Hello, all -- Just so you won't think I've disappeared again, here's another forwarded Message Board Post {MBP}. It outlines a commonly-heard problem -- ie. that there is a family story about a French connection but just what that connection is is unknown and, as well, the time period (1800s) is too late for Huguenots. So, really, what needs to be done is to get back a few generations, at least somewhere into the 1700s, and preferably earlier than that. However, in English research, that's easier said than done because there was no national index of records of any sort before mid-1837 when civil registration began. So, unless you have a good idea where to start looking for a person -- ie. a particular parish or group of parishes -- it's like the typical needle and haystack situation. If you want to reply to this forwarded post, see the very end of the message. Andrea (as list concierge) -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] Date Posted on HWE Board: June 5, 2003 Message Board Post as follows: Hello: Wondering if any one has come across the surname RANNIE or RAINNEY in their family tree related to a : John Thomas RANNIE who married a Ann PEACOCK 5/8/1819 St Martin in the Fields London England? Children: William 1821, Ann 1822, Amy 1823-1826, Rachel 1826, Amy 1831, Thomas 1834. All born & Baptised in Chelsea St Lukes Church MDX/London. Believe that John Thomas RANNIE's parents may be a Thomas & Amy RANNIE? That he had a brother Thomas RANNIE (~1800-1844 Chelsea ). John Thomas RANNIE was born unknown ~ 1799 (probably London/MDX). He died November 1846 prior to 1851 census. His wife Ann PEACOCK RANNIE died 1848 -again prior to 1851 census. So no help in establishing where they were born. All avenues to connect them to a Scottish line have failed. We have been told there was 'French blood in the family'. Could RANNIE / RAINNEY be a French Huguenot name? Any help & advice much appreciated - we have come to a block and not sure where to go from here! Many thanks . Regards Elizabeth Visser (Perth WA) [email protected] =============================================== To reply, go to the original message on the HWE Board by clicking on: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Fq.2ADEAE/171 then, once you're on the Board, click on Post Reply. Your reply may then be forwarded to this list. END of Message Board Post

Andrea - Thank you for these regular re-postings from the MBP, which I neglect to look at often enough. I give here a rely that I sent, in the hope that it may jog the mind of a lister concerning the name of RENNY, which I have mentioned before. Elizabeth - Most interested in your RANNIE / RAINNEY family with a possible Huguenot or Walloon linkage. I am interested in the name RENNY, (that of my mother), which I have traced back to Ussan, near Montrose, Scotland, as far as the mid C17th, (under the name of RANEY). There is a (very slight) indication that the family came over from the Low Countries; I have not been able to get any further. The name RENNIE is more frequent in Scotland, but I have not made a connection. If you have come across any RENNYs in your wanderings I would be most interested. I have a RANNIE on the other side of my family, (my paternal grandmother was DUNDAS of Arniston), details, such as they are, below: Descendants of David Rannie, Capt, of Melville Castle. 1 RANNIE, David, Capt, of Melville Castle. b: Unknown in ? d: 1764 in ? 2 RANNIE, Elizabeth b: 1750 in ? d: Unknown in ? .... +DUNDAS, Henry, 1st Viscount Melville b: 28 April 1742 in ? m: 16 August 1765 in ? d: 29 May 1811 in ? <snip> Yours Aye Andrew Sellon East Anglia Soup and fish explain half the emotions in life. Rev. Sydney Smith 1771-1854, Canon of St. Paul's. From: "Andrea Vogel" <[email protected]> > Just so you won't think I've disappeared again, > here's another forwarded Message Board Post {MBP}. <snip> > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > Date Posted on HWE Board: June 5, 2003 > > Wondering if any one has come across the surname > RANNIE or RAINNEY in their family tree related to a : > John Thomas RANNIE who married a Ann PEACOCK > 5/8/1819 St Martin in the Fields London England? > <snip>