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John I am going to post this info here that I sent you the other day...maybe someone else can use the info...Is Janet Bean your cousin? Tell her Hi for me!
John, here is that very informative document I promosed you a while back...I think it may have some info in it that may help you in your research over there....figured I had better send it while I have found it again as I lost it and thought I would never find it again...it came in as a word-wrap...which I hate to handle, but it sure was nice of them to go to all the trouble to find some of the information for me...so...at last...here it is...took me forever to "unwrap it"....Ruth
Ruaraidh.Wishart@nas.gov.uk>
Ruth Langwell Walker rwalker@hawkpci.net 17 December, 1999 H337Dear Ms. Walker,Thank you for your e-mail of 4 November regarding your family history.I undertook a search for the name Langwell, and the variations which you listed, in The Surnames of Scotland by George F. Black (New York Public Library, 1946), which remains the definitive reference work on its subject to date. I have found an entry which I think you may be interested in:LANGWILL: Local. John Langwill was admitted burgess freeman of Glasgow in 1608 (Burgesses and Guild Brethren of Glasgow, 1573-1750, Edinburgh 1925). John Languill held land in Brechin, in 1613 (Registrum Episcopatus Brechinensis..., Edinburgh, 1856, vol. II, p. 240) and in 1622 is recorded as citiner there (Brechin). John Langwill, flesher in Edinburgh, 1637 (Register of Marriages for the parish of Edinburgh, 1595-1750, Edinburgh 1908-1910), Allane Langwill in Hillhouse, Ayrshire, 1666 and 1680 (Corsehill Baron Court-Book, 1666-1719, in Ayrshire and Galloway Archaeological Association Collections, p. 16, 152) and John Langwill in Parish of Kilkerran, 1676 (Argyll Manuscripts, Historical Manuscripts Commission, London, 1874-77). Langwell and Langwill in Campbelltown, 1686. Lingwil 1682. I also found an entry in the Ordnance Gazeteer of Scotland, edited by Francis H. Groome (Edinburgh 1883) regarding the area of Langwell:Langwell, the Scottish Seat of the Duke of Portland in Latheron parish, S. Caithness, on a green eminence between confluent Langwell and Berriedale. The estate was purchased by Sir John Sinclair in 1788 for £7,000, by James Horne, Esquire, in 1813 for £40,000, and by the fifth Duke in 1860 for £90,000, this enormous rise in value being due to the improvements carried out both by Sir John Sinclair and Mr. Horne. By the Duke nearly all the property was converted into deer-forest. His cousin, John William Arthur Charles James Cavendish Bentinck, sixth Duke since 1716 (b. 1857; succeeded 1879), holds 81,605 acres in the shire, valued at £7,902 per annum.The best place to begin your genealogical research is not here but at the General Register Office for Scotland which houses the Church of Scotland's Old Parish Registers of baptisms, marriages and burials from 1553-1854, together with the Statutory Register of births, marriages and deaths from 1855 to date. They have a web-site at http://www.open.gov.uk/gros/groshome.htm.If you have not already done so, you may wish to consult the International Genealogical Index (IGI), which has been compiled by the Genealogical Society of Utah (GSU). This serves as an alphabetical index to those records of baptism and marriage (not burial) found among the Old Parish Registers. A copy may be available at your local library. Copies are also held at the family history centres maintained by the Church of the Latter Day Saints. If you are just beginning to trace your Scottish ancestors, it would be worth getting hold of one of the many books which explain how to go about this. For example:Kathleen B Cory, Tracing Your Scottish Ancestry, (Edinburgh, 1990)Alwyn James, Scottish Roots: a step-by step guide for ancestor-hunters in Scotland and Overseas, (Loanhead, 1981)Gerald Hamilton-Edwards, In Search of Scottish Ancestry, (Chichester, 1983)Sherry Irvine, Your Scottish Ancestry: a guide for North Americans, (Salt Lake City, 1997)To trace your ancestors using our sources here at General Register House you will need to know where they lived in Scotland, their exact dates of birth, death and marriage and their religious denomination if possible. An excellent genealogical guide, which is specific to this office, is Cecil Sinclair's Tracing your Scottish Ancestors (Edinburgh, 1997) which can be obtained from us, or from a good bookshop. You should also be able to see a copy at a good library.Unfortunately, due to pressures on staff time and resources, we cannot undertake the extended research that family histories commonly entail. I would therefore suggest that you undertake the research yourself, either through a friend or relative or perhaps by hiring a professional record agent.To this end we have a list of useful names and addresses which I can send out to you on receipt of your postal address.I hope that this information is of some assistance to you.Yours sincerelyRuaraidh WishartSearch Room ArchivistHistorical Search SectionDirect Dial 0131 535 1334/1320 Direct Fax 0131 535 1328
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