Re: David Trail--The Coombs Connection!
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David Trail--The Coombs Connection!
Gail Trail 6/12/02
Dear Gail, This looks very promising.The Scots are clannish and very supportive of family, and its amazing how many work in family groups. as one scots researcher said to me they dont leave money outside the blood lines. You can have a different surname, but you must be kin. This scenerio looks good. I'll check out the questions. I'm working through the St. Andrews records now and have been for sometime. All James of Beleys second family were born in St. Andrews but brought up in Anstruther, so far as we know as he went to St. Andrews in 1608, around the time of his third son Andrew's birth, and he moved from there in 1621 according to the Rev. Robert Traill's diary. He appears again from the diary to have kept his family in Scotland, but spent time both in Northern Ireland,(where he had land) and at the Court of St James in London. His children those we know the dates for appear to be born 5 years apart each time. which gives him time to have 4 possible children for this second marriage. We know two. Again in 1628 Robert's diary describes the second family as being numerous, even a 25 year old could not describe two children as being numerous, but four its reasonable, especially as James was by that time 72. All records we have show James as being born 1555. I'll keep looking Elsie Ritchie