This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Blair Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/1ME.2ACEB/1951 Message Board Post: I`m still at brickwall and hoping someone out there may be able to help....looking for any info on john russell Blair brn march,15,1823 supposaly in Bathurst N.B. he married margaret king Gibson in 1863 in Charlotte county N.B. only info before his marriage we have is he had a brother named jacob,a sister named mary,and 2 twin syblings who died in their teens while crossing alake to pick up their father who was working on the other side...these 5 Blair children are grandchildren of a Lord john Russell or Sir john Russell from Scotland who for some type of deed or something was granted a great deal of land in Quebec and a yr after his claim a french lawyer went to England and disputed the claim and it was revoked from him and he and his family relocated to northeastern N.B. and nothing else was ever hered of him....Would love to learn parents names of these 5 Blair children..also would love to learn 1rst names of the 2 twin Blair cjildren who died while crossing the lake to ! pick up their father who was working on the other side.... Thankyou all in advance Heidi Russell