Hello to all: Looking for decendents of James Campbell born in Eaglesham and Margaret Grahame born Feb 17 1839 Old Kilpatrick, Dumbarton. Her parents were Andrew Grahame/Jean Hyslop. On the 1891 census James and Margaret were living at 13 Drumchapel, parish of New Kilpatrick with four children, Jean, Andrew, James and Mary. An older boy named Duncan died when he was 10 years old on Dec 10th 1879 at New Kilpatrick. I have the extract of the register of his death and would like to know where he is buried. Any information on this family would be greatly appreciated. Irene DeLuca Campbell

Dear List Members: Would anyone have a suggestion as to where I would locate the following book: [ THE CHIEFS OF COLQUHOUN AND THEIR COUNTRY BY WILLIAM FRASER ] Appreciate all ideas and information! Respectfully, Chester H. Cowen... cowen@inetw.net

Hello Listers, Can anyone help with this please. In my records I have the words "James Govan, slater, and Margaret Gall, both in this parish, gave in their names for proclamation July 24th 1840". Does this mean the same as having your banns read in England or is it actually a marriage? Dina Broughton <dina@clara.net>

Looking for various MCKAY families of the Jamestown, Bonhill area. They all were children of John McKay and first wife Janet CALDWELL, and second wife Elizabeth SMITH. 1. John MCKAY (b.c. 1877, Balloch) m. Maggie BAIN 2. James Coulter MCKAY (b. 1882, Balloch) m. Annie MCLEISH 3. Alexander Smith MCKAY (b.1885, Bonhill) m. 1912 Jamestown Agnes LYNN 4. David MCKAY (b. 1888, Bonhill) m. 1917 Jamestown Jeannie LEISHMAN 5. Robert McWhennie MCKAY (b. 1897 Bonhill) m. Georgena KELSO, later a Jean ? . 6. Peter MacFarlane MCKAY (b. 1906 Jamestown) m. Sarah LINDFIELD 7. Jean Caldwell MCKAY (b. 1890 Alexandria) m. 1920 Jamestown, Charles MacARTHUR

Looking for information on the family of William WAUGH and wife Mary BROWN who were married at the Alexandria Roman Catholic Church in Bonhill in 1860. They had five children: Catherine (b. 1861), Isabella (b. 1862), Mary (1865-1884), James (b. and d. 1867), William (1868-1875), and Charles (b. 1870) - all in Bonhill. The WAUGHs live in Milton Terrace, Jamestown from about 1888 till about 1911. Eldest child, Catherine married James MANSON in Bonhill in 1888; Isabella married William GALLACHER in Bonhill in 1887.

Looking for the family of James M. MANSON and wife, Catherine WAUGH. They had eight children born between 1890 and 1906: Mary, Robert, Margaret, Belle, John, James, Catherine. The entire family emigrated to Western Canada in stages between 1912 and 1914. James (Sr.) was heavily involved with the Dye Works strike in 1910.

Looking for the family of John MCKAY and first wife, Janet Caldwell. They had seven children born between 1865 and 1882. When Janet died John McKay married Elizabeth SMITH in 1884. An additional 8 children were born between 1885 and 1906 probably at 58a Napierston Terrace. John McKay died in December 1916 at 161 Main Street, Jamestown.

Looking for James BROWN who was living at 7 Thimble Street, Renton in January 1916. He was the nephew of Mary BROWN WAUGH who passed away at that time. We suspect his mother may have been Belle BROWN who lived in Dumbarton. Any information would be greatly appreciated.

