Wish these Bruces were mine because you have a wealth of information there. Unfortunately, all my Bruces (so far) are in Aberdeenshire. Sorry! BRUCE-D-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > >BRUCE-D Digest Volume 02 : Issue 6 > >Today's Topics: > #1 Glasgow Bruces Looking for Parents [crooked6p@worldnet.att.net] > >Administrivia: >To unsubscribe from BRUCE-D, send a message to > > BRUCE-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. > >______________________________ > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: > > Glasgow Bruces Looking for Parents > From: > > crooked6p@worldnet.att.net > Date: > > Mon, 04 Feb 2002 00:35:37 -0500 > To: > > BRUCE-L@rootsweb.com > > >Can anyone identify the parents of William Bruce and siblings outlined >below -- or the daughters of Joseph Bruce -- > >BRUCE. >Based on evidence from a letter which appears to be dated Feb1879 and >posted from Glasgow, William Bruce appears to have emigrated from >Scotland leaving behind a sister Elizabeth (unmarried and living in >Belfast), and two brothers married and living in Glasgow. One brother >was Joseph, the other is unnamed. Both had children. Joseph had two >daughters both married. > >William Bruce married Ellen Reed (see below) on 6 February 1855 in >Germantown, Philadelphia, PA and had two children, William (b. 1859) >and Mary Anne (b. 1861). > >REED. >Ellen Reed (b. Nov 1834 and d. c1914) had two sisters and a brother >William. A second brother, William Lowell (b. 6 Nov 1835), apparently >died in infancy. All emigrated to Philadelphia. > >One sister married ------ Erskine, and had at least one daughter, Mary. > >Her other sister, Anne (Margaret Anne), married (1) John Cruckshank >living in Kensington, Philadelphia about 1853. At his death she and her >son Robert (Cruckshank) moved in with her sister Ellen in 1862. Anne >later remarried (2) Adam "Ad" Miller/Millar in 1865 by who she had two >children. Her daughter Annie (Anne Mary) married James Rowley McCoach >on 6 Jun 1872 and Adam. >