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London & Middlesex Lookup Requests / MYERS born in London, transported to Australia
« on: Sunday 28 February 10 11:47 GMT (UK)  »
I have had a brick wall for sometime and hope someone out there may be researching another limb on the Myers family tree.  I am researching Thomas MYERS who was born in London about 1797 and was transported to Hobart Tasmania, Australia in 1817 for stealing a handkerchief.  He was tried with a David Benjamin who being only 11 yrs at the time, got whipped and returned to his parents.  They were tried at the Old Bailey and the court session was written up in the London Paper.
The family story was that Thomas was descendant from "Russians Jews".  I have been unable to locate his birth or parentage.  As a desperation measure I tried looking for David Benjamin and also hit a brick wall there.  I have Thomas's convict papers but his date of birth is not registered on any of the documents only his age.
Regards
Gweneth Myers

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Kincardineshire / Re: Longmuir Kincardineshire
« on: Friday 12 February 10 07:43 GMT (UK)  »
G'day
I am from Melbourne and related to you.  Alfred William LONGMUIR was my grandfather and he is a brother to William Owen.  Pittyman67 (Hi Andy!!) is also related to you.  I have extensive info on David and Sarah's lineage.  David and Sarah are both buried in the Coburg cemetery along with 4 of their children.  George who married Margaret MacKay was David's father and he did NOT come to Australia.  Our family is full of Davids, Georges, Jessies, Margarets and so on.  David and Sarah had a son George.   George and Margaret had a son George (David's brother) who ended up in WA.  Thanks to cousn Andy, we have now got Margaret (MacKay) LONGMUIR's death certifcate.  I would like to contact you off line but the last time I advertised my email address, I got a slap over the knuckles from the RootsChat administration.  Maybe someone could give me details of what is required to contact off line??  My maiden name was LONGMUIR and I was born in Coburg.
Cheers
Aussieprincess also known as Gwen

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Kincardineshire / Re: Longmuir Kincardineshire
« on: Thursday 20 August 09 13:51 BST (UK)  »
G'day
Our Longmuirs come from around Angus, Kincardine areas and so far haven't found our line around Glasgow yet, although Lanark isn't too far away.  Thomas is not a name that is common in my line.  We have not expanded all the branches on the tree and keep finding more as we go along.  I will keep you in mind for future reference.  The Scots were certainly travellers (not the gypsy type) and they crop up all over the place! In Australia there appears to be two distinct lines, one line are sea-faring and the other are labourers.  My line were crofters/labourers in Scotland and labourers in Australia.  The sea-farers seem to come from Banffshire.

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Kincardineshire / Re: Longmuir Kincardineshire
« on: Thursday 20 August 09 12:35 BST (UK)  »
G'day again Margaret
You mentioned you have a Georgina Longmuir marrying a John Byars.  A strange coincidence is that the George Longmuir I mentioned (my gg grandfather) was married to a Margaret McKay.  Her parents were David McKay and Elizabeth Byars.  George Longmuir was born in 1801 in Fordoun and died 1882 in Brechin.  Their son David was born in 1824 at Fearn.  David and his brother - another George, emigrated to Australia.  David came to Melbourne and George ended up in Perth in Western Australia. 
There was a brother John who remained in Scotland and was informant on his father's death certificate.  It is with many thanks to Andy I have recently found the details about Margaret McKay.  She was our "brick wall" for many years.  I haven't had time to reseach any further on her ancestry yet.  I have been registered with Rootschat.com for a few months but haven't actually used it before.
Gwen

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Kincardineshire / Re: Longmuir Kincardineshire
« on: Tuesday 18 August 09 14:58 BST (UK)  »
G'day Margaret
I too am descendant from Ann Brand and John Longmuir through George Longmuir and my "cousin" Wendy in NZ  is also directly descendant from Kirkpatrick.  "Cousin" Andy sent me this link.  Cousin Wendy and I are meeting in Australia then we are travelling to Scotland in 3 weeks time, it would be interesting to meet up.  I can be contacted on (*)  George was my great great grandfather.  I am connected to his son David, then David's son Alfred then my Dad Norman Longmuir.  I am the youngest of 4 siblings.  I live in Melbourne Australia.
Would love to hear from you,
Gwen

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