Kerryn, Greetings from "Dixie," USA. I'd be very interested in any TAIT family genealogy that you may have. My paternal and surname ancestor is JOHN WYSE/WISE (1721-1780), who married circa 1740 MARGARET TAIT (b. May 1727) at Maryculter Parish Church, in Maryculter, old Kincardineshire, Scotland. This MARGARET TAIT (b. May 1727) was a daughter of WILLIAM TAIT (b.1703) and his wife MARGARET COLLEY, of Maryculter, old Kincardineshire, Scotland, i.e., just across the nearby county line of old Aberdeenshire. Moreover, MARGARET's paternal grandparents are JOHN TAIT and ELIZABETH EDWARDS, also of Maryculter, old Kincardineshire. John F. Wise Montgomery, Alabama USA [born in New York and descend from the State of South Carolina and Georgia (USA) WISEs.] SCOTTISH BLOODLINES: WYSE/WISE, LOW, TAIT, COLLEY, and EDWARDS. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kerryn Taylor" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 5:04 AM Subject: [ABERDEEN] Posting Interests > HI everyone, > I thought I should post my Aberdeen surnames again as we have found a > few new ones. > James FORSYTH m Elizabeth WATSON July 1780, Ellon.(can't find their > parents or deaths, OPR marriage gives no information) > daughter Helen b 1781, Ellon > son Alexander b 1787, Ellon, Meal Miller m Jane/Jean THOMSON b 1787, > Foveran, daughter of John THOMSON and Marjory MILNE (unconfirmed as > yet) Alex and Jane both died at Mill of Broomfield in the 1860's. > Their children:- > 1. Alexander Thomson FORSYTH b abt 1811, Ellon > 2. Marjory (May) FORSYTH b abt 1813, Ellon m Alexander MELVIN 1838, > Broomfield, Ellon. > 3. Susan Cassie FORSYTH b abt 1815, Foveran. > 4. Jane FORSYTH possibly married James TAIT abt 1844, Longside > 5. James FORSYTH b abt 1818 m Christina ROBERTSON > 6. Robert FORSYTH b abt 1824 m Helen THOMSON, are my ggg grandparents > (her parents possibly George THOMSON and Helen LESLIE) > 7. Isabella FORSYTH b abt 1827 possibly married William RATTRAY. > 8. Ann FORSYTH b abt 1830 m John GRANT > 9. Helen FORSYTH b abt 1833 > Most of the FORSYTH men were Meal Millers. > Any connections to any of these names out there? > Cheers > Kerryn in Australia

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Hi, Does anyone know where Achanearin, Lairg is or was? David

Hello all Is there anyone out there who is looking into the name of Fotheringham from Fetteresso? I am looking for a William Fotheringham who was born about 1795 in Fetteresso (according to the 1851 census) and was married to Sarah Croll. Sarah died in 1869 but I have been unable to find a death for William. William was a hillkeeper. Nancy Douglas

Hi Margie Cloudslie is an unusual name & I have come across it in connection with another, BLACKLAWS which I am researching. Have you come across this couple? George BLACKLAWS m Margaret CLOUDSLIE 4 Mar 1780 Glenbervie. That is all the info I have. Regards Elaine ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bervie" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, March 30, 2002 1:50 PM Subject: [SCT-KINCARDINE] CLOUDSLAY > Am researching the Cloudsley name. Have spotted Cloudsleys in Montrose and > Aberdeen. Would appreciate > any information. Margie >

