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Ayrshire / Re: Boswell of Auchinlek link??
« on: Monday 16 May 11 22:02 BST (UK)  »
Sorry  Slight Error in my last post
It should read James and John sons of James and Elizabeth Bruce have the same birth and death dates....
sorry my cockup..
Cheers Bob E..

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Ayrshire / Re: Boswell of Auchinlek link??
« on: Monday 16 May 11 10:39 BST (UK)  »
Hello Stan...
Just doing some more investigation on
http://www.jamesboswell.info

Came up with
James 1672-1749 & Elizabeth Bruce
                             |
       |                                          |                                          |
Alexander 1707-1782       James 1710-1780            John 1710-1780
       |                                                                                       |
   JAMES ( Biographer) 1740-1795                             ROBERT  1746-1804

So their fathers were brothers and they are cousins......
But their respective Fathers have the same birth and death dates...Which looks "fishey"..
Can anyone check/confirm this for me ?
Cheers Bob E...

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Ayrshire / Re: Boswell of Auchinlek link??
« on: Friday 13 May 11 16:04 BST (UK)  »
Stan,
Thanks for the reply but...
I think both of these Boswells were from the Auchinlek family.. (Indeed almost certain. They are included in the Scottish records under Boswell of Auchinlek.)
So if James' brothers were John and Thomas David, I think (looking at Birth and death dates) that James and Robert were probably cousins...
But so far I cannot find confirmation of this..
Thanks again
Cheers Bob E...

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Ayrshire / Boswell of Auchinlek link??
« on: Friday 13 May 11 13:25 BST (UK)  »
I'm trying to find the relationship between
James Boswell 1740 - 1795 ( The biographer )
and my Great great great grandfather
Robert Boswell 1746 - 1804 ( the Psalmist )
I suppose they could be brothers or cousins...
I have a pair of minatures of Robert and his wife and also a memo written by his Granddaughter which states that he died whilst giving out the text of his sermon  1st Epistle of St Peter Ch 1 v 24 & 25  on 1 Apr 1804 
The query is whether this man is a relative of the Boswell who toured Scotland with Dr. Johnson...


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