Thanks Andy once again for your help. Lot of info to digest. This gives me a helping hand in further search for my King/Connor family.
Regards
Julie
Looking for King family Greenock.....
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wmbaking
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Re: Looking for King family Greenock.....
G'day all.
I don't know if any of you will get this as it's a while since the original posts but I've just found them. I am a descendant of a/the King family of Port Glasgow (which was a large family with several branches). I have lots of records of my ancestors there in the late 1700s and early 1800s. My great-great-grandfather John King was born in Port Glasgow on 26 August 1776 and sent from there to the West Indies in 1803 to open a branch of the family shipping/trading/sugar business. My grandfather James King came to Australia from the West Indies in the 1880s but kept up contact through letters etc with the family in Scotland. I have heaps of info for anyone interested and would be very glad to hear from anyone connected with the family. If you get this please respond via the site or direct by email to me at wmbakingATbigpond.com (or both).
Wade K.
I don't know if any of you will get this as it's a while since the original posts but I've just found them. I am a descendant of a/the King family of Port Glasgow (which was a large family with several branches). I have lots of records of my ancestors there in the late 1700s and early 1800s. My great-great-grandfather John King was born in Port Glasgow on 26 August 1776 and sent from there to the West Indies in 1803 to open a branch of the family shipping/trading/sugar business. My grandfather James King came to Australia from the West Indies in the 1880s but kept up contact through letters etc with the family in Scotland. I have heaps of info for anyone interested and would be very glad to hear from anyone connected with the family. If you get this please respond via the site or direct by email to me at wmbakingATbigpond.com (or both).
Wade K.
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Alan SHARP
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Re: Looking for King family Greenock.....
Greetings Wade from next door (NZ)
WELCOME to TS.
Two suggestions mate, if you are still on line. Click on your post and go to EDIT. When there remove the @ from your private email address and replace it with the likes of AT to save a heap of spam coming your way.
As the thread is some five years old it would pay to try sending a Private Message. Click on the [PM] icon box under the posters details on the right of the post, and follow directions. If that poster's registered email address is still being used they will get an email notification of your PM, notifying that you have posted on their forum thread. The message stays in your OUT box until they clear it.
Regards, Alan SHARP.
WELCOME to TS.
Two suggestions mate, if you are still on line. Click on your post and go to EDIT. When there remove the @ from your private email address and replace it with the likes of AT to save a heap of spam coming your way.
As the thread is some five years old it would pay to try sending a Private Message. Click on the [PM] icon box under the posters details on the right of the post, and follow directions. If that poster's registered email address is still being used they will get an email notification of your PM, notifying that you have posted on their forum thread. The message stays in your OUT box until they clear it.
Regards, Alan SHARP.
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wmbaking
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Re: Looking for King family Greenock.....
Thanks, Alan, that's really helpful. I've followed both your suggestions. Can I ask how come you picked up on my post?
Cheers,
Wade
Cheers,
Wade
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Alan SHARP
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Re: Looking for King family Greenock.....
Greetings again Wade.
You most certainly can. This is a fantastically supportive forum. The regulars are like family, helping each other out, and that is what you need, when the paper trail appears to have dried up, and you are searching for information on the other side of the world.
If I’m home I will visit the site at least once a day. [Better than facebook !] If logged on I select VIEW NEW POSTS and up comes all the posts made since I last visited, no matter which forum they were posted on. If not logged on, I click on VIEW ACTIVE TOPICS and this works much the same, listing posts in descending order. Being in NZ either I or the other Alan [some times confusing] user name CURRIE in Australia, will be active about the time of posting, so will beat the rostered moderator's seeing it, and will make comments that we think may help.
Two other tips for newbie’s of the site, is to tick the box at the very bottom of your post when in EDIT mode, if you would like an emailed notification of replies to your post, and don't forget the search ICON in the banner the very top of the page. It will quickly sort out your words of interest, showing any other previous discussion on the topic, saving having to work your way through thousands of threads, across the range of interests.
Another tip is to click on the user name (right of their post) then you can see their activity. By doing so before replying to you I was able to see that not only were you posting on a thread that was last active in 2005, some of the posters to that thread, had not re-visited the site in recent times. There was a similar occasion a few days ago but the person they were trying to contact, had last visited the site only a day or two before, so I did not see any point in offering the PM advice.
It is not uncommon for 2005 threads to come to life again, and there have been some notable successes in 2010 because of that, so I wish you the best of luck.
Regards,
Alan SHARP.
You most certainly can. This is a fantastically supportive forum. The regulars are like family, helping each other out, and that is what you need, when the paper trail appears to have dried up, and you are searching for information on the other side of the world.
If I’m home I will visit the site at least once a day. [Better than facebook !] If logged on I select VIEW NEW POSTS and up comes all the posts made since I last visited, no matter which forum they were posted on. If not logged on, I click on VIEW ACTIVE TOPICS and this works much the same, listing posts in descending order. Being in NZ either I or the other Alan [some times confusing] user name CURRIE in Australia, will be active about the time of posting, so will beat the rostered moderator's seeing it, and will make comments that we think may help.
Two other tips for newbie’s of the site, is to tick the box at the very bottom of your post when in EDIT mode, if you would like an emailed notification of replies to your post, and don't forget the search ICON in the banner the very top of the page. It will quickly sort out your words of interest, showing any other previous discussion on the topic, saving having to work your way through thousands of threads, across the range of interests.
Another tip is to click on the user name (right of their post) then you can see their activity. By doing so before replying to you I was able to see that not only were you posting on a thread that was last active in 2005, some of the posters to that thread, had not re-visited the site in recent times. There was a similar occasion a few days ago but the person they were trying to contact, had last visited the site only a day or two before, so I did not see any point in offering the PM advice.
It is not uncommon for 2005 threads to come to life again, and there have been some notable successes in 2010 because of that, so I wish you the best of luck.
Regards,
Alan SHARP.
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Alan SHARP
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Re: Looking for King family Greenock.....
Hi again Wade.
Out of interest, I did a Google search of the RootsChat site, and see that a poster with the user name of AVALON has made enquiries about John KING and family of Greenock.
One of the posters addressed his reply to “Julie” though Avalon was the sign off to the replying post. You might like to take a look.
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.ph ... 00901.html
All the best with your search.
Alan SHARP.
Out of interest, I did a Google search of the RootsChat site, and see that a poster with the user name of AVALON has made enquiries about John KING and family of Greenock.
One of the posters addressed his reply to “Julie” though Avalon was the sign off to the replying post. You might like to take a look.
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.ph ... 00901.html
All the best with your search.
Alan SHARP.