Hi List, Posting my interests. At this stage just two families: MUNSIE of Penpont, Terregles and Lochrutton prior to 1838 WELSH of Irongray prior to 1838 TIA Terry Munsie Australia.

Hi list How come we've got one of the hardest names to spell?? I am looking for family in Kelton, Kirkcudbright and wonder if sks can help with a birth Joseph LITTLE arround 1870-1880. Mother possibly called Henrietta. Thanks Penny

I am interested in reading the emails re : clean out of the area - does anyone have information on those going to Australia. My relatives John and Isabella Rigg came to Australia in around 1840 ? Pat Mott AUSTRALIA SEARCHING MY FAMILY: AUSTRALIA - MOTT, BROOM, RIGG, HAWKE, HAWKES, WOOD, GREEN, ANDERSON, CAMPBELL ENGLAND - MOTT, HOLGATE, HAWKES, BROOM, STUDLEY, CHILCOTT, SUMMERS, PAYNE, LOUD, APLIN, GRIFFIN, CHOWN, WHITE, PITTS, CARPENTER, NIGHTINGALE, UNDERWOOD, JOHNSON, BIZZEL, CROCKER, BANHAM, BASTING, CARTER SCOTLAND - RIGG, CAMPBELL,MC TAGGART, BRACKENRIDGE, RAIN, TAGART

I am new to this list, spending most of my time researching in Yorkshire and Cumbria. What has taken me over the waters is CUMPSTON castle which I have tracked down to the parish of Twynholm, care of the Dumfries and Galloway on line census search. It is the only place I have found so far in the UK with this name, and I am interested if anyone can tell me about its history, or if any of you have research which includes the name CUMPSTON. The name is now very rare - just 46 entries from the 1901 census for England and Wales, and most of the names can be tracked back to Brough in Westmoreland. There are however over 7000 in America and many more in Australia, all from early emigration. I would welcome any connections or leads you can offer Best wishes Glenys in Bishopdale www.bishopdale.demon.co.uk Web site for the Upper Yorkshire Dales Family History Group Seeking CUMPSTONs everywhere Member of the Guild of One Name Studies

In a message dated 8/30/2002 12:49:32 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: << he name CUMPSTON. >> Dear Glenys, Wouldn't hurt to go to URL: http://www.google.com/ and Search On: CUMPSTON GENEALOGY Good Luck Cheers, Bob

Dear Johanna, If you do a Google search on the Internet you'll probably find this sort of information. Jeanette (NZ)> >Can anyone on the list help me with the following please : > > >Scotland's 12 month holiday list ie New years day,Christmas etc all of them for Scotland > >and > >12 month celebrations for Scotland ie Queens birthday etc > >Really appreciate the help > >Thanks Johanna > > > >--------------------------------- >Do You Yahoo!? >HotJobs, a Yahoo! service - Search Thousands of New Jobs > > >============================== >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 > >

Can anyone please look up John CLAVE Robert CLAVE Janet CLAVE Alexander CLAVE Children born between 1776 and 1795 in Minnigaff. Their parents were Alexander CLAVE and Elizabeth THOMSON. Clave can also be spelled CLEAVE, MC CLAVE, MC CLEAVE, CLIVE, MC CLIVE, etc I will be very grateful for any assistance. Regards, Jason Gervase __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search Thousands of New Jobs http://www.hotjobs.com

I received a copy of the register for my relatives John Rigg and Isabella Mc Taggart 1838. On the same page are the following marriages which may be of use to someone on the list. JOHN MACMILLAN and ANNE STEWART?SINGER Date 1st June 1838 ? REID (residence the Grange) AND MARY MILSON Date 5th June JOHN TELFER (Parish of Lauriston) sand MARY ? Date 7th June GEORGE ? AND JANE CARSON (RENWICK) Date 19 June DAVID STANHOPE and ? MC KEACHIE? Date 18th June ADAM THOMSON (RENWICK) and MARGARET BLACK Date 23 July Unless stated there residence is Kirkcudbright. Sorry about the writing. The copy which cost a small fortune is very poor. I also have an extra from Borgue where my relative John Tagart and Sarrah Rain are registered in the middle of th text on 9 November 1758 They are ANDREW BREGGAT and MARY MC MINN 1st Aug 1750 JAMES MCconchie and ANNE HANNAY 21 DEC 1758 JAMES KEVAT and MARRION MARTINE 19 Apr 1759. JOHN MCWHIRK and JANET B? 2 April 1760 A? SPROAT and MARG TAIT 8 May JOHN GORDON and MARG M? 17 June 1760 SAMUEL BORTER, PORTER ? and MARG JOLLY 17 June 1760 JOHN PORTER? and GRIZZEL ?AIN - no date. I am happy to fax the original to anyone who needs it and I hope it is helpful. Regards Pat AUSTRALIA SEARCHING MY FAMILY: AUSTRALIA - MOTT, BROOM, RIGG, HAWKE, HAWKES, WOOD, GREEN, ANDERSON, CAMPBELL ENGLAND - MOTT, HOLGATE, HAWKES, BROOM, STUDLEY, CHILCOTT, SUMMERS, PAYNE, LOUD, APLIN, GRIFFIN, CHOWN, WHITE, PITTS, CARPENTER, NIGHTINGALE, UNDERWOOD, JOHNSON, BIZZEL, CROCKER, BANHAM, BASTING, CARTER SCOTLAND - RIGG, CAMPBELL,MC TAGGART, BRACKENRIDGE, RAIN, TAGART

