This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/EgC.2ACE/10198 Message Board Post: Any help with the Fiddes name, All I know is Alexander Fiddes (Doctor of Medicine) has a son called John born about 1865 in New York USA any help appreciated

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Sneddon Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/EgC.2ACE/10197 Message Board Post: Looking for any info on David Sneddon married Margaret had son Robert. Living 17 Townhill Road, Dunfermtine Scotland in 1936.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Fisher, Flockhart Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/EgC.2ACE/10196.2 Message Board Post: Bonnyrigg sounds likely. You can cross check your information by a look-up of the birth registration for Thomas in the statutory register of births for Scotland, available on-line at www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk. Bonnyrigg is in the parish of Cockpen, Midlothian (or Edinburghshire).

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Alcorn Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/EgC.2ACE/51.4958.2.1 Message Board Post: my great grand father Thomas Alcorn born 11 Nov 1801 died 17 Dec 1877 married to Rebecca Algeo 1828 Tentagh Presbyterian church Dunfanaghy their son Thomas Alcorn born 17 Jun 1832 Faugher , Dunfanaghy Co Donegal, Ireland married Ellen Wilkin 01 Dec 1857 Trenta Presbyterian Church, Churchill, Ireland she was from of Churchill Donegal they emigrated to Philadlphia in 1879 I was wondering if our families connected in anyway Shirley

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/EgC.2ACE/10196.1 Message Board Post: Hi Tracey, I suspect the placename is Bonnyrigg, County of Midlothian. Hope this helps, Graeme Edinburgh

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Fisher / Flockhart Classification: Census Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/EgC.2ACE/10196 Message Board Post: I have managed to fin out some information from the grave stone and another mystery which I will have to find out another way but now I am stuck. If someone can help me with a lead I might be able to start my search. FISHER; Thomas Wilson, born July17, 1880, Bonnyrist?, Scotland-Married Jeannie (Jane) Flockhart,b.Jan, 13, 1881.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: MIDDLEMASS Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/EgC.2ACE/4806.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Pat I do have a bit of information that maybe useful including their parents. Haven't managed to go further back than that. I have the 1841 census with details of 6 children. Please write to my email and I will send you what I have delighted to swap information.finkpauline@yahoo.com Cheers Pauline

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/EgC.2ACE/4806.1.1 Message Board Post: I am also descended from John Middlemass/ Isabella Broomfield. My gg grandfather was James Broomfield Middlemass, son of John. Do you know all of John and Isabella's children? My Middlemass ancestors came from Hawick area and moved to the Peebles area,

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/EgC.2ACE/10194 Message Board Post: Can anyone help? I have a Scottish wedding blessing in English. I'd like it translated to its traditional language, if possible. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. The blessing is this: May God be with you and bless you. May you see your children's children. May you be poor in misfortune, rich in blessings. May you know nithing but happiness from this day forward. Much thanks!

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: brydon Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/EgC.2ACE/306.2470.1 Message Board Post: Hi not sure how my brydon link. my mother states that she was told that the brydons came over inthe ireland blight so I am tracing a sydney brydon born 1893 parents john & sarah brydon married 1890 on certi as in newcastle upon tyne father of john listed as william brydon. The sydney was married to my grandmother cecilia bell in 1917 had two girls then with no divorce set up home with another women in london and this lady /children had to change her name by deed poll to brydon. Also a connection with coldstream in the boarders. trying to trace the birth of john & father william

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/EgC.2ACE/10185.3.1.1 Message Board Post: Larry, Try this link http://www.gale.ancestry.com/trees/awt/main.htm Beth

