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Sig229 wrote:
Half of my family fame from Scotland (Dumfries) ...
Hello, Cousin!
My family came from there too. Well, they were kicked out from there, anyway. We had one ancestor born in 1729 in Ireland, who then landed in America before 1750 (and was an American captain in the Revolution).
I visited Dumfries in 1989, and stayed in a very nice B&B at 1 Lockerbie Road. This was just 5 months after the Pan Am 103 crash; the lady of the house was from Lockerbie, and her brother was killed by the falling debris.
The husband drove us into town, where we rented bicycles and biked out to Caerlaverock. We walked the town, saw the Burns house, bought fish & chips from a window at what seemed a shockingly high price, and saw Craig's End, Craig's Farm, and Craig's Lane. (We're everywhere over there!)
Sorry for the totally OT hijacking, but your mention of Dumfries brough back memories. It's a damn shame that the Scottish Parliament has more viciously and thoroughly disarmed the Scots than centuries of sassenach monarchy could have ever dreamed of doing.
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