Re: MACHAN name variations/Scotland origin
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MACHAN name variations/Scotland origin
1/25/00
Many variations; however, I know in my research I have run across some Machans who are definitely mine, but their names have been recorded as Mauchin, etc. Sometimes people couldn't read or write to know if someone wrote their name down properly. Other times, I think the record takers just wrote what they felt they heard. And of course, we can also come across mistakes in transcriptions. It is important to check variant spellings and not just look solely at your own spelling. Another example are my Remingtons. My Remington ancestors father was a Rivington, as were some of his siblings. Others went by the Remington.