Hi Conrad, I have been transcribing various records from the Haddington OPR film, I currently have on loan, what a bonanza, I have over 90 entries so far! Including the baptisms of James & Helen's 13 children, looks like I missed your John, but I'll go back & check, included was Peter Forrest in 1814. You may recall me about a year ago, I thought that your ancestor & my Peter were brothers or at least cousins, but the only thing I had to go on was the Pringle middle name in Peter's grandchildren & Peter's son was born in Uitenhage. At the time I suggested Haddington as a likely place for both FORREST's to have come from and suggested you join this list which you did. I have since got Peter FORREST's South African Death Notice, aged 50 in 1864 It is amazing how things go full circle. cheers John Dods New Zealand >Hi Dorothy, > >Any connection to a FORREST? > >My ancestor John FORREST was born in Haddington on the 21 August >1808, the son of James FORREST and Helen PRINGLE, who married >on the 2nd Nov 1798 in Haddington. > >Helen was the daughter of Thomas PRINGLE and Isabel KNOX. > >If there is a connection I would love to hear more from you. I have the >descendants of the above John FORREST who died in South Africa >and would be prepared to share what I have with you, or anyone else >for that matter, who has an interest in the FORREST family in >Haddington. > >Any assistance greatly appreciated. > > >> My ancestral records reveal that Katherine Yule was married to David Pringle >> on January 27, 1727 at Templehall. They had 7 children: David (1727), Andrew >> (1730), George (1732), Janet (1734), Robert (1737), James (1739) (my ancestor) >> and >> John ((1742). They were all baptised at Templehall. >> Dorothy Pringle Schneider >> Dotps2@aol.com >> >> > Proud to be a transcriber for the freeCEN Project,UK and the 1901 Candian Census and volunteer for Random Acts of Geneological Kindness. Ask me how you can contribute to either of these worthy projects or for other ways of helping our hobby. NZSG member Researching BATTERS in Yorkshire BENNIE in Lanarkshire, Dunbartonshire & West Lothian BENNING in Lanarkshire & Montreal COLLINS in California & PA COOPER in Yorkshire DODS in East Lothian, Berwickshire, Vancouver BC, Montreal, Manchester, South Africa, Hong Kong, India DOUGLAS in Lanarkshire FENTON in Edinbugh FISHER in Yorkshire FORREST in South Africa HAYTON in Yorkshire HEWAT in East Lothian LAMONT in Lanarkshire LEGGAT in Monreal MCLEAN in Argyllshire MURRIE in Lanarkshire NICOL in Lanarkshire RANKINE in Dunbartonshire, Perthshire SEYMOUR inVancouver, B.C. & Montreal SHIRREFF in East Lothian SNELL in California, Oregeon SUFFILL/SUFFIELD in Yorkshire TROTTER in Lanarkshire, Stirlingshire, West Lothian WATSON in Brantford & Barrie, Ontario. WEIR in Argyllshire & Lanarkshie WILLIAMSON in Edinburgh & North Berwick