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Author: jvance_rex
Surnames: Chisholm
Classification: queries
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Robert,
Thanks for the info about your Chisholm participants. Let me know when their results come in. Better yet, enter them in Ysearch. Chisholm is a common surname in the Borders region, so any male Chisholm is potentially eligible for our project.
Sincerely,
Jim Elliott
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Author: rpchisholm
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Classification: queries
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Hi Jim
We now have a definite Borderer enrolled in the Chisholm surname project, with last known ancestor being born in Oxnam near Jedburgh in 1720. In addition we have one Northumbrian who is most likely descended from the Border Chisholmes. I will let the participant know once the results start cming out.
I have been searching for any Chisholme link to the Reivers, and quite understandably nobody seems to have left any advert that they were involved these types of activities. However there is plenty of reason to think that they if any Chisholme had any involvement, it would have been done under the wing of the Scotts.Chisholme estate backed on to Branxholme House, and many of the other famous Scott subfamilies such as Harden were nearby. There were lots oof marriages into the Scotts,there is written proof that Chisholme was with Scott at the battle of Melrose,and The Chisholme is also involved with Scott of Harden in the Cranston affair, per Sir Walter Scotts Lay of the Last Minstrel. Would you have any closer knowledge of any Chisholme involvement in Reiver activities, any hangings at Carlisle etc. While I know that this alliance with Scott maes us immediatey at odds with the Kerrs,I can't remember if the Elliots were also in that category vis a vis Scott.
If so, I trust that wont stop you providing any info you might have, or preclude you from accepting two of our number into your Reiver group. And if they turn out to have DNA similar to mine then its just as well that you included the words... and many others, when describing the ethnic make up of the borders, as my DNA, unique in Scotand so far, and extremely rare in Britain as a whole, has got the signature of the Sardinian offshoot of Haplgroup I
Regards
Robert Chisholm
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Author: Janet_Finney
Surnames: Chisholm, McCrone, Dunlop, Laidlaw
Classification: queries
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Since originally posting my message in 2001 about John and Agnes I discovered that they went to live in Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, Scotland. I got their date of marriage from the IGI but couldn't find any other info on them until a year ago. They married July 12, 1818 in Sanquhar and several of their children were born there. I found them on the 1841 census in Kilmarnock. Agnes died before the 1851 census but I found John and several of their children there.
Their son John married and lived in Kilmarnock, later in Greenock, and finally in Glasgow. One of John Jr.'s children was Archibald Chisholm.
Their daughter Mary married James Reid Harkness and lived in Kirkconnel parish, Dumfriesshire.
Their daughter Janet married a Dunlop (if I remember correctly) and lived in Kilmarnock.
I am still trying to find out what happened to son William, daughter Elizabeth, and to daughter, or granddaughter Jessie.
Son George doesn't appear to have married and lived in Kilmarnock, dieing in approx. early 1870's in Kilmarnock.
John Chisholm senior's parents were George Chisholm and Betty Laidly (probably really Laidlaw), and I think he was born in Crawfordjohn parish, Lanarkshire. John had siblings who were baptized in Crawfordjohn parish, but also some who may have been born in Dumfriesshire.
I want want to know more about John and Agnes's children: daughter Mary Chisholm b about 1819 md James Reid Harkness of Kirkconnel, Dumfrisshire (only 3 miles from Sanquhar). Mary died Aug. 16, 1881 and is buried in Kirkconnel Churchyard. James R. Harkness the son of Andrew Harkness & wife Jane Simpson(who lived in Kirkconnel and are also bd. in the churchyard there).
The grave of John & Agnes Chisholm is in Kilmarnock.
Please contact me directly at
jifjc(a)primus.ca
OR at
jif137(a)hotmail.com
OR by mail C/O Richard Finney, 33 St. Louis Road, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R2M 3J4, Canada.
Janet Isobelle Finney
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In a message dated 2/9/2007 12:28:38 AM Central Standard Time,
GlowyJ49(a)aol.com writes:
John CHISHOLM was born about 1786 in Scotland. He married Barbara Young in
Scotland. They had 10 children: Thomas born May 05, 1807, Peter born
December 26, 1808, John, Robert, George, James, Andrew, Sarah, Elizabeth and
William Hope born August 24, 1819. John & Barbara immigrated about 1817
from
Scotland to Plattsburg, Clinton County, New York. Does anyone have any
information about these 10 children? Thanks ~ Gloria
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I have not been able to connect these to my Chisholm's, but have some
information on this family in my working family file. I'm going to send it to you
privately. Please use it as a guide only...
Nancy
John CHISHOLM was born about 1786 in Scotland. He married Barbara Young in
Scotland. They had 10 children: Thomas born May 05, 1807, Peter born
December 26, 1808, John, Robert, George, James, Andrew, Sarah, Elizabeth and
William Hope born August 24, 1819. John & Barbara immigrated about 1817 from
Scotland to Plattsburg, Clinton County, New York. Does anyone have any
information about these 10 children? Thanks ~ Gloria
Looking for info. about Thomas CHISHOLM, born 5 May 1807 in Melrose,
Roxburgh, Scotland, eldest son of John CHISHOLM & Barbara YOUNG. When Thomas was
10 years old, he migrated to Plattsburg, New York w/ his parents. About 1828
he married Minerva D. PLATT. In 1830 Thomas & his wife lived in Peru,
Clinton Co., New York. In 1831, Thomas Chisholm, his wife, and his younger
brother, George, moved to Calhoun Co., Michigan & located on what is now the city of
Marshall. Thomas & Minerva had 4 children: Ellen Minerva, James M.,
Thomas J. & Mary D. Minerva died in June 1838 in Calhoun Co., Michigan. Thomas
married his second wife, Mary A. HEWITT Jan. 22, 1839 in Marengo, Calhoun Co.,
Michigan. I would like to know more about the children born to Thomas &
Minerva. Thanks ~ Gloria
Just wondering if anyone has a copy of a book called, "The History of
Calhoun County, Michigan?? My Chisholm family is mention in the online index. ~
Gloria
Peter Chisholm, born 26 Dec 1808 Melrose, Roxburgh, Scotland, son of John &
Barbara (Young) Chisholm, married Lucy B. Adams 30 Sept 1830 in Keeseville,
Essex Co., NY. Lucy, born 29 Aug 1811 in Springfield, Windsor Co., Vermont,
died 15 Feb 1838 in Marshall, Calhoun Co., Michigan. Lucy had 3 children
(all born in Marshall, Calhoun Co., Michigan): Helen M. 26 Oct 1831, Julia Ann 9
Sept 1834 & Charles W. 27 July 1837. Does anyone know who Lucy's parents
were? ~ Gloria