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: GARDINER/HERRIMAN Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/EgC.2ACE/9700.1 Message Board Post: Hi Barry I'm in Adelaide, South Australia. For about 8 years now I've been doing free research for people all over the world who are looking for information about their ancestors who came here in the 1800's. I saw your request a few days ago, and as I went to the library on Friday, I included your request with the pile of others which I researched. I managed to find the following:- ARRIVAL FROM OVERSEAS. James Gardiner, labourer from Co. Galway IRELAND aged 18yrs, and Patrick Gardiner, labouere from Co. Galway IRELAND aged 32years single both arrived in South Australia 29th April 1858 aboard the "Storm Cloud" which sailed from Plymouth. MARRIAGE. James Gardiner, aged 26yrs, single, son of Thomas Gardiner married 2nd September 18764 to Elizabeth Herraman, aged 19yrs, single, daughter of James Herraman. Place of marriage not recorded. North adelaide, District Adelaide. reference b100 p682. (the place not recorded means the actual building, church etc. where the ceremony took place) CHILDREN BORN TO JAMES GARDINER 7 ELIZABETH HERRAMAN. 1. Alice May 24/1/79 North Adelaide Dis. Adelaide ref b214 p341 2. Edith Mary 4/12/74 Lower North Adelaide Dis. Adelaide ref b145 p37. (Mother's name is recorded on the birth registration as Elizabeth Ann Herraman) 3. Frederick William 5/10/90 at North adelaide District Adelaide ref b467 p455 4. George Henry 24/5/85 North Adelaide Dis. Adelaide ref b352 p281 5. Harriet Ethel 22/12/88 Hackney District Norwood. b429 p347 6. James Alexander 29/12/82 North Adelaide Dis. Adelaide ref b296 p388 (mother's surname spelt Herrimann) 7. Margaret Eliza 16/1/81 North adelaide Dis. Adelaide ref b253 p423. DEATH. Edith Mary aged 6 years of North Adelaide District Adelaide, daughter of James Alexander Gardiner District Adelaide, died 5/2/1881. Ref. b108 p290 Our death records in S.Aus. go from 1842-1915, and there is no death record for James or Elizabeth up to that time. Our marriage records here go from 1842-1937, so I would be quite happy to look for marriages for the children of James & Elizabeth if you are interested. Our birth records go from 1842-1906. I would be happy to look for births of children born to James & Elizabeth's children providing they occur no later than 1906. I hope the discovery that your people came from Ireland rather than Scotland did not "throw you" too much. I'm happy putting my money on both sides - my ggrandfather came from Co. Tipperary, Ireland, and on the othre side of the family my ggrandfather came from Scotland. Please feel free to get back to me if there is anything else (including other family/s) that you would like me to have a look at for you. I try to get into the Adelaide library one day a week, but as my husband and I are Salvation Army Chaplains in one of our residential facilities with 50 aged people, every one of whom have some degree of dementia, sometimes our "free" time isn't quite as "free" as would like, but as researching for others is my favourite hobby, I'd be more than happy to help. Hoping the above is of some help. Regards Heather in a cool, sunny day in Adelaide, South Australia.

An adequate history of the Douglases would be largely one of Scotland itself, where they long rivalled the royal power, and eleven times married into it. Perhaps originally kinsmen of Freskin, the Clan Murray founder, it is in the South that they first came to note. Here in the 12th century they originated the `Black Douglases`--of Douglasdale (Lanarkshire), Dumfriesshire, and Galloway. The next century saw the `Red Douglases` established at Dalkeith (whence sprang the earls of Morton), and then in Angus. The term `Black Douglas` was first applied by the English to the Sir James who was Bruce`s doughty lieutenant, to fall at last in Spain when on his final service of conveying the royal heart to the Holy Land. Septs: CAVERS DOUGLASS DRYSDALE FOREST FORREST GLENDINNING INGLIS KIRKPATRICK LOCKERBY MACGUFFIE MACGUFFOCK MORTON SANDILANDS -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scottish Surnames some showing Clan or Sept connection and approximate District or Century earliest known in Scotland. Information from the Revised Second Edition "Scots Kith and Kin". Sept: A Division of a Family, especially a Division of a Clan.

