At 08:36 PM 5/1/2003 -0400, Scrapcat2@aol.com wrote: >Searching for birth date, place and emigration information for: > >ERSKINE (also known as ASKINS), Christopher (also known as Charles), b. abt. >1700 in Scotland. Apparently went to Northern Ireland abt. 1719 and then to >America date unknown. Married Susannah Robinson in 1729, probably Plymouth >County. Carol - They were indeed married in Plymouth County - in the East Parish of Bridgewater, to be precise: "Christopher Askins & Susanna Robinson were Married Octor 15th AD 1729" - transcribed by George Ernest Bowman, "Bridgewater, Mass., Vital Records" (The Mayflower Descendant, 16 [1914]:97) "ASKINS, Christopher and Susanna Robinson, Oct. 15, 1729,* C.R.1. [Christopher Erskin of Ireland, "settled in Abington," and Susanna Robinson, d. Gain, P.R.5.]" - "Vital Records of East Bridgewater Massachusetts to the Year 1850" (Boston: NEHGS, 1917), 162. * - Intention not recorded. C.R.1. - church record, from copies of the records of the First Church of East Bridgewater, the original records having disappeared. See P.R.5. P.R.5. - private record, from a copy made by Judge Nahum Mitchell of the records of the First Church of East Bridgewater, with additions and corrections by the copyist. It must have been a shotgun wedding - their first child was born four months later: "ASKIN, Mary, d. Christopher and Susannah, Feb. 16, 1730." - "Vital Records of Abington Massachusetts to the Year 1850," 2 vols. (Boston: NEHGS, 1912), 1:16. And the couple was charged with fornication in March of 1729/30 - David Thomas Konig, "Plymouth Court Records 1686-1859" (Plymouth: The Pilgrim Society, 1978-79). Dale H. Cook Member, NEHGS USGenWeb Plymouth County MA Towns Host: http://www.rootsweb.com/~macbrock/sites.html