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Roxburghshire / Re: Turnbull / Bonchesterbrige
« on: Saturday 13 February 21 20:48 GMT (UK)  »
All,

Thanks for the help and guidance.  Now that the family tree mystery has been (mostly) resolved, I can now further investigate our family's roots.  I've reread the entire thread and there are several aspects that are intriguing.  I'm trying to educate myself on unfamiliar terms - e.g. "Cornet" - from it's usage I'm assuming a honor that is associated with a "ride out" or "common riding."   Must be similar to a Grand Marshal in a parade here in the States. 

I love the word "Ladylaw" - romantic images of a majestic Scottish manor come to mind, but Google says it is much more pedestrian than that.

I'm also fascinated by some of the more notable members of the extended Wilson family.  Maybe there's a discount on The Economist for family members?

I'll start work in earnest on mapping our lineage.  I know that it likely exists on Ancestry.com, but it will be fun to do the digging myself.  Although, I'll note, that the Wilson Family could have made things so much easier if they had had more variety in choosing names.  Couldn't they have named one of their offspring "Oscar" instead of using "Walter" yet one more time?

And if I do find myself heading to NSW for any reason, I will absolutely let folks down there know. 

I hope you all will indulge me if I do occasionally pop up with a question or three.

Tim

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Roxburghshire / Re: Turnbull / Bonchesterbrige
« on: Saturday 13 February 21 03:23 GMT (UK)  »
JM, Brett, All,

Let me begin by offering my sincere apologies for not having my facts in place and verified.  Upon further research I have found out the answer to what was so mystifying (at least to me).

I have stated that the copy of the Wilson Family tree has been in California for decades.  That turns out to be a true statement.  The story unfolds thusly...

I had asked my cousin, who I was under the impression possessed the framed Wilson Family tree that had been on my Grandfather's wall for decades, for a digital copy of said family tree.  He then sent us an image.  That is the image I've been sharing.  After all of the discussion on Rootschat, I asked my cousin for any insights into as much as he knows about the history of that copy...

So...

He replied that it's his sister that actually has the framed family tree.  But he had been doing genealogy research on our shared family history and had found a digital copy of the same tree!  Since it was the same family tree, he sent that to us (not mentioning the circumstances).  That completely explains why I shared Brett's image.

As I await my other cousin's input on her copy of the family tree, I wanted to share this update with all.  Although I should stop making assumptions, am I allowed to assume that we do possess an early copy of the family tree print?

Thanks for the help.
Tim

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Roxburghshire / Re: Turnbull / Bonchesterbrige
« on: Friday 12 February 21 22:33 GMT (UK)  »
JM,

Thank you for the advice, I mean that sincerely. 

I do not believe that the "Lucy..." handwritten note was done in the 21st century.  I'll go contact my remaining relatives and see if anyone has any insight into the history of how we came into possession of that specific copy.

The mystery continues.

Tim

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Roxburghshire / Re: Turnbull / Bonchesterbrige
« on: Friday 12 February 21 21:33 GMT (UK)  »
JM,

Precisely.  It has the handwritten comment "By Lucy Ann Wilson Feb 1890" as well as the "X" previously mentioned.

Tim

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Roxburghshire / Re: Turnbull / Bonchesterbrige
« on: Friday 12 February 21 21:07 GMT (UK)  »
Hi JM,

My cousin took the photo at my request.  He has the framed copy at his place in Los Angeles.

Tim

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Roxburghshire / Re: Turnbull / Bonchesterbrige
« on: Friday 12 February 21 16:31 GMT (UK)  »
All,

Attached is the Wilson Family tree I sketched out of our lineage.  I've not updated it yet with data from this thread, but thought I'd share with you nonetheless. 

Any comments are more than welcome
Tim

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Roxburghshire / Re: Turnbull / Bonchesterbrige
« on: Friday 12 February 21 15:52 GMT (UK)  »
To All on this post. 

Thank you for taking the time to reply to my inquires.  I appreciate it. 

I'm in California.  Sadly, I've never been to Scotland although I hope to rectify that some day. 

To answer at least a few of the questions.

1. I assumed that our family's framed copy of the family tree was both an original and must have been brought over to the US when my Great Grandfather emigrated here in 1907.  Clearly that assumption was wrong.  However, I still cling to the belief that it has been in my family's possession since I was a child and loved looking at it at my Grandparents house (since at least the 1960s).  But that contradicts what has been stated here.  Quantumleap777 said that his Aunt Cynthia marked it. And I also saw an entry from Brettmaximus where he states he marked it.  Any further insight into who did what, and when was it done would be appreciated.

2. Which leads to the question: how did our branch of the family here in California end up with a copy? And when?

2. Brett was kind of enough to post images of Walter Wilson.  Thank you for that.  Again, I need to reconcile the dates that he presented with the dates I have from the tree and from the Scotlandpeoples website.

Again - thank you all.
Tim

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Roxburghshire / Re: Turnbull / Bonchesterbrige
« on: Thursday 11 February 21 17:01 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you Forfarian.  I've not yet taken that approach, not just because I'm cheap, but because I want to be somewhat methodical in which I download.  I've been dumping all of the Scotlandpeople results into a spreadsheet and I'm close to 200 entries.  I use the spreadsheet approach to re-sort based on date and event.  As I mentioned previously, I'm a neophyte at this.

BTW, are there any suggestions on where one could acquire the book that has been mentioned several times?  It appears to be out of print, and I've not found an online copy (yet).

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Roxburghshire / Re: Turnbull / Bonchesterbrige
« on: Thursday 11 February 21 16:18 GMT (UK)  »
Brett,

Thank you for the image and info.  I'll work on reconciling that info with other data and see what I come up with.  You gave a new variation of William R Wilson's name - "William Richardson Wilson."

I've been assuming that his middle name was "Richard", at least partially based on the data I pulled from the Scotlandspeople site.  I've attached a screen shot of that data.  But, based on other data from that same site, it appears that WRW's grandmother was Betty Richardson, so "Richardson" as a middle name makes sense.  Is this your opinion?

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