CLENDINNEN/GLENDINNING/GLENDONWYN

[cathymkc]

Gday:)
Im in Australia researching my Direct Line of CLENDINNEN Apparently according to Family they were originally GLENDINNING in Scotland From Border Areas... And went to Co Down Where some changed Name to Clendinnen'
There was a Clendinnen Family in Earlston Berwickshire...That were From Co Down Spelt Clindinning There'
as there are so many Different ways to Spell this Name, Interested in making Contact with People Researching them"
Theres a Book Called *House of Glendonwyn* Written by George Talbot Clindinning which Documents the History of some of these Families going back to the Name Glendonwyn in Scotland'
so if anyone is researching these families would like to make contact'
Thanks
Regards
Cathy:)

[Russell]

Hi Cathy and a warm welcome to TalkingScot.
You have come up against a problem which so many researchers have difficulty coming to grips with. We are so used to a particular way of spelling a name but in earlier times there were no rules regarding spelling and a multiplicity of different accents. Local Registrars must have had a terrible time trying to record a name given in a broad Highland/Irish/ Aberdonian accent by an individual who could neither read or write. Once a Birth or Marriage was formally Registered that was the form you had to live with so family names were changed and you were stuck with it. Thank goodness that scotlandspeople.gov.uk have a very flexible wildcard system which helps to identify the more obvious ones but sometimes you have to think outside the box for the less obvious ones.
With a worldwide membership someone out there must have a link to your family name so I hope it doesn't take too long before that distant relative comes along.
Russell

[cathymkc]

Hi Russell:)'
thanks for the nice welcome:) yes and with often so many different ways to spell a surname too...Most of my ancestry is irish, the only one ive found so far that we fairly sure has a scottish origin is clendinnen, called glendinning back in scotland but seen it also spelt Clindinning/clendinning etc etc
yes hopefully i get a reply from another glendinning researcher
Cheers
Regards
Cathy:)

[Lorna Allison]

Hello Cathy

I am not the kind of Glendinning researcher you are hoping to find but I have just recently been looking up a tenuous connection with the Glendinning family who lived at Changehouse, Teviothead, Nr Hawick from abt. 1800 to at least 1881. You will know that is not far from Earlston.

Thomas b. abt. 1762 m. to Mary WEAR had at least 2 children, Robert b. 1788 and Christopher b. 1800. Christopher married Jessie PURDOM and they had 10 children between 1832 and 1855. My interest was via the 2nd youngest Ann who married John WHILLANS and whose daughter Jessie Purdom married George TAYLOR in 1915.

There is a researcher on another site who is interestedd in Glendinnings. I tried to connect with him a month or so back but nothing so far. However if you would like to try your luck I can send you his details via a pm

Regards

Lorna