Ken COULD THE TWO JAMES's be cousins? I do not know who big Rushaw farm was put part of the area to the east is now forest plantation. I assume that "Russia" was the spelling variation of Rushaw in the early 1800's. This farm is about one third of the way between the village of Moscow and Waterside and on the east side of the A719 road Mike Boyd Brisbane ----- Original Message ----- From: <ScotsCotNM@aol.com> To: <AYRSHIRE@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, July 03, 2010 4:41 AM Subject: [AYR] Howies of Rushaw / Russia? > > Greetings all, > > I'm trying to sort a tangle. > > I've got two James Howie families I'm trying to sort. From a Howie file > that I have there is James Howie, son of John Howie who farmed at Rushaw, > who married Martha Gilmour in 1815. They emigrated to Pennsylvania with > a > bunch of the Howies... possibly by ca. 1822. > > I've also got James Howie who married Agnes Cunningham in 1811. Their > daughter Janet, b. 1823, later married David Calderwood of Laigh > Blackbyre. > Janet's birth is listed at Rushaw in the Fenwick OPR. > > Records from the Crookedholm Reformed Presbyterian Church (just outside of > Kilmarnock) have various children of James Howie of "Russia" listed... > some > matching dates of the family of James Howie who married Martha Gilmour, > but extending beyond when they may have emigrated. And, there is a Janet > listed, baptized in June 1823.... > > So can anyone help me sort the two James Howie families here??? And how > does the one who married Agnes Cunningham tie into the other Fenwick > Howies? > > All the best, > > Ken Cuthbertson > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > AYRSHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message