----- Original Message ----- From: "Laurie Thompson" <lthompson@terrafirma.com.au> To: "bea mccowan" <bea@beamccowan.com> Sent: Monday, April 04, 2005 8:42 AM Subject: Re: [LKS] Pate Entry . > Bruce . Thankyou for your email . It has opened the door wider .My John > Pate came out to Launceston Tasmania Australia in c1859 and came to > Melboure Victoria Australia in c1863 . The thing that puzzles me is in > Launceston about this time the population would have been 2 and a dog yet > we have several Pates--Muirs and Kanes . In 1891 we have George > Washington Muir born so it would seem there was contact with America . Are > these lists of interest to you . ( 2 and a dog is an Australian idiom for > a small population ) I do not know where the Kanes came from although one > was sentenced in Edinburgh for transportation to Tasmania . Regards > Laurie > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "bea mccowan" <bea@beamccowan.com> > To: "Laurie Thompson" <lthompson@terrafirma.com.au>; > <LANARK-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Monday, April 04, 2005 2:16 AM > Subject: Re: [LKS] Pate Entry . > > >> Pate (or Peat) was a common name in Lesmahagow. Quite a few tenant >> families >> in the Upper Nethan valley are on http://www.beamccowan.com/tenant.htm. >> >> Good luck. >> >> Bruce McCowan, P.Eng. >> www.scarboroughrecord.com >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Laurie Thompson" <lthompson@terrafirma.com.au> >> To: <LANARK-L@rootsweb.com> >> Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 5:29 AM >> Subject: [LKS] Pate Entry . >> >> >>> Hello Christine . From Australian marriage and death certificates I My >> George Pate was a miller and Married Bessie McAra or McKerrow and had >> John >> and James about 1840 . Both came to Australia . John about 1859 , James >> unknown . Both said birth place Edinburgh which could be the city or area >> of Edinburgh . As they state Miller there must have been near a river and >> ground Flour . Can anyone help me . Laurie from Australia . >>> >>> >>> ==== LANARK Mailing List ==== >>> Scotland Genweb >>> http://www.scotlandgenweb.org/~lanarkshire/ >>> >> >> >