Dear Grant: I was looking thorugh the surname list of those that have already registered for DNA testing. I find one with a Ross Surname interest. I have copied both the Clan Ross mailing list and the Ross surname mailing list to see if there is any interest in more Ross descendants to start testing or if there is already a group underway. There is a lot of work being done on getting data to convert the marker and allele results from one lab to be compatible with scores from another lab. So in that case, it wouldn't matter which Lab does the work. We chose GeneTree due to the higher number of markers and the specific markers used seemed to be in line with the markers that would be able to identify the Scottish ancestry;. As you know the 4 main groups in Scottish ancestry ( Celts, Picts etc) had unique markers and we tried to take that into consideration. In Addition, Genetree is affilliated with Relative Genetics and the BYU study so I felt that this gave access to a wider range of prospective matches in Scottish Clans. That was also one reason, that we encouraged the study of the MtDNA ( females) so that this data could also contribute to possible relationships between the Clans &Families. Hope this answeres your questions. Best Regards John A Hansen > -----Original Message----- > From: Grant South [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Sunday, April 14, 2002 12:53 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [SCOT-DNA] Test Kits? > > > Och Bill, > > I did step one on the 11th and again on the 13th, but I am still > to received > my reply, per the Scots DNA study. > And I am now a'waiting the issue of my confirmation number. > I thought it would be sooner than later. > > Thank you for sending me the information. > Slainte! > Grant. > Ps. I am still looking at the Canzell's. Will get back to you. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Bill Caddell" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, April 14, 2002 4:47 PM > Subject: Re: [SCOT-DNA] Test Kits? > > > > Grant, > > > > The following was from an old email from John Hansen: > > > > "But we need to follow a certain procedure to obtain > > that price. You need to be registered in the Scottish > > Clan database in order to get the savings. > > A: You send to [email protected] your name and address > > and request the kit. > > B: They will then put your name in the Clan database > > send that on to Genetree. The first batch will go to > > Genetree on next Monday. You will then receive an > > email confirmation of that request to GeneTree and > > a confirmation number. > > C: GeneTree will then send you the kit along with an > > invoice confirming the amount due of $175.00. > > D: You do the sample process and send off the kit > > back to GeneTree. You also then arrange for payment > > directly with GeneTree referring to the Scottish Clan > > Project and the reference number that you received. > > The payment can be made with credit cards, checks > > etc ( I tried baked goods and chickens without > > any success [:-)] . > > > > The Ancestry GenetiKit can be used to test for paternal-line > > relationships through a test known as the Surname Test or Y > > Chromosome Test. The Surname test analyzes twenty-three > > markers making it the highest resolution commercial > > Y-chromosome test in the world. These markers identify the > > provider's genetic identity inherited from his ancestors. > > Other tests available using the GenetiKit include the > > Mitochondrial DNA Native American Haplotype Test and > > Mitochondrial DNA Sequencing Test used for establishing > > maternal relationships. > > > > The genetic identity of the provider will be compared > > against a database of over nineteen thousand DNA samples, > > the world's largest database of genetic genealogical > > samples. The results that will be reported to the provider > > include an analysis of the provider's personal genetic > > identity and a comparison with surnames contained in > > the database to determine relationships. Ancestry.com users > > can use their personal genetic identity to find other > > Ancestry.com users who are living relatives. Furthermore, if > > a match is determined with another sample in the database, > > the provider will receive ancestral information on that > > match including a name, place, and date." > > > > Bill Caddell > > > > > > > > Grant South wrote: > > >

I have a Mary Cloudesley, married to a Robert Barclay. She was reputed to be born about 1649 and died at 90's in 1743, in Laurencekirk. I haven't found anything on her family. However, in Black's Surnames of Scotland he lists two burgesses of Montrose in the 1630's andd the 1650's by that surname. >===== Original Message From [email protected] ===== >Content-Type: text/plain > >SCT-KINCARDINE-D Digest Volume 02 : Issue 48 > >Today's Topics: > #1 [SCT-KINCARDINE] CLOUDSLAY [Bervie <[email protected]>] > >Administrivia: >To unsubscribe from SCT-KINCARDINE-D, send a message to > > [email protected] > >that contains in the body of the message the command > > unsubscribe > >and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software >requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. > >______________________________ > >----- Forwarded Message ----- >From: Bervie <[email protected]> >To: SCT-KINCARDINE-L <[email protected]> >Subject: [SCT-KINCARDINE] CLOUDSLAY > >Am researching the Cloudsley name. Have spotted Cloudsleys in Montrose and >Aberdeen. Would appreciate >any information. Margie * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Get your free @ecosse.net account http://www.ecosse.net Scotland's Free Internet Service Provider * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

Hi List, I am trying to find any information on ELIZABETH CHRISTIE born abt 1800, She married William Muchart 1824 at Marykirk. Kirkcardine Mainly her parents. any help would be appreciated cheers Maggie [email protected]

Am researching the Cloudsley name. Have spotted Cloudsleys in Montrose and Aberdeen. Would appreciate any information. Margie

-----Original Message----- From: John A Hansen Sent: Wednesday, 27 March 2002 8:13 To: Subject: [SCT-KINCARDINE] Free DAR Lookups for Revolutionary War patriots Dear All: While this is a Scotland List , many of the ancestors left here to go to the Colonies and start a new life. They maintained their interest in Scotland and also made a great impact on the founding of the New United States of America. Some volunteers from the society of the Daughters of the American Revolution ( DAR) have established a wonderful new program for users of Rootsweb. These volunteers will do lookups in their database and records if you think one of your ancestors served in some capacity during the American Revolution. These volunteers have more databases that are available to them than the ones commonly used by the search engines. The process is fairly simple : Go to the DAR message board: There are two ways to do that: > www.rootsweb.com > message boards > topics > organizations and societies > DAR Or if you want the easy way :-) http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=board&r=rw&p=topics.organizations.dar Address your message as follows: subject : DAR Lookup > surname> location > dates ( put your data in this format) In the body of the message put the information regarding the person. Please put one search per post please. Be sure to fill out the surnames box at the bottom since the new search engine will be keying on that item. Leave the email response box checked and you will be notified when the DAR volunteers respond . Give them a week or so to get to your request. We really appreciate their efforts. This info can be key for: a: joining these prestigious organizations ( DAR & SAR) b: sending a request for the copies of the files that were submitted and the information they have available. Many thanks to: Glenda Thompson DAR VIS Volunteer Vice Chrm. Patriot Lookup for organizing this effort and all the many volunteers that are donating their time and effort to us instead of pursuing their own ancestors, Best Regards John A Hansen DAR board admin. BTW: Please forward this message to other lists and boards that each of you are involved in. A word of thanks to each volunteer that does this work and especially the one that responds to your post would probably be highly appreciated. JAH ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237

