Hi Everyone I am trying to trace the EMERY & NETHERY Families, who might have originally lived at either NIDDRY, or NITHSDALE, in Midlothian, prior to their migration to Co Tyrone, in NIR, which was allocated to Scots during the Ulster Plantation. Its seems that Niddry, the Wauchope Estate, is the most likely because later documents often held NIDDRY as the surname of the NETHERYS ie originally a locative byname probably of tenant farmers. The EMERY byname/surname could have been a variant of Amery, Demery, Imrey, Memry, Lemery, Ymrey, or other similar sounding names. I have no idea where the EMERY Family lived but, because of their close connection with the NETHERYS, can only presume they also lived at NIDDRY or, if not, perhaps NITHSDALE. Apparently, the EMERY and NETHERY Families were not Border Reivers but, as they settled amongst BRs at Drumquin, Longfield East, Co Tyrone, NIR, they must have had some connection with the BRs back in Scotland. They also married BRs, who included the Irvines, Johnstons, Armstrongs, Greys, Wilsons, Chitticks, Maxwells, Grahams, etc, in both NIR and again in Australia, to where hundreds of descendants of all those Families emigrated in the early 1800's. Does anyone have any idea of where my EMERYS and NETHERYS might have lived, if and why they were exiled with the BRs, or anything about them at all? SANDRA from AUSTRALIA