« on: Friday 11 November 05 21:35 GMT (UK) »
Hi everyone,
My family is trying to work past our biggest roadblock we have found in our quest for ancestors.
We have an extract (below) from the OPR of Carlaverock for the marriage of my g-g-g-g grandparents, Richard Dickson and Elspeth Dickson there on April 7 1768. It says that Richard is from Mousewald (well it looks like that anyway) and that Elspeth is the daughter of John Dickson in Byers. Other Dickson marriages on the same record page also give places like 'in Blackshaw' etc.
Does anyone have any idea where Byers is or was? The closest I have come is an old Barony in East Lothian. Someone has said it maybe a farm or something in the parish.
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers
Mick Dickson
Dumfries -Campbell, Dickson, Glendinning, Grierson, Irving, Jardine, Wells, also Beattie, Brown, Buckham, Charters, Dalrymple, Fell, Ferguson, Fraser, Gibson, Graham, Hutchison, Leivers, Nichol, Mckenzie, Nicholson, Smith, White, McLean
Kirkcudbright - Dickson, Broun/Brown, Shennan
Glasgow-Dickson, Neilson, Thomson, Fleming, Mackenzie, Dennison
Edinburgh- Dickson, Buckham
Ayrshire-McIlwrick, McMurray, Gray, Findlay
Limerick - Shea / O'Shea, Carroll
Kerry - Egan
Sussex - Towner