This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Geddes McLean Gordon Walsh Ives Pentland Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ReC.2ACI/535.599.1902.2265.2.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Hi Robert, Well, your posting was a fortuitous unintentionality!! Banffshire is not south nor east of Edinburgh! But that doesn't matter, we've made the connection. There's absolutely no problem 'invading' this particular thread; the reason for my asking was to understand whether you had found or had thought there might be a connection between your Edinburgh GEDDESes and the Banffshire GEDDESes that were the subject of the thread. In the event, there doesn't appear to be any connection. There easily could have been. Because a posting on this Board automatically appears on the Banffshire List, I'll explain that one reason why I am more than passing interested is that the 1851 census has an Alexander GEDDES turning up in Edinburgh age 67 born Fordyce Banffshire, with wife Isabella GEDDES née MCLEAN (age 55, from Perth) and son Peter GEDDES age 13 b Edn. I am reasonably happy but haven't been able to prove that Alexander GEDDES was bpt 26-Nov-1783 the son of Peter GEDDES in Mains of Birkinbog, Fordyce, Banffshire, and his wife Margaret GORDON. Young Peter GEDDES next turns up in Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia in 1865 when he married Mary WALSH. A son of his second marriage to Margaret IVES, also named Alexander GEDDES, was witness to the death of one of my Fordyce GEDDESes in 1916 in Rockhampton. I have yet to figure how these two lines of GEDDES relate to each other; but relate to each other they surely must. Because your Edinburgh GEDDES aren't anything to do with Banffshire, I'll reply to you about them direct off-board. My interest in your Edinburgh GEDDES is because of my Edinburgh PENTLANDs. Confusing? Yup!! Regards Howard Geddes