Janet Hetherington, Ruthwell, Dumfries

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janet must have died between 1818 and 1841 george bell is a widower in 1841 census ruthwell he is with his son charles  csc

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we know janets husband george bell is related to a good lot of the population of ruthwell his parents benjamin bell and rachel mcgowan are buried there the children we have for them are richard1777 jean 1784 margaret 1783 rachel 1792 george 1778 janet died 1804aged17  we have traced all of these except richard the names for our george and janet are nearly the same rachel george charles janet ellen mary richard the only 2 not the same are mary and charles we have traced all of these except george born 1813 flosh the only other hetherton or hetherington in the area we can find with a charles is james hetherton /isabella rae 1807   james was the son of thomas hetherton and janet rome they also had a richard who married louisa carruthers  a very wealthy farmer also thomas who died tortorwald and it says pauper on his death cert  we also wondered whose son hector the blacksmith was   csc

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a good few hetheringtons appear to be born at footmansbridge  does anyone know where that was  i thought it might be near comlongen castle  i can see where stonebridge was that was another birth place for them  csc

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does anyone know what the relationship is between hector hetherington/janet rae  and thomas hetherton /janet rome   i  do know that one of the grandchildren of thomas/janet was named hector and he is buried with his mother at torthorwad  csc

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there is also an ann hetherton/hetherington /john beck having children at the same time as george bell /janet hetherton/hetherington at branthat and footmansbridge we have found quite a few male births not many female csc

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ann hetherington /john beck have several children buried ruthwell  helen beck/husband william mcintosh also several of their children also john beck/elizabeth sloan also several of their children i also have the details of janet hood/hetherington their daughter who was married to james hood they had a son john beck hood who worked on the railway in dumfries    janet hetherington/george bell also have an ellen who went to ontario with her husband william smith   there is also a margaret hetherington husband david walker who also went to ontario they had children born ruthwell and wintersheugh once again with a daughter nellie    ellen/helen/nellie seems to be the main name for the girls so i think these girls are sisters born ruthwell no regs with a mother named nellie/ellen/helen  both ann and janet have children born footmansbridge   does anybody have anything else on these families csc