Best regards from Evanston, Illinois, USA,

We have a four generation photo of Jane Little Myers
with her son James Willard Myers, his daughter Ethel Myers Wood and my
husband’s mother, E. Elaine Wood Cohen. I am happy to share it and any
other family information that may be of interest.

Am located in California, and was born in 1957 in
San Francisco. Any wayward uncles, cousins out there whose tryst with a
barmaid may have trickled down through family mythology?

I like what you are attempting and hope you don’t mind
me taking a look. I am working to connect my Dawe family of Samuel and
Ann of Port de Grave, Newfoundland in the early 1700s with the south
counties of England. Do you have any links to Newfoundland?

Thanks,

John Henry Williams married Ann Grainger

In
our family we have a Fanny, Nena, Quendrid, more Ebissa Graingers, Ann,
John, Mary. We ended up in Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas.

I have just seen your post on the Rootschat website regarding DAWE DNA.

Unfortunately
I am not a direct male descendant but I do have female DAWE members on
both sides of my family and both are from South Devon. My maternal 4th
great grandmother was Mary DAWE (b. circa 1793 in either Ermington or
Harford) and my paternal 2 great grandmother also called Mary DAWE (b.
circa 1818 in either Tavistock or Stoke Damerel).

I don’t know
if this is of any use to you but I thought you might be interested in
the area they originate from. I do have a full family tree on
Ancestry.co.uk which shows as much information as I’ve been able to find
out.

yours sincerly

Having gone
through your Guestbook from top to bottom I must take time out to say it
stands testament to your work and dedication to the Henderson cause
portrayed in all its different aspects across the web. I have
encountered some really good presentations over the time I have been
doing family research but yours just blows them all to kingdom come.
You should be very proud of such a professional presentation��power to
your elbow!

Very best wishes

His Widow is still living in Penticton, BC, Canada

FYI
Mary Ann had a brother William Hurlstone 2 years older who was born and
baptized in 1830 in Dorset which tends to support the 1832 BY for Mary
Ann.

http://data2.collectionscanada.gc.ca/1901/z/z002/z000087320.pdf

I also forgot to add that my great
grandfather is John E. Williams, his grandmother is Mary Wilman whose
mother and father are John S. Wilman and Jane Fairburn. My grandmother
knows a lot about that side of the family if you have any questions.

PLEASE
EMAIL ME (just replace the at with @)! I Don’t really know any
Fairburns or Wilmans besides David Fairburn and John S. Wilman if anyone
has info please email 🙂

I ahve been helping my cousin research his family
Ross and McRae and wehave finall come to perhaps his great grandmother
Janet Sinton Mother of his grandma Margaret McRae born in Kiltearn,
married William Ross and come to Canada in 1906. I think these names
are in your tree. He is heading to Scotland in June and wants to more
about his family.

Regards

If you could help me I would greatly appreciate it.

I’m looking for ancestors & connections of
Robert Burnet(t) b. 1759 in Warmanbie near Annan which is only about 50
km away from Workington across the Solway Firth. Robert died at
Middlebie (about 5km north) in 1815 and his family emigrated south to
England & overseas over the following couple of generations. I know
it’s a long shot but there may have been related Burnet(t)s in
Cumberland ?

Cheers

Do you think there’s any connection to your Wight’s?

From the Selkirk OPR:
James
Clark, Herd in Fauldshields and Jannet Wight, his spouse had a child
baptised by the Revd McGeorge Lawson, Minister of the Msopale
Congregation. Elizabeth, b. 23 Dec 1794. Witness: in the presence of
said congregation.

Others:
James Clark, servant to Mr. Park
Fowlshiels and Jannet Wight, his spouse had a child Isoble, baptised
upon the 29th January 1792, born 14 Dec 1792 Witnesses in the presence
of the congregation.

James Clark, servant to Mungo Park, tennant
in Fowlsheils and Jannet Wright [sic], his spouse, had a child named
Eupham baptised 4th Feb 1789, born 10 Jan 1789 Witnesses: Patrick Facil
and Patrick Michellbill ?

Re; the above names born circa 1710.

I am
researching the name Culton and I am stuck around 1786. A son married
Eleanor Baty. David Culton. She became Helen Beattie, the Scottish
form of the name.

My great grandfather was James Robertson, son of John
Robertson and Mary Henderson. John died and Mary married a Mr Smith.
James’ sisters were Margaret #Maggie Fielder#, Elizabeth Grace Meikle,
Mary Jane Parker #then Loney#, Janet Smith. Have photos of Maggie and
Mary Jane. James had 6 kids. If you want any details let me know.

