Dear SKS's: I am desperate for "on the ground" trench warfare-help in Annan. I need to confirm one generation so I can get on with my work. If you are available to do some sort of a look up I will give you my first born child...6'2", 250 lb, eats like a horse and is a lay-about! The Steel[e]s came from somewhere and settled in Annan. They had five children, Eva Gertrude, Rosa, Elsie, Cyril and Muriel. Rosa and Cyril stayed in Annan and the rest came to Canada. The parents died in Annan. Rosa married a John Dixon and Cyril married Mary ?. There are children. Without someone on the ground in Annan, I am stumped, as I have tried the usual on and off line sources, with no success. And it is in a time period when records are not openly available. Eva was born outside Annan, August 08, 1906, so her daughter has told me. The family must have moved there in the time from that date forward. So a census of 1901 and 1911 may have a record of them. I am at a loss to know where else to look. The LDS's CD's end in 1888. They would be great for the line back from there...but I am on the cusp of movement in any direction. Take pity on a poor sot! Al Dempster -- Visit us at The House of Dempster, [www.myfamily.com]. FORTITER ET STRENUE "God grant me the Serenity to accept the things I cannot change... Courage to change the things I can and... Wisdom to know the difference." The Book of Islam tells us: first with the example, then with the word and then with the hand...LEAD BY EXAMPLE, BY THE WORD AND THEN BY YOUR DEEDS! Be a goat, not a sheep.

> > Eva was born outside Annan, August 08, 1906, so her daughter has told > me. The family must have moved there in the time from that date forward. > So a census of 1901 and 1911 may have a record of them. I am at a loss > to know where else to look. The LDS's CD's end in 1888. They would be > great for the line back from there...but I am on the cusp of movement in > any direction. The 1901 census will not be available for another year or so. Since you have an accurate name and birth date for her, it should be possible to get her birth certificate from New Register House in Edinburgh - they do take credit cards. Her birth certificate will give you her parent's names and occupations, and I can't remember what year they stopped doing it) their wedding date. I assume that since you don't mention the names of the parents, they are unknown? Have a look at the scottish area of Genuki on http://www.genuki.org.uk/ It'll give you full addresses, and there's also a good survey of what other sorts of information is available. Lesley Robertson PS Make sure that when looking for Genuki, you use the URL as given here. According to messages on soc.genealogy.britain, a commercial company is trying to hijack the name for their own site. ******************************************************************** Dr Lesley A. Robertson CBiol FIBiol Kluyver Laboratory for Biotechnology, Delft University of Technology, Julianalaan 67, 2628BC, Delft,The Netherlands tel 31 15 2782421; fax 31 15 2782355; email L.A.Robertson@stm.tudelft.nl.

Found the following in the Berwick upon Tweed Guild Roll dated 18th October 1774. John Renton /Profession Merchant/ Residence Jamaica If anyone has any connection or could guide me as to where to look to find out more about said John Renton Merchant. I have copied two sheets of this roll so if anyone has a Berwick upon Tweed connection around that area your ancestor may appear. Some of the names are Dickson, Allan, Pearson, Dunlap, Hunter, Nesbitt, Marshall, Brown etc. Pam