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Re: Bonella, Bonello, Bonalay, Bonaillo and Bonailo
« Reply #9 on: Friday 10 December 10 12:15 GMT (UK) »
Traced my family tree and found that Margaret Imrie Bonella was my Great great grandmother.  My great grandmother was Margaret Bonella Colville born in Dundee and married in Tivoli near Brisbane Australia to Samuel Wilson Lewis.  Her daughter was Hilda Margaret Lewis born about 1898 who died in 1930 after having three children with Alf Atkinson who served in World War 1 at Ypres.  My mother was Daphne Margaret Atkinson b.1927 married 1949. Hilda died when she was 3 years old so she knew very little about her until I did some research based on her marriage certificate to Alf. 
I am Julie Margaret b. 1953.  Hence the Username Margarettoo.   :)
Fascinating to see what you have to say about Margaret Imrie Bonella who I had also found from Records was married in Perth and gave birth to Margaret Bonella in Dundee.  Only on Rootschat.com did I learn from reading Geraldinev and Alan2009 that Margaret Imrie Bonella had died in Brisbane in 1920 aged 92. Thank You.  Margaret Bonella Lewis died in Brisbane 1937 after her daughter Hilda Margaret who died also in Brisbane in 1930. Daphne Margaret is 83 and still lives in Brisbane near me.  She would be interested to talk with anyone from her missing mother's line as losing her at 3 years of age she was always a blank space in her mind.

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Re: Bonella, Bonello, Bonalay, Bonaillo and Bonailo
« Reply #10 on: Friday 10 December 10 22:46 GMT (UK) »
Hi Julie, Great to find more rellies. We knew that there had to be some more out there. Don't know a lot about Margaret at all.
There are some Colvilles out at Roma who would be very interested in this. Neville is 93.
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Re: Bonella, Bonello, Bonalay, Bonaillo and Bonailo
« Reply #11 on: Monday 13 December 10 01:13 GMT (UK) »
I gather you are descended from James Murdock and I am a descendant of Margaret Bonella.  I would be interested to meet Neville and to know which of their siblings is his relative.  Thanks for your reply.
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Re: Bonella, Bonello, Bonalay, Bonaillo and Bonailo
« Reply #12 on: Tuesday 14 December 10 16:49 GMT (UK) »
On Gordon's map of Fife dated 1642 there's a hamlet or farm named Bonally Beath - difficult to place exactly, but its position appears to be about a mile and a half SW from Cowdenbeath railway station, and just north of Hill of Beath village. 

There are a lot of 'beaths' - Swintons Beath, Keirs Beath, Steinsons Beath, Hackstons Beath etc - in the immediate vicinity, so it looks as if Bonally Beath was occupied by someone with the name Bonally.

It also appears on Blaeu's map of Fife dated 1654, but it seems to be copied from the 1642 map.  It doesn't seem to be on any later maps.
Ballingall, Donaldson, Fulton, Gillespie, Ramsay, Walker - in Fife.
Bury - in Salford & Liverpool.
Jack - in Glasgow, Dunfermline & Dundee.
Bermingham/Birmingham - in Cork.
Eagle - in Norfolk, Edinburgh & Glasgow.


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Re: Bonella, Bonello, Bonalay, Bonaillo and Bonailo
« Reply #13 on: Wednesday 15 December 10 06:50 GMT (UK) »
Thanks for the information. It is very interesting and tallies with the earliest Bonally's I have found  being in the Dunfermline area. I have a Lowrie Bonalay marrying a Ellen Davidson 06/12/1562 in Dunfermline and having 4 children  between 1565 and 1575 all of whose births are recorded in/as Dunfermline. By his second wife, he had two more sons (Jhone and Thomas), however, by the mid 1600's they seem to have moved to East Fife as the majority of births and marriages are around Wemyss, Largo, Leven, and Ceres.

Where can I see the Gordon's map you referenced?

Alan

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Re: Bonella, Bonello, Bonalay, Bonaillo and Bonailo
« Reply #14 on: Wednesday 15 December 10 10:07 GMT (UK) »
Alan -

No problem - the Gordon map of 1642 (and a lot of other maps) can be seen on the National Library of Scotland website  http://maps.nls.uk/

Look under "County maps", then "Fife".

Have fun!

Harry.   
Ballingall, Donaldson, Fulton, Gillespie, Ramsay, Walker - in Fife.
Bury - in Salford & Liverpool.
Jack - in Glasgow, Dunfermline & Dundee.
Bermingham/Birmingham - in Cork.
Eagle - in Norfolk, Edinburgh & Glasgow.

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Re: Bonella, Bonello, Bonalay, Bonaillo and Bonailo
« Reply #15 on: Saturday 15 October 11 13:59 BST (UK) »
I am trying to identify the birth date and parents of a William Bonello who married a Margaret Russell in Dysart on 24/10/1778. I suspect that he was the brother of a George Bonello as a Margaret Russell married a George Bonello on 07/10/1769. George Bonello then died on 17/12/1777 and I suspect that Margaret re-married the brother William, though George and William may have just been cousins.

I cannot find any birth records for William or George. I have checked Scotland People, Ancestry and FamilySearch (IGI), but drawn a blank. I believe that William was a Brewer and was probably born in Dysart as he married there and had 4 children there with Margaret. I can find no death record for William, but Margaret outlived him by quite a few years and is shown as "relict" on her death in 1820. As she died aged 79, this would imply birth in 1741, so I assume that William would have been about the same age and born between 1740-1750.

Any information would be greatly appreciated.

Regards
Alan