>From A History of Pioneer Families of Missouri, Bryan & Rose, 1876: LINDSAY.--Thomas Lindsay and his family lived in Scotland. The names of his children were--Thomas, Jr., James, John, Martha, Mary, Ann, and Jane. James was married in Scotland to Charlotte Kettray, and came to America and settled in St. Charles county, in 1817. His children were--William, Ann, Thomas, James, Jr., John, Agnes, and Isabella. Ann married John H. Stewart, and settled in Carroll county. Agnes married Addison McKnight, of Tennessee, who settled in St. Charles county in 1817. His mother settled in Missouri in 1800. She was a very brave and resolute woman, and killed several Indians during her life. On one occasion she had a horse stolen, which she followed forty miles, alone, found it and brought it back home. Mr. McKnight was the owner of McKnight's Island, on the Mississippi river. Isabella Lindsay married Nathaniel Reid, of Virginia, who settled in St. Charles county in 1839. Mr. Reid was a carpenter and contractor, and built the Insane and Blind asylums, and Westminster College at Fulton. William Lindsay died a bachelor in St. Charles county. thomas married Margaret Garvin, and was drowned in 1841, leaving a widow and five children. James was married first to Jane Black, of Virginia, and after her death he married the widow of Dr. Benjamin f. Hawkins, whose maiden name was Sarah Fleet. Mr. Lindsay is an intelligent gentleman, and we are indebted to him for many interesting items of family history. John Lindsay married Mary Stewart, of Monroe county, Mo. Thomas Lindsay, jr., settled in America in 1800, and in St. Charles county in 1816. He married Margaret Breckett, of South Carolina. John, son of Thomas Lindsay, Sr., settled in South Carolina, where he died. Ann, his sister, married Peter Glendy, of South Carolina, and settled in St. Charles county in 1817. The names of their children were--James, Ellen, Thomas, Ann, and Andrew. [p. 165] [Errata: Peter Glenday and Anne Lindsay married in Scotland and came to St. Charles in 1817; Ellen is also called Hellen. SDC1999] -- Susan D. Chambless listowner for the CHAMBLESS, GAUSS, GLENDAY, BORDEN, DURFEE, BORDEN & SANDERSON surname lists, now at RootsWeb - http://www.rootsweb.com - please join us! Check it out: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~schmblss I'm posting a lot of old family letters & papers centered around the Charles Henry Gauss family of St. Charles, MO. Surnames are: Gauss, Johns, Fawcett, Glenday, Durfee, Lindsay, plus, of course, the people they knew.

Hello all I am researching Agnes Glenday born 29 Aug 1864, Forfar, Angus, Scotland, I have a Agnes who is burried in my family's grave (Andrew Young) if Forfar, Agnes died 17 Apr 1948 in Forfar, I know she married a Young, hower I do not know which one, I beleive it may have been William Young born 11 Jan 1862, but cant find any info to document the marriage, and I beleive that William and Agnes to have 1 child (stilborn) in 7 Jul 1886. Ring any bells? you can e-mail me at LitleGTO@email.msn.com I beleive Agnse's parents to be George Glenday and Ann Lyall, and also that there 6 siblings,,,, Alan Young

Just posted a summary of the related Lindsay, Glenday and Durfee families on my web site. This a summary of information collected by (probably) Anne Durfee Gauss, who died in 1932. It, as always, has all the attendant frailties of such work, but perhaps is a source of clues. The Lindsay and Glenday family summaries include many references to Perthshire and Forfarshire (Angus), which is why I am including these lists on the "to" line. http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~schmblss/Genealogies/LindsayGlendayDurfeeSummary.html -- Susan D. Chambless listowner for the CHAMBLESS, GAUSS, GLENDAY, BORDEN, DURFEE, BORDEN & SANDERSON surname lists, now at RootsWeb - http://www.rootsweb.com - please join us! Check it out: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~schmblss I'm posting a lot of old family letters & papers centered around the Charles Henry Gauss family of St. Charles, MO. Surnames are: Gauss, Johns, Fawcett, Glenday, Durfee, Lindsay, plus, of course, the people they knew.

