----- Original Message ----- From: Temple To: sct-roxburghshire-request@british-genealogy.com Sent: Saturday, November 20, 2004 4:05 PM Subject: Temple Hello listers, I am seeking advice in order to further track my elusive TEMPLE ancestors. These TEMPLE's would seem to be North Northumbrian farmers or farm workers who moved from Elsdon parish, Northumberland around the 1790's to Jedburgh parish, Roxburgshire and were living and working at Camphouse/Camptown. The first evidence I had of them was the marriage of my G/G/Grandfather George TEMPLE (b.c.1775/76), a husbandman of Camphouse, Jedburgh parish, who married an Isabel DAGLEASH at St. Cuthberts Elsdon in 1801. This George stayed in Elsdon parish and had his family there, and as he was a dissenter, all the children were bapt. at a local Presbyterian chapel, Birdhope Craig. This George and Isabel both died in Elsdon parish in 1838 and 1829 A while later I discovered a Memorial stone at St. Francis chapel, Elsdon parish, to a John TEMPLE a farmer of Camphouse, Jedburgh parish (b.c.1764/65) and his wife Mary of Camptown. This John TEMPLE was also a dissenter and had married Mary Rutherford (both of Elsdon parish) at a cross-border marriage at Coldstream Bridge in 1795. Their first two children were also bapt. at Birdhope Craig Presbyterian chapel in 1797 and 1799, after which it seemd that the family moved to Camphouse/Camptown. It appears a possibility that George and John were brothers or at least cousins. The 1841 census at Camphouse, Jedburgh parish also records a George and Isabella TEMPLE, aged 70 and 79, both born in England, and resident at Camptown. A search of the Roxb.O.P.R.'s at Selkirk produced no results,untill I realised that these people, being dissenters, would have been attending some non-conformist chapel for family B.M.D.'s. Two trips to Edinburgh G.R.O lead me to the Blackfriars United Free Church of Scotland at Jedburgh. No marriage or death records survived, only bapt. records from 1739 to 1837, and the period I needed to check was 1799 to 1810 for any more TEMPLE children born at Camphouse. However the bapt. for these years were unfortunately missing, though I did find other people from Camphouse/Camptown bapt. their children at this chapel outwith these missing years. I now need advice on where to look next, and were there any other dissenters chapels in the "vicinity" of Camphouse/Camptown in the period say 1790 to 1840, that these people would have used for family B.M.D's ? Mike Temple, Spain.