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Author: ann2roy
Surnames: Swankie,Lawson,Spink,Coull,Hancock,Mathieson
Classification: queries
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Rick
I feel we may be related. I have just made inroads again to my family history after a
small break and have my tree in front of me. I have your William Swankie 05/07/1766 &
Margaret Lawson. Their son Peter married Margaret Spink, their son Charles (my great
grandfather) married Alexa Coull and their son Peter married my grandmother Elizabeth
Hancock. Their daughter Theresa was my mother and she married Robert Mathieson.
I don't know if you are interested in any of those names but I have a very sad but
interesting story about Charles Swankie who was killed at sea on 31st March 1877 in the
Arbroath Fishing Boat Disaster. I just found out today that they have erected a memorial
in Arbroath harbour to this tragedy. Oddly enough I was in Arbroath on Sunday. Aye tis a
sma' world.
Roy Mathieson
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