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mmmmikkimac
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SPROAT Family
« on: Friday 20 June 08 00:38 BST (UK) »



Looking for information on the history of the SPROAT family of Kirkcutbright and Wigtown prioer to 1700 and went to America to settle in Massachusetts.
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KirstyG
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Re: SPROAT FAMILY
« Reply #1 on: Friday 20 June 08 01:08 BST (UK) »

I don't know if this will be of any help but there is a SPROT family on the Wigtownshire pages 1684 Parish Lists (also covers Minnigaff) index of names, and given the garbled spellings we always get...
http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~leighann/1684/intro.html
http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~leighann/1684/names/98_101.txt

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Re: SPROAT Family
« Reply #2 on: Saturday 21 June 08 09:05 BST (UK) »

Thank you for the links, I will check them out.
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Re: SPROAT Family
« Reply #3 on: Friday 05 September 08 11:16 BST (UK) »

Hi My grandad Travelled to Idaho with a Faid Sproat in the late eighteen 90s or the early 19 hundreds They were taking horses and  not quite sure where they travelled from,
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Re: SPROAT Family
« Reply #4 on: Friday 05 September 08 11:43 BST (UK) »

Sorry about that,  KKBD area Borgue? thank that my Gramps worked for the family.
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Re: SPROAT Family
« Reply #5 on: Tuesday 12 May 09 09:21 BST (UK) »

I have been researching Sproats around the city of  KKD (Kirkcudbright) for about 5 years.  I can not get beyond Hugh Sproat, borm 20 Mar 1814 in Borgue, KKDshire, married 1840 in Stourbridge Wocestershire, died June 1889,  in  Birkenhead, Chesire, Merseyside .  He was the father of James Henry S Sproat.  James was my great grandfather.  He had my grandmother Jessie Sproat.  I have further details but do not want to be too long winded.  I have every so often run into information on the website in Ancestry World Tree Project called the Gordon/ Bertram Tree, last updated in 2007.  What is intriguing is there were aparently two brothers  John S. Sproat born 1710 around KKD, died 20 Oct 1800 in Pennsborough Cumberland Pennsylvania USA.  He had a brother{a guess]) also born around 1710 who was William Sproat.  These brother may have had William Sproat, born 11 Apr 1742, or Hugh Sproat, as described above.  Anyway, John S. Sproat immigrates to the Americas thru Canada.  I have loads more including Duncan Sproat who wrote Sproatachronicon .  Out in Western British Columbia threre is a Sproat Lake, also a Sproat is one of the immortals of Ohio and coined the term Buckeye State.  Anyway, I hope anyone can help with Sproat genealogy or general stories.  One story has it that  Sproats had land and also worked for th Douglas's, maybe at Threaves Castle.

Stephen Wood, Roseburg Oregon USA
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