Hi out there Anyone got any thing on these long lost rellies CHARLES MERCER born 1840, Brittany, Aberdeen married MARGARET RAE born 1845 Edinburgh any thing on these families ,any time ,any dates,just anything regards Dave ,from down under in Dunedin ,NZ

Thank you very much, Ginny. I've tried it and already found a sibling I didn't have. GA ----- Original Message ----- From: Mark Echelberger To: Georgia Burgess-Erwin Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 4:25 PM Subject: Re: [SCT~ROOTS] CRAWFORDS Georgia, Go to www.familysearch.com and pick "search." Then you have choices on the left side. Choose "International Genealogical Index" and a slightly different form will come up. If you find a family match you can use the batch number in the next search without a firstname and you might find other siblings if they were born in the range of years included in that batch. It can be very useful. Good Luck, Ginny ----- Original Message ----- From: "Georgia Burgess-Erwin" <geerwin@darientel.net> To: <SCOTLAND-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 2:43 PM Subject: Fw: [SCT~ROOTS] CRAWFORDS > Hedley: > What is this on line "IGI" of which you refer in your email? > What is the Internet address? > Thanks, > Georgia > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Hedley Williams > To: SCOTLAND-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com > Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2001 1:46 PM > Subject: [SCT~ROOTS] CRAWFORDS > >

I am looking for information on the family of my Grandfather He was William Lees Low (born 23/11/1899) in Aberdeen. The address given is 35 Menzies Road Trigg. His father was David Cowie Low David was a Cooper (Journeyman). He was married to Margaret Lees a Domestic servant. Their address was 47 Menzies Road, Trigg. David's Parents were James Low and Christiana Cowie. For the 1881 Census Christiana's address was given as 6 Shore Lane Aberdeen. Their other children were John, Christina and William. Margaret Lees parents were William Lees and Jenn (or Jane) Christie. For the 1881 Census their address was given as 64 Skaterow Fetteresso. Their other children were Jean, Elspet (or Elspeth) My grandfather also served in the Battle of Jutland. On his Identity Certificate for the Naval Service his ship was the HMS Victory and his commencement date was 1 October 1917 (could be 1914) Any help with names or places etc would be more that gratefully accepted. Sue

Hello Listers, I am trying to track down the family of Crawford Logan BROWN. He was born in or near Creetown in about 1805 and his parents were Peter and Elizabeth Brown. I know he had some sisters and probably some brothers as well. He died at his station, Cairnsmore, near Dungog, NSW in 1859. Although the 'Brown' may be difficult to trace, perhaps his two other names, which look like family names, could help pinpoint the family. I'd be very grateful for any insights you may have! Best wishes Sybil Cameron Woollahra NSW

Hello listers, I am trying to trace the FRASER family and am wondering if someone may have acces to the 1841 and 1851 census (censi?) The family is: John Thomson Fraser (born about 1813) and his wife Helen Thomson (born about 1836) CHILDREN: Helen (Ellen?) Fraser - b. 1837 at Dunfermline Elizabeth (Eliza?) Fraser - b. 11 July 1841 at North Leith Isabella Fraser James Fraser b. 1842-1845? at Bonnington Thomas Fraser Mary Fraser They're proving difficult and I'd be very grateful for your help Best wishes Sybil Cameron Woollahra NSW

Diane Try DUMFRIES-GALLOWAY-L-request@rootsweb.com if you are researching in the Kirkcudbright area. A very active & useful list Margaret in Lancashire, England Researching DAVIE, McNEIL in the Lothians area McEWEN, MACKIE, SMITH in Perth HANNAY, RIDDICK, BROWN, BELL & MAXWELL in Kirkcudbrightshire -- <Created and sent to you using the Amstrad e-m@iler>

Hedley: What is this on line "IGI" of which you refer in your email? What is the Internet address? Thanks, Georgia ----- Original Message ----- From: Hedley Williams To: SCOTLAND-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2001 1:46 PM Subject: [SCT~ROOTS] CRAWFORDS Hi All once again My George GOW married a Barbara CRAWFORD at East Kilbride 11 July 1871 (I now have a certificate). The on line IGI indicated that there was a marriage between a John CRAWFORD and a Janet SHANKLAND at E>Kilbride on the same day. However I am advised that there was no trace in the Statutory Records Indexes of such a marriage. I am trying to find the syblings of Barbara and thought that this John may have been her brother. Any suggestions? Hedley. ______________________________

