on 9/10/04 9:29 AM, michelle_mccue@hotmail.com at michelle_mccue@hotmail.com wrote: > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Surnames: BIGGINS > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/EgC.2ACE/4667.1 > > Message Board Post: > > Hi Donna, > I have an ancestor John BIGGINS, b. 1825. Is it possible that James BIGGINS > was his brother? That would fit with the dates that you give. > > John BIGGINS was born 1825 in Lanarkshire, Scotland. His parents were: > Elizabeth KINNON & Philip BIGGINS, an agricultural labourer. I'm afraid that > I don't know where they were from. Probably from Ireland. > > There are also some other BIGGINS, notably in Dreghorn, Ayr, and other > locations on the LDS database. > > Michelle > > > ==== SCOTLAND Mailing List ==== > To contact the list administrator, or to unsubscribe, or to view > the list archives, or for other information about this list, visit the > list web page at http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/SCT/SCOTLAND.html > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > Hello Michelle, I have a Phillip Biggins in my family tree, He would be my 2x great grandfather - his daughter was Mary Biggins-Byrnes and she the mother of my grandmother Margaret "Maggie" Byrnes-Gillespie.......I can look up details, my grandmother was born Cambuslang, Wishaw, Lanark.........she and Robert Gillespie were married in Hamilton, Lanark, Scotland Dec 31, 1891.... Oh, and Bridget Strawbridge was the mother of Phillip (James) Biggins I hope to hear from you, Grace Gillespie-Parks in Virginia These families were coal miners