Thanks for the letter. First of all, my MEIKLE line came to the USA around 1875 from Lanarkshire, Scotland. My grandmother was a MEIKLE, born in Colorado in 1878, daughter of the people who came around 1875. I have spent a lot of years going backwards on this line. My oldest confirmed MEIKLE in the line is James MEIKLE, born around 1750, married in 1777. He was from Lesmahagow, Lanark and he married Janet Taylor in 1777 in Port of Monteith, Perth. They lived in Lesmahagow until the 1790's when they moved to Stonehouse, Lanark, Scotland. I know there were a few MEIKLE names in Stonehouse as far back as 1691 as I am in the process of studying the Stonehouse Old Parish Register. Some years ago I received a letter from a lady in Scotland, saying that the family originated in the Lanark area but around 1300 or so went to the Aberdeen area and that the name was a sept of Clan Baird. It was in the 1600's they began to come down into Lanark. Now I do not know if this is true or not. Cannot prove it, nor can I disprove it. What I do know is that the name was written in various ways in the Old Parish Registers. If I happen to come across an Alexander Meickle, I will let you know. Don and Mary in Wyoming >Hi Don and Mary: I understand that you are interested in the MEICKLE family. >I am also interested in the origin of that family in Scotland. An Alexander >Meickle was imported into East New Jersey in 1684 as an indentured servant of >John Campbell. They sailed from Montrose in 1684 on the ship THOMAS AND >BENJAMIN and landed at Sandy Hook NJ. I am trying to find the places these >passengers of the Thomas and Benjamin originated. There were 130 passengers >and most of those I have located came from either the Montrose,Angus or >Aberdeen areas. Do you know where the Meickle family lived? I can't find an >Alexander Meickle in LDS records. Jessie, Calif. > > >==== SCOTLAND-GENWEB Mailing List ==== >Scottish Universities >Their Libraries & Archives >http://www.ozemail.com.au/~jimjar/jimjargg.htm > >============================== >Free Web space. ANY amount. ANY subject. >RootsWeb's Freepages put you in touch with millions. >http://cgi.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/acctform.cgi >