This is not quiet trivia or genealogy but is a favour for my neighbour. Is there any cooks out there than can give me the recipes for the Small Pineapple Tarts and Fern Cakes that are available in the cake shops in Scotland? Sheelagh Wiles aquarius21@ozemail.com.au Please avoid sending ANY mail with attachments in the contents to this address unless agreed upon previously

I'am french and I'am researching my family in england , ireland and scotland Can you help me ? Thank you for all 1 : Mary-Ann HEALY(EY), née à Manchester (GB) (Ancoats) le 29 Mai 1879, décédée à Ris Orangis le 3 Aout 1955, fille de Denis HEALY et de Catherine MAC DONOUGH), épouse Prosper Andre LEFEBVRE, le 30 Mai 1908 à Neuilly s/s (né le 30 Janvier 1880 à Paris 16ème et décédé le 25 Mars 1943 à Ris Orangis, fils de Prosper-Henri LEFEBVRE et de Marie-Olympe HESTROFFER). (Notes : rue Barbet de Jouy Paris 7ème ou 17ème ) ------------- 2 : Denis HEALY, né à Manchester (GB) (Ancoats) le 4 Octobre 1839, fils de James HEALY et de Mary MACARTHY), épouse Catherine MAC DONOUGH, le 18 Avril 1874 à Manchester (GB) (Ancoats) (fille de John MAC DONOUGH). (Notes : Né à Back Clepstow Street Dearsgate Manchester DCD en 1907? Veuf lors de son remariage ) ------------- 3 : Catherine MAC DONOUGH, fille de John MAC DONOUGH, épouse Denis HEALY, le 18 Avril 1874 à Manchester (GB) (Ancoats) (né le 4 Octobre 1839 à Manchester (GB) (Ancoats), fils de James HEALY et de Mary MACARTHY). (Notes : Née en 1856? DCD en 1881?) ------------- 4 : James HEALY, épouse Mary MACARTHY. ------------- 5 : Mary MACARTHY, épouse James HEALY. ------------- 6 : John MAC DONOUGH. Erick Fantin 11310 Saissac (france) Email : Erick.FANTIN@wanadoo.fr http://perso.wanadoo.fr/erick.fantin/ http://www.multimania.com/efantin/ http://www.ma-genealogie.org/fantin/ http://www.gencircles.com/users/eric1

Could someone please tell me what the name of the church is! I have extracts from the old parochial register in the parish of Hamilton, county of Lanark. Also I have the parish of Swinton and Simprim , county of Berwick. I need to try and find the names of these parish churchs and the denomination. Thanks for any help.

Hi All once again My George GOW married a Barbara CRAWFORD at East Kilbride 11 July 1871 (I now have a certificate). The on line IGI indicated that there was a marriage between a John CRAWFORD and a Janet SHANKLAND at E>Kilbride on the same day. However I am advised that there was no trace in the Statutory Records Indexes of such a marriage. I am trying to find the syblings of Barbara and thought that this John may have been her brother. Any suggestions? Hedley.

Thanks for the help. --Diane Jameson, California Researching Nova Scotia: Jameson, Johnson, Banks, Borgoine (Burgoyne), Sanford, Scofield Lothians, Scotland: Allan, Cram (Cramm, Cramb), Cuningham, Grieve, Hair, Laing, Linn, Rennie, Ronaldson, Ross, Watt, Walker Glasgow, Scotland: Harper, Robertson, Hutchinson, McLean Co. Donegal, Co. Tyrone, Ireland: Harper, Johnston, Irwing (Irwin, Erwin,Irwine,Irvine Irving, Urwin) Australia: Harper, McCullum Massachusetts: Harper, Allan, Jameson, Campbell, Mitchell > From: Killarrow@aol.com > Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2001 14:28:18 EDT > To: SCOTLAND-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [SCT~ROOTS] Where is Kirkcudbright? > Resent-From: SCOTLAND-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com > Resent-Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2001 12:28:19 -0600 > > www.multimap.com

In a message dated 8/19/01 2:21:44 PM Eastern Daylight Time, dianeelma@earthlink.net writes: > Can someone clue me in as to the location of Kirkcudbright? > Its in Dumfries. To see more try www.multimap.com - a good interactive mapping service for the UK.

