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From: "sandra stanley" <>
Subject: [MIDLOTHIAN] EMERY and NETHERY FAMILIES
Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2008 01:04:01 +1100

Hi Everyone
I am trying to trace the EMERY & NETHERY Families, who might have originally
lived at either NIDDRY, or NITHSDALE, in Midlothian, prior to their
migration to Co Tyrone, in NIR, which was allocated to Scots during the
Ulster Plantation. Its seems that Niddry, the Wauchope Estate, is the most
likely because later documents often held NIDDRY as the surname of the
NETHERYS ie originally a locative byname probably of tenant farmers.

The EMERY byname/surname could have been a variant of Amery, Demery, Imrey,
Memry, Lemery, Ymrey, or other similar sounding names. I have no idea where
the EMERY Family lived but, because of their close connection with the
NETHERYS, can only presume they also lived at NIDDRY or, if not, perhaps
NITHSDALE.

Apparently, the EMERY and NETHERY Families were not Border Reivers but, as
they settled amongst BRs at Drumquin, Longfield East, Co Tyrone, NIR, they
must have had some connection with the BRs back in Scotland. They also
married BRs, who included the Irvines, Johnstons, Armstrongs, Greys,
Wilsons, Chitticks, Maxwells, Grahams, etc, in both NIR and again in
Australia, to where hundreds of descendants of all those Families emigrated
in the early 1800's.

Does anyone have any idea of where my EMERYS and NETHERYS might have lived,
if and why they were exiled with the BRs, or anything about them at all?

SANDRA from AUSTRALIA

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