CARIBBEAN-L Archives

Archiver > CARIBBEAN > 2002-07 > 1025632835


From: "Edward Crawford" <>
Subject: Re: McBARNET
Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 19:00:35 +0100


Well the Coutts Crawford are I think distant relatives but we are the ones
from the wrong side of the blanket. We have been in contact with them at odd
times since 1840, we were sure we were related but could never point to
anything. It was yours truly, and the Mormon CD rom on Scottish births that
enabled me to crack it. They are a proper armigerous lot, we just put the
arms on our silver - naughty, naughty. Anyway if I can contact any of them
them and they are willing I will see if a DNA test turns up anything on the
Y chromosone. I assume, naturally, the virtue of both lots of female
ancestors - how could I not!

Off list I could bore you with this - if I have not already done so. The
only link with the Caribbean is that the eldest son of the Laird, my
ancestor's half brother, was at the Battle of the Saintes passage in 1781
and died on the voyage home. I had a look at the original log in the PRO, it
gave me quite a turn to hold it in my hands where it stated that de Grasse
had hauled down his flag.
Edward Crawford

-----Original Message-----
From: James W Cropper <>
To: <>
Date: 02 July 2002 13:43
Subject: McBARNET


>Hi Listers,
>
>Thank you for the replies to my recent posting of McBARNET.
>
>Edward - sorry for mistaking you and your namesake. It is so well done and
so much information on the website - that I thought it
>was yours. Check it out "Jessie Cruickshank McBarnet" with Google or any
search engine.
>
>Karen - thanks for the lead on John Robert McBarnett. I am not sure if he
fits in but will pass on the information.
>
>Merril - the book referred to is :-
>Recollections of Travel in New Zealand and Australia
>by James Coutts Crawford, F.G.S.
>"Corresponding Member of the Geological Society of Edinburgh, and
>of the Imperial and Royal Geological Society of Vienna;
>Late Member of the Legislative Council of New Zealand,
>Resident Magistrate, Wellington,
>President of the Wellington Philosophical Institute,
>and a Governor of the New Zealand Institute."
>With Maps and Illustrations.
>Printed London: Trubner & Co., Ludgate Hill. 1880.
>I have copy of only the Frontispiece and title page. Looks like another
Vincentian woman who married well!
>
>Ernest - a belated wish for Happy Canada Day. That Decimal and Metric
Conversion we went through a few years ago was a real downer.
>I don't have problems with the temperature conversion. It those damn 100
minutes in an hour and 10 hours in a day that give me
>problems!
>
>Jim C.
>
>
>
>==== CARIBBEAN Mailing List ====
>For information on individual islands, research aids, island bulletin
boards or history please visit the CaribbeanGenWeb project at
>http://www.rootsweb.com/~caribgw/
>
>
>______________________________________________________________
>This message has been scanned by the Datanet VirusScreen Service,
>powered by BT Ignite and Messagelabs. For more information please
>visit http://www.VirusScreen.co.uk.
>


______________________________________________________________
This message has been scanned by the Datanet VirusScreen Service,
powered by BT Ignite and Messagelabs. For more information please
visit http://www.VirusScreen.co.uk.

This thread: