Other festive babies were Santa Bianchi, a girl born in Glasgow in 1901 to her mother Lucia and father Pasqualo, who was an ice-cream dealer.

Born in the same city, four years earlier, was Advent Allan of Bridgeton who came into the world on 7 December.

Another who made Christmas Day extra special was William Snow, a soldier who got hitched in Edinburgh on 25 December 1805.

Not born in December but possibly with parents who loved yuletide, was Agnes Elf O’Brien from Peterhead, who came into the world in 1899 and Julia Tinsel who arrived at Logie in Perthshire in 1882.

In Port Glasgow in 1873, which at the time was in the county of Renfrew, Angel Maria Lopez was born, named after his father.

And the aptly-named George Turkey lived in Rose Street in Edinburgh, according to the 1841 census.