Hi listers...anyone out there trying to read microfilms and need help on old handwriting....try this site: http://www.firstct.com/fv/oldhand.html Barbara Lewis lewisb@vitrex.net Dunbartonshire County, Scotland GenWeb Host http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Valley/4423/index.html

Hello Ramona I don't have anything directly linking to your Alexander Chalmers but do have Chalmers ancestors slightly earlier in Roseneath and Row (Helensburgh) in Dumbartonshire. My ancestor is John Chalmers who married Margaret Niven on 28 June 1791 in Roseneath. He had 2 daughters and possibly other children. The daughters were Margaret who married Alexander McAuslan in November 1829 in Row and Christian (or Christian Mary) who married Duncan McCallum on 17 December 1839 in Helensburgh. Christian Chalmers McCallum was my great great grandmother and was born about 1805. I don't have a birth date for Margaret. There were other relations named Chalmers, as Christian's death in 1874 was registered by a cousin named either John or James Chalmers. If any of these names link with your family, we may be related. Lesley Instone Invercargill New Zealand > -----Original Message----- > From: Ramona Smith [SMTP:ramona@cswnet.com] > Sent: Tuesday, 27 April 1999 12:27 > To: DUNBARTONSHIRE-GENWEB-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Chamlers/Shaw > > Hi, > I'm looking for a Alexr. (Alexander) CHALMERS Spouse: Rebecca > SHAW Marriage: > 30 Dec 1822 Cumbernauld, Dunbarton, Scotland > > So far I am aware of one child Jane born 15 april 1835 in Scotland and > Married > Andrew Park 1 Feb 1860 in Canada. > > I hope this rings some bells. Thanks for your time. > > Ramona > > ______________________________

Hello Barbara Thanks for the useful link to a course on old handwriting - a great place to start. Those who want to take the subject further, in a more academic vein, might try a standard work on the subject which has the advantage of being Scottish in its specialisation. (There were some important differences between the standard styles in old Scotland compared with ye olde Englonde!) It is: Grant G. Simpson: "Scottish handwriting 1150-1650 - an introduction to the reading of documents" (Edinburgh: Bratton Publishing, 1973) ISBN: 0859750027 It covers such documents as testaments, deeds, account books, and so on - those documents which just MIGHT, if you're very lucky, take that family traced through OPRs to the late 1600s that generation or two further back. I think it is still in print. If this information has appeared before, please excuse me, as I am relatively new to the Dunbartonshire group. Best wishes Arthur Arthur F. Jones afjones@mailhost.sol.co.uk

Hello: Is this the same as Dunbar, Scotland? Sincerely, Mary Alice CRUMP/MUIR/CUTTING. wseone56@aol.com. Thank you .

Hi, I'm looking for a Alexr. (Alexander) CHALMERS Spouse: Rebecca SHAW Marriage: 30 Dec 1822 Cumbernauld, Dunbarton, Scotland So far I am aware of one child Jane born 15 april 1835 in Scotland and Married Andrew Park 1 Feb 1860 in Canada. I hope this rings some bells. Thanks for your time. Ramona

Hi Everyone, I am seeking information on a family from Dumbartonshire and possible illnesses that went through the area in about 1893-1897. I would appreciate any lookup of 1891 census for the area for Alexander Campbell, wife Jane Gilmour, children Alexander born Nov 13 1884, Ian, Robert and Jean. Alexander, Jane , Robert and Ian all died between those years. No other information on family is known. Any clues at all greatly appreciated. Mary Ann ( British Columbia Ca.)

Hello list, Do the names Neal Cameron and Ann Graham show up on anyones list. Ann was born 28 Sep 1872 in Glasgow.I have no birth date for Neal. They were married 14 Dec 1893 in Glasgow. I have a copy of the birth cert. for their first son, John. It was taken from the record book of births for the parish of Row in the county of Dunbarton. If anyone can connect to these people please notify me. Thank you Dennis

