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Comments by Andrew ('Joe') Doak on Letter and Map Sent by Robert Doak to Andrew Doak September 1998 concerning Ayrshire Doaks (for anyone else who might be interested!) Please note that these comments are from memory as I cannot find my research file!!
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Dear Rob,
The letter you sent was about 'correct'. Additional comments:
On no. 1 (location around Perth Scotland) - The original name 'Dog or Doc' came from 'Gille Dog' (I think that's right)
which means 'Followers of Saint Cadoc' - a Welsh saint who operated
in the Perth area for some time....before he was murdered, in Ireland
I think.
No. 2 - location specified as "Kilmarnock" area is probably best expressed as "Ayrshire"
because I don't think I found any Doaks (of ours) in Kilmarnock. They
were rural weavers in the main, living in the valleys leading down to
the coast south and north of Ayr, and moving eventually to Girvan
(very early stages of industrial rev. when their livelihood was undermined
by factory system) and then (quickly) to Glasgow to join the
industrial proletariat in the textile mills (great - x2?-
grandfather was a powerloom worker).
No. 3 - is correct (see above). I found a number of Ayrshire Doak
family groups/lines disappearing from the Ayrshire records at this
time....and similar first names cropping-up in Ireland (and
America)...ie. they tended to pass the first names on to subsequent
generations.
In my research at the Genealogical Library in London the Doak name
was incredibably concentrated in very few UK counties (dominated by
Ayrshire and counties around Belfast).
Hope this is useful.
Andrew/Joe
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