----- Original Message ----- From: "Judith Graham" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2001 2:17 AM Subject: HAINING INTERESTS > Hello from Nova Scotia - > > First of all - a large "thank you" to Cliff Kerr for starting this > Australia/New Zealand list and telling us about it via the "D&G" list! > > Our interest is the surname HAINING/HANNING from Dumfriesshire. Having > been told there are Haining researchers in Australia, this is a general > query to see if any have joined this list. > > Our interest is focused primarily, but by no means exclusively, on the > following family: > > JOHN HAINING b ca 1778 and wife JANE/JANET JOHNSTON b ca 1778 had 5 > children, all born in Dumfriesshire: > > 1)Mary b 1800 > 2)Jennet b ca 1802 (my spouse's paternal great great grandmother) > 3)John b ca 1807 > 4)Margaret b ca 1809 > 5)Jane b ? > As yet, we have been unable to find records for any of these births. > > This family came to Nova Scotia in 1818, travelling with a Graham family > who are said to have been from a place called Knockelly, Penpont parish, > about 4 miles west of Thornhill, Morton parish. > > We have discovered that there are many Hainings around the Penpont area > and many are buried in Penpont Parish cemetery, but so far we cannot > connect ours to any of these. One pssibility is a farm called "the > Laight" which is "next door" to Knockelly. It belonged to a Haining > family for over 300 years, and was sold out of the family in the 1950's. > There were other Hainings in this general area as well. > > Have collected over 500 Haining names, some from IGI, many from other > researchers in Canada and US who are also searching for Hainings. > Would be interested to hear from anyone else who is researching this > name. Will be happy to help and share......... > > Cheers from Nova Scotia, Canada > > Judith Akin Graham > >