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Roxburghshire / Robert John Beattie
« on: Saturday 07 January 12 12:27 GMT (UK) »
Hullo M6,
Well, by my reckoning we're 3rd cousins!
Robert John Beattie and his brother William Campbell Beattie were my 1st cousins twice removed, their mother being my great-great aunt (and your great grandmother!) Elizabeth Porter.
I'm particularly interested in the brothers' experiences in the Great War (I know that WCB was a sgt. in the KOSB and was killed in 1917).
Do you have photographs of them both? Also, I'd love to see the family tree that you mentioned.
Bytheway, was RJB a postman at any time? I found an interesting pic in the Langholm Archives that might be of him!
Many thanks and best wishes, Robbie Porter
Well, by my reckoning we're 3rd cousins!
Robert John Beattie and his brother William Campbell Beattie were my 1st cousins twice removed, their mother being my great-great aunt (and your great grandmother!) Elizabeth Porter.
I'm particularly interested in the brothers' experiences in the Great War (I know that WCB was a sgt. in the KOSB and was killed in 1917).
Do you have photographs of them both? Also, I'd love to see the family tree that you mentioned.
Bytheway, was RJB a postman at any time? I found an interesting pic in the Langholm Archives that might be of him!
Many thanks and best wishes, Robbie Porter