th Chief of Vlan Donnachaidh, whose lands
were erected into the Barony of Struan in 1451 by King James II.......... I
looked up several other books on the Clans of Scotland, but there is no
Robinson to be found, not even in the index.. Do explain when you say
"You're wrong again, Renia". What is right? And while you are at it, do give
that sample of how Countess was a first name in medieval Britain.
With best wishes
Leo van de Pas,
Canberra, Australia