Hello Betty, My ggg grandfather Alexander LAMB married a Janet COULL in Rathven 1800. The only likely Rathven Janet I could find in the OPRs was 14/1/1769 Janet daur to William COWL and Margt CLARK in Kirktown I would be interested in any other Janets who might have married Alexander Regards Ian Lamb >Date: 28 Mar 2003 13:32:47 -0700 >From: [email protected] >To: [email protected] >Message-ID: <[email protected]> >Subject: [Banff] Re: COULL family of Rathven, Banff. >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > >Surnames: COULL, FARQUHAR, MILNE, GEDDES, MURRAY, REID, CLARK, THAIN, >INNES, URQUHART, WEIR, FLETT, GARDEN, WILSON >Classification: Query > >Message Board URL: > >http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ReC.2ACI/2377.2.1 > >Message Board Post: > >Hi Barry, I have only a Peter COULL born c1770 and do not know his >parents, so perhaps your Janet could be a sister of Peter, this line of >COULL were fisherfolk. I have 6 Janet's spread over many years each one >has been "attached" From this distance (NZ) it is hard to research back >into the 1700s. I have a number of FARQUHAR family as well. >Regards Betty