In a message dated 8/18/2002 7:54:46 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: << JOHN MCWHIRK and JANET B? 2 April 1760 >> Dear Pat, So nice to finally see a reference to MCWHIRK. Have been researching that name for about 4 years(Mother's Maiden Name). Thanks for posting. Cheers, Bob

Can anyone on the list help me with the following please : Scotland's 12 month holiday list ie New years day,Christmas etc all of them for Scotland and 12 month celebrations for Scotland ie Queens birthday etc Really appreciate the help Thanks Johanna --------------------------------- Do You Yahoo!? HotJobs, a Yahoo! service - Search Thousands of New Jobs

Pat, The last entry on your list is another Rain daughter John Porter m. Grizzel Rain, 7 Aug 1760, Borgue according to the IGI. -- Jo-Ann

My great great grandfather Samuel Douglas McMiken emigrated about 1845 from Girthon Parish in Kirkcudbrightshire to Upper Canada (Ontario). In researching the family on both sides of the Atlantic, I&#8217;ve noticed that many surnames common in Kirkcudbrightshire were also common in Blandford and Blenheim Townships in Oxford County, Ontario. In particular, I&#8217;ve noted in addition to my McMIKENS (of various spellings) the HENDERSON, DALZIEL, GEMMELL, and BELL surnames. Individuals in the Canadian side of the McMIKEN family married a HENDERSON, a DALZIEL, and a BELL, while others on the Scottish side married a GEMMELL and a BELL. It certainly would be natural for an emigrant to settle down near those who he knows, or at least knows of, from the old country. I wonder if any listers can link Kirkcudbrightshire emigrants to Oxford County, Ontario, or even to Blandford or Blenheim Townships in that county. Cheers. Dan MacMeekin

Somebody was inquiring about thank you in Gaelic. When we visited Nova Scotia, there were many welcoming signs, "Ciad mile failte". They said it meant a hundred thousand welcomes. Eva

Well, "Welcome" is Failte - sorry I don't know any more!! Jeanette > >Can anyone tell me what "Your'e Welcome" is in Scots Gaelic please > >Thanks Johanna > > > >--------------------------------- >Do You Yahoo!? >HotJobs, a Yahoo! service - Search Thousands of New Jobs > > >============================== >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 > >

Hi, Welcome is Failte. Im not sure on "you are", it may be tha thu, but I have a feeling that is for "they are". tapadh leibh is Thank you.

Can anyone tell me what "Your'e Welcome" is in Scots Gaelic please Thanks Johanna --------------------------------- Do You Yahoo!? HotJobs, a Yahoo! service - Search Thousands of New Jobs

I would like to write to the current residences of the property "Highbanks" where my RIGGS family resided during the 1800's. Wouldn't it be interesting if their were RIGGS living there now. My problem is how did I address my envelope. Does anyone know of the address for the farming property "Highbanks". Many thanks Pat Mott AUSTRALIA SEARCHING MY FAMILY: AUSTRALIA - MOTT, BROOM, RIGG, HAWKE, HAWKES, WOOD, GREEN, ANDERSON, CAMPBELL ENGLAND - MOTT, HOLGATE, HAWKES, BROOM, STUDLEY, CHILCOTT, SUMMERS, PAYNE, LOUD, APLIN, GRIFFIN, CHOWN, WHITE, PITTS, CARPENTER, NIGHTINGALE, UNDERWOOD, JOHNSON, BIZZEL, CROCKER, BANHAM, BASTING, CARTER SCOTLAND - RIGG, CAMPBELL,MC TAGGART, BRACKENRIDGE, RAIN, TAGART

