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also articles in Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society, vol. xiii. p. 372, and Journal of the Linnean Society, vol. xi. p. 32. Dr. Philpots has in recent years, under the pseudonym "Oliver .Eaton," written several works of fiction, 'The Beacon Hydro,' ' Results of Waiting,' &c. He contributed a sketch of Prof. Alexander Harvey to Aurora Borealis Amdemica. P. J. ANDERSON.

JOSEPH BOULMIER (9 th S. vii. 348). There is no mention, either in Lorenz or the cata- logue of the Bib. Nat., of any work by this writer more recent than ' Villanelles' (1878). He is probably dead, as he was born in 1821, but I have not been able to find any record of his death. Liseux, the publisher who brought out 'Villanelles,' is dead, and the business no longer exists, so no inquiries can be made in that quarter.

ROBERT B. DOUGLAS.

5, Rue Alfred Stevens, Paris.

Galloway called Breconside (spelt in Pont's hill. HERBERT MAXWELL.
 * Survey,' c. 1600, Brakansyde) and Breckeni-

Perhaps the following may be of interest or use to MR. BRECKENRIDGE. The earliest note I have of the name in connexion with Ayrshire is from ' The Tailors' Record Book ' of Kilmarnock, from which I extract the following :

" May 5, 1716. The seel day John Breckenridge entred and payed twintie marks scots munie as an outentoun,*beforJohnDuncansonboxmaster, James Tanihil, James Thomson, Alexander Tonihill, in Thomas Walkers hous, bonetmaker."

In the first Kilmarnock Directory, 1845, two of the name appear, one a watchmaker, the other a rug manufacturer. I think the name is now extinct in Kilmarnock, but I could make inquiries if needed.

ALFRED CHAS. JONAS.

The family of Breckenridge in Question most probably came from the coast of uarrick. Many of the name lived in the parish of, ,. i Kirkoswald, and the tombstones of several

to consult the registers and records of the are to be seen in the graveyard surrounding parish of Strathavon to find the origin of his | fchA ftW n)nilT .^ T^A nf,W f.hp v i^ family, because in that parish is a place

BRECKENRIDGE (9 fch S. vii. 247, 313). MR" BRECKENRIDGE is advised at the last reference

called Breckenridge or Brackenridge, whence that surname probably is derived. But is there any probability of so finding the infor- mation required 1 Unless the family owned the land of Brackenridge, they would per-

the old church. Like others, they joined in smuggling, which for many a day was the predominant industry in that part of the country. One of them, who had prospered by the trade, occupied the farm of Dowhill, nearly opposite Ailsa Craig. Indulgent to his wife, and at a loss how to bestow his

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haps only receive the name when they left wealthj he hung a go]d watch on each side

it as indicating their origin. Scotts did not get their name till they came in contact with

of the deep high-backed easy-chair that she occupied, so that whichever way she turned

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nghsh; and to this day Scott is a far more she uld road the hour> DAVID J MURRAY.

frequent surname than Inglis, partly because more Scots left Scotland to go to England than Englishmen left England to seek their fortune in Scotland. It is true that in many districts of Scotland the tenant is habitually known to his neighbours by the

Glasgow.

GOVERNOR HAYNES'S GRANDFATHER (9 th S. vi. 88, 515; vii. 172). That the Governor's father was John Haynes, of Old Hold, in Essex (d. 1605), is well known; hence the

name of his farm; but that very fact is apt governor could not have been the son of

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George Haynes, of Much Hadham, in Herts t but this George might readily have been the father of the said John of Old Hold, and so

to mislead one in tracing genealogies, because

successive occupants, irrespectively of their

surnames or origin, receive in turn their.

territorial designation from the land they \grandfather to the Governor. The probability

hold. I have in mind one of my own farms I 9 f this supposition-first suggested by the

named Garrarie, where I have had three

successive tenants bearing respectively the

names of Brown, Jolly, and Smith. The

first two were known, the third is now known, Garrarie."

fact that the said George left, by will proved in 1584, land in said Hadham to his "son John," and that John of Old Hold, the Governor's known father, died seised of the property called " Haynes at the Mill," situate

It so happens that in the same district- U n Hadham, and that he and members of

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Galloway, to wit there are two farms which bear a name the exact equivalent in Gaelic to Brackenridge, namely, Drumrannie and Drumrennie, both of which may be confi- dently interpreted druim raithne, the bracken or fern ridge. There are also farms in

his family are buried in the same parish, thus tending to show that it was their native

This proves he was not a native of Kilmarnock. A freeman of the town required to pay four pounds Scots according to paragraph 3 of 'The Taylors' Charter,' dated 38 January, ~