>From: "Jean Hanna" <[email protected]> >To: "Gerald Sandwith" <[email protected]> >CC: "jean Hanna" <[email protected]> >Subject: John Brown, Wright of Turnershall Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2003 11:06:20 >-0500 > >Hi List, > This is the first time I have posted. > > I have an ancestor, John Brown, Wright, Greenlaw, Berwick, b. 1752, >married to Isabel Donaldson in Melrose, 1788. He was shown as "John Brown, >Wright, Turnershall," but who had his children baptised in Greenlaw. His >children had a continuing connection with Turnershall, but his >grandchildren >were all born in Greenlaw. Can I assume the work was over the border, but >folk returned home for significant family events? I did find a current >reference on a map in the Reference Library to "Turnerhall Farm, Cum. SD >2396." Is it possible this could be the place? Would a farm have kept a >full-time wright? > > A second query: John Brown's son, John Brown, wright. born 1793, had >a >first-born daughter Agnes, b. 1824, one of five children all born in >Greenlaw. She is not mentioned as having died in infancy on the stone in >Greenlaw churchyard which lists conprehensive births and deaths for the >family. I have not been able to find a marriage for her. Could anyone >suggest how I might find her? > > Any help would be very welcome. > Jean, Toronto > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Gerald Sandwith" <[email protected]> >To: <[email protected]> >Sent: Friday, November 28, 2003 6:56 PM >Subject: [BORDER] Cumberland Surname List Update > > > > Hi all > > > > I realise that we are nearing the end of another month and the surname >list > > needs updating. Due to a number meetings and Curling games over the next >2 > > weeks time will be limited so please be patient. > > > > Also, due to numerous requests to have areas of Cumberland to be shown > > against names I hope to add another column to the list but this will on >a > > staggered basis. > > > > New names should be sent to me meanwhile and hopefully we will reach the > > 3000 mark by the end of the year. Those new to the list please join in >and > > let me have your name interests. You never know you may find new >relatives > > in time for Christmas and have a clan gathering early in the New Year. > > > > Those of you who are shy and lurking please also join in. Lets all have >a > > happy Geneoligical Christmas. > > > > Gerald Sandwith > > > > List Administrator > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > Get Hotmail on your mobile phone http://www.msn.co.uk/msnmobile > > > > > > ==== BORDER Mailing List ==== > > Borders includes Selkirkshire, Roxburghshire, Berwickshire, Peebleshire. >We also welcome family researchers for Dumfries and Galloway, >Kirkudbrightshire, Northumberland and Cumbria > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail messages direct to your mobile phone http://www.msn.co.uk/msnmobile