Question

looking for barbra porteous webb grand daughter barbara, my husband half sister,

Answer 1

Born 7 December 1864, Bothwell, Lanarkshire the daughter  Robert Porteous & Barbara Brown. (Scotland Births & Baptisms  https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FQH9-BF6)

This miscellaneous document:

Birth of Barbara Porteous (2nd) from Registar of Births for the District of Holytown, Burgh of Bothwell in County of Lanark:
Barbara Porteous, born 1864, December 7th, at 5:00 PM at Newarthill, Parish of Bothwell, female, Father: Robert Porteous, Coalminer, Mother: Barbara Porteous, M.S. Brown, married 1840 October 12th at Airdire. Informant: Robert Porteous, Father.
Registered 10 Dec 1864 at Holytown.

 

 

Comments

So Raymond, if you can supply your private email address I can send you the complete Porteous Family Tree dating back to Alexander Porteous 1781, which includes the Keen family.

regards

Cliff

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Hi Cliff and Raymond,

As you both have WikiTree profiles, as was mentioned above, the better option is to send a private message from the person's profile page. This will send a message to the individual without popping email addresses into a thread that others can see.

Cheers,

Simon

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Hi Cliff much appreciatted my address is

Raymond Kelman, 22A Elzy St, 7201, Blenheim. Please let me know if there is a cost at all please.

Regards Raymond Kelman

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Hey Raymond

My 2 x great grandmother, Mary Porteous was the sister of your Janet.  Cliff and I have had a few discussions about the Porteous family. I sent him over all the info I have on the Porteous family including the family tree he mentions. I have some photos of Janet, her mother and Janet’s siblings.

My 2 x great grandmother remained in Scotland when her parents and some siblings emigrated to New Zealand.

Give me a shout if you need anything further info.

Leanne

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Hi Simon so being new at this how do I go about doing this?

Regards Raymond Kelman

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Hi Leanne nice to hear from you. I presume from your email that you may still reside in Scotland. I have the one picture of Janet. Which I have yet to put up on my wall. Anything you can spare is gratefully acceptted. I was in Scotland in 2006  and at that time I was did not know anything regards the Porteous apart from the fact one was my grandmother's mother nothing more. Glasgow asa cityif that is where you reside I loved it. One memorable event that occurred in connection with Glascow was anoldfried of mine asked to me too look up a headstone for him of a family member who had died in a fall in a Glascow shipyard. When i asked about a bus to the suburb where it was located I got a lot of funny looks and why do you want to go there for. When I explained in regards in the headstone I was told go home and forget about it boyo. Finally boarding the bus I asked to be dropped at the nearset stop the cemetery I wished to visit. Again asked by the driver what the hell do you want to go there? hell even a lot a the people who live there do not want to go there. A lady behind along with the driveradvised getting off the bus  but I presistted and the young lady  made me sit with her and told me why I was gtting the looks and questions. We arrived at the stop right outside her place when about 8 young guys turned up enmasse totally surrounding us. The young lady told them I was to be shown to the cemetery and if they could help me out and then too return me safely for the next bus and no swinging on his wallet. The headstone when found was unreadable and yes they did help in everywhere possible wanting to know where I was from what did I do etc and returned me intact to the bus stop. And yes I did tip them and at first they refused it but with some insistance they took saying it were not necessary. You have to love Glasgow. St Catherine s of Kentigan or something similar

Warmest Regards Raymond Kelman

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Hi Raymond,

I suspect that you are posting without having logged in as when I put my mouse over your name I am only seeing your IP address and not your profile.

You may notice that my name at the end of "commented .. minutes ago by Simon Canning" is underlined and if you hover your mouse over that it shows my profile details. By clicking on the name in that small window pops you onto my page and from there you have the option to send a private message.

Leanne's latest comment indicates that she wasn't logged in as the profile doesn't show. If you click this https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Carnan-10 it will take you to Leanne's page and you can use the private message function from there.

HTH

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hello Cliff today is only the second time I have looked at this site. I am 1st cousin to Raymond Kelman,  our mothers were sisters. I am also looking into our family history but it can be rather confusing. I would like to exchange any and all information if you wish. The first correspondence always the most awkward I find. Please correct me if I am wrong but I have Alexander Porteous (no dates) then in direct line of family his son Thomas (1790 - 1849) then George Robert (1820 - 1884). Regards Mike Sulliman

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Hi Mike

Thanks for your contact, I have information that may be of assistance to you. Are you able to reply with your personal email address in order for us to communicate further

I am in New Zealand, not sure where you are?

Look forward to hearing from you

kind regards

Cliff Webb

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Hi Cliff thanks for getting back to me. Yes I am in NZ in fact Gisborne. you can email me at mikesulliman1@gmail.com