Why would children be detained from baptism?

JulieD · Post by **JulieD** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 11:36 pm

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! You are ALL so marvellous!!

David, Archiver, Lesley and Rosemary...you all won the gold star for skill and effort!!!

Truly folks, I would never have got this one in a month of Sundays and our Frame group had come to a grinding halt... so we are very grateful!

Hope its OK with the admins here...I am still a novice with these matters... but I have included a link to Talking Scots on our private Frame Family Genealogy and Frame DNA project websites. If there is an objection, could someone let me know please? We are finally beginning to break down a few 'brick walls' with Frame research and it is thanks to kind folk like yourselves for helping us out.

I will be back with new 'challenges' before too much longer I am sure!!!

Kindest regards to you all!

helenbee · Post by **helenbee** » Sat Sep 01, 2007 5:35 pm

As a new name on the forum, I've just been spending some time reading all sorts of interesting stuff here and this beats them all! What a wonderful story of determined detective work and I'm so pleased that the mystery was solved!

Post by **emanday** » Sat Sep 01, 2007 6:15 pm

Hi helenbee,

A warm welcome to [talkingscot]

I hope you will continue to enjoy reading posts, and adding a few of your own, no doubt.

Everyone on here is keen to help, so if you have any wee "mysteries" in your own family research, ask away. We love a challenge

helenbee · Post by **helenbee** » Sat Sep 01, 2007 6:24 pm

Thank you! How long have you got?

Don't get me started on the Kilbarchan Speirs families...

Post by **emanday** » Sat Sep 01, 2007 7:51 pm

helenbee wrote:Don't get me started on the Kilbarchan Speirs families...

Ah, well now! Our very own Russell lives in Kilbarchan!

Russell! You out there?

Russell · Post by **Russell** » Sat Sep 01, 2007 9:05 pm

Hi Mary, Hi Helen and welcome to the home of rampant extroverts

I heard Mary all the way from Bristol. Just back from a search through Kirkcudbrightshire for my wife's rellies so I'm still catching up.

I'm not sure if I want to get involved in the Speirs family. The ones who still live in the village scare me. I feel that my old Qualifying class teacher is peering at me over her specs.

Russell

Post by **emanday** » Sat Sep 01, 2007 9:21 pm

Hi Russell,

I yelled reeeaaaally loud

Hi Helen,

You will by now have realised that you are now in contact with a bunch of nuts

Russell · Post by **Russell** » Sat Sep 01, 2007 9:46 pm

Now Mary

Maybe she'll make a bolt for it

Helen

We can be serious some of the time but fun is part of the ethos of TalkingScot. Some of it is very Scottish whether local, the other side of the Atlantic, or the other side of the world.
We actually like difficult problems to solve and have managed quite a few tricky ones.

Russell

Post by **emanday** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 12:00 am

Russell,

A little bit of insanity can be a great help - makes "thinking out of the box" easier to manage

Helen,
Fear not, we may be nuts, but we are dedicated nuts - Mysteries? - Bring them on

helenbee · Post by **helenbee** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 5:01 pm

Thank you everybody! Nice to know there are as many nuts on here as on my usual stamping-ground of FYT forum (yes, Mr Paton, if you're watching, you can't escape me here either...). I have such a lot of fun on there that I thought I'd spread my wings a little and fly around Scotland with the auld rellies.

The Speirs at Kilbarchan are terrifying enough just on paper. My granny was a Speirs born in Glasgow, but her great-grandfather was (I think)from Kilbarchan. I tried to trace the family there but there were so many of them that I took fright. I'm back as far as Robert Speirs marrying Elizabeth Fleming in Kilbarchan on 4 Jan 1800, and I think (not sure) her parents were John Fleming and Elizabeth Henderson, m 21.11.1767 in Paisley Burgh Low. But I can't begin to work out who Robert's parents were out of the several dozen families in Kilbarchan - why were there so many there all called Speirs? It's only a tiny place! They all seem to have been weavers, but on his son Henry's death cert. it says Robert was a soldier, although one census says he was a weaver. Three generations of Speirs from Henry downwards were piano makers/tuners in Glasgow.

Then there are great-grandfather's mother's family of McAuslans from Glasgow, and I know her mum was Elizabeth McQuarrie and I found a marriage for Alexander McAuslan/Eliz. McQuarrie in 1823 in Port Glasgow, and I believe I've traced her family back to Islay, but it all depends on how much you trust the LDS/IGI records, which isn't very much.

I'm out of breath and you're probably out of patience, but if anyone wants to chip in, feel free!