Here is a letter written by Peter Glenday to his father, James Glenday. Peter's wife died after 6 years (1823) and he returned to Scotland, to New Rattray in Perthshire with his daughter, Hellen To Mr James Glenday, care of Alexander Potter, Esquire, Green Cloth Mercht., Forfar, North Brittan. Saint Charles, 25 December 1817 Dear Father & Step Mother We all landed here safe and well on the 12 of last month after a long and tedious passage both by land and water. I would have written just on our arrival but I wished to see a little about the place and how I would settle myself and family so as I might be able to give you some information about it. I wrote you from New York with a lad that was going to Coupar Angus which I hope you received safely. I mentioned in it that we had a long sea passage but not very dangerous and that my family had all keeped their health, except the sea fever but that I had not had a sick heart nor sore head all the time. We started from New York and went to Philadelphia a distance of 100 miles by land and water. We stoped 10 days in Philadelphia in a Scotch gentleman's house who is a rum distiller. He was uncommonly kind to us. We then hired a six horse waggon to carry us to Pittsburg, a distance of 300 miles. The roads are very bad, we were three weeks on our journey. We then fell in with another Scotsman who gave us lodgings for a few days and was very kind to us. We then took passage in a large boat for Saint Louis by water a distance of 1400 miles. One of James Lindsay's boys fell overboard as we were going up the river Mississippi and was no more seen. All the way we came my family and myself were in good health but after we landed my wife took badly for about three weeks but she has got weel again. This is a very new country but emigration to it is great from almost all the Eastern States & Southern States, land is rising greatly in value and in a short time all the land that is near the town of Saint Charles and the river will be taken up and will not be got by incommers but at an immense price. My brother-in-law has about 2000 acres of land and two large lots in this town and is looking out for more land to purchase but none of his land is nigher than three miles from the town. He received us kindly and gave us every accommodation and rode through all his lands with his brother and me all mounted upon his horses and had us choose each for himself a 100 acres and he told us further that he intended giving us help to begin our farms and to uphold us and our familys till we would get a crop off the ground. He told me that my farm was to be mine during the time of my life and then to fall to my son Thomas. This to be sure pleased me very weel as it secured a situation for myself during life and also a settlement for the boy, for you know from the misfortune he got in his right hand he was a great part of the reason of me comming here. But after considering the matter a few days it did not suit my taste in case of what might happen in my family. I looked a little around the place and fell in with a little spot about a mile from the town with houses built upon it and about 20 acers of it cleared and fenced and 6 or 7 acers of wheat sown on it and a small orchard. There is 70 acers of it altogether. I get possession of it on the first day of March. I thought it would be an easy way of setting down by going and building my house and clearing and fencing my land especially as I had so much cash of my own with me as would pay it and put some stocking on it and let Mr. Lindsay give my Thomas what he pleases. So if God spares us we will go to our own place by the 1 day of March. I had a mind to try the brewing of ale here, a thing that is unknown in this neighborhood. I make no doubt but it would do weel but there are no houses in this town fit for the business nor no barley to be got till it be raised and the most of our land is too rich for barley, any of it that is raised is by commission. I intend sowing some of it in my land to try it if I can procure seed, and if I can think of entering to the brewing. I am to get one of Mr. Lindsay's lots in the town on which there is a fine spring well, and he promises that he will assist me in money to set it agoing. If I should think of that I will be at no loss that I have laid out my money upon the place I have bought, for I made a good bargon, having the money in hand. I believe I could make 100 pounds sterling of profit on it already. This will be a fine farmer's country and tradesman's. Every trade does weel here and laborers get a dollar a day and can scarcely be got. A great part of the work is wrought by black people. Mr. Lindsay has eight of them. I do not like the black folks ill, they are very submissive