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From: Helen Reid <>
Subject: Re: [FIF] HUNTER in Fife
Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2005 19:31:30 +0100
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Hi Ian

Thanks for your email. I'm afraid none of your information is familiar to
me - and my Reid line is not from Fife.

Good luck.

Helen

At 17:34 31/07/05 +0800, you wrote:
>Dear Helen
>
>Sorry for the delay in replying!
>
>Unfortunately I cannot see any immediate connection with your names below.
>I have hit an absolute brick wall to date.
>
>The only information I have is as follows:
>
>John Sibbald HUNTER - birth/death unknown, married James Fergus REID 16
>May 1800 Kinghorn
>James Fergus REID b. 1 Jan 1782 Abbotshall buried 6 Sept. 1859
>Children:
>Janet b. 15 Apr 1802
>Clara b. 13 Jan. 1804
>William b. 11 Feb. 1808
>William b. 31 Aug. 1811
>Jemima Fergus b. 9 May 1813
>George b. 18 June 1816 all above at Kinghorn
>Grizel (Grace) b. 13 March 1818 (my GG Grandmother) Abbotshall
>John Sibbald b. 6 May 1822 Abbotshall
>
>Have family details of the REID parents and family of James Fergus REID.
>
>Family lore says my Hunters are related to surgeons William and John
>HUNTER of Long Calderwood, but as you can see it still has to be proven!
>
>Like many of us, I live in eternal hope!!
>
>
>Ian Scott
>Perth
>Western Australia
>Researching Snowball Stark Hunter Reid in Fife

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