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At 14:39 on December 3, 2024, Ronald Drysdale said…

Hi Robert. 

You Fife ancestor seems to be fairly well documented and is mentioned here: 

https://electricscotland.com/history/articles/fifefamilyhistories.pdf

".....William's (1717-1757) son, William Drysdale (1745-1825), was also Town Clerk of Kirkcaldy, and acquired the estate of Pitteuchar, in Kinglassie parish, in the early 1800s..."

Russell Lynn Drysdale maintains a page on that family in the Drysdale archives section of this site here:

https://douglashistory.ning.com/group/drysdale-archives/page/fife-family-histories-rev-john-drysdale-and-his-descendants

Also the Familysearch website indicates Drysdale ancestry for William back to the mid 1600s. Family search ID LH5P-W13.

Best regards

At 13:41 on December 3, 2024, Ronald Drysdale said…

Welcome to the Douglas Archives Robert!

Best regards

Ron

Making conections

The more information you can give about the people you mention, the more chance there is of someone else connecting with your family.

Dates and places of births, deaths and marriages all help to place families.

Professions also help.

'My great-grandmother mother was a Douglas from Montrose' does not give many clues to follow up! But a bit of flesh on the bones makes further research possible. But if we are told who she married, what his profession was and where the children were baptised, then we can get to work.

Maybe it is time to update the information in your profile?


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