My
father, David Reid Mathieson, was a sergeant in the 48th Toronto
Highlanders. He was born in Dundee, Forfarshire and emigrated to British
Columbia Canada prior to WW1 and was serving as a marine engineer on
the Canadian Pacific steamships when war broke out. He and his 3 or 4
brothers enlisted in Canadian Highland Regiments He was posted to
Flanders in 1915. In Sept 1916 he was wounded at the battle of the Somme
near Flers Courcellete.
Following his convalescence he was taken on
strength as a member of the Canadian Forestry Corps, which was logging
at Jed Forest. As he was a steam engineer one presumes he was charged
with the care and maintenance of the sawmill machinery, and would have
spent considerable time visiting with Head Forester Sinton. He was a 31
year old bachelor. My mam was an eighteen year old girl. She would now
be called a war bride as they married, honeymooned at The Spread Eagle
Hotel in downtown Jedburgh and departed for Canada on the SS Melita. (My
oldest brother, David Melita Mathieson, was born at sea.) I have at
hand a photocopy of a family photo and a newsclipping obituary. If you
would like to see them I’ll try to scan decent copies and send them to
you.

I haave just begun to sort out my Scottish ancestors. I
was born in Vancouver Canada and have only been to Jedburgh once for a
few hours. I was on a rugby trip and was billeted in Edinburgh. My wife
and I hopped on a bus to Jedburgh and said hello to my aunt Belle and
cousin Helen. They are Redpaths, I believe.

I note you are
working to establish a Jedburgh/Southdean Sinton DNA connection?
Isabella, widow of James Sinton, son to Robert and Helen, was living at
Bonjedward,in 1841, although born at Oxnam. Her son, William, was
unmarried and living with her with her in 1841 at the age of 24. He
stated that he was born at Southdean.

I have a Sinton pedigree chart which I can send to you. It needs some corrections and additions.

Regards,

I am sure we have crossed paths. Nice site. I
think we may find we might eventually connect to one another, but I
could be off on that.

My Handicotts are from Isle of Wight to
England, Wales, Australia and Canada. I ended up being the Canadian
Tree. My Dawes are apparently from England, stuck on that at this time,
but I find them in Newfoundland. I also have a Cousin Tom Henderson
whose roots I think begin in England though I have not researched this
surname and my Daw relation moved to NS married a Stevens of Tancook
Island NS – possible roots to Germany.

Your site mixes many of these names which I find interesting in itself.

My
connection in Australia is Joy Handicott wife of Geoff who put together
all our information on our tree todate using all our resources to her
contribution.

I thought I recalled the mentioning of your name, but I may be wrong. I think it came up in our research.

I
have errored in birth date of my Dawe and so I must begin again to go
backwards….however I am lucky that I have a great Dawe site on
myfamily to figure it out, once I connect my Daw to a father, I assume
it will help. My roots in NFLD maybe not as long as I first thought and I
may find a huge circle of my relations in England – scattered as were
my Handicotts.

I
am related to Creber’s who left Devon moved to cumberland, lancashire,
wakefield and then Rotherham (my grans grandad). Now we have relations
who have moved out to New Zealand and Australia.

Have only just started my research though.

I wonder whether you would kindly alter a link to
reflect the updated location of my website. This you link to on your
sources page. At present you have as the link
<http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jnth/SanAmatr/matrimonios_1864_1878.htm>.
It should now read <http://www.argbrit.org/SanAmatr/matrimonios_1864_1878.htm>.

Please
confirm you have received this email. If you have any doubts or queries
about all this, please do not hesitate to contact me.

All the best,

I know my mother and her sister
will be particularly interested in things like Catherine Richardson’s
will where there grandfather (Thomas Alston Scott) and his brothers and
sisters are mentioned.

Margaret Mossman’s nee Scott will is
also very interesting as they remember Sir Robert Scott but they thought
he was Thomas Scotts brother where in fact he is his nephew through his
older brother Adam Scott who married a Jane (Jeanie) Russell.

This does get very addictive doesn’t it!

In
terms of common ancestor I think we have to go back to Robert
Richardson (1746) and Margaret Runchaman (1747) who is our 4th great
grandparents.

If you want any info on the Margaret Scott
descendants then let me know, though I am still in the very early stages
of this research so there are still many gaps.

Regards

Your 5th Cousin?

Steve Thomas

I stumbled across your site quite by accident
but was facinated to find the family tree headed by Robert Turnbull. I
am from a family of Turnbulls that has lived in or around Edinburgh in
Scotland for a century or more.

Looking at the generations in
your tree it made me smile to see the repition of names such as Robert,
John, Helen, and Margaret as these are the names of my father and his
siblings. I wonder whether or not we share a common ancestory?

My
mother created a family tree a few years ago and I will ask her to send
me a copy, which I would be happy to send to you if you are interested
in seeing whther or not it can be linked to your?

