----- Original Message ----- From: "Nick & Dorothy Blais" <donik@home.com> To: "sheryl sharp" <sheryl@origin.net.au> Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2001 9:23 AM Subject: Re: Isabella MELVILLE b. 1836 > Hi Sheryl, > > We must be related somehow. > > John MELVILLE was b. 1810 to Robert and Elspat nee MACKENZIE of Clyne. > > John MELVILLE m. Jean ( Jane) McKAY in 1828 don't know her parents > > Their children were HUGH b. 1831 .I have no further details on him. > > JANE b. 1834 married Donald Bremner a police constable in Edinburgh.in > 1855. > ROBERTA b. 1839 married Alexander MURRAY in 1866and returned from Edinburgh > to look after her parents' croft in West Helmsdale. > ISABELLA b. 1836 married Alfred George HENSON in 1861 Edinburgh.After moving > around Scotland their last home was in South Shields, Co. Durham where > their7th and last child Henry, my grandfather, was born. > > John MELVILLE later married Grace McPHERSON in 1847-no children > > > John could have had a brother William b. 1812 , Donald b. 1821 and Hector > b. 1826 from records I copied from the Loth & district births & marriages > book on film from the IGI. > > Robert married again in 1845 to Henrietta GORDON > > Any connections to the above? I saw " your " Isabella b. 1837 on the same > records-parents John and Roberta nee POPE. > > Cheers, > Dorothy on Vancouver Island > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "sheryl sharp" <sheryl@origin.net.au> > To: "Nick & Dorothy Blais" <donik@home.com>; <SCT-SUTHERLAND-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2001 3:03 AM > Subject: Re: Isabella MELVILLE > > > > Hi All, > > I have an Isabella MELVILLE, she is also my grt grandmother and she has a > > brother John. > > This is my family of Melville's > > John MELVILLE b: 1813 Wife Roberta POPE b: 1808 > > children: Hector b: 1833, John b: 1835, Isabella b: 1837 > > James b: 1840, Alexander b: 1842, Mary b: 1844, > > Davidina b: 1847, William b: 1850, Charles b: 1853 > > Loth Sutherland Scotland. > > sheryl vic oz > > > > > > >