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yes it would appear our 3Xgrtgrd were brothers. i think mine the elder. do you have the VT/Canada connections? there is a question at least in my lines as to whether product of loyalists. i have lots of info on my line and i may have some on yours by default.

Nancy:
    thanks for your reply.  i'm really curious about your connection to William McGOWAN.  should i start calling you cousin Nancy?  i pretty well have the line nailed back to Kincardine-by-Doune at least the male line.  i have none of the why's/wherefores.  obviously in the early 1700's where they lived must have often been a battleground.  are you working from Scotland or the States?
                                                        thanks again,
                                                        DaughteredOut

i've been working on my cousin's father's family.  i've got a lot State-side, but it is a slog.  one of our friendly chatters mentioned trying here. dawhhh, forgot the European resources.  we are both only children/daughters with all parents dead.

she is half Greek.  i took on this project guessing what it might be like.  we've got feuds, accusations, often, OFTEN!, traveling back to Greece, and name changes--not just to anglicize, and the various spellings of names both phonetically and just plain misspelled. i am looking at a family, LINES, who appear to have come to the U.S. late 1800's.  the name MAY have originally been TSAFOULIUS.  this particular family settled in VERMONT, U.S.  they were from SKOURA, (SPARTA) LACONIA, GREECE.  forenames include JAMES, GEORGE, AUGUSTUS, CONSTANTINUS, NIKOLiUS, and various translations both Greek and English.  almost all generations in VT, U.S. ended up as restaurateurs.  i need to , somehow, verify name; any other info will be gravy.  and i do not speak or read Greek, but i can Google translate if i need to.  THANK YOU

if you're still out there Lila? i have McGOWAN/McGOUN; am interested from list, as apparently are others, in 1867 marr. wm. COLLINS to mary McGOWAN; also, death 1861 mary COLLINS (McGOUN) paisley.  mine are based Kincardine-by-Doune, 1700's.

hope you've had some awha's w/your COLLINS.  thanks!

i don't trust most of the info i have, but this is it:

born Plymouth, Plymouth Unitary Authority, Devon  13 May 1625
death Aug 1700 Rhode Island
father's name:  John/William??
married to Deborah POTTER or JORDAN??
James may have been one of twins??
one of his children, my apparent ancestor, would be Joseph, b. abt. 1652, likely in Rhode Island

don't you just love certainty?!?   THANK YOU