-----Original Message----- From: Bonnadean Nelson <bonadean@mtaonline.net> To: John Shearer <jk_shearer@email.msn.com> Date: Sunday, July 09, 2000 6:12 PM Subject: Re: Ashkirk-Linden Churchyards >Dear John, > Only one Janet SHORTREED is in my genealogy and she was born June 17, >1839, so she can't be the one you are looking for. This Janet's ancestors >are: >ggg grandparents >George SHORTREED b. ca 1686 married Ann Helen MOLL- >gg grandparents >Robert SHORTREED b. ca1710 married Elizabeth ELLIOT >g grandparents >James SHORTREED b. ca 1732-35 married Ellen CURRIE >grandparents >Andrew SHORTREED b. 1776 married Margaret INGLES >parents >Andrew SHORTREED b. July 1, 1805 married Isabella SHIELL b.1808 > >Bonnie from Alaska's Ancestors: >5th great grandparents >George SHORTREED b. ca 1686 married Ann Helen MOLL- >4th great grandparents >Robert SHORTREED b. ca1710 married Elizabeth ELLIOT >3rd great grandparents >James SHORTREED b. ca 1732-35 married Ellen CURRIE >2nd great grandparents >Thomas SHORTREED b.1774 married Isabella ARMSTRONG > Thomas SHORTREED and Isabella ARMSTRONG lived near Hawick, Scotland, but >in 1831 they emigrated to Guelph, Ontario, Canada with 6 of their sons. My >great Grandparent, William, moved down to the United States and married >there. So most of my ancestors in the US lived in what we call the midwest, >such as South Dakota and Wisconsin. >great grandparents >William SHORTREED b. 1814 married Susan HAMMOND >grandparents >William SHORTREED b.1842 married Evangeline OLIPHANT >parents >Clarence SHORTREED b. 1887 married Marie PRIEST >myself >Bonnadean SHORTREED b. 1926 married Harold NELSON > > I am sorry that I can't help you with your search for Janet, but maybe >there is a connection in her lineage to the Janet in my records. Waiting to >hear from you. > Cheers, Bonnie from Alaska (By the way where do >you live?) >-----Original Message----- >From: John Shearer <jk_shearer@email.msn.com> >To: Bonnadean Nelson <bonadean@mtaonline.net>; BORDER-L@rootsweb.com ><BORDER-L@rootsweb.com> >Date: Sunday, July 09, 2000 3:20 AM >Subject: Re: Ashkirk-Linden Churchyards > > >>Good Morning Bonnie, >> >>I have been looking for anything I can find on a Janet Shortreed who >married >>John Christopherson, Shepherd and Moleman on 27th November 1803 in Yarrow. >I >>was in Ashkirk a couple of months ago it is very pretty and I will be >taking >>my wife to see it in a couple of weeks. My wife is a Grieve. >> >>Hope we can make a connection. >> >>John Shearer >> >> >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Bonnadean Nelson <bonadean@mtaonline.net> >>To: BORDER-L@rootsweb.com <BORDER-L@rootsweb.com> >>Date: 09 July 2000 05:51 >>Subject: Re: Ashkirk-Linden Churchyards >> >> >>>Mr. La Fever, >>> One of the churchyards still exist, because I visited it in 1998. It >>is >>>Ashkirk and it is near Selkirk. The church still stands and is being >used, >>>I am sure. I cannot tell you how to get there as a distant relative of >>mine >>>was showing us where some of our ancestors (SHORTREEDs) were buried, but >>>someone living in the area could easily tell you the location. There are >>>several headstones in the cemetery. >>> If Linden is the same as Lindean churchyard, I have been there also. >>It >>>is located approximately 1/2 mile past Selkirk Glass, as you are leaving >>>Selkirk and the first turn to the right, then the first turn to the left. >>>There is a horse riding stable located there and right before you get to >>the >>>main house is the churchyard. A very few headstones are remaining there. >>>Most of them have been moved to another location (I don't know where). My >>>5th Great Grandparents Thomas ELLIOT and wife Jean INGLES are interred >>there >>>and their headstone is the only tall one left standing in the cemetery. >>>There are a few flat headstones in the churchyard. No church is left >>>standing there. >>> Cheers, Bonnie from Alaska >>> >>> >>>-----Original Message----- >>>From: BORDER-D-request@rootsweb.com <BORDER-D-request@rootsweb.com> >>>To: BORDER-D@rootsweb.com <BORDER-D@rootsweb.com> >>>Date: Saturday, July 08, 2000 11:00 AM >>>Subject: BORDER-D Digest V00 #194 >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >