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ok; i see my 1st post didn't take.  i am a descendant of Robert Wilson, the eldest son and middle child of Charles Brown Wilson & Margaret Patterson.  i am definitely thrilled to find so many new cousins through the reading of this one thread--and to verify 3 generations farther back on the Brown and Wilson lines.  Hope to learn even more as i am able to make contact with those of you who also descend from his grandparents--and it sounds like there may be quite a few of us.  Robert emigrated with his younger brother Peter and their respective wives from Clackmannan to America in 1848 with several other members of the LDS Church which they had joined in Clackmannan.  I believe his mother was born in Clackmannan and that the family returned to her native county after Charles Brown Wilson died (sometime before an assumed 2nd marriage to Alexander Fife in 1833 Clackmannan.)  One question has always puzzled the descendants of this emigrant, Robert Wilson.  Once in America he went by the name Robert Knox Wilson.  Might anybody have a clue as to why somebody would add this middle name (which, as far as I can tell, has no genealogical significance)?