So what do we have now? What we have is the name of Motion in Quebec and now Germany, but as I've now demonstrated the people in Quebec and Germany were also known by other names, these other names were their older French names. I can only conclude that these people who were known as Motion in Quebec and Germany were in fact French and that the name of Motion was nothing more than a variant of their French name/s, this fact is proved by the Quebec documents. Remember that there are only 6 entries for Motion in Quebec covering a period of just under, 100 years, but there are dozens for the names of Moussion, Mossion, Mosion etc, not only in Quebec but also in France. It would seem pretty clear that the name of Motion was a variant of these French names.

I find it strange that there are no mentions of these French names, which are associated with our name in France & Quebec being recorded in Scotland. The variants, which we see to our name in Scotland, are almost uniquely associated with the Scottish Motions and most are found no where else in the world apart from Scotland, even then some are only recorded once. The conclusion of this fact is that they are what they appear to be, and that is a spelling mistake on the part of whoever recorded the event, however there is a major difference to the variants, which we see in Scotland and the variant Motion, which we see in Quebec and that is this. In Scotland the variants are unique in the fact that they don't carry onto the next generation, whereas in Quebec they do.

So if we did come from France and if our original name was Mossion and or any of the other associated names, how did we end up being called Motion, I think there could be a simple solution to this question.

As indicated earlier in this article, I think it could be a simple case of whoever recorded our name writing it down as it sounded to them. This is backed up by the fact that in the majority of the misspellings it is the first event recorded in that particular area, thus the person who recorded the event would have been unaware of the name and would have recorded it as it sounded. Looking at a dictionary we can see that the word Motion is a French word, taken from the Latin - Motio, which basically means to move. The word Motion came into the English language in the early part of the 1500s, so by the late 1600s it would have been around in the language for around about 150 years, so there isn't the problem of it being a new word.

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