Re: History of McConnell by William McConnell
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History of McConnell by William McConnell
Susan Vetter Wemett 2/04/14
Good afternoon
A minor point with respect to your researches.
"Great Britain" did not come in to existence until 1707, with the Act of Union, so Berwick-on-Tweed did not become "British" until that year, being generally "English" in the period your family history refers to.
It is confusing, as you will see in the Wikipedia entry, the town oscillating back and forth between the two countries over the earlier centuries-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berwick-upon-Tweed
I recollect about 30 years back, around 1980, discussions as to whether the town of Berwick on Tweed should have been a separate signatory to the World War 1 Peace Treaty!
(More recently, there was similar discussion about one of the Australian States, regarding WW2.)
Geographically, Berwick being on the north side of the Tweed, Scotland would be its natural home, within the county of Berwickshire, which is in Scotland.
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Something similar has happened with the county of Monmouthshire, it has oscillated back and forth between England and Wales, now being in Wales; but one has to keep those ancient administrative moves in mind when researching families etc in that county.
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Scotland's People gives you access to Scanned IMAGES of the ancient BMD-style recotds of the period - IF they still EXIST; and have been handed over to the Registrar General of Scotland, for safe-keeping-
www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk
There are many other sources of official and semi-official records, again with the major proviso that they have survived in to this modern, computerised, Web access era.
Additionally, the LDS Family Search site can be a usefull adjunct - but try to confirm anything found on that and other sites against the primary sources held by SP etc above.
Alex Dow
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