SCOTS WHA’ HA’E NOT
ENGLISH NOMENCLATURE
(Rec. 10.35 a.m.) LONDON, Jan. 23. There are more Smiths than any other surname in Scotland, according to the annual report of the RegistrarGeneral for Scotland, who lists MacDonald as second, followed by Brown, Wilson, Thomson, Robertson. Campbell. and Stewart. John is the most popular Christian name for boys and Margaret for girls. Pointing to the fact that during the last 80 years Scotland has lost, over 15,000,000 of her population, the Registrar-General comments that the vitaliy of Scotland is being, or has been, sapped by the export of the most virile of her people—her young men and women.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 24 January 1944, Page 5
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105SCOTS WHA’ HA’E NOT Greymouth Evening Star, 24 January 1944, Page 5
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