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« on: Monday 17 October 11 02:06 BST (UK) »
Hello, and thank you! I am glad to find other Hornell researchers. Your right, I am getting my years mixed up and there is no way James' father George and Edward A. Hornell's father, William, could be brothers. So I'll have to start looking for a connection further beyond that.
I have James Hornell (1865) birth certificate showing George Thomson Hornell (1837) as his father. His father had a business in Lancashire but he died in Scotland in 1869 (I have his Scots death record). James remained living with his aunts in Kirkcudbright and in the 1881 census he is still there along with his mother Dorothy. I understand that Dorothy eventually returned to Lancashire to take care of the business and James then went into zoology writing quite a few very detailed books ... none of which contained a biography unfortunately!! I know he did get married and eventually had a daughter though.
Going further back, his father, George Thomson Hornell (1837) was the son of James Hornell and Mary Aitken (OPR births 871/00 0020 0077 Kirkcudbright). (Perhaps the connection I'm looking for between James Hornell and Edward A. Hornell stretches back to the grandparents line or beyond .... hmmmm!) And according to the death record, James Hornell the elder (abt 1790) who died in 1869 at the age of 73 years (871/00 0012), was the son of John Hornell, a shoemaker, and Margaret Thomson.
If the cousin relationship stretches back into the grandparents line then the cousinship would be something like a first cousin, once or twice removed, I expect. They must share a set of grandparents somewhere in there!
William Hornell (1801) and Margaret Heron were my 3x great-grandparents. Their son William Lidderdale Hornell (1822) married Ann Elizabeth Habbishaw on 10 June 1853 in Kirkcudbright.
I'm suspecting now the connection between James Hornell and Edward A. Hornell must be further back than I expected. If you come across a connection please let me know because it's driving me batty!!! I want to find the missing link.
Many thanks. I'll keep looking and will post anything I find too.