and oblidging. There are no gentlemen here as in Scotland. Every white person is reckoned as good as another if he behaves himself, be he poor or rich, and a man that has white servants eats and works with them. Almost everyone who farms is laird of his farm himself. Those who rent land generally pay as much rent as the half of what he possesses would sell at. Land here generally produces from 60 to 90 bushels of Indian corn per acer, every six bushels is your cool [of oats or barley], wheat from 40 to 60, oats and rye about the same. Indian corn sells at half a dollar per bushel, wheat at a dollar, rye at 3 quarters of a dollar, oats about the same, butter at about the fifth part of a dollar, cheese the same, beef and pork sell at a dollar per stone, but all our weights are 16 ounces to the pound so I reckon a man can make as much of his land here as in Scotland and the buying of it would not be above what would pay a year's rent of your land which is not half so good with dung as ours is without it and every man may keep as many beasts here as he likes, they go in the woods and cost him nothing. He will have 1 or 2 hundred swine that he gives not a mouthfull till and as many cattle and he can sell or kill when he pleases. Everybody lives like gentlemen here, upon everything that is fat and rare, the only difficulty is to a man when he comes in he has everything to buy dear and it is a long time before he can get a crop. Give my respects to Andrew and Isabel Glenday. Tell Andrew if he will come here he will find land that bears sugar, tobacco, indigo, apples, pears, appricots, peaches, and onions as large as his two hands, all without dung. Not forgetting my daughter and John Ogilvy's family, Marget White and her daughters and Peter Adamson. Be so good as let all these friends of mine see this letter. I will not advise none of them to come here lest they might have a dangerous passage and anything happen them, but I am sure were they once here and saw this country, what fine land, good wages, little or no taxes to pay for anything, they would not wish to go back to Scotland again. You see paper begins to fail me, I must draw to a close. I wish you to write me as soon as possible and let me know how you all are and what way things are doing in your place. I expect John Ogilvy is in my place at New Rattray, send him word about this letter and tell him I shall write him in the spring when I will be better acquaint with the country. No more at present but Remain your affectionate son - Peter Glenday P.S. When you write direct thus - Mr. Peter Glenday, Care of Thomas Lindsay, Esquire, Saint Charles, Missouri, Teritory Upper Louisiana. Notes: [Copied from original, St. Charles, January, 1914] The brother-in-law mentioned is Thomas Lindsay, brother of Anne Lindsay Glenday. Location of handwritten original unknown. Above handwritten copy probably by Anne Durfee Gauss; Transcribed to softcopy by S. Chambless, St. Louis, August, 1998 Susan D. Chambless listowner for the CHAMBLESS, GAUSS, GLENDAY, BORDEN, DURFEE & SANDERSON surname lists, now at RootsWeb - http://www.rootsweb.com/ - please join us!", Check it out: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~schmblss I'm posting a lot of old family letters & papers centered around the Charles Henry Gauss family of St. Charles, MO. Surnames are: Gauss, Johns, Fawcett, Glenday, Durfee, Lindsay, plus, of course, the people they knew.

I received this from Lori Walker in Scotland. Hope it helps. Duncan Glenday =============================================== I found quite a few GLENDAY entries for you. GLAMIS by David Smith weaver Grass-houses 24.3.1833 49, w Margt GLENDAY 26.8.1824 38, s Jas 7.2.1850 23, da Eliz 14.7.1855 21, s David d New York 20.1.1856 36 Samuel Mortimer mason Charlestown 3.3.1870 65, w Lilias GLENDAY 17.1.1876 68, s Samuel d USA 15.7.1859 24 by Jannet Nicol at Glamis h Geo GLENDAY 9.7.1763 59 Jas Suttie 1.9.1867 67, w Eliz GLENDAY d Grangemill Inverarity 11.10.1893 88 KIRRIEMUIR Wm Stevens farm & barber here 2.5.1842 59, w Agnes GLENDAY 1.4.1843 66 by Geo Richard, w Jean GLENDAY 21.11.1825 70 Jas Nicoll d Ballindaig 29.11.1826 75, w Margt GLENDAY of Lochside of Balfour 4.8.1815 59 G GLENDAY, w Janet Milne 3.3.1861 55, s David 4.1878, s P----, da -----; chn Jas 4.1837 1y-m, J---- 4.1848 3y10m, Ro--- 1854----- ST. AIDANS - Broughty Ferry Eliz Archer 7.2.1902 78, h John GLENDAY mason 25.8.1873 51, da Marg 28.4.1840 2y, da Ann 4.11.1861 14, da Jane 1.12.1904 47, s Geo Archer shipmaster d Singapore 9.5.1921 64, s John draper 18.1.1931 75 DUNDEE - Constitution Road by John Ogilvy brewer Alyth & w Margt GLENDAY imo s Jas accountant Dundee 25.12.1839 39 DUNDEE - The Howff 1816. by Thos GLENDAY imo his 2 chn who d 1803 1816. by Jas Low flaxdresser Blackscroft imo mo Janet GLENDAY 20.4.1802 46 & fa Wm Low 23.2.1812 62 & sisters Ann, Margt & Mary all d inf, bro David 3.8.1815 31 by Thos GLENDAY shipowner Dundee perished at sea 6.3.1851 57 & w Margt Brown d Dundee 6.2.1853 59 (her mo Eliz Salmon 25.9.1836 70 relict of Alex Brown) imo chn Eliz 21.10.1832 9y, Margt 3.6.1834 16m, da Jessie Lindsay 31.10.1839 11 1836. by Thos Watson wright Fluckercraig & w Janet GLENDAY imo da Deborah 12.2.1834 1 y, & his mo Isobel Keill 23.11.1834 57 1820 by Eliz Bolton imo h John GLENDAY mert Dundee 26.6.1820 63 (heirs of John GLENDAY, Seagate). ================== Duncan N. Glenday dglenday@iname.com ==================