Can someone clue me in as to the location of Kirkcudbright? Gratefully--Diane Jameson, California Researching Nova Scotia: Jameson, Johnson, Banks, Borgoine (Burgoyne), Sanford, Scofield Lothians, Scotland: Allan, Cram (Cramm, Cramb), Cuningham, Grieve, Hair, Laing, Linn, Rennie, Ronaldson, Ross, Watt, Walker Glasgow, Scotland: Harper, Robertson, Hutchinson, McLean Co. Donegal, Co. Tyrone, Ireland: Harper, Johnston, Irwing (Irwin, Erwin,Irwine,Irvine Irving, Urwin) Australia: Harper, McCullum Massachusetts: Harper, Allan, Jameson, Campbell, Mitchell

Hi All I am looking for the children of William CRAWFORD and Janet (ms YOUNG) married on 17 Oct 1841 at Hamilton, Lanark, Scotland according to the on-line IGI. On the marriage certificate for Barbara CRAWFORD to George GOW 11 July 1871 Barbara is given as 27 i.e. b.c 1844 and her parents as above . William is entered as a draper and Janet as deceased a Margaret CRAWFORD is entered as a witness. ( Sister?) My on-line IGI search did not throw up any Barbara or Margaret as children of the above. Can anyone find any family as we already have these two confirmed? Hedley.

Hello Listers, Thanks to the assistance of another Rootsweb researcher, I am gradually getting closer to making sure I've got the right folks matched up. Does SKS have access to the 1871 Census for a lookup? I ask ignorantly, since I do not know what kind of information was recorded in 1871. :-) Alexander Hair b. Sep 1835, Gladsmuir, East Lothian, Scotland d. between 1869-1881, See 1881 Census Info For Catherine Hair Dalgleish, age: 33 ch. 27 Sep 1835, Gladsmuir, East Lothian, Scotland & Lillias Dalgleish b. 29 Jan 1837, Liberton, Midlothian, Edinburgh, Scotland cen. 1881, 2 Coupar Street, North Leith, Edinburgh, Scotland, age: 43 m. 27 Dec 1861, Leith, Midlothian, Scotland | Catherine Hair | b. 22 Dec 1862, Balmaghie, Kirkcudbright, Scotland | cen. 1881, age: 18 | Hellen Hair | b. 4 Nov 1864, Leith, Midlothian, Scotland | cen. 1881, Not Shown Living With Widowed Mother At This Time And Place., age: 16 | James Dalgleish Hair | b. 14 Aug 1866, Leith, Midlothian, Scotland | cen. 1881, 2 Coupar Street, North Leith, Edinburgh, Scotland, age: 14 | Robert Hair | b. 2 Nov 1869, Dundee, Angus, Scotland | cen. 1881, 2 Coupar Street, North Leith, Edinburgh, Scotland, age: 11 -- Diane Jameson, California List Administrator for Surnames ALLAN and WATT

Hello Everyone, I have just made some assumptions that lead to the following conclustions. Since the four children's names match perfectly with the grandparents' names I feel I've got something better than a wild guess here. Is anyone else looking at this line? Perhaps SKS would be willing to take a look at an available census to help pin these folk down to a specific location. I'd greatly appreciate the assistance! Alexander Hair b. Sep 1835, Gladsmuir, East Lothian, Scotland & Lillias Dalgleish b. 29 Jan 1837, Liberton, Midlothian, Edinburgh, Scotland m. 27 Dec 1861, Leith, Midlothian, Scotland | Hellen Hair | b. 4 Nov 1864, Leith, Midlothian, Scotland | James Dalgleish Hair | b. 14 Aug 1866, Leith, Midlothian, Scotland | Catherine Hair | b. 22 Dec 1862, Balmaghie, Kirkcudbright, Scotland | Robert Hair | b. 2 Nov 1869, Dundee, Angus, Scotland --Diane Jameson, California Researching Nova Scotia: Jameson, Johnson, Banks, Borgoine (Burgoyne), Sanford, Scofield Lothians, Scotland: Allan, Cram (Cramm, Cramb), Cuningham, Grieve, Hair, Laing, Linn, Rennie, Ronaldson, Ross, Watt, Walker Glasgow, Scotland: Harper, Robertson, Hutchinson, McLean Co. Donegal, Co. Tyrone, Ireland: Harper, Johnston, Irwing (Irwin, Erwin,Irwine,Irvine Irving, Urwin) Australia: Harper, McCullum Massachusetts: Harper, Allan, Jameson, Campbell, Mitchell

