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Thanks for the email (and the earlier letter!!).

Comments from Andrew (Joe) Doak - 16 October 1998

Summary of the history of the Doak family

On no. 1 - The Dog/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 - "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 (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.

All the best from us (deeply busy!...like you and Chris....when does life ease-up?!)
Andrew

Joe Doak,
Department of Land Management,
University of Reading,
PO Box 219,
Whiteknights,
Reading,
RG6 6AW
UK

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