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Good to hear from you Janice! I did send some bits to Chris as she said you'd been a bit poorly. Good to see you're back in the saddle, so to speak.

I've had my DNA done two ways, once with Ancestry and once from a lab at a genealogy show about eighteen years ago. I'm sure it would show a link between us though how we could trace that to Drummonds isn't so clear. Particularly if there is only a limited pool of people tested.

Anyway, it keeps us all busy in our dotage!!! All the best, Bob & Jan.

The problem tracing the correct '1795' William is that they often fibbed about their age, usually to make themselves younger.

The William from Comrie is not our one.  He remained in Comrie, married there and died there in 1858. At the moment I have 14 other candidates between 1787 and 1797 that I'm researching. It's gonna be a long slog!

Hello Drumkip,
Welcome to the board. Not been here long myself.
My GGranny was indeed a daughter of RRJ, but by his second marriage to Elizabeth Ann MILOW.  Your ancestor Mary would be RRJ's child from marriage to his first wife Elizabeth MANSON (Nee BLAND) - it being her own second marriage.
Unfortunately my GGranny's comments is just a tale passed down from her son (my grandfather) via his daughter (my mother), so no more details than that.
The parish records of the marriage of William and Hannah (1924 - pre-GRO) only state "of this parish (William from Sculcoates, Hannah from St Marys). The Scotland link comes from the later censuses. The search for his birth/birthplace goes on though!

Good morning Janice,
Sorry to hear of your health problems. Hope you're not too seriously inconvenienced by the lockdown.
I've done all the thorough research from William Drummond in Hull downwards, including his bankruptcy, marriage, family and so on. I'm descended from RRJ, who seems to have a somewhat checkered history, eventually ending up in a pauper's grave two steps away from my GGGrandfather on another branch, who has a magnificent tombstone. Walking the places and their history does 'flesh' them out.
My great-grandmother (herself a Drummond) always said to my mother: "Never forget you've got blue blood in your veins. You're from the HIGHLAND Drummonds". To which my Grandfather replied: "Well it's bl***y thin by now!".
Anyway, there are a lot of candidates for our William who went to Hull. But beyond DoB approximations, I haven't yet found any corroborating evidence to support one or the other. The one thing I do know is that I can discount the one from Comrie.
Do you have any further information that confirms the link to the 1796 William?

Yep, already done that.

William died in Comrie on March 16th 1858, aged 62. Parents William, labourer (deceased) and Margaret McEwan (or Drummond).

The death was reported by one Duncan Drummond (son) on the 23rd. Nasty death - haemorrhegia for 7 weeks.