> I have a Mary Cromarty, dau of James Gray Cromarty (1811-1871) and Mary > Kennedy Banks (1836-1921), South Ronaldsay. Mary Cromarty was the > fourth child of this couple but I have no dates for her. But they could > fit. Any connection? Blake Allan, Victoria BC > I also have a relative, named Mary Kennedy WALLS , b. 1830 in South Ronaldsay, d/o Christie BRUCE and Malcolm WALLS. Her father remarried after Christie's death. He changed his name to WALLACE with the birth of her second child, John Thomson WALLACE. This is the man who married Helen SPENCE, as I mentioned in my recent reply about the SPENCE name. > I have a SPENCE connection. Helen married into the Wallace family and > I have tentatively assembled a tree for her. ( I believe that her > mother Helen Thomson and John Wallace's mother Elizabeth Thomson may > be related.) What I find very interesting is that she and her husband > went to Canada where their first two children were born but by the > next census were back in South Ronaldsay. This is what I have: > John SPENCE > b. abt 1810, OKI, Scotland > d. bef 1910 > & Helen THOMSON > b. abt 1810, OKI, Scotland > d. bef 1910 > m. 8 Mar 1832, South Ronaldsay, OKI, Scotland > | Helen SPENCE > | b. 6 Jan 1836, S. Ronaldsay, OKI, Scotland > | d. bef 1934 > | & John Thomson WALLACE > | b. 1834, S. Ronaldsay, OKI, Scotland > | d. 10 Mar 1910 > | m. 2 Apr 1857 > | | Mary Ellen WALLACE > | | b. 1859, Canada > | | d. bef 1959 > | | Elizabeth WALLACE > | | b. 1862, Canada > | | d. bef 1962 > | | Jemima WALLACE > | | b. 10 Aug 1865, S. Ronaldsay, OKI, Scotland > | | d. bef 1881 > | | Robina WALLACE > | | b. 10 Aug 1865, S. Ronaldsay, OKI, Scotland > | | d. bef 1881 > | | John WALLACE > | | b. 1 Feb 1868, S. Ronaldsay, OKI, Scotland > | | d. bef 1968 > | | John WALLACE > | | b. 1870, S. Ronaldsay, OKI, Scotland > | | d. bef 1970 > | | Malcom WALLACE > | | b. 28 Nov 1870, S. Ronaldsay, OKI, Scotland > | | d. bef 1881 > | James SPENCE > | b. 15 Apr 1841, Scotland > | d. bef 1941 > | & Mary Stewart CROMARTY > | b. 8 Aug 1843, South Ronaldsay, OKI, Scotland > | d. bef 1943 > | | Thomas Thomson SPENCE > | | b. 15 Apr 1865, Scotland > | | d. bef 1965 > | | William Cromarty SPENCE > | | b. 9 Apr 1863, Scotland > | | d. bef 1963 > | John SPENCE > | b. 13 Jan 1833, Scotland > | d. bef 1933 > What I would like to know is why there were two babies who were given the names MARY KENNEDY at about the same time? Does anyone have a Mary KENNEDY in their family as I have found none and wonder who the girls , Mary Kennedy WALLS b. 1830 and Mary Kennedy BANKS, b. 1836 might have been named for? As an aside, I believe that Mary Kennedy WALLS may have married a Donald THOMSON and had a son, Donald THOMSON b/c on 2 APR 1854. It seems that the SPENCE, THOMSON, and WALLS/WALLACE names intertwine on South Ronaldsay in this time period. -- Pam Thomson British Columbia, Canada Proud to be a Rootsweb Sponsor http://www3.bc.sympatico.ca/TownSquareNetwork