FYI..... ----Original Message Follows---- From: Jane Digerness <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: Coats genealogy in N.Ireland Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 09:36:58 -0700 (PDT) Hi, Charlotte... I hope you are still at this "address!" This morning my cousin Barbara sent me an e-mail she had gotten from you sometime back relative to the possibility that our DUNBAR great-grandmother was the daughter of a COATS/COATES woman who married into a Dunbar family in the early 1800's in Belfast, or surrounding area, and had a daughter, Jane Dunbar, born 1823. Jane (for whom I am named) married James "Red" CRAIG in the 1840's and had a large family in Straid (near Gracehill and Ballymena, County Antrim), North Ireland. We have Craig genealogy for a couple more generations before that, but Jane has been a mystery for all 53 years I've been searching for her. There seems to be just NOTHING! James had been raised a Moravian, and when he married "outside the faith," he was ousted, but James was received back in and they took in Jane, too--and they were Moravians in Brooklyn, NY...then became staunch Presbyterians in Illinois and Kansas. The theory keeps popping up--TRADITION, you know--that Jane's mother was a COATS, and we seem to be unable to either prove or disprove that idea! Can you shed any light on it?? THANK YOU very much for your time and interest!! Jane D.D. [email protected]