I agree completely with Bruce, the Mary McDowall's maybe 2 different girls .... or maybe not ?? I also agree with the "distance" possibly NOT being a problem ... lots of my people married people that weren't local to their own particular area. I have a WIG lad m. a County Down Colleen in 1853 ish., his grandson b. 1883, came to Australia in 1886 as a toddler, & grew up to marry my great grandma, who was b. in 1886, in Australia, she had a Swedish Mum, & her Dad was a Lad from Ayrshire ..... both emm. to Australia in the 1860's -1870's. Those old folk got about LOTS. I happily knew some of my g. grandies ... the aforementioned couple were 2 of those people ..... now that I am in my middle years .... I just appreciate them all SOOOOOOOOO MUCH. All our ancestors are amazing people .... the women had 7 + kids, no electricity, let alone washing machines or dryers ...... the men were expected to bring home enough money to keep the entire tribe fed & clothed. How did they do it ? Both sexes ..... I cannot imagine having a baby, without access to a washing machine. Cheers Carolyn ..... I have been a wee bit quite the last couple of years ... apologies .... 2 x natural disasters have taken their toll with time, emotions, & mental health .... coming good slowly but surely ..... I hope ! Message: 1 Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 22:35:02 -0600 From: "GUY I IV COLBY" <guycolbyiv@verizon.net> Subject: Re: [WIG LIST] Mary McDowall (Kirkmaiden to Penninghame) To: <sct-wigtownshire@rootsweb.com> Message-ID: <BB71DBB1B2304D919C8E745127FC851B@Guy> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Bruce wrote: Penninghame is as far as one can be from Kirkmaiden and remain in Wigtownshire. You mentioned some concern about that distance and I share that concern. It is not prohibitive of the Mary McDOWALL born in Kirkmaiden being married in Penninghame, but does make me wonder if it was a different Mary McDOWALL. If you have some means to establish this was the same one, that is good, but it can't be established only on the basis of no other one of suitable age being found in the OPRs. The OPRs are far from being a complete record of births. Despite the distance, it is not too extraordinary for someone to be born in Kirkmaiden and married in Penninghame. My 4th great grandparents, Clement and Catherine (Henry) Marshall, came "ower the Scheuch" from County Down and settled in Kirkmaiden about 1822. My 3rd great grandfather, James Marshall, was born there in 1823, but by 1826, the family was in Wigtown parish, and James married my 3rd great grandmother, Mary Crosbie, in Newton Stewart in 1851. James' older brother, John Marshall, remained in Kirkmaiden when the family moved, and he married there, but he moved his family to Old Luce about 1838. My impression is that movement within Wigtownshire was perhaps not so unusual as we might think. Guy I. Colby IV Irving, TX ------------------------------ To contact the SCT-WIGTOWNSHIRE list administrator, send an email to SCT-WIGTOWNSHIRE-admin@rootsweb.com. To post a message to the SCT-WIGTOWNSHIRE mailing list, send an email to SCT-WIGTOWNSHIRE@rootsweb.com. __________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SCT-WIGTOWNSHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body of the email with no additional text. End of SCT-WIGTOWNSHIRE Digest, Vol 8, Issue 34 *********************************************** ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2013.0.2899 / Virus Database: 2641/6139 - Release Date: 02/28/13