Sorry, that is Thomas SHILLINGLAW.... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Liz Dempster" <germic90@sympatico.ca> To: <midlothian@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, December 13, 2009 4:25 PM Subject: Re: [MIDLOTHIAN] SHILLINGLAW in Dalkeith > Hi: > > If anyone comes across a connection to a Thomas SHILLINLAW and Margaret > SWANSTON, daughter Christian SHILLINLAW(bd08May1806) and her husband > Murdoch > MacKay (married July 17, 1829) and then their daughter Margaret > (30Jun1830) > who married George Mill and then their daughter, George Jane, > (bd09May1867(aka Georgina)) who married Lauchlan John Dempster (bd31 > Jul1863) on 05 Dec 1884 please contact me. I have lots of Dempster > info, > and some Mill(s) family as well...and some McKay info. Have only just > started sourcing the Shillinglaw part of the family but am always > interested > in the possiblity of a connection. > > Liz Dempster > Ontario Canada. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ronald Smith" <ronald.smith99@virgin.net> > To: <MIDLOTHIAN@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Sunday, December 13, 2009 11:44 AM > Subject: [MIDLOTHIAN] SHILLINGLAW in Dalkeith > > >> Hello all, >> >> this is my first contact with the Midlothian list. In >> 1768 William SHILLINGLAW and Ann SCOUGALL were married at Channelkirk. >> During the next twenty years they had four children baptised at >> Dalkeith, >> including Philip SHILLINGLAW (1777 ) who is my ancestor. Nothing >> is known of Philip until 30 years later when in 1807, he married Sarah >> PRINCE at St Martin in the Fields, London. Thereafter, he worked >> as >> a gardener at Bray, Berkshire; Camden Place Chislehurst, Kent; then >> Dupplin Castle, Aberdalgie, Perthshire (gardener to the Earl of >> Kinnoul ). In 1841, Philip, then aged 64, emigrated to Victoria, >> Australia, with son William, and daughters, Caroline, Elizabeth and >> Martha. It is presumed that his wife Sarah had died before 1841, >> but >> no record has been found. >> >> What was he doing for the first thirty years of his life? >> I fancy he was probably working as a gardener in Dalkeith area, >> possibly >> the Dalkeith Palace Gardens (given his subsequent carreer). Can >> anyone help me fill in this blank period please. I have been >> told >> that when Philip's brother William died at Pathhead in the 1860s the >> death-entry described their father, William, as a 'soldier.' ( that's >> the William mentioned in the first line of this posting.) Does anyone >> have any information on that? >> >> I do know that there were other SHILLINGLAWs in Dalkeith >> during the period of interest, but I don't know if they were related. >> >> >> Regards, >> >> >> Ronald Smith at Romford, Essex, U.K. >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> MIDLOTHIAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MIDLOTHIAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >