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Lovely to get your post on this 'gey dreich' overcast snowy day in Southern Ontario. My husband is ecstatic to get this photo of his gr.grts! Re Camelon/Falkirk - Marriage of Andrew Eadie and Mary Coulter took place in the church manse in Camelon, part of Falkirk on Sept 5, 1897.

Sharmar, there would appear to be a connection, though l have not done any research prior to the marriage of William and Ann then the birth of Jonas. Jonas moved to Scotland, shows up on the 1891 census for Holytown Lanarkshire as a coal miner (no sign of family), 1901 census he is still a miner, 40 years old with wife Sarah Ann (Shepherd), children Sarah Ann 16, Rose Ann 15, Blanche 11 - all born in England then Jonas 9, Mary 5 and Richard William 2 (my husband's grandfather),all born in Lanarkshire. My records indicate they married in 1888 in Dawley and Sarah's previous married name was Reynolds so l doubt the older children were Underwoods.  My husband's uncle was known as Jack and never knew until he died that he was also a Jonas!
SarahU
p.s. note of interest, this male line of Underwoods has now died out. Uncle Jack had no children, my husband and l had no sons, my husband's brother had one son but parents divorced and boy legally took the step-father's name. However, my one daughter kept the Underwood name professionally.

I am a new member of Rootschat and though this 'conversation' is quite old now, hopefully, this information will still be of some value. Zachariah is my direct ancestor, through my grandmother Louisa Emily Giles born 1892 in Croydon to Zachariah's son George and wife Louisa Baxter. Jim Giles, my father's cousin of New Addington, Croydon, gave me some research before he died and they show Zachariah as being baptized on September 26th, 1802 and Thomas and Hannah as the parents. I also have a listing of all his children and their birth years. The oldest, Thomas, was born in 1826. Zachariah died of cancer on August 4, 1869 -  his wife Honor Stephens having pre-deceased him from typhus on September 21, 1849. I do not have all the 'official' documents for these details (other than the census returns), only the typewritten pages given to me.
SarahU.