Isobel -- Would you consider joining the GLENDAY mailing list? I am forwarding your comment to the list. The address for subscribe is: mailto:GLENDAY-L-request@rootsweb.com Regards, Susan D. Chambless listowner for the CHAMBLESS, GAUSS, GLENDAY, BORDEN, DURFEE & SANDERSON surname lists, now at RootsWeb - http://www.rootsweb.com/ - please join us!", Check it out: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~schmblss I'm posting a lot of old family letters & papers centered around the Charles Henry Gauss family of St. Charles, MO. Surnames are: Gauss, Johns, Fawcett, Glenday, Durfee, Lindsay, plus, of course, the people they knew. -----Original Message----- From: MISYBELLA@aol.com [SMTP:MISYBELLA@aol.com] Sent: Sunday, March 14, 1999 12:20 PM To: columbine@ninenet.com Subject: Re: Glenday Hi Susan Glen Prosen is approximately six miles north east of Kirriemuir in Angus,Scotland, where my Glendays come from. The earliest person that I have found so far is David Glenday of Garlybank (or Garlowbank) near Kirriemuir whose children were Ann born 1800, Charles (my Great Grandfather) born 1802, Margaret born 1804, John born 1805, Janet born 1807, Mary born 1808, William and James (twins) born 1810 and Thomas born 1816. Charles, a linen manufacturer, married Janet Milne and they had twelve children all born in Kirriemuir. One of their sons, John Paxton Glenday, married Isabella Margaret Lascelles and they had ten children all born in Dundee before emigrating to Calgary,Canada, where they had another daughter, Isobel Margaret Lascelles Glenday. Isobel had a daughter, Marjory Brown Azarowicz who lives in Virginia USA and is the instigator of our family tree. If you want any further information on any of the above names please let me know. Regards Isobel from Crieff, Scotland

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I thought this was interesting. Susan D. Chambless listowner for the CHAMBLESS, GAUSS and GLENDAY surname lists, now at RootsWeb - http://www.rootsweb.com/ - please join us!", Check it out: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~schmblss I'm posting a lot of old family letters & papers centered around the Charles Henry Gauss family of St. Charles, MO. Surnames are: Gauss, Johns, Fawcett, Glenday, Durfee, Lindsay, plus, of course, the people they knew. -----Original Message----- From: Josephine Lindsay Bass [SMTP:jbass@digital.net] Sent: Thursday, March 04, 1999 8:43 AM To: LINDSAY-L@rootsweb.com Subject: MAPPING YOUR ANCESTORS "MAPPING YOUR ANCESTORS - USING MAPS IN GENEALOGICAL RESEARCH," by Curt B. Witcher, FUGA <<<>>><<<>>><<<>>><<<>>><<<>>><<<>>><<<>>><<<>>><<<>>> ======================================================= One can hardly conduct thorough, meaningful research on any family line without incorporating the use of maps in some significant way. Maps are generally so plentiful, such interesting and exciting sources of information, and come in so many varieties that their study and use could become an avocation in and of itself. This article will discuss some of the popular maps for genealogical research as well as some of the more obscure, though all are useful in one's quest to discover early family origins. The type of map most genealogists are initially familiar with is a standard political map that is found in most commercial atlases. Political maps typically indicate locations of city, towns, and counties, and may have some physical features such as rivers, streams, and lakes. The hallmark of a good political map is an easy to use, comprehensive index. Political maps can be key to a researcher's quest to find the counties which contain the records of an important ancestral town. Perhaps the most commonly used map of this type in genealogical libraries and repositories is the Rand McNally "Commercial Atlas and Marketing Guide." With more than one hundred and twenty-five editions having been published to date, this atlas provides the researcher with the county affiliation, population, and zip code for each city and town as well as map coordinates for