Hi Mark,
Sometimes I get good, internet .hits. at 5 am, and, I just tried. I see someone already found this web site:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letters_of_horningI see the definition also mentioned at this web site:
http://www.armstrong.org/TermsDefined.htm.. Here's an interesting, Biblical definition which also mentions the above:
http://www.bartleby.com/81/8465.htmlAlso mentioned, briefly, here:
http://www.ccsna.org/jsep55.htmHere's a web site I don't remember seeing mentioned before:
http://www.british-genealogy.com/forums/showthread.php/28361...and this one:
http://www.talkingscot.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=57...Betty (near Lowell, MA, USA)
(5 am New England time)
(on Lists and Boards for 12 yrs.; now an Admin for 11 Lists and 5 Boards)
(researching the marriage in Glasgow of William HANNAH and Eliza RITCHIE in
Dec. 1854 / Jan. 1855 (I've seen the record). Both William and Eliza were born
in Co. Donegal during 1830's. The couple had 2 daughters in Glasgow,
and then migrated to Boston, MA, in the summer of 1857.)