please discontinue sending to this e-mail address ---------- >From: BORDER-D-request@rootsweb.com >To: BORDER-D@rootsweb.com >Subject: BORDER-D Digest V00 #245 >Date: Tue, Aug 29, 2000, 10:00 PM > >Content-Type: text/plain > >BORDER-D Digest Volume 00 : Issue 245 > >Today's Topics: > #1 Oliver/Fair Brickwall [Judith <beale@alphalink.com.au>] > #2 Graham Cumberland [Dorothy Gibbs <dorothy.gibbs@pandb] > #3 DAVIDSON, STRAUGHAN ["RONALD EARLEY" <RON.EARLEY@prodig] > #4 RE: Post your brick walls ["Carol J. Palmer" <cjpalmer@prairi] > #5 Kerr Family [EHeeseler@aol.com] > #6 oliver family ["peter hayse" <hemmingway57@optusn] > >Administrivia: >To unsubscribe from BORDER-D, send a message to > > BORDER-D-request@rootsweb.com > >that contains in the body of the message the command > > unsubscribe > >and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software >requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. > >______________________________ >X-Message: #1 >Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 18:21:16 +1000 >From: Judith <beale@alphalink.com.au> >To: BORDER-L@rootsweb.com >Message-ID: <39AB727C.8D6F2C05@alphalink.com.au> >Subject: Oliver/Fair Brickwall >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >Hi All, > >I have an Andrew Oliver married to a Sarah Fair. They had a daughter >Sarah Oliver christened in Oldhamstocks on 10 May 1826. There are 7 >children prior to Sarah who were all christened in Oldhamstocks on 6 >April 1823 whose father is listed as Andrew Oliver but no mother is >mentioned. The earliest of these children was a Walter Oliver who was >born 30th July 1809 in Oxnam. > >It seems possible that Sarah Fair was not the mother of these earlier >children. I have been unable to find a marriage for Andrew Oliver and >Sarah Fair or a death for Sarah Oliver (nee Fair). She died before the >1851 census as Andrew is listed as a widower. > >I would love to find a record of the marriage or death or the mother of >the earlier Oliver children. > >Can anyone help me? > >Best wishes > >Judith > >______________________________ >X-Message: #2 >Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 12:03:53 +0100 >From: Dorothy Gibbs <dorothy.gibbs@pandbox.demon.co.uk> >To: BORDER-L@rootsweb.com >Cc: BORDER-D@rootsweb.com >Message-ID: <K1z0ONAZi5q5Ewfk@pandbox.demon.co.uk> >Subject: Graham Cumberland > >In message <200008290800.e7T807C11784@lists5.rootsweb.com>, BORDER-D- >request@rootsweb.com writes >>Would love to hear from anyone researching Grahams in Cumberland >>Co., England > >Hi Delia, >I am researching Grahams. My David Graham is to be found in Wigton in >1818. >I am behind with this line of research so would need to get back to it >to discuss it further with you if it is any help? > >Dorothy > >-- >Dorothy Gibbs > >______________________________ >X-Message: #3 >Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 07:43:09 -0400 >From: "RONALD EARLEY" <RON.EARLEY@prodigy.net> >To: BORDER-L@rootsweb.com >Message-ID: <005401c011ae$4ea21280$0593ffd1@oemcomputer> >Subject: DAVIDSON, STRAUGHAN >Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" > >My great-great grandfather, Ralph Hall Davidson, made >my life much simpler when he put on the 1861 census >for Ulgham, NBL, that he was born at Oxnam, Scotland. > >I suspect that he had a mother who was a HALL named >possibly Margaret or Agnes HALL. Father's name was Thomas >DAVIDSON, sometimes spelled DAVISON. > >Ralph was a shepherd born about 1815. Married Agnes >STRAUGHAN born Carham, NBL in Kiirknewton, NBL, in 1847. >The family moved aroundnorthern NBL, finally settling in the area >of Pegswood, NBL. Ralph died >3 April 1898 and is buried at Bothal. Agnes died in 1900, >also buried at Bothal. > >Betsy Earley > >______________________________ >X-Message: #4 >Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 11:45:25 -0600 >From: "Carol J. Palmer" <cjpalmer@prairieweb.com> >To: BORDER-L@rootsweb.com >Message-ID: <NEBBIKBIHLNICBAOBICICEDCCBAA.cjpalmer@prairieweb.com> >Subject: RE: Post your brick walls >Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >My brick wall. > I am searching for information on Alexander Wilson married to Margaret >Fulton. Some of their children were born in Whitsome. They had these >children; Margaret, Marjory, Robert, Elizabeth, Janet, Agnes, William, >James, and Mary. Their son Robert Wilson married a Janet Younger. Any >information on the Younger or Wilson families is appreciated. I would like >to know if there are any living decendants of any of these children still >living in Scotland. >Carol ><mailto:cjpalmer@prairieweb.com> > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Gordon and Linda Beckett [mailto:boglelodge@a-znet.com] >Sent: Friday, August 25, 2000 11:33 AM >To: BORDER-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: Post your brick walls > > >Hello Listers, > >Following Alethea's message > >Why not post your brick wall names/ areas and see if anyone can >help. > >Start posting > >regards > >Gordon >Listowner > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "alethea watson" <alethea.watson@btinternet.com> >To: <BORDER-L@rootsweb.com> >Sent: Friday, August 25, 2000 6:37 AM >Subject: Please post messages. > > >> This list is very quite, where has everyone gone? >> >> I like to read what people's interests are to see if I have any >connections. Can people re-post themas I may have missed some and it would >give us all something to talk about. >> >> Alethea >> > >______________________________ >X-Message: #5 >Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 17:04:12 EDT >From: EHeeseler@aol.com >To: BORDER-L@rootsweb.com >Message-ID: <76.294aae6.26dd7f4c@aol.com> >Subject: Kerr Family >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >Is anyone out there researching the early Kerr family from the area of >Jedburgh,i.e.the time of the original Ferniehurst Castle (pre- 1543)? >What I have is very sketchy, but does go back a few generations from >that date. A contact would be appreciated. >E.C.Heeseler (Eheeseler@aol.com) > >______________________________ >X-Message: #6 >Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 11:33:33 +1000 >From: "peter hayse" <hemmingway57@optusnet.com.au> >To: BORDER-L@rootsweb.com >Message-ID: <000a01c01222$503ae940$c05d8ec6@ibmbnh101g> >Subject: oliver family >Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" > >Hi, >i am in search of the early history of my ancestors from around 1740 and before. >born In 1742 Adam Oliver , Jedburgh / married Mary Familton in 1774 , >born 1776 Adam O m Mary Hall in 1801 >born 1803 Adam O m Elizabeth Cumming in 1826. This Adam & his immediate >family immigrated to Australia in 1856 where his details are well >documented.Prior to this little is known of either his brothers/sisters >who remained in Scotland or the several generations of Olivers that preceded him . >It is thought they all inherited his christian name back to >Adam,Skinner/landowner "donald's corner/Castlewoodfield/Tenant in Chapel >/Resident Laidlaw etc etc all this remains a mystery . >Perhaps somebody might recognise this family? >Regards Peter Hayse Australia. >