Hello William, If you haven't been there already then www.reivers.com is a great site to visit. I've noticed a couple of people putting OrdInance Survey. It is Ordnance Survey. It has nothing to do with laws (ordinance) but with weapons (ordnance). The mapping of the UK and the first census in 1801 were about defending the country against Napoleon. Until then it was guesswork about how many people lived in the UK and the maps were often estimates too but defence needed accuracy. In discussing transport of the time a point to remember is that before the railways came in the 1830s there was no accurate timekeeping in the UK. 9am in London in winter was gloomy but in Edinburgh it was still dark so people got up later. Railways needed accurate timetables not body clocks so railway time, which was the same across the UK, was introduced. Rob Doragh Liverpool UK >From: "William Pease" <william.pease@verizon.net> >Reply-To: <william.pease@verizon.net> >To: Scotch-Irish-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [Sc-Ir] Xmas reading and my Beatties >Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2005 13:11:13 -0500 > >Thanks, Brian, for the excellent reading list. There are at >least three books on your list (Cromie, Perceval-Maxwell, & >Robinson) that I must read immediately. I'm trying to >understand and trace my mother's Beattie family from the >Scottish lowlands and borderlands to Ulster, probably in the >early 17th century (just conjecture), thence to Newbliss in >County Monaghan where I found record of them in 1830 and >from where they emigrated to Quebec, Canada, in 1838, then >to the United States in 1870. Were they Reivers when they >were in Scotland and possibly expelled to Ulster? Gosh, I >hope so because that will spice up the family history, won't >it? > >I'm fortunate to live in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA, which >has both a private college (Franklin and Marshall College, >what could be more American?) and a public university >(Millersville University of Pennsylvania), and both of them >have fine libraries. I worked in the first and my wife >worked in the second, both as librarians. Now we can access >their library catalogs online: ain't this technology stuff >grand? > >Thanks for your fine booklist. >