actually locating the entity in the front section of maps. The Rand McNally atlases also have a number of other maps, guides, and data tables of varying importance for the historical research. While topographical maps tend to be less used by many genealogists, their importance should not be minimized. Topographical maps, also known as relief maps, typically show significant physical features as well as contexting the areas being detailed with the locations of major towns and often county boundary lines. These maps generally not only detail a hilly or mountainous region but may also, typically through the use of colors and shading, provide the researcher with some idea of how high the mountains are and how steep the peaks. Also there tends to be an accurate and thorough detailing of bodies of water, occasionally even including the direction of flow on rivers and streams. A good topographical map for an area of ancestral research can cause one to view potential locations of records in a completely different light. Not infrequently a researcher will have a whole new picture of an ancestor's homestead when placing the property in the context of its physical surroundings. And the county seat of the neighboring county may just become most logical place to check for some vital, church and other records as it was infinitely easier to cross an invisible county boundary line than even a small range of mountains during some time periods in one's family's history. Historic plat and land ownership maps of all sorts can be a boon for family historians. As their name implies, these maps indicate who owned parcels of land in a particular geographic area for a specific time period. Usually land ownership maps were done on a county-by-county basis, but that is not always necessarily the case. While many of these ownership maps simply provide the property owner's name and possibly the number of acres owned, a number of maps also provide other details such as the type of land (forest or farm), the nature of the crop production, the number (and sometimes type) of dwellings, and the location of other important structures such as roads (with their next destination indicated), churches, and court houses. With the data provided by plat maps, often including in the township, section, and range number possibilities for particular areas of land, the researcher can seek additional information through deed and tax records. It is important to remember that historically, families of like ethnic groups tended to migrate together, travel together, and settle together. So once one had found an ancestor on a plat map, "looking around" a little for individuals of the same surname and individuals who may belong to collateral lines or share the same village of origin in the old country is a wise activity in which to engage. Maps which evidence county boundary changes can be vital information sources when genealogists are seeking out county records. There is an ongoing series of maps being published under the title of "Atlas of Historical County Boundaries" that is quite extraordinary. A project of the Newberry Library and being published by Charles Scribner's Sons of New York, the goal is to have one such compilation for each state. The state volumes published to date detail the development of each county, both in narrative form and by map. A separate map is provided for each major change in a county's boundary. In the Indiana volume, for example, fourteen different maps are provided to detail the development of Knox County. These details regarding county boundary changes can open entire new vistas of research for those who may have been confining their record search too narrowly. A similar collection of maps quite useful for genealogists is the "Map Guide to the U. S. Federal Censuses, 1790-1920" by William Thorndale and William Dollarhide. While not as detailed at the series described above, it does provide one with an alphabetical listing by state and then maps by federal census year for all the censuses through 1920. This can assist in orienting one's research when census information is being sought for a time period when a particular county did not exist. When searching through census records for larger cities in unindexed census years, another type of map -- the ward map -- can prove to be quite useful. Ward maps typically delineate the boundaries of all the wards for a particular city during a specific year. Thus, if one has to search in the city of Indianapolis, Indiana in the 1870 census, it would be useful to actually look in the 1870 Indianapolis city directory for the individual, record his street address, and then locate that street address on the 1871/2 ward map for Indianapolis. Finding a particular