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Member Since: April 2004 Posts: 7,446 Send Message	WayneTracey	Report	7 Oct 2008 08:29
Member Since: April 2004 Posts: 7,446 Send Message	Hi Emma Who did Mary become when she married?? Tracey
Member Since: April 2005 Posts: 131 Send Message	Emma	Report	7 Oct 2008 08:08
Member Since: April 2005 Posts: 131 Send Message	Thanks Quoy but those ones are THE Colvins lol. They are the ones I would like to prove the link to but....... looks like me be umble not noble lol Spent half of yesterday searching through the newspapers (thanx Sam) lol Emma in Spain
Member Since: January 2003 Posts: 1,816 Send Message	Quoy	Report	7 Oct 2008 06:49
	Hi Emma found this on Sam Spades post to Old newspapers At Calcutta on th 14th Feb last Sir R D Colquhoun of Tilly Colquhoun Bart to Anna Maria second daughter of Mr. James Colvin esq of Calcutta Caledonian Mercury 22nd July 1822 There are quite a few referances to James Colvin
Member Since: April 2005 Posts: 131 Send Message	Emma	Report	6 Oct 2008 21:41
Member Since: April 2005 Posts: 131 Send Message	n please, anyone............
Member Since: April 2005 Posts: 131 Send Message	Emma	Report	6 Oct 2008 19:50
Member Since: April 2005 Posts: 131 Send Message	Sorry guys there is a James Colvin of Calcutta who was very famous but try as I might I can't link him with my James Colvin! I have his daughter Mary's husband Thomas Gibb's will but it just says that he leaves his stuff to his wife Mary Colvin daughter Of James Colvin Merchant in Calcutta residing Falkirk 1818 when his daughter married Thomas Gibb. I have tried all the usual resources eg. FBIS/british & Edinburgh library/ Edinburgh city archives/ancestry/freeBMD/familysearch/so called experts!!/ Edinburgh newspaper archives. I'm running out of ideas HELP!! Emma in Spain Running out of ideas
Member Since: November 2002 Posts: 2,779 Send Message	was plain ann now annielaurie	Report	6 Oct 2008 19:12
	There are also some references to James Colvin on the Brtish Library India Office site. If he was a Merchant, perhaps he left a will?
Member Since: June 2003 Posts: 2,487 Send Message	Lorraine	Report	6 Oct 2008 18:48
	couldnt find a death but did find this on igi IGI Individual Record FamilySearch™ International Genealogical Index v5.0 Asia Search Results \| Download -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- JAMES COLVIN Pedigree Male Family -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Event(s): Birth: Christening: Death: Burial: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marriages: Spouse: MARIA JACKSON Family Marriage: 26 APR 1802 Calcutta, West Bengal, India
	Researching: derry,breakwell,kinnish,wadlow,penny,smith,woodward,cartwright.
Member Since: April 2005 Posts: 131 Send Message	Emma	Report	6 Oct 2008 18:23
Member Since: April 2005 Posts: 131 Send Message	I have been searching - unsuccessfully for the death of James Colvin known to be alive & well in Falkirk in 1818 date of birth c.1778 Merchant in Calcutta. All I know is that he was the father of Mary Colvin born Calcutta c.1798. Mary Colvin married Thomas Gibb in Falkirk in 1818. I know all about Mary Colvin from 1818 but would appreciate some help finding her fathers or her mothers details. I believe Mary died between 1861 - 1871 as that is when she dissapears off the census but I don't know where last known adress 3 Meadows, Newington, Edinburgh 1862 death cert of Hubby.. If I could even find her death then I could order the cert which should have more info. I have her husbands death info 1862. This one is keeping me awake at nights!! Emma in Spain

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