Dear listers I have subscribed just to make this announcement and will be unsubscribing immediately as I have no known Scottish connections in my own research. I have just uploaded my Scotland IGI Middle Name index at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hughwallis. This adds Scotland to the English counties for which I have created such an index. I believe that middle names are an invaluable resource for finding clues to family relationships. Strangely I have seen very little written about their use as research pointers in any of the literature, nor have I seen this issue discussed much on the mailing lists. I have not seen any middle name indexes or search tools available anywhere either. BUT - often a person's middle name is the same as the maiden name of their mother or a grandmother or reflects some other familial connection (maybe the name of a patron or benefactor). It may also be the father's surname for births occurring out of wedlock. It seems obvious to me, therefore, that they have significant value in genealogical and family history research. I have found nearly 39,000 different middle names (some of which are obvious transcription errors for each other) appearing in over 780,000 of the christening/birth/adult baptism and marriage records on the IGI for this region. This is out of a total of over 6 million christening/birth/adult baptism and nearly 4 million marriage records (representing half that number of marriages, of course, since there are two records in the IGI for each marriage) for these churches/chapels. This is all of the entries in the IGI for Scotland that have been extracted as part of the controlled extraction program. I have not yet checked the parents' names on the baptism records for additional middle names - that is a much longer task which I may or may not be able to do. As always a warning about using the IGI is necessary. It is ONLY an index and is full of transcription errors. However it has been a mammoth undertaking on the part of the LDS and is an invaluable aid to research. Nevertheless, it bears repeating that there is no substitute for viewing the original records (or at least fiche or film of them). The IGI does assist you in locating those records and so narrowing down your area of search. Hugh Wallis Ontario, Canada Formerly of Surrey, UK OPC - Stoke Damerel, Devon - [email protected] - http://stokedamerelopc.org Stoke Damerel Baptism lookups - http://stokedamerelopc.org/baptism_lookup_request.htm Stoke Damerel Burial lookups - http://stokedamerelopc.org/burial_lookup_request.htm Plymouth Area post-1837 Church Marriages Middle Name lookups - http://stokedamerelopc.org/marriage_lookup_request.htm IGI Middle Name search (all of Devon) - http://stokedamerelopc.org/middle_names_from_the_igi.htm IGI Batch numbers, Middle Names etc - http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hughwallis

Seeking information about 2nd Great grandfather, Robert Bell b abt 1789 probably in Troqueer, Kirkcudbright, Scot. and wife Jean/Jane Gillespie b 1802, same place. They were married in Troqueer in 1823 and immigrated to US probably in 1841 with Children: Agness b abt 1829/1830 Thomas b Apr 1833 William b 4 Aug 1835 Also immigrating at the same time with them was Robert's sister Agness , who was married husbands Hughie Jones and Andrew Cunningham . I'm trying to find out who were the parents of Robert and Jane. The LDS records have a Thomas Bell and Janet Pagon of Troqueer who would have been the right age to be parents of Robert but I need more proof. Can anyone there help me? Much thanks if you and also if you can't. Best Wishes, Ann Reed Morrisville,PA, USA

I found the birth of another child for John & Mary. When I checked the 1881 census, the only Jane Johnstone with the correct age and place of birth was the stepdaughter of William Scott. So I checked and found a marriage for Mary McKill to William Scott. It seems that both John Sr & Jr were dead by 1872. John JOHNSTONE Sex: M Event(s): Birth: 17 Jun 1867 Kells, Kirkcudbright, Scotland Parents: Father: John JOHNSTONE Mother: Mary MCKILL ________________________ Dwelling: Dashwood Sq. 13 Census Place: Penninghame, Wigtown, Scotland Source: FHL Film 0224062 GRO Ref Volume 895 EnumDist 4 Page 13 Marr Age Sex Birthplace William SCOTT M 43 M Kirkinner, Wigtown, Scotland Rel: Head Occ: Ostler Mary SCOTT M 40 F Minnigaff, Kirkcudbright, Scotland Rel: Wife Occ: Ostler Wife James SCOTT U 17 M Wigton, Wigtown, Scotland Rel: Son Occ: Stable Boy Peter J. SCOTT 16 M Wigton, Wigtown, Scotland Rel: Son Occ: Draper Jane JOHNSTONE 15 F Minnigaff, Kirkcudbright, Scotland Rel: Step Daur Occ: Ostler's Step Daur Andrew SCOTT 7 M Newton Stewart, Wigtown, Scotland Rel: Son Occ: Scholar John SCOTT 5 M Newton Stewart, Wigtown, Scotland Rel: Son Occ: Scholar ________________________________________ William SCOTT Sex: M Marriage(s): Spouse: Mary MCKILL Marriage: 3 Dec 1872 Bargrennan, Kirkcudbright, Scotland ---- Jo-Ann