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Yes, I have considerable information about the Forsyth family in Canada and Utah but have not been unable to identify any children of Robert (1802-1834) s/o Thomas Forsyth and Isabella Jackson. If you could throw any light on that subject, or if any information I may have on the other children would be of interest to you, would you please contact me directly at ^(*)

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Seeking to make contact with anyone who may have information on the Forsythe family of Nenthorn, Berwickshire and Kelso, Roxburgshire -

William Forsythe, born c1662 at Kelso, m. 1687 to Anna Ails born c1666 maybe near Kelso.

Their son, Walter Forsythe born 1688/90 at Nenthorn, m. 1713 to Janet Leech born c1692 at Kelso.

Their son, Thomas Forsythe, born 1718 at Nenthorn, m. 1742 to Isabel/Elspeth Madew (Madder / Mather) born 1720/21 at Nenthorn.

Their son James Forsythe born 1756 at Nenthorn, m. 1781 to Jean Minto born 1761 at Kelso.

Their son Thomas Forsythe, born 1782 at kelso, m. 1801 to Isabella Jackson born 1779 at Nenthorn, daughter of Henry Jackson (b.c1755) and Christian Laidlaw/Laidley (b.c1755).

Thomas & Isabella Forsythe had seven children born at Kelso; Robert (b.1802), Henry (b.1804), Christina Esther (b.1806), Agnes (b.c1808), William (b.c1809), Agatha (b.c1811) and Thomas (b.1813). they had two more children born in Glasgow; isabella (b.1816) and Jean (b.1818).

With assistance from the Bridgetown Tansatlantic Society (under the direction of William Walker) this Forsythe family emigrated to Canada in June 1820 and received a land grant in Lanark County, Ontario.

Other names in the ancestory of Thomas & Isabella Forsythe are; Leech/Leitch, Dickinson/Dickson, Forrest and Dun.

Would much appreciate contact with anyone having information concerning the family of -

Samuel Dixon, born 1784, Kilmore, County Mayo. At some point Samuel married Sarah Wallace (b.1789) probably born somewhere in Ireland. Sarah Wallace may not, however, have been his first wife. Samuel had a son James, born 1810, perhaps in Dublin but Sarah Wallace may not have been his mother.

In 1813 Samuel joined the 47th (Lancashire) Regiment of Foot. He served in England, briefly in France, and then in India from 1816 until 1829. Samuel's son James did not travel to India with him, and it is not clear if Sarah Wallace travelled with him, or if he married her in India.

Samuel and Sarah (Wallace) Dixon had three children born at Poona & Fort St. George, India; Jane (b.1821), Susannah (b.1823) and Sarah Charlotte (b.1824) ... Susannah died as an infant. On the return voyage they had a son, John William (b.1829), aboard ship off St. Helena.

The Dixon family emigrated to Canada in 1831/32. They seem to have followed Samuel's eldest son James (b.1810) who apparently emigrated at some early date, to Lanark County, Ontario.

Would very much appreciate making contact with anyone who may have information on the family of -

John Greenley (b.c1775) in County Wexford, probably in the area of Knockadawk in Kiltrish Parish. He seems to have been a tenant of the White family of the Townland and Manor of Peppardscastle. An 1811 map of Ballywater shows two lots leased by John Greenly. In 1798, John served as a cavalryman with the Ballaghkeen Yeomanry under a Captain Hawtrey White of the Manor Peppardscastle. He was severely wounded and spent time in the Royal Hospital, Kilmainham, Dublin.

In 1801 John Greenley married Dorothea (Blake) Richardson ... widow of a man named Richardson and the mother of three daughters; Mary, Ann and Elizabeth. John & Dorothea had five children all born in County Wexford around Peppardscastle; John (bc1801), Robert (b.c1806), Charlotte (b.c1808), James (b.c1810) and Jane (b.c1813). The entire family emigrated to Canada in 1815 or 1816. They received a land grant and settled at Perth (Lanark County), Ontario.

In about 1815, Dorothea (Blake) Richardson-Greenley's daughter Mary Richardson (b.c1791) married (we think in Ireland) one William Richards (b.c1790/95). William Richards was born in Ireland and both his parents were killed in the fighting of 1798. He served in the Royal Navy and then commanded merchant vessels. This couple moved to Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada in 1817, to St. John, New Brunswick, Canada in 1818 and later to Perth (Lanark County), Ontario, Canada.