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Welcome to information on Ian's AINSLIE / GALBRAITH tree and my BARBOUR, BLAND, CLAYDON, COE, DOE, EASTON, MACFIE, MEAD, ROOT, SAVILL, SIMPSON, THORBURN and THURGOOD ancestors.
Other relatives' names include BLAIR, BUXTON, FREELAND, GRANT, JAMIESON, LAFONE, LITTLEJOHN, SANDEMAN, STIVEN, STEVENSON, VERDIN, VINCENT and WILSON.  This is an evolving site and I welcome more links, suggestions and contacts - please email me. I live in Cheshire, UK.

Barbours lived in Kilbarchan (Renfrewshire) for many years. My Kilbarchan pages have a history of the village, a map, the 1695 Poll Tax roll and photographs of the West Church, including the font in memory of Humphrey Barbour.

detail of Romney's portrait of Margaret Ainslie (née Farrer) c1764
Romney portraits of James and Margaret Ainslie were recently shown at the National Portrait Gallery

Rod Neep's Archive CD Books Project sells facsimiles of old books on CD-ROM. I have indexed Crawfurd's History of the Shire of Renfrew (1710, updated by Robertson 1818) and George Stewart's Curiosities of Glasgow Citizenship (1881), about Glasgow merchants in the 1700s.

Links

Bronwyn Johnson (Walker) has an extensive SANDEMAN genealogy.

The Thorburn-Macfie Society has loads of information and a family tree of over 3000 names.