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In my research I have come across the following birth record on the IGI, and it IS one from the local records and NOT from a member of the Mormans;

DAVID LESSELS 
Event(s):
 Birth:  23 NOV 1787   
 
 Christening:  28 NOV 1787   Abbotshall, Fife, Scotland
Parents:
  Father:  JOHN LESSELS
  Mother:  MARGARET MOISE

I have searched the ScotlandsPeople website and drawn a blank on the marriage of John and Margaret could some kind person please check other sources for the marriage.

Many thanks.

Regards
Andy Stuart.

Many Thanks Helen.

Oh and the e-mail arrived fine thanks for that too.  ;-)

Regards
Andy Stuart

Hi Lindsay,
     Sorry I had not read the earlier posts correctly.

I have several family names that you could look up, to give you an exact list would take quite some time, but family names include:-
Halkerston
Robertson
Arnott
Pirie
Hamilton
Rollo and
Valentine

Anything you have on these would be greatly recieved.

Regards
Andy Stuart

(I suppose that because of that Berwick must have been an 'isolated' part of Northumberland then!).

Bob,
     Berwick was actually a county in its own right because of the dispute with Scotland as to which country it actually "Belonged" to.  For a long period of time, and may actually still be the case to an extent, England and Scotland agreed that Berwick should be a separate "area" under the administration of England.  This is why Berwick is STILL at war with Russia after over 200yrs, When war was declared the statement read "The United Kingdom of England, Scotland & Berwick Upon Tweed," when the document marking the cessation of hostilities was produced the statement read "The United Kingdom of England & Scotland."  Sorry I digress.

Regards
Andy Stuart

Hi Lindsay,

     I am a decendant of the Halkerstons of St.Andrews, what info do you have on them ?  We are quite probibaly related all be it distantly.

Regards
Andy Stuart