[or-roots] dummy me

[Leslie Chapman]

Sheesh, that interpretation never occured to me, I'm sure you're exactly
right. Now if I could just get my hands on the document itself. Sigh. It is
the first concrete evidence I have ever seen that the Melvin name might
actually have come from Scotland. I stumbled across a fellow in either that
parish, or in Fifeshire a few years back and asked him if he could tell me
if they had anything that a person might look in and he drew a complete
blank, but I think the oldest info they had was 18th century or some such,
which doesn't do much good since the third brother supposedly died without
heirs shortly after the younger two came to the colonies in 1662 or
whatever.

Thanks Carla.

Les C


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Les...
I KNOW that you know that answer to this.  Does the phrase "Last Will and
TESTAMENT" ring a bell?  It's the Scot's version of Probate Register...sort
of.  Possibly the cross reference you mention would be to a previous death
of a relative from which the decedant had inherited.

Carla
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