Steven Meikle from Edinburgh just popped in a note, not to pinpoint any specific scion of a movie star named Dashiell but to survey the Dashiells of an entire country.
“Your interest in noticing people named Dashiell piqued my interest.
“I searched on People’s Scotland (which has all the public records for Scotland) and only 14 people have ever been named Dashiell, the earliest being 2008.
“I thought that was disappointing.
“Lots of Hammetts, though, but only one record for a Samuel Hammett — which was on the 1841 census.”
