Hi ruthhelen and everyone,
About 3 posts back you list the children of James Dewar Brown and Isabella Harper. the first child in the list is Elizabeth Brown b 1801 Inveresk, Midlothian, D. 1868 Rutherglen, Lanarkshire and married George Bainbridge.
This may or may not be significant but in first searching this family I had information on two families immigrating to Australia.
One was a Moffatt family and one was a Currie family the year was 1863, the ship the Cairngorm.
On this voyage there was another young male about about 20 : Robert Bower Bainbridge. He was alone. I had been asked to help match up some DNA matches and help in finding missing relatives for a probable cousin.
So in my searching then I ascertained that he first had a child with one of the Moffatt girls but did not marry her.
3 years later he married a Currie girl.
Theory is that the Currie girl was really his choice for wife but was still too young to marry so he waited. In the interim having a child to Miss Moffatt.
It was also thought that this child eventually became a gt grandfather to my probable cousin indicated by her DNA results. This is most likely correct.
I worked out that Robert's parents were probably George Bainbridge and Elizabeth Brown.
At the time I was endeavouring to link another person from the DNA matches for my Cousin. It was then that Robert Bower Bainbridge became important as he was this match persons Gt Grandfather.
After establishing the links between the cousins we moved on to others and I never found the connection further back to the Brown family.
Therefore I am positive you have found the correct family.
Robert was born 15th August 1840 Dunfirmlin, Fife, Scotland .
From all of the above it looks like there are two lines back to the one family of Browns.
On the issue of the McFadyen family are there any other ways of spelling this name? Samuel was McFadgan and I have seen McFadyean.
I am just so excited about all of this.
Thank you so very very much
Essnell
