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« on: Sunday 25 March 18 12:52 BST (UK) »
Hi Gadget,
John married, Margaret Rutherford (b. 1788, Eyemouth, parents, John Rutherford, Agnes Bennet).
The known children are
Agnes (03/05/1814)
James (05/01/ 1816)
Jane/Jean (16/01/1820)
John (29/05/1822)
Robert (11/08/1824)
all are born in Kelso.
Would the record in Greenlaw be from 1781, parents George Brownlees and Margaret Marshall? I think we had previously seen this and although being the closest fit, had dismissed it because of the level of difference in birth years.
As to Mellerstaine (as written on the 1851 census), we have always presumed it to be one in the same as the Mellerstain estate/village, and realise there isn't a lot there at all.