Joan I should be interested to hear about your Smith & Farquhar connections. I am researching families of that name with connections in Old Deer & Fetterangus in Aberdeenshire - always happy to share information Best wishes Susan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joan Hartman" <jet2jeth@earthlink.net> To: <aberdeen@rootsweb.com>; <genegenie2005-gen@yahoo.co.uk>; <aberdeen@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 5:50 AM Subject: [ABERDEEN] Surnames: TILLERAY, MURDOCH, CUMMING, THOMPSON, SMITH,FARGUHAR > > Very curious about the above surnames as middle names in one TILLERAY > family that resided in St. Nicholas, Aberdeen. Can't find evidence of what > relationship might've existed between Tillerays and all those other > surnames...Children's births ranged in years from 1832 to 1859. Could > they just have been neighbors? > > -----Original Message----- >>From: Schani Biermann <ussenterprise1701@accesscomm.ca> >>Sent: Jan 11, 2010 10:08 PM >>To: genegenie2005-gen@yahoo.co.uk, aberdeen@rootsweb.com >>Subject: [ABERDEEN] Schani Re: surname CUMMING >> >> >> >>Karen, >> >>thanks for your reply to my query >> >>i think i have the mystery thanks to all the kind people who replied >> >>i am going to get this record via Scotslandpeople to obtain the parents' >>names >> >>thanks agian >> >>Regards, Schani >> >> >>----- Original Message ----- >>From: <genegenie2005-gen@yahoo.co.uk> >>To: <aberdeen@rootsweb.com> >>Sent: Saturday, January 09, 2010 11:26 AM >>Subject: Re: [ABERDEEN] surname CUMMING >> >> >>to all listers >> >>anyone researching this unusual surname? >> >>i >>have an Elizabeth Garden who married a _________ Cumming living in in >>Old machar Parish ca 1862. Elizabeth Cumming was the "informant" on her >>father's ROD >> >>can find nothing else! >> >>any help would be appreciated >> >>Schani Biermann, canada >> >>>>>>>I have Cummings in Morayshire too. It is not that uncommon a name in >>>>>>>the area. And indeed I have an Irish couple marrying in Scotland and >>>>>>>the Groom's Mother was down as Cumming on the marriage cert when in >>>>>>>fact it was Cummane. The Minister just put down what he thought he >>>>>>>heard. Anyway I digress. >> >> >> >>However >>I think you need to check your names.Are you sure Elizabeth isn't Mary >>?See >>below. It is the only marriage match on the whole of Scotlandspeople , all >>years searched , for the surnames >>Cumming and Garden and it comes up with 1862 which you had too. >> >> >> >>I found this >> >>No Year Surname (M) Forename (M) Surname (F) Forename (F) District >>City/County/MR GROS Data >> >>1 1862 CUMMING JOHN GARDEN MARY OLD MACHAR ABERDEEN BURGH >>ABERDEEN/ABERDEEN >>168/02 0280 >> >>Maybe that's why you can't find them !! >> >> >>Regards >> >>Karen >> >>The Good You Do Comes Back To You. >> >> >> >> >>------------------------------- >>To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>ABERDEEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >>quotes >>in the subject and the body of the message >> >> >>------------------------------- >>To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>ABERDEEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >>quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > Joanie > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ABERDEEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >