TEVENDALE; SCT; 1700- Dear All, I am trying to locate anyone tracing any TEVENDALE family in Scotland. My g-grandfather was Alexander Tevendale BLACK. He was born in 1881 in Australia of Scots-Irish and Scots parents. It was always said that his middle name "Tevendale" was a family name from a few generations earlier. I'm trying to find that link. I've been able to trace his mother's (Ayrshire-based) family between two and five generations earlier, but haven't found TEVENDALE there. His father's side were Scots-Irish and lived for a while in Sligo, Ireland. I can trace them back two generations, but with no sign of TEVENDALE. However, then I come to a brick wall because I don't know where his grandfather James BLACK came from. I guess he would have been born in about 1812 or earlier and may have come from the area around Sligo or else from Scotland. To connect my family with a TEVENDALE family, there would have had to have been a marriage between one of the following families at or before the years shown: BLACK 1800 Ireland or Scotland GALBREATH 1800 Glasgow/Paisley McKIM 1780 Sligo (Ireland) MURDOCH 1780 Dundonald (Ayrshire) PARKER 1700 Sorn/Dundonald (Ayrshire) ROBERTSON 1800 Glasgow/Paisley RYAN 1780 Sligo (Ireland) SMITH 1750 Sorn (Ayrshire) If I were taking a guess, I'd pick the Glasgow/Clyde region for the TEVENDALE family. I figure if I gather endless data on all TEVENDALE families (and the name is not *that* common), surely I'll find the right one eventually! Anything matching in your information? Lex Johnson Rockhampton, Australia [email protected] (that's l for Lex, not 1 for "one")