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From: (Judith Graham)
Subject: SWAN/HAINING/GIANTS/ROBERT BURNS & STEAM ENGINES
Date: Sun, 06 May 2001 10:17:54 -0700

Good morning folks -

Here is an interesting story connected to Dumfriesshire which I came
across quite by accident while looking for the surname SWAN in Nova
Scotia

Anna Swan: Nova Scotia's Remarkable Giantess
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/aswan/storyindex.htm

Since I am doing a study of the HAINING surname, I was most interested
to find that Anna Swan's middle name was Haining.

Anna's grandparents were from Annan, DFS. Also found - a Swan family
connection to the Dalswinton estates, the invention of steam engines and
the reference to Robert BURNS that Linda Sherlock so kindly sent the
story about to D&G list recently.

There are other names scattered throughout the site, for example: John
BELL (first known Scottish settler to NEW ANNAN who came in 1806),
William SCOTT, James MUNRO, to name some. Anna's mothers maiden name was
GRAHAM (a name I have no connection to, other than a marriage 25 years
gone).


Judi Graham

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