Hello All, I am recording some information that I received from records about my Grierson family line and I do not understand some of it. I typed in red the part I would love someone to explain what t

Irene, someone's been messing about in your address book: I got this email from you directly: >> Is there any chance that face looks familiar? (plus a strange link attached which I didn't click on) >>

First post so apologies if too long and hopefully this is the kind of enquiry that I can make ... My great great grandmother Jane Burnie or Mc Burnie was married ( ? ) to English born Stephen Weston (

Petra Mitchinson regularly posts BDMs from Cumberland newspapers to the Cumberland mailing list. These 2 deaths appeared in her latest post from the Carlisle Journal, 16 Apr 1814: Monday, at Kirkland

Hello, I've recently had a little breakthrough in a brick wall on my family history, although this breakthrough is a little murky. My great grandmother's name was Jean Phillips and on her Australian m

I am looking at a Mort cloth record. I understand the principle about old and best cloth and little cloth for Children and the associated payment levels My question is that I have a record from 1771 t

Being interested in Dumfries and Galloway genealogy you may be interested to know that the Dumfries and Galloway Family History Society has today launched an Online Shop where you can purchase E-Books

Hello everyone, I wonder if someone can help me please. I want to know who was resident at 9, Rae Street, Dumfries in 1921-1923, and who owned the property. Was it run as a mother and baby home perhap

Hi Mary Further to my earlier reply, Samuel Brown was a nominee of the Town Council. The tenant at 9 Rae Street was Ada Molloy, a widow. Don’t know if that helps. That is all you will get from the Val

Hello all. I am trying to trace the parents/ancestors of several of the BELL family. I have a family of BELL’s, whose children were – Janet, Margaret (Betty), Mary, Henrietta, William and John BELL. T

B 2796 Rerrick married to James McNish sometimes Nish death certificate states died of burning - there is no note on death certificate re RCE i have looked at a few newspapers to find if any reports b

Looking for my Currie family, in particular, Thomas Currie who married Mary Beattie. Thomas was born abt 1808 and left with his family arriving in New Zealand after the 1861 Census. The 1861 Census ha

Just for information, the Dumfries & Galloway Family History Society have now created Online Membership options using PayPal. See https://dgfhs.org.uk/membership/ Regards, Terry Brown

Hi everyone. I am researching the Murrays of Ecclefechan. My ancestors John Murray and Jane Evans, both from Ireland, moved to Ecclefechan from Glasgow in the 1820s. They and their descendants lived t

Barbara and Iain, Please see my transcription of a large Dobie family tree, drawn up in the 1870's -- at https://www.dobiegenealogy.org/g-gracie.htm Do a browser search for Currie and/or Murray, and y

I have been researching my Menzies line for decades but getting no further back so I have looked at the side branches of my family tree. My Gt Gt Grandfather left the family home at Woodhouselee, Duri

My cousins and I have been researching our Scots connections including our Murray line in Dumfries. This is what we know: John Murray (parents likely William Murray & Mary Brown) B:1735 Eskdale, Dumfr

Hello I am interested in my Roddick Ancestors from the Dumfries area.

Dale ~ I have an Elizabeth RODDICK b.1856 in Cummertrees married to Peter CARRUTHERS of Portrack & Isabella (Isabel) RODDICK b.1759 in St Mungo married to Walter CARRUTHERS of Guileburn & Pathead. --

Hello All, First, thanks to the people who set up this new list. I have not posted on the Dumfries list for several years, so it's time to re-state my interests. My husband's HENDERSON line has been r