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Hi Heather

This is very exciting to finally catch up with another descendant of Thomas Cumming and Jennet Skinner!!
I have now found the Mackenzie family on the 1911 census.  At that time they had 6 children (all living), but still no sign of Hugh.

After you have recovered from your long weekend, if you email me on * I will give you more information.  Perhaps I can email you copies of the death and marriage certificates if you need them.

Are you in Inverness?  I stayed there in 2000 in a B&B and in 2008 in the youth hostel so I could visit the archives.  I just love Scotland!  My husband lets me travel on my own so I am very lucky-he's more into golf and fishing than family history so I leave him at home!

Have a great weekend with your friends and I'm looking forward to hearing from you again!

Regards

Your distant cousin Leonie

PS I live on the far north coast of NSW.
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Hi all
I also have a BUTFOY in the tree.
Susannah BUTFOY, daughter of Charles and Ann Butfoy, baptised 2 Sep 1850 at St Matthews Bethnal Green.
She married Richard OLIVER, origins unknown, on 3 Jan 1773 at St Mary Newington.
She had 9 children from 1773 until 1793.
She died on 29 August 1841 aged 91 years at 23 Wilmot St Bethnal Green, the home of her youngest child, Sarah Shepherd, nee Oliver.  She is also recorded there in the 1841 census.  Richard Oliver died in 1829.

Susannah's daughter Julian/a married Charles Lusby in 1810.  My question is-can anyone help with the origins of Richard Oliver, who was a silk weaver (what else?) or Charles Lusby who was the son of John and Mary Lusby?  The Lusbys were also weavers.

I suppose I would really like to know if Richard Oliver and/or the Lusbys had Huguenot origins. 

Many thanks
Leonie_O

Hello
I am trying to locate relatives of William McKenzie born in Fearn, Ross and Cromarty in 1865.  He married Williamina McKenzie in 1898 in Inverness.  By the 1901 census the couple were living in Nairn with their children Donald and Mary Ann, both of whom were born in Nairn.  Another son, John was born in Nairn in 1902.
Both William and Williamina died in Columba Rd, Inverness.  John was the informant when his father died and an H.McKenzie, son, the informant when Williamina died.  (William died in 1950, Williamina in 1953).
Unfortuately I don't know who H is or where he was born.  (I have tried scotlandspeople to no avail).

William was a coachman.

I would appreciate any help with this family so if anyone is connected to them, I would love to hear from you.

Thanks
Leonie

Hello
I have been researching the FINDLAY family for over 15 years following on from my father's research.
Unnie Findlay was my gg grandmother's sister.
I have lots of info on all the Findlays if you are interested.
I also have Unnie Findlay's death cert and it says she died from 'fibroid pthisis'.  Since pthisis is tuberculosis, it must be some kind of this.
In one of your posts you say that her daughter Euphemia went to the USA.  Is this so? I would be very interested in details of this.
Four of Unnie's sisters and a brother came to Australia in the 1850s.
Last year I met some of Unnie's descendants in Glasgow and Dundee, Scotland.
Regards
Leonie