>Hi Betty > >My Brownlie's(IE!!) lived in Bonkle,Cambusnethan,Lanarkshire and Carluke. >I can find Carluke fine but the other? If its on your map I would really >like to see it. > >Also I would like to know if this is close to Torfoot Farm? And yes we're >interested in the reunion in 2000. > >According to my reading (Ian's book: "The Brownlee Family") the names >Brounel, Brounle, Brownele, Brounlie, Burnly, Burnley in the records from >1486 to the early 1800's may refer to the same person. > >So we're all probably related. Too bad its so hard to get back before 1700. >I would personally like to see back to 1386. > >anyway thanks for the help on this. > >Frank >-----Original Message----- >From: BRudo1 <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] <[email protected]> >Date: Monday, January 05, 1998 6:18 PM >Subject: Re: Map of Lanarkshire > > >>The map is very large and would have to be reproduced in sections. I have >>older maps that I could reproduce. I haven't a clue as to the location of >>Bonkle either. It may be on the map. Ian could probably tell you where to >>look. >> >>I've forgotten, where did your Brownlees live in Scotland. >> >>Betty >> To Frank and Betty In regards to Bonkle, you will find it in "The County of Lanark - The Third Statistical Account of Scotland" Edited by George Thomson - a Collins book. Should be in your major libraries over there. Anyway it is situated in Cambusnethan Parish, which comprises Wishaw, Motherwell, Newmains and Bonkle. It's about 2 to 3 miles from Wishaw and about the same distance from Lanark to Strathaven as it is from Bonkle to Strathaven - in a different direction. If you drew a triangle with the base line between Lanark and Strathaven, the pointer would meet at about Bonkle. The following extract from the above book perhaps explains it "The slopes of the Clyde Valley are still covered with fruit farms and are well wooded, but when one ascends from the valley to the plateau the orchards and woodland give place to the modern town of Wishaw that stretches north-west to join with Motherwell and eastwards to run on into Newmains and Bonkle." Just as a side note the village of Brownlee is below Wishaw and I think just in the border of Cambusnethan. There exists another village of Brownlee in Ayreshire near Dundonald. Hope that helps. Regards Ian Brownlee