From: Alec Cameron Hi Listers, my wife Mary Ferguson descends from these FergusonS: David Ferguson 1845- 1895 bn Dunse Berwickshire James Ferguson 1817- 1855 do do (Agnes Mickle was his wife, they marr. in SCT and emigrated to AUS 1854) Robert Ferguson 1778- 1847 James Ferguson 1727- bn Greenlaw Berwickshire Joseph Ferguson 1706- bn Coldstream do James Ferguson <1670>- marr in Coldstream The Family History Library Catalogue, shows a book about JOHN Ferguson OF DUNS. It is in hard copy, cannot be circulated, and there is no microfilm. I was able to get some pages photocopied by mail, but couldna lock it in to Mary's tree. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Anyone interested in Ferguson, MICKLE, LILLEY, MABON, PATERSON, HUMPHERSTON in Berwick- shire please contact me. Cheers........ ALISTAIR M. CAMERON, Assistant at Mittagong N.S.W. Family History Centre
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ My Ferguson is Lilias. Born about 1750-60 probably in Angus, Scotland. No of my wife's family. I guess your Lilias is the one who marr in 1799 to William Millward there. If so I hope you got yoursef a copy of the handwritten register! Cheers............. ALISTAIR M. CAMERON, Assistant at Mittagong N.S.W. F.H. Centre CAMERON RESEARCH, Registered with N.S.W. Dept of Fair Trading. P.O. Box 215 BUNDANOON N.S.W. 2578 AUSTRALIA I have long suspected but not proved, that John and Adam were related to my wife Mary Ferguson whose ancestry in Berwickshire I tabled in this List last week. The source re John and Adam, is this book in the Family History Library, 1793- 1796 Duns Salt Lake City: GENEALOGY OF THE DESCENDANTS OF JOHN Ferguson A NATIVE OF SCOTLAND WHO EMIGRATED TO AMERICA BEFORE THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR. by Arthur B. Ferguson PH.B, M.D. 1911 John Ferguson immigrated in abt 1767/78; he married: John and his brother Adam worked at the tobacco and snuff business. In 1779 John returned to Duns in Scotland, and traded there in tobacco. 1777- 18Brattleboro V.T.. In 1806 he returned on the ship FANNEY to Newport R.I. having sojourned 26 years in Scotland. The children of John's third marriage were: Anne Peter Margaret Isabel Mary Elizabeth John Peter Adam I understand that the book and film, cannot be distributed to FH Centres. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ As stated up front, I do not have proven connection to this family. I would surely like to know, who were the ancestors of John Ferguson bn in Duns on 18 July 1736, to parents Peter Ferguson/ no mother name given. Peter's parents "must have been" Lawrence and Janet Ferguson, says the author of the book and he adds that Lawrence was from the parish of Moulin in Athol [Perth- shire]. We have visited there, and stayed with a prominent FERGUSSON at Pitfourie, the late James Finlay and his wife Meg, who still lives there. Sweeter after difficulty Cheerio.......... My wife Mary Ferguson descends from family in Duns, BEW and from family in Garvagh, IRE. On IRE I found 24 villages all named GARVAGH, at least that place name was uniformly spelled. Genealogy is a hobby with a very high labour content. "on line searching" being responsive to what your fingers tap, is not as thorough as eyeballing the stuff at a library, the eyes being part of the brain not just a bit of convenient input hardware. HOORAH! for the <IGI and the SCOTTISH CHURCH RECORDS on CDROM, and other LDS sources as these have surnames in alpha phonetic order: John Charles Ferguson of 1777 will be close to John Charles Furgeuson of 1866 and not maybe 20 pages away like most indexes are ordered!! 1787- 1855 Brattleboro V.T. Soundex is a coding that caters for the problem. LDS is just one of many extractors who follow the SOUNDEX protocol. Blessed are the Indexers!! Cheers........... FT wrote here....... here are a couple of names of books that you might want to read. The first, "Hanna of Castle Sorbie, Scotland and descendants" written by James. A.M. Hanna, I have read through it while searching on the Hanna line. A "slim volume", indexed. Hoorah for indexes!! He wrote a lot on genealogy. "The Ferguson Family" by Martin Luther Ferguson; "The Ferguson Family in Scotland and America" by Martin Luther Ferguson. That book speculates on the <possiblity that three brothers who died in battle actually survived, emigrated and settled in America. The history in Britain from 1400s is probably sound, but to hang the rest of the genealogy on a possible emigration to America is tenuous. The book is more than 20 yrs old, maybe someone is ready to write a sequel?? If you find any tips worth while to others, keep me in mind as I can use all helps and tips that I can get. Watch this List! I intend to stay....... Especially with doing research overseas without having to travel over there. Best place to do overseas research, is from your own home. Go to UK and 1782- 1782 Duns have a great holiday; avoid the record offices and burial grounds. If 1788- 1858 Whately Mass tempted, then go to the local public library near your ancestral village, ask to see the Local Studies Librarian. Spend time with ye olde card catalogue there!! Cheers....... Thanks to all of you who who made reply here, and by email. Nice, strong attitudes and understanding of the issues. And isn't it great, to have that Scottish skill, to be able to disagree 1781- 1814 Poughkeepsie N.Y. without being disagreeable! Nancy managed to put across what several of you did: a most significant 1784- 1790 do angle: The problem with this is that first before most of us can go back to Scotland, Ireland, England, Germany, or whereever our Fergason/Ferguson or any other spelling came from, we must first figure out who there parents were. The biggest problem is lack of records, name changes for what ever reason, and as I have found unless you know siblings names and parents names it is really hard to tie families together as a lot of people are only looking for direct lines. Until this brickwall is crossed for most of us we have no Ideal where our Mary Ferguson. roots lay across the waters. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ But my immediate reaction to Nancy was to think- but why are the scores of Ferguson messages on GENFORUM bare of Scottish content, when the scores of CAMERON messages on GENFORUM are strong with Scottish content?? Does that mean that American Camerons are better researchers 1778- 1780 New York N.Y. than American Fergusons??? Naaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh........... 1790- 1845 New Orleans La I think the reason for this, is that there being a single CAMERON clan and Chief, with well known lands in Lochaber, and shiploads of localised Camerons settling together in America and other colonies it was inevitable that families would stay linked in America, maintaining contact and interest in their former homeland. CAMERON like many other Highlands clans had considerable military and political influence thru hundreds of years. OK, as losers, if you like to point out!! but still conspicuous. So as Nancy explains it is really hard to tie families together. The family of my wife Mary Ferguson emigrated to AUS from SCT in 1854. Records in Scotland are so comprehensive, that we have been able to track them back to middle 1600s. These were ordinary folk: farmers, horsemen. Cheers................ From: Alec Cameron