Dear All: While this is a Scotland List , many of the ancestors left here to go to the Colonies and start a new life. They maintained their interest in Scotland and also made a great impact on the founding of the New United States of America. Some volunteers from the society of the Daughters of the American Revolution ( DAR) have established a wonderful new program for users of Rootsweb. These volunteers will do lookups in their database and records if you think one of your ancestors served in some capacity during the American Revolution. These volunteers have more databases that are available to them than the ones commonly used by the search engines. The process is fairly simple : Go to the DAR message board: There are two ways to do that: > www.rootsweb.com > message boards > topics > organizations and societies > DAR Or if you want the easy way :-) http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=board&r=rw&p=topics.organizations.dar Address your message as follows: subject : DAR Lookup > surname> location > dates ( put your data in this format) In the body of the message put the information regarding the person. Please put one search per post please. Be sure to fill out the surnames box at the bottom since the new search engine will be keying on that item. Leave the email response box checked and you will be notified when the DAR volunteers respond . Give them a week or so to get to your request. We really appreciate their efforts. This info can be key for: a: joining these prestigious organizations ( DAR & SAR) b: sending a request for the copies of the files that were submitted and the information they have available. Many thanks to: Glenda Thompson DAR VIS Volunteer Vice Chrm. Patriot Lookup for organizing this effort and all the many volunteers that are donating their time and effort to us instead of pursuing their own ancestors, Best Regards John A Hansen DAR board admin. BTW: Please forward this message to other lists and boards that each of you are involved in. A word of thanks to each volunteer that does this work and especially the one that responds to your post would probably be highly appreciated. JAH

Reid family, Cairngrassie, District of Cookney. Charles Johnston Reid, Master Tailor and wife Margaret Barclay. I have birth certificate of son, my grandfather, John Howitt Reid b 26 June 1864. Initial enquiry for any info please. Gordon Reid Queensland Australia.

The following information is provided for the benefit of those who may have know this gentleman. I have no other information about him. Please feel free to pass it along as you wish. It comes from the Austin, Texas, Austin American-Statesman, Sunday, March 24, 2002: William Richard JOHNSON William Richard JOHNSON, a physician, gentleman, and Scotsman came to the end of his long struggle with emphysema on the night of March 20, 2002, cared for lovingly and compassionately by the staff member of Hospice Austin and Buckner Villas nursing facility, with help from neighbors. He was born in Edinburgh in 1922 of Master Mariner David Anderson JOHNSON and Eliza Jane JOHNSON (nee LEASK). He received a medical degree from the University of Edinburgh in 1945. He was House Surgeon of the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary for a year before serving as a Lieutenant in the British Royal Air Force for two years. For thirteen years he had a general medical practice in England, and he was a founding member of the Royal British College of Family Practice before moving to Texas in 1963 to serve small communities in East Texas and then Houston where he had staff privileges at several area hospitals. He became a naturalized United States citizen in 1967. He was a member of the British Medical Association, the American Medical Association, the Texas Medical Association, the Travis County Medical Society, the American College of Family Practitioners, and the Southern Medical Association. In 1971, he received a Master of Public Health degree from the university of Texas School of Public Health and moved to Austin shortly thereafter and worked as Medical Director of the State Department of Public Welfare, as a physician for the City of Austin Model Cities Clinic, the Travis State School, the Texas Department of Health, and the Texas Legislature. For a brief time he returned to the Houston area to work at the Richmond State School. Throughout his medical career, Dr. JOHNSON was described as conscientious, scholarly, kind, and attentive to patients and their relatives, courteous, delightful, diligent beyond expectation, thorough, and inspiring. Twenty years ago, he lost his wife to breast cancer, followed by the loss of his oldest daughter to the same disease in 1984. After undertaking the care of his granddaughter for several years, she too, died of the same disease, followed three years ago by the death of his brother. In October 1999, his youngest daughter, a medical doctor trained in psychiatry, died at the age of 50. Dr. JOHNSON was fond of fellow Scotsman and poet Robert Burns, whom he affectionately called Bobby Burns, and who poem "Prayer Under the Pressure of Violent Anguish" must have held special meaning for him: O Thou Great Being! what Thou art Surpass me to know; Yet sure I am, that known to Thee Are all Thy works below. Thy creature here before Thee stands, All wretched and distressed; Yet sure those ills that wring my soul Obey Thy high behest. Sure Thou, Almighty, canst not act >From cruelty or wrath! O, free my weary eyes from tears, Or close them fast in death! But, if I must afflicted be To suit some wise design, Then man my soul with firm resolves To bear and not repine! Dr. JOHNSON was never heard to express discontent with his lot in life, and his compassion continues beyond his death. Memorials to his name are encouraged to the Salvation Army, to the Austin Memorial and Burial Information Society, and to the American Cancer society. As was his wish, his body was cremated and followed by private services.

