Hello again- Sorry to have misspelled HENDERSON not once but twice...no excuse except haste ! cheers Thompson ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dutch Thompson" <dutchink@isn.net> To: <DUMFRIES-GALLOWAY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2004 10:57 PM Subject: Re: [D-G LIST] St. Michael's Churchyard/ HENDERSON > Hello Nancy, > Thanks for your generous offer. > Wondering if your HERDERSONs are connected to mine in Tynron ? > I have 2 bros- JAMES & THOMAS HERNDERSON- leaving there around 1820 on the > ship DIANAH (Diana) and settling in Nova Scotia, Canada. > They reputedly left behind 2 bros- JOHN (a ship's chandler in Glasgow (?) > and Dr WILLIAM HENDERSON, Royal Navy (?). > > cheers Thompson in PEI, Canada > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <Roses674@aol.com> > To: <DUMFRIES-GALLOWAY-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2004 9:19 PM > Subject: [D-G LIST] St. Michael's Churchyard > > > > About 20 years ago, I acquired a book from an antiquarian book seller: > > "Memorials of St. Michael's Churchyard Dumfries" by William M'Dowall and > published > > by Adam and Charles Black in 1876 in Edinburgh. The printer was Joseph > > Dickson of Dumfries. It is a fascinating volume which I have not read > thru and > > only skimmed for my Henderson, Dickson, McOwan lines. I purchased it > because of > > the location, just across the street from the house in which my > grandfather > > was born in 1879 and because the printer was a Dickson. > > > > It is indexed, but I am not sure that the indexing is thorough. M'Dowall > > does discuss the interment of Robert Burns and his Bonnie Jean and > throughout I > > see references that indicate the town's best known people. Some > references are > > made to sons or whomever who went to America or other parts of the world. > > > > I do not have enough personal time to search the volume for someone not in > > the index, but if anyone wants to send me surnames and given names with > dates if > > possible that they are interested in, I will save the emails and refer to > > them as I read the volume. Perhaps there is some information that another > lister > > could use that is not significant to me. Fair warning: The volume is 435 > > pages and in small print. > > > > The intro does state that the cemetery was first used during the days of > > Malcolm Canmore---unfortunately, an historical reference with which I am > not > > familiar, but was before the rule of William the Lion. Perhaps meaning > this was > > founded in the 13th Century or earlier. > > > > Nancy Parr in NJ > > Granddaughter of Robert Henderson McOwan, Sr. b. 1879 in Dumfries > > (Henderson, Dickson, McOwan, and Campbell) > > > > > > ==== DUMFRIES-GALLOWAY Mailing List ==== > > ********************************************************************* > > If you have any problems with this list or any of its members please > > contact the listowner....Tom Welch....tomas@directcon.net > > ******************************************************************** > > > > > > > > ==== DUMFRIES-GALLOWAY Mailing List ==== > ********************************** > YOU HAVE ENTERED A FLAME FREE ZONE > ********************************** > >