----- Original Message ----- From: "Barbara Sanborn" <quenesta@gwi.net> To: <petrie-scotland@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2006 7:41 PM Subject: Re: [PETRIE-SCOTLAND] Greetings from Massachusetts Hi Sandy, Incidentally, my late son, Gordon, was always called "Sandy". I, too, grew up thinking that my family had a very unusual name. There was an announcer on the radio by the name of Howard Petrie - I knew of no others. Isn't it wonderful to know that there are really so many of us. Unfortunately, I have not made any connections. My grandfather Robert Lawson Petrie was born in Newhills, a parish of Aberdeen and arrived in New Brunswick, Canada in 1873-1874 when he was about 8 yrs. old. His parents and aunts and uncles also came. We discovered that historical story on a trip to NB. There is a book entitled A History of the Scotch Colony, Victoria County, New Brunswick 1873-1998. Good luck on your search - mine seems to be at a dead end. Barbara (Petrie)Sanborn Maine ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sandra Hachey" <gallerygoil@charter.net> To: <petrie-scotland@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2006 1:17 PM Subject: [PETRIE-SCOTLAND] Greetings from Massachusetts Hello all, I've been receiving the Petrie-Scotland e-mails for several years now and have been interested to read the comments from so many Petries all over the globe. My fascination with this stems from my personal experience living in central Massachusetts in the U.S., where the Petrie name is extremely rare. As a child, I was always aware that the only Petrie listing in our telephone directory (covering a fairly large city and its suburbs) was for our family. The name Petrie was a unique identity -- unlike our other friends who had common surnames. Since I've never actually met any one else with the Petrie name besides immediate family members, I was naïve to assume there were few Petries out there until I received a genealogy document passed on from an elderly family member from Canada in the 1980s. I realized that there were probably many distant Petrie cousins I never knew existed, but my imagination could not begin to comprehend the numbers of Petries out there until I discovered the internet and all the Petries who are actively seeking global connections with other Petrie descendants. This probably sounds quite a bit ignorant, but obviously, my isolation from other Petries and my adolescent experience having an unusual surname (in this area) no doubt contribute to my fascination with the discovery of all the Petries on-line. I am still surprised to receive an e-mail from a James or John Petrie, and then I quickly realize it isn't concerning my brothers, Jim and John, who are the only James and John Petries I know. It has been both fun and awe-inspiring to discover the diligent efforts by such loyal researchers, who make every effort to connect the Petries with their ancestors. On that note, I am grateful to Dave and Bob Petrie of Minnesota, USA for filling in many of the blanks for me on my own family tree. I'd be interested in corresponding with anyone who is a descendant of my ggggggf James Petrie b. 3 Mar 1701/02 Kinnell, Angus, Scotland, m. Isobel (Isabel) Clerk 4 Jun 1724 Parish of Craig (Craig is just south of Montrose), Angus, Scotland; Isobel (Isabel): b. Bef. 1708. If anyone is interested, I am willing to share family photos of my Petrie family in exchange for your Petrie family photos. Thanks to you all. Sandy (Petrie) Hachey ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PETRIE-SCOTLAND-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 PETRIE-SCOTLAND-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message