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From: "Robert Warnock" <>
Subject: Re: [BLACK-L] BLACKS FROM SCOTLAND
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 16:23:14 +0100
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Subject: [BLACK-L] BLACKS FROM SCOTLAND


> Trying to trace and details of:
> 4. JAMES BLACK born in Scotland approx mid 1850s - 1860s father WILLIAM
> BLACK and mother ISABELLA FLEMING - he died in Denver USA and was married
to
> a MARY GRIFFIN

The following is a transcript of the birth certificate of James BLACK, but I
don't know of his marriage or death.

Name James Smith Black
Date 27 July 1870
Place Fallahill, Whitburn
Father William Black farmer
Mother Isabella Black ms Fleming
Parents' marriage 29 January 1858, Fallahill, Whitburn
Informant William Black father

Also for interest a monumental inscription from Whitburn (New Cemetery), but
no mention of James

ERECTED TO THE MEMORY OF WILLIAM BLACK FARMER COUCH WHO DIED 27TH DEC 1894
AGED 58
ALSO HIS CHILDREN
WILLIAM WHO DIED 23RD MAY 1875 AGED 17
AGNES WHO DIED 16TH JULY 1887 AGED 12
ALEXANDER WHO DIED AT DENVER USA 28TH SEP 1894 AGED 26
ELIZABETH WHO DIED 23RD FEB 1899 AGED 32
BELLA WHO DIED AT DENVER USA 1ST MARCH 1902 AGED 28
ALSO HIS WIFE ISABELLA FLEMING WHO DIED 26TH DEC 1904 AGED 68
JOHN FLEMING BLACK WHO DIED 10TH APRIL 1934 AGED 70
AND HIS WIFE GRACE WATT RUSSELL DIED 25TH FEB 1953 AGED 81

Best wishes,
Bob Warnock


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