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Dunbartonshire / Re: James Fin(d)lay in Kilsyth, late 18th Century
« on: Monday 25 February 13 13:27 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you for the quick reply!  Wow. 

I knew the people in our posts were generations apart.  With the similar names and the tradition of carrying them through generations, I thought there might be a connection farther back, especially with Bryson added to the mix. I hope the poems I posted to my Web page will yield some clues.
 
I have not been able to find a thing through general online sources about Robert Bryson.  I also have not delved deeper into searching until now. 

I am only now getting back into researching my Findlay line after several years.  Just today, I found some (new to me) online 1800s census data on my grandmother's parents and her siblings.  I have not yet obtained the marriage certificate for Alexander and Elizabeth you mentioned.  Thank you for sharing that information.  I hope I will be able to find it through the Scotland's People database.  I am also intrigued about the ill-informed online family tree you mentioned.  I do not have a Buchanan in my records, so I am relieved it was not anything I posted. 

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Dunbartonshire / Re: James Fin(d)lay in Kilsyth, late 18th Century
« on: Sunday 24 February 13 17:36 GMT (UK)  »
My grandmother, Elizabeth Easton Findlay, was born in 1893 in Cumbernauld.  (She emigrated  to Canada around 1913 where she met my grandfather, Lester in Toronto.  They married in 1916.)  She was one of 8 children, whose names were Janet (Jenny), Helen (Nell), Mary, Margaret (Peggy), Jeanie, Alexander, and James (Dick). Her father was James Findlay (b. 1861 - d?) and mother was Janet White/Whyte (b. 1865 - d?).  James was a coal miner and Janet was a domestic.  James' parents, Alexander Findlay (b. 1835 -d?) and Elizabeth Easton (b. 1829 - d?) were married in Falkirk. Janet's parents were John White and Mary Smith.

My aunt Kate (Catherine) came to own some poems by Robert Bryson.  Kate said my grandmother's brother James, who was known as Dick, was the "wee Dick" in Bryson's poems and that they were good friends.  Your mention of all these names makes me wonder if there are connections.

I have not worked on this quite a while, but I have shared information at:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~capels/findlay/index.html

This is about all I have been able to find about my grandmother's family and keep hitting brick walls in my search for more information. 

--Valerie Capels

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