Hello Hope There was a PURDIE family originating in Ulster which settled in Cardross (near Dumbarton) in the 1840s, with descendants aplenty to the present day. Do you think this might be the one? The 1851 Census for Cardross (Enumeration Book 3):- Ardardan Offices* Robert Purdy [sic]** Hd Mar 27 Agricultural Labourer Born Ireland Matilda Wife Mar 24 " " John Son 2 " D'tonshire,Cardross *Offices - i.e. outbuildings for farm or estate workers; sometimes included an "office", or room for the conduct of business, distribution of wages, etc. **The name was thereafter spelled "Purdie" Also at Ardardan Offices were large numbers of Garvens. If I recall correctly, Matilda Purdie's maiden name was Garven. There are Johns, Roberts, Hughs and Matildas in subsequent generations. A Hugh Purdie painted one of the rooms in my house in 1978. I'm afraid he passed away some years ago. Best wishes Arthur afjones@mailhost.sol.co.uk At 11:11 24/04/1999 -0400, you wrote: >Good Morning, > > I am looking for decendents of the Purdie family from Dunbarton (as my > sources have told me) Hope to be able to connect my George Purdie > Hope Stanley in Norfolk,VA > > >==== DUNBARTONSHIRE-GENWEB Mailing List ==== > ********************PLACE YOUR QUERY*********************** > **************on the DUNBARTONSHIRE HOME PAGE****************** > ****http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Valley/4423/index.html*** > > >

Greetings Everyone I have a typewritten GRO extract of an 1872 marriage entry that lists the maiden name of the bride's mother as Christina SLACKSLY (married to a John COOPER). I have traced the family back to the Parish of Kirkintilloch in the year 1851. My dilemma is in the surname SLACKSLY. I have yet to find this name in any census that I've looked at or on any surname list that I've searched. It didn't appear on Scots ORIGINS either when I did a search last week nor did anything remotely resembling the name show up on a marriage search to John COOPER. Has anyone come across this surname in any of their research, especially the 1851 census for Kirkintilloch? I'm starting to get the impression that the name was transcribed incorrectly when the extract was typed up in 1985. Any suggestions would be very much appreciated. Sincerely George Sykes, Winnipeg, Canada RESEARCHING Yorkshire (WRY) - LEWIS, MORRILL, Yorkshire (NRY) - HODGSON, PRINCE Lincoln - COLTON, LEWIS, MIDDLETON Nottingham - COLTON, GILBERT, HILTON Derby - COLTON, WRAGG, BROWN Norfolk - SELF, MITCHEL(L), GILES, SELBY, JOHNSON, UPCROFT, THORPE, DAY, GRIGGS Cambridge - MITCHEL(L), BYE, BLACKWELL, TAYLOR, SMITH Sussex - TAYLOR, CHILD Kent - TAYLOR Hampshire - SPIER, SCRIVENER, CHILD, DAWES, COMBS, KNIGHT Suffolk - POTTER Surrey - DAWES Durham - PRINCE, HARRISON Northumberland - TAYLOR, WATSON Lanark - MCCORMACK, COOPER Argyll - MCCORMICK, CAMERON, BELL Dunbarton - COOPER, SLACKSLY Perth - COCHRANE, MCFARLANE Fife - HUNTER, HUTTON, MCFARLANE, STEWART COLLATERAL INTERESTS Cambridge - LAST, NORTON, PAPPERTHWORTH, STINTON, LOFTS, HYNER Hampshire - ENTICKNAP, CARTER, WESTWOOD, KIRK, KNIGHT, STONE, GREEN, TURNER, CLARKE, SAUNDERS Sussex - BYNG, DULEY

Good Morning, I am looking for decendents of the Purdie family from Dunbarton (as my sources have told me) Hope to be able to connect my George Purdie Hope Stanley in Norfolk,VA

Hello All My apologies to the list but I responded to Arthur Jones directly but the Mail Delivery System would not accept his email address and consequently I do not know if he received my reply. If you're out there Arthur, here is what I sent you privately: Greetings Arthur Thank you for the response and yes I would like to make contact with William COOPER if he is interested and researching that name in Kirkintilloch. Unfortunately I don't have much to add to what I previously sent on my original email. John COOPER's wife Christina was listed with the surname SLACKSLEY on their daughter's marriage certificate but I don't know if she was originally from Kirkintilloch. Your help is much appreciated. Regards George Sykes, Winnipeg, Canada

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