Hi List could sks have a look for WILLIAM MUCKART born 1796 at Garvock {Crofter} wife Elizabeth Muckart born abt 1800 son William Muckart born 1831 Fordoun any help would be appreciated cheers Maggie [email protected]

I am researching the family of John Middleton (Gardener at Monboddo and later at Benholm) who married Helen Crow 29 November 1801 - registered at Montrose/Glenbervie. I have failed to find the parents of either John or Helen. Their children were: William b.1802 Haugh of Bervie; d.1872 Edinburgh John b.1804 Arbuthnott; d.1860 Aberdeen Alexander b.1806 Arbuthnott; d.1871 Brechin James b.1809 Monboddo, Fordoun (Bapt. witnesses: James Walker, Alexander Milne, both Mains of Monboddo) Helen b.1811, Monboddo (Bapt. witnesses: James Walker, Mossend; Charles Forbes, Auchinblay) Arthur b.1813, Monboddo (bapt. witnesses: Mrs Burnett of Monboddo; Elizabeth Kerr, Mossend) Charles b.1815 Monboddo; d.1872 glasgow Isabella b.1818 I'd be very interested to learn of any connections. Eileen

Hi Kate, In answer to your mail I have come across a Helen Sinclair. She was born about 1858, Fetteresso. Parents are perhaps James Sinclair and Elizabeth Watt. In the Census for 1891 Helen was living in Skaterow, Fetteresso with husband John Riddel b 3 Aug 1856, Fetteresso (see below). 1891 British Census 47 Skaterow Fetteresso, Kincardine, Scotland John RIDDLE Head 34 Salmon Fisherman Fetteresso, Kincardine Helen RIDDLE Wife 33 Fetteresso, Kincardine Catherine Sinclair RIDDLE Daur 7 Fetteresso, Kincardine Robert A. RIDDLE Son 1m Fetteresso, Kincardine I believe that John's parents were John Riddel and Ann McDonald. Ann also shows up in Skaterow (see below). 1861 British Census 19 Skaterow Fetteresso, Kincardine, Scotland Ann BIBLE? Working? 37 Ann McDonald Head 28 Servt Pauper Margaret Daur 7 John Son 6 James Son 2 or 3 1891 British Census 5 Skaterow Fetteresso, Kincardine, Scotland Ann McDONALD Head 57 Fish Dealer Fetteresso, Kincardine As I am researching the genealogy of all inhabitants of the fishing village Skaterow (see my research at http://www.enkel.com/skaterow ) I am very interested to know if you have anything more on the ancestry of Helen Sinclair. I'm only interested in the names and dates of her parents and sibings if they weren't from another fishing village in Fetteresso or Banchory Devenick. She is the only Sinclair to have lived in Skaterow as far back as my research goes. Best regards Susanne

Dear Alex: I have a William BROWNE, b. abt 1650, Bervie, Kincardine. I know this is a bit early for your family, but it may help with the location in Kincardine. Bill Sacramento, CA., USA

Dear All: There is a new and really nice web site for the Arbuthnott Surname and the Clan Arbuthnott at: http://www.kittybrewster.com/ There is also a Mailing list and Message boards for the Surname and the Clan Arbuthnott as well. Best Regards John A Hansen

Sorry, no James Pearson on the 1851 census for Durris Sharon researching GLASS EMSLIE COUTTS McKONDACH and GORDON in Aberdeenshire and Kincardineshire special interests in parish of BIRSE, and the area of the FOREST OF BIRSE ----- Original Message ----- From: "Angie Pearson (by way of TCF <[email protected]>)" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 5:48 AM Subject: [SCT-KINCARDINE] Pearson > Would a James Pearson appear on aCensus 1851 or earlier for Durris/Durrin Kincairdinshire. > Could someone help me please with this look up, > Angie >

Hi everyone, The site is back online and in a position where you can search the database. There is no submission form - I'm working on this and hope to have it fixed within a week (if I don't loose the plot <g>). Cheers Sue