Sincerely
Thelma in Calgary, Alberta, Canada

I am researching my
GGG Grandparents William Narrawaywho married Sarah Row/e ?.. they had a
daughter Ann who married John Seldon in Buckland Brewer, Devon in
1813… Can you please tell me if there is any connection in your
records… I would appreciate hearing from you…

I love your web
page.. Congratulations !!! I think it’s great.. I would love to have
something like this so that people can access and make contact..

Thank you so much.

Love to hear from you

Regards

if so would like to know any info you have on this family as she later went on to marry my great-grandfather

My late Grandmother Lillian CURTIN KERR, NOT their biological relative, insisted that I call Elizabeth “Aunt.”

Regards

Nice to see that my lakeman research in New Plymouth
has been useful – my william Lakeman document took a while to compile.
It would be nice if you could point me to any futher info about myu
family in Taranaki, and also to Willian’s baptism in Bere Ferres.

I am contacting you again because I see that you
have put the wrong details for Wilmot Henry Knight born 1908 on your
tree. My father Wilmot Henry Knight born 1908 is the son of Ethel Sarah
Galeb 1885 Bristol (daughter of Samuel Gale and Maria Emma Redstone)and
Wilmot Henry Knight and he married Margaret Mills in 1940 and had me. I
am the last of that line. If you want more information please let me
know. I believe we link in together at John Gale and Betsy Dawe

Best wishes

I am
still busy untangling Baty lines. In September during a rail and road
epic tour of England I managed to cram in a fair bit of time with the
dead as well as with the living, including a day in the Carlisle Records
Office — yippee — and two days in Longtown where I stayed in a
B&B right across the road from the Graham Arms. Fantastic visit. In
the pub, my landlady’s ex-husband put me in touch with a living Baty,
whose family owns and farms Oakshawhill, right next to Slealands. He was
kind enough to drive me round the farms and I took some photos of
Slealands and its beautiful location. I also got to tramp round the
cemetery at St Michael and all Angels at Arthuret.

Now this didn’t result in any new or startling findings, but I had a fantastic time and the people I met were lovely.

In
going back over research notes, I see that your William Baty and Mary
Simpson had an illegitimate son before they married in 1795. He is
recorded in the IGI as an extracted records, “William Simpson or Baty”,
christened 19 March 1793. An LDS member record has supplied Hornickhill
as place of birth. Both parents are named.

I also found that
another researcher has assigned your William (husband of Mary Simpson)
as the son of William Baty and Mary Black of Slealands — the chap whose
1811 will you have — but I doubt this is correct as the birthdates and
age are way off your William’s death records. I think the Baty/Black
son William was a different child, and will assume it’s the one born in
1774 as this better fits the birth order of sons as mentioned in the
will.

In my one day at the CRO I was able to print out a few
wills of interest but nowhere near as many as I would like. So far
nothing relates to your line, but will send along anything I find —
still transcribing.

Also, my Baty escort told me that his family
have been farming Oakshawhill/Slealands area farms for three
generations, and were able to purchase the farms outright in 1912 when
the Grahams of Netherby ran into a spot of financial bother owing to the
gambling habits of one of the ladies. These Batys came ‘from
Bewcastle’, which is probably the David Baty (who married Ann
Wightman)– you and I were noodling about where he fits in. It occurs
that he may not fit into the direct line — with so many Batys around,
my Andrew-John-Andrew-John Batys who were at Slealands earlier could
have been a different branch than David Baty’s family who came there
later. These farms were all leased from the Grahams, who were inclined
to pick and choose the farmers who they thought could best run the
property, so they changed hands regularly.

On the other hand,
the William Baty of Slealands will of 1811 refers to his having property
in Bewcastle and Gilsland, so perhaps it is a direct line.

I then found my way to your website. My
great,great,great gandmother was Betsey Dawe – I noticed that on the
Dawe extended family tree was Betsey Dawe and her children who were
Martyns – I come from Edward Martyn from Marystow, Devon.

As I’m
new to this research, and have yet only used a’ancestry’ could you tell
me how you get such detaied information, such as their dates of birth?

Very much appreciated.

http://familytree.lornahen.com/dcmichiganrunciman.htm

you have my grandfather’s line from the runcimans. he was albert l. cooper.

that’s cool. good job.

If you would like some further information of this “branch” please advise and I will arrange to send what I know.

Also it mentions Eliza Dalgleish whom had been very ill and she has her death as 5th Jan 1879.

What you have done is marvellous and I’m sure will be of interest to many people.

Regards

Hi Lorna – Wonderful to find your site. Here is my little bit. I guess we are cousins…

I have a new e mail address as you can see above.

Very interested to come across your web pages.
You may remember that we communicated with one another about 10 years
ago. Please feel free to e-mail me to let me know how you are.

Yours,