Thank you for reviving this thread, Ian. Thanks also to David H for the information on septs.

My father's family is full of lines which became extinct - he had a number of aunts called White who never married, due to the lack of men here in the UK after the Great War, and they lived together all their lives.

As the oldest of my generation I met the last two sisters, and suspect that there is noone else in the family still here to remember them.

Anne the Pleater :ootd: