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    1. [Lanark] JUST TO CONFUSE US ALL
    2. The Australians call a person with red hair, a BLUEY!! Now, figure that one out..??????

    11/29/2013 02:27:57
    1. [Lanark] Help with Dobbie family (WW1 soldier)
    2. marg o'leary
    3. Hi all Firstly thank you very much for the help I got while searching for James Dobbie of Glasgow, b,1872 and died in WW1, 20 July 1916 and buried at Fromelle. It has been a difficult case but many helped sort this one from the many. Finally confirmed his parents. The reason I am looking is to find a living descendant who may be a dna match to identify the soldier. Need some more help if anyone has any suggestions as have reached a block. . James' father was also James Dobbie, b abt 1827. He married three times. Jane Carpenter, Catherine Carroll and Sarah Carlton. He had 2 sons William J and Malcolm to his first wife (1852 and 53) in Glasgow. The family were funeral undertakers so that made them a little easier to track. James was born to wife no 2, who died after giving birth to male twins who did not survive. Dad remarried but then died the next year, so James was brought up by step mother with little input from family no 1. So soldier James' only hope for being identified seems to lie with his two older half brothers for Y dna or his mother Catherine Carroll's female relatives for Mt DNA. Otherwise have to try James senior's parents and see if they had. His parents were James Dobbie and Agnes Gillies Campbell. I have James' snr marriage and death certs. That's where I found the three wives. I think the half brothers had 11 children between them, William seems to have had William, Albert, George and Malcolm in the 1880s in Glasgow.. I don't seem to be able to track them. But I did find the two families on a journey to America in 1890, as far as I know they all returned. (I haven't yet looked at the female line but Catherine Carroll's parents were William Carroll and Sarah Harrigan.) So asking firstly - anyone got connections to any of these families? And then any advice about where to look. regards Marg OLeary Port Stephens NSW [email protected] also [email protected]

    11/30/2013 11:52:39