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I'm trying to pinpoint Chapmanleys. I suspect it could be a row of cottages lying somewhere between Lochfoot and Troqueer. Maybe in Cargenbridge?

Hoping someone can pinpoint it for me.

Thanks
Tx

I stumbled across the link in Ancestry earlier, but after a look I'm struggling to piece the families together, so wondered if anyone on here with a wee bit of time on their hands could have a look for me. Samuel makes for interesting reading if nothing else

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Rutherford_Crockett

Samuel Rutherford Crockett was a minster then novelist, seems to be of a similar style to Sir Walter Scott; romantic scottish history with a big dose of fantasy thrown in.

Anyway I have most of the census records for this Samuel:

B: 24 Sep 1859 (not 1860 as you will find on the net)
D: 16 Apr 1914 in France (allegedly, I have found nothing to prove this)

From his birth cert he was illegitimate, no father's name but mother was Annie Crocket.

Samuel appeared to change his name whilst attending Edinburgh Uni to a more romantic 'Samuel Rutherford Crockett' Whether Rutherford was his father's name or made up for respectability, I have no idea.

Anyway from the census records I have Annie's parents as William Crocket and Mary Dickson.

From the notes on Ancestry, it may be that William Crocket is related to my G.G.G.G Granny Christian Crocket. William was a farmer of quite a few acres so reasonably well off.

Christian was christened at Lochrutton on 20 sep 1778, she married John Hyslop of Brae, who was also a reasonably well off farmer. Christian's father was John Crocket. I can find nothing more on John Crocket.

Does anyone fancy having a look? I can't see anything for Annie's, Mary's or William's death.

Ideally I would like to find something on Willaim's birth/parents. Or if William and Christian are possibly related??

If nothing else, the story of Samuel Rutherford Crockett makes interesting reading!

Thanks
Tx

I have unfortunately just found a 'West Indies Estates Overseer' in my partner's family called Alexander Merchant. He was born in 1791 in Edinburgh.

I actually feel a bit sick.
I thought that our families were just full of poor Scots folk and never thought I would ever find a connection with the slave trade.

But now that I have found him, I want to know more. Can anyone suggest where I can search?

Tx

For John Pomeroy b abt 1883, Dorchester.

I need to know his profession and if he has a son called Albert

Thanks!!

Tracey

Can someone please look up Albert Pomeroy b abt 1896, Durham in the 1901 census. (I let my sub  run out... as I no longer needed it... until now!)

I'm hoping his father is John Pomeroy born in Ireland, policeman... but it may be coal miner...

Can you tell I'm clutching at straws?

Albert was definitely married in Nothumberland on 25th December 1924 to Louisa Morris; but then I can find Nothing... All I know was that he was Irish, but after drawing a blank there I'm looking into the possibilities that maybe his father was Irish and he was born Nothumberland/Durham.

Thanks!!!!
Tracey