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From: "Carol Cross" <>
Subject: Re: [LITTLE] LITTLE - GRAHAM Ancestors-Cumberland, England/Canonbie,Scotland
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 23:39:51 -0400
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I have a Forrester Little in our family tree.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Harry Hoyer" <>
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Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 12:28 PM
Subject: Re: [LITTLE] LITTLE - GRAHAM Ancestors-Cumberland,
England/Canonbie, Scotland


> I thought that I would share some information that someone had kindly
passed
> on to me a couple of years ago about LITTLE/GRAHAMS, and many others. It
> was a genealogical manuscript called "Dodgson Manuscripts" written in
1843
> by a Robert Dodgson.
>
> It is on-line at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~rutledge/DodgsonManuscript.htm
> (If I am repeating information that the rest of you have shared before on
> this list, please excuse me!)
>
> Anyway, it was through this family history of the DODGSON/RUTLEDGES, that
I
> found the information on MY William Little, from Canonbie, Scotland, and
the
> correct name of his wife, who died in childbirth on the voyage over to
> Canada. We were always told that her name was "Helen Foster", but I
learned
> through this genealogical report that her name was actually "Eleanor
> Forrester". I learned alot about HER family tree, too, which involved
> GRAHAMS, through this manuscript.
>
> The FORRESTERS/GRAHAMS (at least from this tree) had all lived on "the
> borders" of England and Scotland...Nicholforest, Cumberland and
surrounding
> area. My own William LITTLE (b. in Canonbie, Scotland) had the first
three
> of his children born in Cumberland, England, and the next one in Canonbie,
> Scotland, so they travelled back and forth, as many of them did at the
time.
> I was told that my LITTLE's were actually at one time Border Reivers. The
> information on MY FORRESTER/LITTLE is at the end of Chapter "U" of the
> Dodgson Manuscript.
>
> My William Little was the son of Andrew Little and Mary Murray of
Canonbie,
> Dumfries, Scotland. He was born May 1, 1800 at Hillhead, Canonbie,
> Dumfries, Scotland and came to Canada, settling in Chinguacousy Township,

> Peel County, Ontario. He remarried a young Mary McKechnie two years after
> arriving in Canada as a widower with a newborn and four young children.
> With Mary, he had 8 more children, in addition to the five young
children
> he had with Eleonor Forrester.
>
> In Chapter "P" of the Rutledge Manuscript, there is mention of "Jane"
> daughter of William Little from Bewcastle; (not my William) Robert, son
of
> Christopher Little, etc. etc. In Chapter "S", there is mention of a James
> LITTLE, s/o Archibald LITTLE of Saughtrees, Newcastle. I haven't read the
> whole report thoroughly yet, but there is some interesting stuff, and
> hopefully, will be of some help to someone on this list.
>
> Thank you,
> Bonnie Hoyer
>
>
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> Sent: Monday, October 16, 2006 6:26 PM
> Subject: Re: [LITTLE] LITTLE - GRAHAM Ancestors
>
>
> > Allow me to enourage all of you males with the surname Little to review
> > and
> > participate in the LITTLE DNA project. Go to _www.littledna.com_
> > (http://www.littledna.com) Your participation could help you cross
the
> > pond or at least
> > make a contact on the other side.
> >
> > Leo Little has done an outstanding job with the project.
> >
> >
> >
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