Hi Bingy,
Yes, second cousins we are: you in Canada and I in New Zealand! My researches have got me this far about our common generational siblings:
There were eleven children in our grandparents’ generation, the children of George Drummond (1832-1884) and Annie nee Hamilton (died 1919). George and Annie lived at 3 Sandbed, Hawick, Roxburghshire, Scotland. George was a corn merchant. Two of the children died in early childhood. Of the remaining nine, three were girls: Isabella Hendry (1860-1945), Jessie Hamilton (1866-1916), Annie Hamilton (1874-?), and six were boys: Archibald Hamilton (1868-1915), George Ovens (1870-1908), John William (1872-1899, who died of pneumonia), Robert Thomas (1876-1951), David Ovens (1878-1945), James Scott (1880-1899).
Of these, four produced offspring:
- Isabella Hendry who married Walter Burns and had 11 children
- Archibald Hamilton who married Elizabeth Ekron and had 4 children
- George Ovens who married Alexandra Dodds and had 3 children
- David Ovens who married Marion May Oliver Boyd and had at least 1 child
I think it highly likely that we have more cousins from the Archibald Hamilton Drummond and David Ovens Drummond marriages, and I'm trying to track these. I have more information about the previous Drummond generations, and about the offspring generations, which I am happy to share with you if you are interested.
Anything you can share with me about those cousins back in the UK would interest me very much.