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Author: IanKennedy71
Surnames:
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Your theory hasn't been disproved, since not all births were recorded in the parochial
registers.
As to the spellings, these depend on the particular clerk doing the writing (most people
couldn't write their own names in those days anyway) and would most likely be based on
how the name sounded. In the rare case when a literate Scottish Kennedy went to the States
and knew how he spelt his own name there may be a greater chance of preserving the
spelling.
Iain Kennedy
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