NON-SCOTTISH/BRITISH SURNAMES

[Meg]

Could you give me any further information on this? Chriso

Hi Chris - I went to school with Carl Olsen - he lived up the scheme in Saltcoats, started at Ardrossan Academy 1967 leaving around 1971/2. Thats all I know, sorry.

Meg

pee ess, did a quick search on Friends Reunited and dont think he's listed there either.

[chriso]

Meg gordon wrote

Hi Chris - I went to school with Carl Olsen - he lived up the scheme in Saltcoats, started at Ardrossan Academy 1967 leaving around 1971/2. Thats all I know, sorry.

Thanks for that Meg. Strange that I haven't heard of another Olsen in the three towns.
You would have thought that some mutual acquaintance would have mentioned it to me, with such an uncommon name.

Cheers Chriso

[arrangazer]

Hi just googled my grandmothers maiden name which I had been told could be French, I also put in Flemmish origin and up it came.

Isobel

[Penny Tray]

Arrangazer,

Ami missing something or what was the name?

[jarneilh]

Chriso

Could you tell us where Alex Turkas " the shop on Caledonion Road Stinson " came from ?

Jim

[Penny Tray]

Westlund was another name that just came to mind. I think there was a family in Ashgrove Road, Ardrossan.

[Wee Shuggie]

There was a family at the top of Millglen Road in Ardrossan called 'Flukker"-can we assume Dutch???

[arrangazer]

My Grandmothers maiden name was Pllu.

Isobel

[John Donnelly]

Hi Arrangazer,

Pllu is a Dutch name.

Shuggie,

Never heard of Flukker here in Holland.

JD

[Penny Tray]

Wee Shuggie,

Flukker may or may not be a Dutch name but I remember the family too.

Pllu is interesting too. I don't know why I never ever thought of that as an non-Scottish/British name. Maybe it was a subconscious thing because we tended locally to call a plough a ploo and therefore it was aways naturally in our vocabulary?

[Penny Tray]

Wee Shuggie,

I see Fflocker is an ancient Scots name, likely now to be Flucker. Could this have been the local spelling?

[down south]

Further to what Meg said about the Olsens; Carl's younger sister Dawne was in my class and I think their name was spelled Olson rather than Olsen. At any rate it came from their American father, who was divorced from their mother ( quite an American-seeming thing in itself in those days when divorce was very much rarer in Britain than now ) ; I remember Dawne telling us about trips to America to see him. So there's probably no connection with Chris's family at all there.
Susan