Thanks for your thoughts, Janet. We haven't looked at DALGARNO wills as we are concentrating on the 16thC & 17thC MELDRUMS. However, we have found many wills on Scotland's People which have helped sort out various relationships of the 18thC families. There are often curiosities in who is named as witness and/or executors/guarantors. It has enabled us to find some older generational connections. The one DALGARNO in the Peerage is not one of ours. He one date is 1815 [marriage] and we know, for the moment, all the relatives about that time. If we do go further back to try to find out about the Kirkmichael MELDRUM lines, Mary might be relevant. As you now from my last posting, we are aware of the name variants and look carefully for them. Thanks again Best wishes Ray Hennessy www.whatsinaname.net On 25 November 2013 14:22, Janet <cilurnum@googlemail.com> wrote: > Ray, and any one else at the end of a trail, whilst it may not apply here, > if your family > are landed it is worth looking for a Will. > If they do own land you could check out this site > http://www.thepeerage.com/ to start > with. Maybe you have. > There is one DALGARNO there but source is not known. > You may find, as I did that names change and appear to be closely related. > Suddenly I found children of a seemingly unrelated family changed their > family or surname. > The cause of it was that one Charles Wedderburn was succeeded by his > nephew David Graham > who died unmarried and was followed by his brother John, on the death of > whom was also > unmarried. The Trust wording provided that "whom failing on the heirs > male and female > of the substitutes in the entail of succession, the heir in possession to > bear the surname > and arms of Wedderburn of Pearsie and none other. .................the > estate went to > Katharine Stormonth (wife of the Rev. James Maclagan, and daughter of > Alexander Stormonth > of Kinclune) who thereupon assumed the name" By that time Katharine was a > widow with > children of her marriage and I could easily have overlooked what appeared > to be > coincidentally duplicate children with similar identities. > > Janet > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ray Hennessy" <ray@whatsinaname.net> > To: "Aberdeen List" <aberdeen@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Monday, November 25, 2013 12:19 AM > Subject: Re: [ABERDEEN] DALGARNO > > > > Thanks laura > > > > It was a forlorn hope as the DALGARNO/DALGARDNO/DALGARDEN lines are very > > numerous but not too well documented so I have little hope at the moment > of > > finding my way past 1803/4 [approx] > > > > Don't worry about delays - they are quite common in this research. We > have > > a 6 month hiatus in our MELDRUM researches at the moment and Sheena's > fifth > > cousin is getting a bit impatient! > > > --- > This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus > protection is active. > http://www.avast.com > > > ------------------------------- > 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 >