After reading this piece of nonsense, I'm really rooting for the 5%
possibility the FTDNA folks gave me that I don't share a common
ancestor with Gordons.

Please unsubscribe me, Jimbo.

--- In douglasgordonDNA@yahoogroups.com, Egrdn@... wrote:
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>
> 5. Specific to Dawson, possibly this is a name derived from a
father whose
> nickname was Daw. According to the website
_http://www.answers.com/daw&r=67_
> (http://www.answers.com/daw&r=67) , "daw" meant sluggard at one
time.
> Perhaps we can imagine a case where two brothers named Thomas and
Jack were
> descended from a very minor, mostly-forgotten Douglas branch.
Jack was rather
> lazy, and because there were two males named Jack in the village,
he was called
> Jack Daw, which is also a bit of a joke because there is a bird
called a
> jackdaw. Jack Daw and Thomas both married and had sons at about
the time the
> king mandated the use of surnames in the villages. The son of
Thomas had black
> hair and gray eyes, so he took the name Douglas. (According to
the website
> _http://www.scotclans.com/clans/Douglas/history.html_
> (http://www.scotclans.com/clans/Douglas/history.html) , "In
Gaelic, dubh means black, and glas means
> grey.") Also, the surname fit with what his old grandfather had
told him
> about a traditional connection to the wealthy Douglas family.
But, Jack Daw's
> son used a different convention and took the surname Dawson. The
Y-DNA would
> show a relationship, but the surnames certainly do not.
>
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