The clan MacDhai or Davidson, earliest settled Invernahaven in Strathspey, are believed to take name from an ancestor David Dhu, fourth son of Murriach the 12th-century founder of the MacPhersons. Members of the Clan Chattan, they were deeply involved in the quarrels of precedency that beset that confederacy. These were publicly culminated in 1396 in the famous thirty-a-side combat MacPherson v. Davidson, before King Robert lll and his court on the North Inch of Perth. Whether because 29 leading MacDhais were killed, or because one escaped alive, the clan there-after fell from prominence. They are now chiefly represented by the Davidsons of Tulloch in Cromarty. A small border clan Davidson arose in Roxburghshire around the 16th century, perhaps of quite independent origin, like the Davie name in Orkney, and others. The Inverness-shire MacKays are really MacDhais. Septs: DAVEY DAVIE DAVIS DAVISON DAWSON DAY DEA DEAN DEANE DEAS DEASON DEY DOW DYE KAY KEAY KEY KEYS MACDADE MACDAID MACDAVID MACKAY SLORA SLORACH -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scottish Surnames some showing Clan or Sept connection and approximate District or Century earliest known in Scotland. Information from the Revised Second Edition "Scots Kith and Kin". Sept: A Division of a Family, especially a Division of a Clan.

The Cummings or Cumyns trace Norman descent from Charlemagne through Robert de Comyn, appointed governor of Northumberland in 1068 by his kinsman William the Conqueror. Under David l, William de Comyn became Chancellor of Scotland in 1133. Settled first in Roxburghshire, the family later gained through marriages the earldoms of Buchan and Badenoch; and Altyre in Moray has long been the seat of their chief. From 1309 the Comyns` power was broken through their having contested Bruce`s succession to the throne. Sir John (`the Red`) Comyn`s mother was the sister of ex-king John Baliol. He was slain by Bruce`s party at Dumfries, and the Buchan Comyns were defeated in battle at Inverurie, in 1308. Septs: BUCHAN CHEYNE CHIENE COMMON COMMONS CUMMIN CUMMINGS CUMYN FARQUHARSON MACNIVEN NIVEN RUSSELL -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scottish Surnames some showing Clan or Sept connection and approximate District or Century earliest known in Scotland. Information from the Revised Second Edition "Scots Kith and Kin". Sept: A Division of a Family, especially a Division of a Clan.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Bryce Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/EgC.2ACE/10193 Message Board Post: I am looking for information on this Bryce family. I believe James mustered out of the 22 Foot Regiment in 1783. James seems to have come to Canada, lived in Nova Scotia for a while. He then heard his brother Archibald had emigrated to New York and joined him there. Then the family moved to Ontario, Canada. There is a book at the library called British Aliens in New York during the War of 1812, listed are an Archibald with wife Janet and three children [which fits] and a James with a wife and 8 children. Can anyone help?

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/EgC.2ACE/10192 Message Board Post: does anyone have any info on william jack m helen cameron. they had at least one child: margaret born c1884. both william and helen were deceased pre 1907. Lorna

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/EgC.2ACE/10191 Message Board Post: Am trying to tie up some loose ends...have parents, gp, etc. but as of yet have not found dod. If anyone has info., would love to hear from you.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/EgC.2ACE/10190 Message Board Post: I,m searching the Albert Hotel,Gourock. In 1880 it was owned by a John Gallagher/Gallaucher. Would any of this family,still live in the Gourock area? Catherine

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Sinclair, Campbell, Noble, Hewitt Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/EgC.2ACE/10187.1.1.1 Message Board Post: I rechecked my date and yes in deed I was wrong. I have the information that you mentioned as well as a 1881 househousehold record, and states that there was a Joseph Campbell unmarried and 28 yrs of age, who was listed with the Royal Navy on the ship "Crocodile" I am so confused now. I know my Joseph was on a Navy ship as that is how her met his wife. Do you think these are two different people? Donna