ward in an unindexed census by scanning the page headers, and then searching through that ward for a particular individual is much faster than having to look through an entire city for that same person. This research method can also be employed when we have reason to believe that an individual is in a particular census year in a larger city but does not show up in the index. Many ward maps can be found as supplemental pages in the front or back of numerous city directories. Most public libraries have city directories for the cities in which they are located as well as surrounding towns and villages. State libraries typically have very robust collections of city directories, either in print or on microfilm, for the cities within their respective states. Some ward maps can simply be found as part of institutional cartographic collections. Still other such maps may be found reprinted in compilations such as E. Kay Kirkham's "A Handy Guide to Record-Searching in the Larger Cities of the United States." A research note: While it is true that ward boundaries change, when using ward maps in conjunction with census research typically finding a ward map within a couple of years of the census year does prove to be beneficial. Some of the most interesting and perhaps unusual maps genealogists can use are fire insurance maps. One of the most commonly known sets of these maps are simply called the Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps. These maps were drawn with incredible detail, indicating such things as street size, major composition or construction of all buildings (e.g. wood, brick, cinder-block, etc.) keyed by color, the number of floors in each structure as well as the street address of each structure. By the mid-twentieth century, fire insurance maps had been compiled for more than ten thousand cities in the United States, most being the larger, metropolitan areas. Many cities still have such maps produced today. Fire insurance maps can provide a variety of assistance to the genealogist. First, because of their detail, one can use them to determine which new house numbers correspond to particular old dwellings when a community or city re-numbers. One can also create a list of organizations in the area which may have been frequented by a potential ancestor. Such organizations may include churches, schools, laundries, groceries, department stores, lumber yards, and the like. By researching the organizational records of those entities, one may uncover new evidence and clues regarding a family's past. And certainly urban growth and how that growth affected neighborhoods and regions of a particular city can be evidenced in these fire insurance maps. Many fire insurance maps have been microfilmed by private publishing companies. Their large size can make them a bit challenging to use a microtext format but there are few other options for the researcher who cannot travel to the locations where originals available. The local public library and the local historical society are the two best places to check in most communities for copies of fire insurance maps. Also, the state libraries in most states tend to have fairly extensive collections of fire insurance maps on microfilm for their respective states. It may also be possible for researchers to have some of these maps interlibrary loaned to their local libraries from the Center for Research Libraries in Chicago. The Internet is providing the genealogist with many opportunities to explore new map sources. The number and variety of these maps is truly amazing. The Federation of Eastern European Family History Societies has a wonderful map room on their site. A researcher can view and download actual copies of nineteenth century European maps. The GenWeb projects worldwide are also providing enhanced access to map indices if not the maps themselves. One can see the 50,000 most common U. S. surnames mapped for the 1850, 1880, and 1920 censuses as well as the 1990s phone books on yet another site. The National Atlas of Canada is available online, offering some interesting search options. For researchers concentrating on the United States, the TIGER (short for Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing) mapping systems of the U. S. Census Bureau can provide a wealth of information. This system is a huge "connect-the-dots" database, which can be used to create maps that have customized amounts of detail. (See "Understanding the Census: A Guide for Marketers, Planners, Grant Writers and Other Data Users" by Michael R. Lavin, p. 186-189.) The "Virginia TIGER/Line Data Browser," available at the Virginia Digital Map Library site, allows one to select a county of interest and then further select the type of details the