Quote Originally Posted by Father Bill View Post
My tiny contribution is the tartan link: http://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/qRe...hString=duncan

My Jamaican friend is a Buchanan. We've been friends long enough that we've long teased about the difference in colour between us. I asked him how a man with a "factory-installed suntan" like his came up with a Scottish name like that, and he told me with his beautifully musical accent, "Well Bill, there must have been a Scotsman in the woodpile." He says that Scottish names are very common there.
They are common there indeed. As we know, many exiled Jacobites were sent to the West Indies. More notably was John Wedderburn of Ballendean.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_We..._of_Ballendean