Dumfries-shire, Kerr, Gowanlock, Bell

[janeli_1]

Thanks for your help Mary, perhaps you and I are distantly related but doubtful we can trace back far enough.  It is amazing how often I have found a connection through Roots Chat!   My husband and I both have ancestry in UK so I do have lots of fun making connections!

Thanks to you and all who so willingly share their time!

Jan

[weemary]

Jan I don't think my Thomas kerr's parents are wm kerr/phillis bell -  to prove this I would need to locate a death cert for thomas.

Also Thomas  has stated on the 1851 and 1861 census he was born Greenock and on the other census born Ireland -  my Thomas died prior to the 1881 census -  to date I have been unable to locate Thomas or his wife/family on the 1871 census
Mary

[janeli_1]

Thanks, Mary.  I have Thomas' birth record and the personal note from his nephew at the time of his death.  Also probate.  I guess we have different Thomas' but it was worth a try.  good luck in your research.

Jan