Hi Bruce, What is your connection to the Hogg family from the borders? I see you are profile manager for a number of them.

We descend from Margaret (Hogg) Sinton (1807-79) who emigrated to New Zealand with her sons.

Thanks, Murray

Hi Bruce, what's your relationship to or interest in the Sim family?

They're cousins of mine via the Inglis family so I've bought a bunch of pages on ScotlandsPeople for them, in case you need anything. I'm particularly a fan of William Sim's addiction to raising granite monuments to family members, especially his own wonderful monolith in the Glasgow Necropolis that lists a lot of his close relatives and gave me my 5x great grandfather's dates. :)

Kath

Thank you for your help in finding the parents of Isabella Mcdonald and John Anderson. I've been struggling with it for months, now I can carry on!

Thanks for updating Adam's line, Bruce. Boykett-128, Elizabeth Boykett (known as Ann) was a great help to me in the early stages of my research, although I am descended from Lowlanders. In those days, every woman seemed to have a nickname. For example, according to a family diary, the marriage of my Jenny's grandparents was performed "at Coral's house", Coral being Mary Ann Elizabeth (Bond) De Low (1859-1953).

Hi Bruce. I have a lot of information about James Robb, Isabella and their 4 children. They were early settlers in the Comox Valley and in fact Isabella was the first white woman there. I'm writing a short article for a local group - would you like a copy when it's done?

Ann Brown Comox, BC Canada

Hi Bruce,

I am doing a one-name study of the COULL surname The Farther of Coull-334 (George) was Francis Coull b c 1815 (or 1818 or 1825 depending on source). He married Eliza (Elizabeth) WHYTE 16 Juy 1865 (he had been previously married to a Mary BENZIE) he was described as a Tailor. You can look him up on https://coull.me along with Georges siblings and half siblings.

Martin Coull Now living in Paynesville, Victoria, Australia on the beautiful Gippsland Lakes. Time UTC = +10 hours

Bruce, your question about John Robb and Margary (?), his wife. The info I have is that they departed the shores of the UK (London) on the ship "Charlotte Gladstone", on 5 November 1870, arriving in New Zealand 30 January 1871.

Hi Bruce, the category you have on your profile "Scotland, Emigrants to Australia" was originally named incorrectly, and needs to be deleted. Could you please remove that category and replace it with a correct category. We already have "Migrants from Aberdeenshire to New South Wales" or if "Migrants from Aberdeen to New South Wales" is more applicable to you, I can create that one for you.

Kind regards, Margaret, Categorization and Australia Projects.

Thanks for all the improvements you made to my Hawick profiles, Bruce. There were too many to thank individually. Now that I know that my William's mother Jane Newall existed, I am more motivated.

Hi Bruce, regarding your request for category "Highland and Island Emigration Society", can you give me a link for a profile you would like the category to be added to? Many thanks, cheers, Margaret.

Bruce, I have received an enquiry about a new Aussie Laidlaw contact who is on FamilySearch and according to them, is on FAG as well. She is GRACE ELLEN LAIDLAW, who married Alfred William BOUQUET in Scotland in 1918. They seem to have emigrated like typical newlyweds. Alf's potential parents are on Ancestry.com Their son-in-law Robert LAKE, d. 2004 is on FamilySearch, and I got his details from there. I will give you a Wikitree ID for Grace when I have one.

Doug.

Bruce, I feel like removing the Laidlaw link as one I am following. You and others are doing it far better. In my case, there are couple of lines only that attach to my ancestors and go outside Scotland, and they are Canadians. All the Americans are of no interest to me, and I don't believe that genealogical research is simple number-crunching. Occasionally, one pops up as a connection to an Anchor, but those will remain.

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