Thank you for responding
- yes that is the right Isabella Armstrong (Wishart). The reason why I know when Walter Armstrong died is that my uncle Andew Armstrong (1936) sent me a photograph of a gravestone in Canonbie which includes:-
Walter Armstrong who died at at Hollowshillgate 12 August 1897 aged 81,
his daugher Mary Ima (wife of William Graham b1860, Canonbie) who died 29 Jan 1894 aged 28,
his granddaughter Annie who died 11 May 1895 aged 10 (who was an illegitmate daughter of Margaret below - she had at least two daughters to my knowledge Isabella b. 27 Sept 1892);
his wife Isabella Wishart who died 19 Sept 1909; and
Margaret Armstrong who died in Carlisle at the age of 80 - not sure of the year but probably 1939 - Margaret is the last entry and the gravestone has a lot of litchen on it.
I have a fair amount of information on Walter and Isobella's decendants but nothing on their ancestors hence my query - I thought given that both of them had been born in Canonbie and their daughters and son also had children in Canonbie maybe they had crossed over into some elses ancestors.
Andrew Armstrong my great grandfather b 7 Aug 1861 had two wives one was a Jane Johnstone b 21 May 1861, Canonbie died 31 July 1892 Stannersburn, Northumberland. She had 4 children to Andrew:
Elizabeth Jane b1886
Isabella b 1888
Jane b 1889 all three born in Canonbie and both Elizabeth and Isabella seem to have stayed there - and
Thomas John b 1890 in Stannersburn, Northumberland.
Andrew's second wife and my great grandmother was a Jane Irving b 1857 in Kirkpatrick Fleming (father George Irving b 1826 Kirkpatrick Fleming mother Janet Ritchie b 1828.
My grandfather was Andrew Walter William Armstrong b 1900 died 1979 in Newcastle Upon Tyne. Given his name I have searched for his great grandfather among the William Armstrongs but have not found anyone that looks as if they are an ancestor.
