Hi Juli: 
    Just to enlarge on your 
    two camps idea.  I would not be quite so categorical that  two 
    separate notions are mutally exclusive.  I, for example, accept as 
    'fact' the McNokairds/Sinclair paradigm as you and Karen have 
    delineated.  What we don't know  is how many Argyll Sinclairs this 
    covers.  Are you saying all?  I would rather doubt that that is 
    what you are saying.  What you have done is made a terrific case for 
    how a name change came about without quantifying it.  There may be 
    Argyll Sinclairs for whom this explanation does not work. 
    I get a buzz from the knowledge that we are all on this 
    planet 52 cousins, no matter race or continent of origin.  All who have 
    some form of British ancestry, are 11th cousins.  I think it would be 
    neat if we and some of our Argyll brothers and sisters are related more than 
    by name but that is yet to be proven.  But any satisfaction that comes 
    from that must be based on the research and in no way casts  aspersions 
    on either side of the Highland/ Viking/ Norman divide.
    Just another small thought.    Yours 
    Aye,            
    Rory
    
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