Wendy Mc
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Looking to exchange information with any McGeorge researchers who have ancestors from this area.
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Wendy
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Hi Wendy,
I am delighted to 'find' another McGeorge researcher. My GG grandfather was Samuel McGeorge, born c1837 in Kirkpatrick Durham.
I have been doing a one name study on McGeorge for several years and have quite a large data base on McGeorges, world wide. can I help you?
I have my own family on a web page if you would like to check it out
http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/c/a/m/Kay-Elizabeth-Campbell/index.htm
cheers
Kay
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Wendy Mc
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thanks Kay but you very kindly helped me 2 years ago.
My g.g. g'parents were Walter McGeorge and Ann McDonald. They had Jane McGeorge b.abt. 1860 who married Gillanders Findlay and lived in Essendon, Vic. Aust. They had my g'mother Vera Jane Findlay who married Alfred George Price. You sent me what you had so far on my line and it has been very much appreciated. Glad to see you are also using this site which is already proving to be one of the most helpful around.
Thanks again, Wendy (Melbourne)
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Wendy Mc
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Hi Linda,
Nice to hear from you. Most of my McGeorge info is compliments of Kay except for what I have on my line that came to Australia. I haven't come across those names you mentioned however there were quite a few Walter McGeorges'. Mine all lived either Kircudbrightshire or Taunton, Somerset. I feel sure that your James will be connected to my lot in some way, being from Kircudbright. It's just a matter of finding out how exactly.
I'll keep a lookout for the ones you mentioned.
best wishes,
Wendy.......Melbourne, Australia.
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Wonder if I can butt in on the McGEORGE discussion? I have had great help from Kay in the past, don't know if she remembers?
I have access to the Kirk Session records for Urr and the McGEORGE family features quite a lot, especially a John McGEORGE who after lots of escapades with the girls eventually married a Jean/Jane BAXTER. They had my husband's 4xg.grandmother Elizabeth McGEORGE in Urr in 1807. I could not find who John's father was, but he is mentioned in the Kirk Session records which was great - Peter McGEORGE. I have not come across any mention of a Peter McGEORGE prior to this. Any connections anywhere?
Anne - Melbourne
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Hello to my McGeorge cousins, one day we will find that link.!
Anne I am interested in the Kirk Session records you mentioned. Did you get them through the LDS on film? Are you able to give me the details of McGeorge and what years do they cover.?
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Kay
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Hi Kay,
I actually had to buy the Kirk Session Records through the Society I belong to here in Melbourne, they are not available through the LDS, 'no distribution to FHCs'. The Session Records themselves only cover years 1806-1847 and also Disciplines 1815-1838. There is a lot about John McGeorge, they took it all down just about word for word and it is fascinating. He was a very naughty boy!! Apart from naming his father, nothing on the family. It is very time consuming reading the records as you really have to read each entry for each meeting. John McGeorge was up before the Kirk elders at least three times, accused of fathering children by three different girls. One particular entry gives a blow by blow account of just what happened, and how John McGeorge and his father Peter tried to persuade her to abort the child. I am very pleased I lashed out and got them, cost about thirty pounds I think. I also got the parish records for Urr, they cost almost as much. Doesn't help with links, but interesting all the same.
Anne
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Hi Anne, John sounds as though he was a busy man! Can you tell me the names of the women and if the babies were named. Often in Scotland the illg. child carried on with the father's name. It might help me to narrow down some names.
Also does it say what John and his father Peter did for a living and where they were living? Poor people, little did they realise that 200years later their 'sins' were going around the world.
What Society did you buy them through? They sound quite fascinating.
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Kay
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Kay,
Jean Baxter was one of them, but he eventually married her after two illigitimate children, Elizabeth in 1807 and John in 1810. Elizabeth Moffat also accused him in 1810, in this case John said he had witnesses that had heard her name another man as the father of the child. They were all related to him in one way or another and included the mother of Jean Baxter! Before that was Janet Stuart in 1808. She eventually married so the child might have taken the step-father's name. She was living in Grosmichael in 1815 when the case was dragged up because John "has never cleared himself of this scandal." This was the one that included the story of how John and his father tried to persuade her to abort the child. In 1835 there is mention of John McGeorge again being up before the Elders for fornication with a Barbara Gurr. He confesses his guilt and they are admonished. Now, this is not the same John as he died in 1832, so perhaps son John following in father's footsteps!
No occupation for either John or his father Peter McGeorge, but they came from Auchenreoch, near Urr.
I belong to the Australian Institute of Genealogical Studies here in Melbourne, a genealogists paradise, and I got the records through them. They hold them now and anyone can look at them, it's how we build up our holdings.
If you want anything looked up in Urr, let me know.
Cheers,
Anne
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Hi Anne,
Thank you for all that lovely information about John and his father Peter, I didn't have that, and everything is most welcome. I used to belong to that Gen soc and used to visit it when I went Melbourne. As you said it is absolutely wonderful and I could have spent all my holiday just there!
Kay
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