----- Original Message ----- From: <SCOTLAND-ROOTS-D-request@rootsweb.com> To: <SCOTLAND-ROOTS-D@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 8:01 AM Subject: SCOTLAND-ROOTS-D Digest V01 #40

Sorry I cannot yet be of much help to you with Laing Johnston. My line has "Laing" as a surname and occasional middle name. Certainly the Scottish custom of honoring the previous generation with their naming pattern points to the stong possibility of Scottish heritage. I'm not sure that the English and Irish were as consistent with the naming process. Perhaps someone else can address that. I only know that with my Scottish ancestors, I can, with reasonable assurity, predict the given names of grandparents by looking at the birth order of children and their names (and vice versa). However, The death of unrecorded infants and children can throw a question mark into the guess work. Seeing a lapse in time of three or four years between recorded births is a good tip off of infant mortality, and a missing ancestor-honoring name. Yet another knot in the search for reconstructing families can be seen in a recent unraveling of the confusion of one William Allan's marriage to Elizabeth Rennie and Bettie Rannie within weeks of each other. One marriage was reported in Lasswade and the other in Liberton, a short distance away. To add to the confusion, the brides were each attributed in official records (Scots Origins) with several children, but not in the same years. Since William was identied as the same individual through references to his birth and parents, I began thinking this William Allan was quite the rogue. Not so! The marriage banns were simply read and recorded in both the church of the bride and the groom on separate Sundays. In one church the future Mrs. Allan was known as "Betty Rannie" and the other church knew her as Elizabeth Rennie. With all children attributed to both the named females combined - voila! - they merged beautifully, arriving about every two years, and reiterating the naming pattern, they were all properly named in birth order to honor the husband's and wife's parents and grandparents respectively. Happy hunting, --Diane Jameson, California Researching Nova Scotia: Jameson, Johnson, Banks, Borgoine (Burgoyne), Sanford, Scofield Lothians, Scotland: Allan, Cram (Cramm, Cramb), Cuningham, Grieve, Hair, Laing, Linn, Rennie, Ronaldson, Ross, Watt, Walker Glasgow, Scotland: Harper, Robertson, Hutchinson, McLean Co. Donegal, Co. Tyrone, Ireland: Harper, Johnston, Irwing (Irwin, Erwin,Irwine,Irvine Irving, Urwin) Australia: Harper, McCullum Massachusetts: Harper, Allan, Jameson, Campbell, Mitchell > From: "Colin Johnston" <Colin.Johnston@care4free.net> > Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 10:08:17 +0100 > To: "Diane Jameson" <dianeelma@earthlink.net> > Subject: Re: [MLN] Laing > > Hi Diane > Thank you for responding. In addition to the OPR quoted I have the marriage > of a John Johnston to an Isobel Laing at Traquair, Peebleshire on 14 June > 1766. > The birth of a son William to a John Johnston and an Isabel Laing at > Oldmelrose, Roxburghshire on 22 March 1770. The birth of a son John to a > John Johnston and an Isabel Laing at Peebles on 24 March 1780. I do not > know if they are connected. > My grandfather (born in Plaistow, Essex, England) had a brother called > Laing. My Greatgrand father, John Alfred (born in Hammersmith, London, > England), had a brother called Laing. My Greatgreatgrand father(baptised at > St Barthomew the Great, London) was called Laing and on his 2nd marriage > certificate his father's name was given as Laing. What I want to know is, > was this the Laing Johnston born in Scotland? > > Colin >

Hi, Can anyone help me. I am looking for the parents of James Smith and Ann Mitchell married June 21, 1845 in the parish of Swinton and Simprim, county of Berwick. Also looking for the parents of William Black and Isabella Wright married July 4th, 1847 in the parish of Hamilton , County of Lanark. William was from the parish of Dalziel and Isabell was from the parish of Hamilton. I ordered the marriage certificates for both sets of people and this told me nothing. I am at a dead end. These people are my ggggrandparents and I would like to find out their parents names so I can continue with my search. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Karen Harvey