online map should display. Some of the features that can be selected for detailing include four different types of roads, railroad lines, military installations, religious institutions, schools, and cemeteries. It's almost like having one's own research map created. Once the customized map is launched from the digital map site, there are additional zooming features available to pinpoint many of the features more accurately. Printing a customized TIGER map and using it in conjunction with a political map for the same area can truly enhance research opportunities in a particular area. More and more of these kinds of maps are available on the Internet. There are a number of excellent publications to assist the researcher in becoming familiar with maps as a significant part of genealogical research. Among the group of the best publications is a compilation by E. Wade Hone entitled, "Land & Property Research in the United States." An impressive tome of more than five hundred pages, this work equips one with much information about various types and uses on maps. The second edition of "The Source: A Guidebook of American Genealogy" (Szucs & Luebking, 1997) also contains a useful chapter on "land and property records." Mapping one's ancestors can be a most useful and exciting way of ensuring that all available data for a particular individual is discovered and incorporated into the family story. BIBLIOGRAPHY: "Rand McNally Commercial Atlas and Marketing Guide" (Chicago, IL: Rand McNally & Company) http://www.randmcnally.com/home/index.htm "Map Guide to the U.S. Federal Censuses, 1790-1920," by William Thorndale and William Dollarhide, (Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1987) http://shop.ancestry.com/ancestry/mapguidtousf.html "A Handy Guide to Record-Searching in the Larger Cities of the United States," by E. Kay Kirkham (Logan, UT: Everton Publishers, Inc., 1974.) "Understanding the Census: A Guide for Marketers, Planners, Grand Writers and Other Data Users," by Michael R. Lavin, (Kenmore, NY: Epoch Books, Inc., 1996) "Land & Property Research in the United States," by E. Wade Hone (Salt Lake City, UT: Ancestry, Inc., 1997) http://shop.ancestry.com/ancestry/lanandpropre1.html "The Source: A Guidebook of American Genealogy," edited by Loretto D. Szucs, and Sandra H. Luebking, (Salt Lake City, UT: Ancestry, Inc., 1997) http://shop.ancestry.com/ancestry/source.html Best Wishes, Juliana Smith, Editor, Ancestry Daily News Joel White, Associate Editor Please feel free to circulate this newsletter to other genealogy enthusiasts! We hope that you will also credit the Daily News as the source. To subscribe to this newsletter, visit http://www.ancestry.com/whatsnew.htm jbass@digital.net 216 Beach Park Lane Cape Canaveral, FL 32920-5003 Home of The *HARRISON* Repository & *MY FAMILY* http://moon.ouhsc.edu/rbonner/harintro.htm My Family WWW: http://moon.ouhsc.edu/rbonner/index.htm LINDSAY & HARRISON Surnames & CSA-HISTORY Roots Mail List GENCONNECT: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/indx/FamAssoc.html Data Managed by beautiful daughter Becky Bass Bonner and me, Josephine Lindsay Bass ______________________________

Hi Isobel & Duncan, First of all, where is Glen Prosen? I looked for it, and all the spelling variations I could think of -- no luck. I believe that my Glenday's came either from Forfar, Angus (Peter Glenday wrote a letter to his father there in 1817 -- the first one home from America) or from New Rattray or Blairgowrie (that's where he settled when he came back 6 years later after the death of his wife, Anne Lindsay). Others with Glenday ancestors seem to show Forfar, at least. May I invite you to join the GLENDAY mail list? It has really been slow getting started. You guy have to WRITE to it! But I hope it gets going eventually. Among the plethora of things I have, I have a lot of letters written by Ann Glenday [Durfee] in St. Louis, MO, USA to her sister Hellen Glenday [Butchart] in Blairgowrie over a period of many years. If only I were independently wealthy and could type into two computers at once! Regards, Susan D. Chambless listowner for the CHAMBLESS, GAUSS and GLENDAY surname lists, now at RootsWeb - http://www.rootsweb.com/ - please join us!", Check it out: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~schmblss I'm posting a lot of old family letters & papers centered around the Charles Henry Gauss family of St. Charles, MO. Surnames are: Gauss, Johns, Fawcett, Glenday, Durfee, Lindsay, plus, of course, the people they knew. -----Original Message----- From: D.N. Glenday [SMTP:dglenday@axiom-systems.com] Sent: Monday, March 01, 1999 1:23 AM To: MISYBELLA@aol.com Cc: columbine@ninenet.com Subject: Glenday Reply to message: * From: