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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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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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