-----Original Message----- From: maryegger [mailto:campsie@tcsn.net] Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 3:37 PM To: 'NORTHUMBRIA-L@rootsweb.com' Subject: FW: MARGARET WYLIE I have tried a few times to send this and each time it "bounces." Apologies if it has gone through before. Maisie -----Original Message----- From: maryegger [mailto:campsie@tcsn.net] Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2004 3:54 PM To: NORTHUMBRIA-L-request@rootsweb.com Subject: MARGARET WYLIE As a new subscriber to the Northumbria and East Lothian lists, let me wish you a good afternoon from a rather dreich day on the Central Coast area of California. It's supposed to be our rainy season, but there's a reluctance from the heavens to send us some needed downpours. The assumptions one makes when digging into one's family background, such that, one born and bred in Glasgow has to be 100% Scottish, therefore! Sure! Especially with the large influx of Irish to Glasgow in the 1800s. Aunt on mother's side: "Oh, no you're not! You have one great-grandmother and one great-great grandmother from Northern Ireland. Volunteer Researcher in Glasgow: You can add some English into the mix as an English 4 or 5 x grt-grandmother, Margaret Wylie, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northumberland (1776) married Robert Hillcoat* of Prestonpans, East Lothian, Scotland. (1752). They, in turn, begat James Hillcoat (wife Helen Young) who begat Jane (Jeanie) Hillcoat, Renfrew, Scotland...and so on down the line until you come to you (me, i.e.) (*Robert's parents were Anthony Hillcoat, Prestonpans and wife Helen Watson (abt. 1751), also of Prestonpans.) I have no information at all on Margaret Wylie (that spelling perhaps), whether she moved to Scotland from Northumberland as a child, or went there after marriage to Robert Hillcoat. Quite a few of the Hillcoats (the Scottish ones, i.e.) came from the Paisley/Greenock areas of Renfrewshire, and worked as hand linen weavers or potters. Should I count myself lucky that I have this much information, or does anyone have anything else to add to the mix, or suggestions, with which to help me? On bended knees for any other information! Maisie Egger Paso Robles, California (formerly of Glasgow, Scotland)