A Family Story (Myth?) and Question about Gaelic Languages

[The Q]

Were the names of the children born in Scotland Scottish names or generic British ones of the time?

Scottish or Gaidhlig names? there certainly is a difference, in the hebridies I went to School with a girl called Kennethina (English spelling), not a name I've heard of anywhere else.

Scottish names certainly, even from my Glaswegian Grandfather, my uncles and Dad, Had Duncan Cameron, Malcolm, Ian, and I have MacAllister

[Katia]

in the hebridies I went to School with a girl called Kennethina (English spelling), not a name I've heard of anywhere else.

That just sounds to me like another of those cases where a male name is feminized, usually because the father wants a child named after him even if it's a girl. Hence on occasion you get women named Johnette/Johna, Joshlyn, Ryanne, Jamesina, Ronette, Scottlyn, and the like (on top of your usuals like Roberta, Antoinette, Paula, Thomasina, etc.). I don't see it as exclusively a Scottish phenomenon.

[The Q]

That just sounds to me like another of those cases where a male name is feminized, usually because the father wants a child named after him even if it's a girl. Hence on occasion you get women named Johnette/Johna, Joshlyn, Ryanne, Jamesina, Ronette, Scottlyn, and the like (on top of your usuals like Roberta, Antoinette, Paula, Thomasina, etc.). I don't see it as exclusively a Scottish phenomenon.

That may be common over there but the only ones on your list I've ever seen over here are Roberta, Antoinette, Paula, and only one of those have I ever actually met.