This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_034F_01C143C4.0D766B00 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello All I'm researching my MCMONNIES line and its links to these surnames in = Wigtownshire and Kircudbrightshire in the late 18th and 19th centuries: =20 ALEXANDER COTTRAN or COTHAN GOURLAY HALLIDAY HOUSTON JARDINE = KINNEAR MACKENZIE PAGAN ROBISON SPEDDING YOUNG =20 =20 Details are listed below (sorry about the great length). =20 Thanks Miranda Gott Sydney Australia [email protected] =20 =20 Generation No. 1 =20 1. Robert1 MCMONNIES married Mary HALLIDAY, only child known is: =20 2. David2 MCMONNIES, born Abt. 1785, and died 30 Oct 1877 in = 'Shaddock' Farm, Whithorn, WIG, SCT. He married Jane HOUSTON 1809 in = Tongland, daughter of James HOUSTON and Elizabeth COTTRAN or COTHAN. = She was born Abt. 1788, and died 25 Jan 1869 in 'Shaddock' Farm, = Whithorn, WIG, SCT. =20 Children of David MCMONNIES and Jane HOUSTON are: i. Mary3 MCMONNIES, b. 12 Jul 1811, Bellaird = (Ballard?), WIG, SCT; m. John GOURLAY?. ii. James MCMONNIES, b. 28 Jan 1814, Baland, ?, SCT. iii. Robert MCMONNIES, b. Abt. 1816; d. 8 Apr 1821. iv. William MCMONNIES, b. 1818. 3. v. David MCMONNIES, b. 27 Aug 1820, Drummoral, Parish = of Whithorn, WIG, SCT; d. 23 Nov 1880, Sorbie Farm, Parish of Sorbie, = WIG, SCT. 4. vi. Robert MCMONNIES, b. 1824; d. 3 May 1863, 'Muncraig' = Farm, Borgue, KKB, SCT. 5. vii. Elizabeth MCMONNIES, b. 28 Oct 1824; d. 19 Jan = 1854. viii. John MCMONNIES, b. 12 Jun 1827. 6. ix. Jane MCMONNIES, b. 1830; d. 1906. x. John MCMONNIES, b. 1821. =20 Generation No. 3 =20 3. David3 MCMONNIES was born 27 Aug 1820 in Drummoral, Parish of = Whithorn, WIG, SCT, and died 23 Nov 1880 in Sorbie Farm, Parish of = Sorbie, WIG, SCT. He married Catherine Lawrie KINNEAR 23 Oct 1855 in = Drummoral, Parish of Whithorn, WIG, SCT, daughter of William KINNEAR and = Margaret ALEXANDER. She was born 19 Sep 1835 in Isle of Whithorn, WIG, = SCT, and died 6 Oct 1895. =20 Children of David MCMONNIES and Catherine KINNEAR are: i. William4 MCMONNIES, b. Abt. 1857; d. 1868. ii. David MCMONNIES, b. 18 Nov 1856, Whithorn, WIG, = SCT; d. 1895. iii. Margaret Jane MCMONNIES, b. 16 May 1860, Whithorn, = WIG, SCT . =20 4. Robert3 MCMONNIES (David2, Robert1) was born 1824, and died 3 May = 1863 in 'Muncraig' Farm, Borgue, KKB, SCT. He married Susan ROBISON in = St Bride's Church, Liverpool, ENG, probably daughter of Robert ROBISON = and Ann JARDINE. She was born Abt. 1825. =20 Children of Robert MCMONNIES and Susan ROBISON are: i. Ann4 MCMONNIES, b. Abt. 1849, Gloucestershire, ENG. 7. ii. Robert ROBISON MCMONNIES, b. 8 Jul 1852; d. 1929, = Prahan, VIC, AUS. 8. iii. Mary MCMONNIES, b. 17 Mar 1855, Girthon, KKB, SCT; = d. 3 Nov 1890, Grange of Cree, Penninghame, WIG, SCT. 9. iv. David MCMONNIES, b. 2 Mar 1857, Borgue, KKB, SCT =