Hello, Jean: I've been looking for my Adams ancestors for nearly 30 years, so don't feel bad. We were beginning to think they came from under a rock somewhere! Now, however, things are looking up and I've found several long-lost cousins whom I previously didn't know existed. These computers are wonderful, aren't they? Hope that your contact has the information that we all need. Please let me hear from you again. Lucille Richmond -----Original Message----- From: Francis H. Nichols Jr <jjnichols@capecod.net> To: SCOTLAND-GENWEB-L@rootsweb.com <SCOTLAND-GENWEB-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Tuesday, September 28, 1999 5:59 PM Subject: Re: Would appreciate a suggestion. >Hello, Lucille, >I have been looking for my Adam/Adams relations for a year now, you are >right, they are like John Smith's here in the States. I am awaiting a reply >from a gentlman who wrote me, I ''think'' he has what I need. If you could >give me some info on you Adam's I will try and corrolate what I have, if >there seems to be a link. >Sincerely, >Jean Nichols >jjnichols@capecod.net >----- Original Message ----- >From: Lucille A Richmond <cwrichmond@snet.net> >To: <SCOTLAND-GENWEB-L@rootsweb.com> >Sent: Monday, September 27, 1999 1:31 PM >Subject: Re: Would appreciate a suggestion. > > >> Thank you, Edward; it's a fascinating study. Have been looking for our >> James Adams' ancestors for several years now; just discovered his >> participation in the Battle of Dunbar about 8 years ago, but I've been >told >> that looking for Adamses in Scotland is like looking for John Smith in the >> U.S. >> >> Thanks so much for your explanation. >> >> Lucille (Adams) Richmond >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Edward Andrews <edward.andrews@btinternet.com> >> To: SCOTLAND-GENWEB-L@rootsweb.com <SCOTLAND-GENWEB-L@rootsweb.com> >> Date: Monday, September 27, 1999 8:54 AM >> Subject: Re: Would appreciate a suggestion. >> >> >> > >> >----- Original Message ----- >> >From: BaggyGenes <bagygenz@napanet.net> >> >To: <SCOTLAND-GENWEB-L@rootsweb.com> >> >Sent: Monday, September 27, 1999 3:30 AM >> >Subject: Re: Would appreciate a suggestion. >> > >> > >> >> Hi Edward -- Would you happen to know where one might obtain prisoner's >> >lists >> >> from Dunbar and Worcester? There are several other researchers who >have >> >been >> >> trying to locate such lists, without much luck. There's evidently one >> >ship's >> >> list for Worcester prisoners online but nothing else. Would prisoners >> >have >> >> been listed in Scotland, or in England? What ports were used to send >> them >> >to >> >> the colonies? >> >> >> >> Any help most appreciated. >> >> >> >> Judy >> > >> > Think about it. Americans are still looking for MIAs from Viet Nam, and >> >after WW2 there was a lot of work which had to be done in trying to >locate >> >displaced persons. >> > 350 years ago there was not the same interest in records, and people >would >> >not have been thinking in the possibility of people coming behind having >> any >> >interest in the people. >> > The armies which fought were not full time. People either turned up or >> were >> >made to turn up and marched off. >> > Luck would be the essence of the game. A piece of paper survives, or >> >someone copies a list into a journal which survives. >> > The reason why, until recently, history has been the story of the great >> and >> >famous is because the only sources which existed in profusion are about >the >> >great and famous. We may well know all about the guy who had his head >> >chopped off in the Tower, and not even have the names of a dozen who were >> >hanged at Tyburn. >> > You ask would the prisoners have been listed in Scotland or England. >Think >> >about it. The 13,000 of the Scottish army - a Scotland which was being >> >garrisoned by English troops marched south. 2,000 were killed and 10,000 >> >made prisoner. What lists would there be in Scotland? Muster lists. >> Scotland >> >was however undergoing military occupation. Towns were being besieged. >The >> >Scottish records were captured in Stirling, the Honours of Scotland >(Crown >> >Jewels) narrowly escaped the same, and the records were taken down to >> >London. The ship sank which was bringing them back. >> > In England there might be a list. At what stage would it be taken? by >the >> >NCO who was at the capture - he probably couldn't write, and hadn't paper >> >handy. The gaoler when they got to a building? >> > The answer is that they would probably only be listed when they were >told >> >off for deportation. Fortunately, I believe that there is a record of >them >> >(or at least a partial record of them) and I think that it is published >> >somewhere. It is however not my subject and I only know a very little >about >> >records of interest to Americans >> > The amazing thing is not that there are so few records of that time, but >> >that there are so many. To get at them however you have to be actually >> >looking at places like the PRO. Some is published, some has been >> transcribed >> >and not published. Some turn up in Private collections. There is very >> little >> >on the net. It is really an area where if you want to get anywhere new, >you >> >need >> >professional support. >> > >> > People comment about how difficult it is to trace people on this side of >> >the pond. Generally speaking your records are better kept. There are also >> >more public records which have survived. There is also much more interest >> in >> >genealogy in America than there is on this side of the pond. >> > You now see why it is important to have an understanding of history and >> the >> >society about which you are working. >> > Edward Andrews >> > >> > >> > >> >St. Nicholas Buccleuch Parish Church Dalkeith, Midlothian, Scotland >> >Visit our Web site >> http://www.btinternet.com/~stnicholas.buccleuch/index.htm >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> >==== SCOTLAND-GENWEB Mailing List ==== >> >Scottish Universities >> >Their Libraries & Archives >> >http://www.ozemail.com.au/~jimjar/jimjargg.htm >> > >> >============================== >> >Search the Social Security Death Index online for FREE! >> >http://ssdi.genealogy.rootsweb.com/ >> >The most powerful SSDI search engine on the Internet! >> > >> >> >> ==== SCOTLAND-GENWEB Mailing List ==== >> For Scotland history..... >> http://members.aol.com/Skyelander/timeline.html >> >> ============================== >> Support free genealogy on the Internet! 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