Posted on: DONALDSON Queries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/surnames/d/o/DONALDSON/queries/10043 Surname: Donaldson ------------------------- Hi Janet Cook I'm interested in your Andrew D as mine died in 1897 in Banbridge near Belfast. Any connection? My Thomas D was a scutcher in the linen industry at Edenderry near Banbridge, south of Belfast, and from his marriage certificate his father Andrew was a shoe maker. Because thomas was Thomas Anderson Donaldson, I assume the his father Andrew married an Anderson. However I have not got to tracking his birth certificate yet. I have received info that in a book of gravestone inscriptions for the 1st Presbyterian Church in Banbridge there is a grave for the John (d 1852) and Mary Donaldson (d 1863) mentioned in my tree, "and also of his son Andrew (d 1897" I'm a little puzzled why he was not buried with his wife, unless there was a mixed marriage. Bruce owen