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Huh. I didn’t have a lot of info on those cousin lines. One of my mother’s cousins (the Horners were in the Swanmore/Droxford area) actually went back to Swanmore in the 80s and met a few of the remaining uncles and their families. One of them was actually in the paper for being 103 years old and still in the family home; she died in 2016. My gr grandfather was #9 or 10 out of 17 (15 survived to adulthood) and 6 of them made their way across the ocean. This is relevant only because Blanche Humby married George Walter Horner and they were my 2x gr grandparents.

Hi, I do not have a 1755-ish Cuthbert in my tree.  The Edwin Dowse I do have is too young to have married in 1783.  Maybe there are cousins with those names, but I haven't been able to find enough children on the line to flesh out a list of descendants.

The line of descent as I have it is Simon/Prudence to Cuthbert (wife unknown), Cuthbert to Thomas (wife unknown), Thomas to John (wife Jane Bay?), John to Edward (wife Rachel Bishop), Edward to Thomas (wife Ann Whitenham), Thomas to Peter (wife Mary Shawyer), and Peter to our Mary Anna who married Charles Horner in 1847.

Are you referring to http://knightroots.co.uk/ ?  I didn't find any Dowse or Douse on there.

Using the Knighroots site I found Culbert-probably your Cuthbert marrying Elizabeth Colbourne 17/8/1755; Edwin Dowse marrying Elizabeth Houghton 27/4/1783; John Dowse marrying Mary Kill 12/6/1797. Simon and Prudence married 4/6/1628 by licence. On the FreeREG site there is a lot of information for the Dowse family.
Regards.

I've noticed that names got reused a lot with child deaths.

Quote from: Rosinish on Tuesday 05 June 18 03:32 BST (UK)

GEILLEIS MARGRAT
PATRIK GEILLEIS/JENET LAUCHWARET FR52 (FR52)
25/09/1636
735/10 89 Duns

Seems they had 2 daughters with  same name, possibly 1st died or 2 different entries, one with wrong date?

Margrat Geilleis was born to Patrik Geilleis and Jenet Lauchwaret.
Baptized 1636

Margrat Gilleis was born to Patrik Gilleis and Jenet Lauchwaret
Baptized 1639

Annie

Wow, TY very much for all this extra stuff.  As for the records, said cousin goes to the office in Edinburgh, pays for access to the files, and manually transcribes what she finds.  I guess it's what works when you're in research mode and have to look at many things to confirm, deny, or otherwise trace the family line.

Kids for Thomas;

GEILLEIS WILLIAME
THOMAS GEILLEIS/JENET ALLINE FR116 (FR116)
29/01/1654
735/10 213 Duns

GEILLEIS -----(No name)
THOMAS GEILLEIS/JENET ALLINE FR126 (FR126)
10/12/1655
735/10 228 Duns

Annie

Hi, thanks for the suggestion but I don't have a doc.  This was an online record of baptism of her son Thomas (b. 1632) in Dunse, Berwickshire from ancestry.com.  Thomas himself was married by the early 1650's to a Janet Alline who had originated in Loth, Sutherland and their son William was born in Dunse in early 1653.  I'm just really stumped by 'Lawchwarit' since it's so different to anything I've seen or heard before.

I think it may be an idea to post an image with some extra script for comparison for us to see as it doesn't look like a surname, rather a place name?
What is the doc, where did you get it & where was the marriage?

Annie