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Thu, 04/09/2009 - 10:56am — Ruth Hoggatt

Sorry about being behind this week with adding the new members to MIH.... I caught the chest cold that is going around at work, it slowed me down a bit. : (

Wow, would you believe we have 183 members at present (04/09/09) on MyIndianaHome.net I hope you will take advantage of communicating with one another on the forum. You may want to try writing on your Blog. If you decide you want to edit or delete whatever you write, just use the appropriate buttons to do so.

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Sun, 07/19/2009 - 2:36pm — kcallow

James Stevenson

Hello and Thank you I have been searching for my 3xgreat Grandfather, James Stevenson born Riccarton Ayrshire Scotland in 1800 and found his death recorded in the Stevenson Bible on this site His brother was Robert Stevenson.
thanks
Kath

Tue, 09/08/2009 - 12:22pm — BobWScott

James Stevenson

I haven't found anything on James other than what's listed in the Bible. But it's clear his grave at Pleasant Presbyterian Church is not marked. There are microfilms of that church's records that might have bearing. Hanover College had them, although it shipped all its original paper records on local churches to Union Theological Seminary in Philadelphia a few years ago. I made notes when I viewed them 15 or more years ago. I just don't remember seeing the name James--but i wasn't looking for it.

I always thought that fact that Robert and Jannet Wallace Stevenson, and James being members at Pleasant, rather than Caledonia, was because Pleasant was on the way between their house and Caledonia. But it may have been because Pleasant was a member of the Presbyterian Church USA while Caledonia was an Associate Reformed Church, or as its opening page said, Covenanters, which means that originally they would have been viewed as against the established church. Further back, they would have been viewed as anti-English.

I am descended from Robert and Janet via their son George. Their farm, settled in 1828, passed to George than to his son, William H. Stevenson, my great-grandfather, and finally to his son, Robert Dale Stevenson, my grandmother's brother. The farm was sold after Dale's death in 2001 and passed from the family.

Can you provide a list of children for James? I have a lot of thoughts on Robert and James' ancestry

Bob Scott (bobwscott@aol.com)

Mon, 11/09/2009 - 1:07pm — kcallow

James Stevenson

It has been a while since I logged on to this site, and have just read your message.

James Stevenson had 8 children he married Jean Smith 11 April 1814 in Kilmarnock Ayrshire.

Elizabeth Stevenson born 12 May 1816 died 20 July 1881
Agnes Stevenson born 1 dec 1818 died 2 sept 1877
Robert Stevenson born 13 mar 1821
Andrew Stevenson born 3 june 1823 died 23 may 1855
James Stevenson born 8 sept 1825
Jean Stevenson born 26 feb 1828
David Stevenson born 14 nov 1830 died 24 june 1855
William Stevenson born cir 1834 died 18 jan 1855.

Agnes Stevenson married Robert Fleming 30 July 1841 in Kilmarnock
this is who I am decended from.

Another Fleming researcher has two letters written by James to Agnes and Robert Fleming fter he left Scotland which comfirms James was in fact my GGG grandfather.

Regards
Kathleen kcallow@rogers.com