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A cluster of early Drysdale families in Duns, Berwickshire in the 1600s

I came across this cluster of Drysdale families living in the parish of Duns in the 1600s. As far as I can tell they descended from 2 Clackmannan and Edinburgh families (Patrick & David Drysdale b. 1590s) Duns was the county town of historic Berwickshire.

Some of these people eventually moved on from Duns to nearby Cockburnspath and surrounding areas, I mention this just to justify posting some nice picturea of Cove harbour, Eyemouth and St Abbs head, which are all not too far away on the coast and also Duns castle nature reserve.

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Permalink Reply by Russell Lynn Drysdale yesterday

Ronald, no records of Drysdale brides ?

Permalink Reply by Ronald Drysdale 10 hours ago

Woe is me!!

Please scrub the pdf (Births & marriages - ScotsPeople - 1560 - 1800 Berwick only) in the previous post to Russell - the data it contains is corrupted.

I thought it would be clever to put all the Scotlandspeople data into an Excel spreadsheet instead of relying on multiple print-screen grabs, I even thought I could sort the data by date, it turns out that I couldn't due to the date formatting. So I then undid all the 'Sort' attempts I did on the worksheets to return the data to its original state (or so I thought).

Since then I've been using this data to enter up a lot of new people (Drysdale families) onto Familysearch in the Berwickshire, Roxboroughshire and Haddingtonshire areas. These were Drysdales from Scotlandspeople that were additional to those already existing in the Familysearch records.

I'd been doing this for about a day now and was surprised to come across quite a few families with twins.

It was only recently when I entered up some data onto a pre-exising FS Drysdale family and found that they had three sets of twins and one of triplets that I realised that something was seriously wrong!

The data in the Excel spread sheets has been sorted by means of some unknown hierarchical ranking function (obviously a cock up by me) and is completely scrambled.

So I've now got to go back on FS and try and locate all the new people I created and then uncreate them.

I'll delete the previous post shortly.

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