Anyone else into seeking their ancestors?

[darksideofthemoon]

I have become adicted to Ancestry.com and am lucky enough that one side of my family can be researched way back into the dim times.

The other side has hit a brick wall and I have to wait until someone else in the world may have more information.

How is everyone else going?

[2chappies]

They are all part of the same company chappies. I use the UK one because all my ancestors were over here until my grandfather came out here.

Thanks for the info, much appreciated. 🙂

[col52]

GIL look at this site

http://www.google.com.au/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=The+earl+of+Strathmore&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&redir_esc=&ei=RcrNTZSRMMTQrQe9npHDCg

Lots of stuff there to get you started 🙂

I noticed Bowes-Lyon mentioned there, did you know the queen mother was a Bowes-Lyon?

The Bowes family built Bowes museum, not far from where I came from:

http://www.thebowesmuseum.org.uk/

This is also mentioned on the site:

John and Joséphine Bowes founded The Bowes Museum. John, the son of the 10th Earl of Strathmore, was born in Teesdale in 1811.

[col52]

Darkside, you prompted me to looking into Hadrian's Wall and I found this site:

http://www.landsbeyondthewall.co.uk/index.html

On there, is a link: Are you descended from a famous Border Reiver family? http://www.landsbeyondthewall.co.uk/names.html

This is a list of all the reiver surnames:

Armstrong
Beattie
Bell
Carlyle
Carruthers
Charlton
Croser
Dacre
Dodd
Elliot
Forster
Graham
Hall
Henderson
Hetherington
Hodgson
Hunter
Irvine / Irving
Jameson
Johnstone
Kerr
Laidlaw
Liddle
Little
Milburn
Musgrave
Nixon
Noble
Oliver
Ridley
Robson
Routledge
Rutherford
Salkeld
Scott
Storey
Taylor
Thompson
Turnball
Yarrow

[the_great_she_elephant]

for stirring accounts of the )mostly fictional0 exploits of the Reivers. You should read the Border Ballads.

And when they weren't feuding with each other they were raiding across the border and skirmishing with the Percy family of Northumberland.

[the_great_she_elephant]

For all you Maxwells out there.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogjZjqo3Qf0

[col52]

Those reivers were a feisty bunch, Elephant! I've sort of inherited some of it ]:)

[the_great_she_elephant]

Flashie UHM and many thanks.:-x

[flashie*]

Received....I will send you the information tomorrow night.....I am baby sitting a lively four year old grandson tomorrow.

[chuk_77]

hey flashie seems you're about I'll give you what I know tomorrow is not much but its something, everyone has the same name *sob*

[kayedonproducts]

I just discovered this thread while I was searching for another and just had to read through it. I'm supposed to be in bed by now but have done a quick scan through all the posts. My father's cousin wrote a great book about my maternal grandmother's family - The Eldridges who came from Battle and the ones who migrated nearly all ended up in Bankstown NSW . We visited there (Battle) in 2000 - would love to go back if we could afford it and do a bit more research.

My OH's father's family came from Greenock - went there also and saw his house.

My paternal great grandmother was married to a John Noble - her mother died on the boat coming from New York and John married her sister when they were in Melbourne which was where the ship docked. Saw Noble on your list Col - have to look into that.
The Nobles eventually settled in Mosman and their house is still standing - quite an impressive house.

Finally found my mother's sister death registration yesterday after looking for ages - it was under her de-facto's surname.

I've done quite a bit of research using Ancestry.com.au and Genes United but worked out expensive - my OH has also bought lots of Birth & Death certificates. I find it very addictive and had to stop for a while and get back to eBay lol!!!

Strange how people have already found connections here - this could well become a free ancestry thread!!! Funny if we find out lots of us are related. Many thanks darkie for starting it - I'll be back. Now to find the thread I was looking for and off to bed before I turn into a pumpkin.