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Berwickshire / Re: Greenlaw M.I. & Census
« on: Sunday 12 June 11 18:09 BST (UK)  »
Thanks very much for your prompt response which was very helpful.  George Cunningham was the brother of John Cunningham, the architect of the recently restored Greenlaw Town Hall, but I didn't know until now that George had been a mason like his father (also George) or that he had lost two young children in the same year.  Regards, Malcolm   

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Berwickshire / Re: middlemiss
« on: Saturday 11 June 11 19:47 BST (UK)  »
My Middlemiss connections are not too far away in time or distance -  I have Thomas Middlemiss who married Elisabeth Wood in 1842 at Lamberton Toll in East Berwickshire and who later lived at Foulden slightly further inland and nearer Duns, where they had a daughter with the rather unusual name of Hume Jeffrey Middlemiss in 1860-62.  She married William Rae in 1892 at Foulden and they are both buried in the cemetery there, as I discovered only today on rootschat.

I can confirm that there are still members of the Middlemiss family living in Lauder and that there are others across the Scottish Borders -  when I was a child all of our fizzy drinks were made/bottled by Middlemiss of Kelso.

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Berwickshire / Re: Foulden/Mordington
« on: Saturday 11 June 11 18:57 BST (UK)  »
Brilliant - I just joined this site today and you have responded so quickly: I am very grateful to you.  Some of these dates I had already but others are missing pieces in my ever expanding jigsaw.  I must take a trip to Foulden to see if either of these inscriptions still exists.  Many thanks,

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Berwickshire / Re: Greenlaw M.I. & Census
« on: Saturday 11 June 11 18:24 BST (UK)  »
Hello, I don't know if your offer is still open but if it is...

I am interested in William Rae, born 1 Aug 1791 at Earlston who died 25 December 1864 at Greenlaw and his wife Isabel Renwick, as well as their 4 children: Robert b 1821 in Earlston parish who died at Foulden so will probably not feature in your records, William b 1828 at Gordon and presumably died before 1832 because there was a second William b 1832 at Gordon and James b 24 May 1834 at Gordon.  Also George Cunningham, b 1805 who married Jean Bone or Bane at Greenlaw and died there in 1870.   Any help you can offer would be much appreciated.  Regards, Malcolm

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Berwickshire / Re: Foulden/Mordington
« on: Saturday 11 June 11 18:12 BST (UK)  »
Hi,  I don't know if your kind offer is still open, but if it is...

I am interested in the Smiths who moved to Foulden in the 1850s, ie John Smith who was a master carpenter and his wife Agnes (nee Cassy) whose 10 children were Catherine, Thomas, Isabel, Jane, Christian, Agnes, Isabella, Johnann (my great grandmother), Mary J and Jemima.  I'm also interested in Johnann's husband's family the Raes who farmed at Burnbank at the edge of the village, having moved there between 1871 and 1881 and were Robert Rae (b 1821, died at Burnbank 1900) and his wife Isabella (nee Lough, b 1819/21, died at Burnbank in 1890).  They had 4 children, Elizabeth, Isabel, William, and my great grandfather George Robert Rae.

Regards, Malcolm

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Berwickshire / Re: Polwarth MI index
« on: Saturday 11 June 11 17:48 BST (UK)  »
Hi, I don't know if your offer is still open but I am interested in Cassy 67.  Thank you, Malcolm

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Lanarkshire / Re: look up offer - crawfordjohn death records
« on: Saturday 11 June 11 16:02 BST (UK)  »
Hi Caroline,  I don't know if your offer is still open but if it is...

I am interested in the Neilsons and Dicksons in Crawfordjohn in the latter half of the 18th century and the first half of the 19th.  I have Jean Neilson who was married to William Gill in 1753 in the nearby parish of Wandell and Lamington and whose daughter Marion (b 1760 at Douglas) married a John Dickson at Douglas in 1794.  There were 4 children from the latter marriage William (b 1794 at Douglas), John (b 1796 at Douglas), Katherine (b 1799) and Robert (b 1803).  the last-named died in 1827 at Snarshead, Crawfordjohn and is recorded as having been buried in the churchyard at Crawfordjohn.  I don't know if John Dickson is the same as the John Dickson who died 15.7.1819 at Gilkerscleuch, Crawfordjohn where he had been the tenant farmer, but if it is, he had a sister Janet Dickson who was the spouse of Robert Neilson, tenant of Netherton of Crawfordjohn.  It would be very interesting if you could find any deaths relating to these people.  Regards, Malcolm

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