Hi Janice, When you were looking for your shepherds, did any of them wander into Wales for a period of time?! The reason I ask is that we are looking really hard at a family of Scots who seem to have landed there. The father is a shepherd and one of the children is the right name and age for my husband's gfather who died in Carlisle in 1914 at the age of 42 and who was also a shepherd. We're really early in our search so we could be on the wrong track. We need to check to see where they were in 1891. I'd be curious to hear your thoughts. Cheers, Ann *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- Ann Neilson Beattie & David Beattie, Cochrane Alberta Canada researching BEATTIE/BYERS borders area of England/Scotland; also Ireland & Canada *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- Dwelling: Cleiriach Census Place: Llansannan, Denbigh, Wales Source: FHL Film 1342329 PRO Ref RG11 Piece 5533 Folio 86 Page 12 Marr Age Sex Birthplace John BEATTIE M 49 M Scotland Rel: Head Occ: Shepherd Agnes H. BEATTIE M 40 F Scotland Rel: Wife James BEATTIE U 12 M Scotland Rel: Son Occ: Scholar David BEATTIE 10 M Scotland [we think this might be our gfather] Rel: Son Occ: Scholar Robert BEATTIE 8 M Scotland Rel: Son Occ: Scholar Agnes BEATTIE 6 F Scotland Rel: Daur Occ: Scholar William BEATTIE 4 M Scotland Rel: Son Margaret J. BEATTIE 2 F Llansannan, Denbigh, Wales Rel: Daur Jennet G. BEATTIE 2 w F Llansannan, Denbigh, Wales Rel: Daur -----Original Message----- From: Janice Poskitt [mailto:janice_poskitt@yahoo.com] Sent: Saturday, April 29, 2000 4:33 PM To: BORDER-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Tracking shepherds Hello George, > My gggrandfather, George Tweedie Anderson > There appears to be a connection with Moffat but would it be practical to take a body that distance for burial? Would that be unusual? My EWART DICKSON ROBSON/ROBERTSON families continually migrate around the hill parishes of Moffat DFS, Tweedsmuir, Drumelzior, Glenholm, Lyne & Meggat PEE & Crawford LKS as well as into SEL & ROX. They followed rural occupations - shepherds, ag labs, drovers. >From memory:- shepherds were employed on a yearly contract ag labs - 6mths day labs - per the day or for the duration of a particular project A decade ago not many of the rural parishes featured in the IGI - only the main market towns. And before the advent of the SCT Church Records Index I virtually traced my families by occupation. Sat down with an OLD school atlas (cost 50c at a garage sale - best investment I've ever made). On the POLITICAL page it had all the pre 1974 counties of UK in different colours. Turning to the PHYCISAL page I took note of all the hilly parishes - figured that shepherds worked in the hills (sorry, I'm a townie). Then proceeded to order in the microfilms for the appropriate parishes & hey presto! - it worked! Now, it's usually fairly simple to check the SCT Church Records Index. All Presbyterian parishes have been extracted up to the end of 1854. Kind regards, Janice, Motueka, New Zealand __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online and get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/