MISYBELLA@aol.com * About: ANGUS/DUNDEE INTERESTS * Sent: 28 Feb 99 Isobel, I don't think I have any of the information you require, but could I ask you to let me have a copy of any Glenday / Glendei / Glendee / etc. information you receive? My great grandfather was Robert Glenday, born in Scotland in 1870, who emmigrated to South Africa sometime in the late 1800s. He had 9 children, so there's a fair-sized Glenday family in South Africa. Many of them (us) are now moving to other parts of the world. Eg. a cousin and I have moved to the USA, my sister is in Australia. I've just started attempting to track my family's genealogy, and can't yet trace anyone further back than Robert Glenday. So I would greatly appreciate any information you have. Of course, I'll be glad to share any of my family tree information that may be of interest to you. I'm sending a copy of this E-Mail to Susan Chambless of Missouri, USA, who is busy tracing the history of some of the American Glendays. Susan recently started a GLENDAY list server, at GLENDAY-L- request@rootsweb.com. I hope some of this helps, and I look forward to hearing from you. Duncan Neil Glenday ============================================== Hi I have just joined the list and my interests are: LASCELLES bef 1850 GLENDAY bef 1800 BLACK (McAULEY) 1830s Isobel Crieff, Scotland =============================================== Hi I'm stuck on this one:- Family hearsay has it that an ancestor ----- GLENDIE (GLENDAY) from Glen Prosen was the first "English Church Minister" to St Michaels Church, Dublin, in 1650. How can I confirm this - I've tried the Ecclesiastical Register. Isobel Crieff, Scotland ========================================= Does anyone have any info on the GLENDALE (or GLENDYE?) CONSTRUCTION WORKS in California, USA, in the period 1900 - 1950? Isobel Scotland ==================== Duncan N. Glenday dglenday@iname.com Frederick, MD, USA ====================

David -- No problem for me. I'm not posting the letters personally, thank goodness. RootsWeb has software for that. It's just that some people have trouble getting stuff at work. Susan D. Chambless Check it out: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~schmblss I'm posting a lot of old family letters & papers centered around the Charles Henry Gauss family of St. Charles, MO. Surnames are: Gauss, Johns, Fawcett, Glenday, Durfee, Lindsay, plus, of course, the people they knew. -----Original Message----- From: David Glenday [SMTP:dpg@clear.net.nz] Sent: Sunday, February 14, 1999 5:16 PM To: GLENDAY-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Suscribe Dear Susan, Sorry, I didn't make it clear that I am not yet "on line" at home. If posting letters is impractical then you can still e-mail to this address at the moment or via my sister April. David Glenday.

Dear Susan, Sorry, I didn't make it clear that I am not yet "on line" at home. If posting letters is impractical then you can still e-mail to this address at the moment or via my sister April. David Glenday.

To Susan Chambless Thank you for the e-mail. Most interesting ! As I am at work I have downloaded the information to disk and will look at it at home. I have had a quick scan of the letter re Peter Glenday and is most interesting as are your family links. I suppose my e-mail address will appear with this message. however this is where I work and I is better to have my home address of 7 Brewster Street Napier, New Zealand. Yours, David Peter Glenday

Hello I have gotten email from a number of people in my Glenday mass mailing. I've found out lots of stuff. I will contact the people who sent info(it may be eventually) to see if they mind if I post it on my web site. Maybe eventually there will be a dedicated Glenday web site, but we all have to start somewhere, I guess. As many of you may know, My Personal Oldest Glenday Ancestor was Peter Glenday who came to St. Charles, MO, presumably straight from Forfar, Scotland, in 1817. I will try to get the text of his letter posted to my web site soon. I am beginning to wish I was independently wealthy. At any rate, I have a few letters to and from the children in that family, a copy of Peter's will, and a great many letters written to various people by his daughter, Ann Glenday [Durfee]. I have heard from the Glendays of South America, and John Glenday of Carnoustie, 10 miles south of Forfar. I would love to see this become a lively and interesting list. Susan D. Chambless Check it out: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~schmblss I'm posting a lot of old family letters & papers centered around the Charles Henry Gauss family of St. Charles, MO. Surnames are: Gauss, Johns, Fawcett, Glenday, Durfee, Lindsay, plus, of course, the people they knew.