Introduction:
This page is about Scots-Irish genealogy, with particular relevance to the Cook and Robb families from Ireland, Kirkmaiden, Stoneykirk and Stranraer in South West Scotland. The Greive family are from Selkirkshire.
Peter McDowall Robb in Seaforth,
Ontario and Detroit, Michigan with his parents and siblings, still some branches with no fourth cousins discovered...Please help us find who the pallbearers were at Jennie Robb's funeral...
Andy Cook in Brisbane:
a good picture, saved by two branches in the UK and Australia. A mystery solved after about eighty five years...this Andy was in Melbourne...He is a descendant of John Cook :-). The other soldier on the picture has been identified... There was an elder brother of John that went to Brisbane, this branch suddenly vanishes...
Family History Societies and Useful Links:
where to go for help on: Robb, Cook and Greive, the regions studied and plenty more...
Three Captains Cook:
sons of William Cook, linen weaver and Rachel McNeillies, woollen weaver...
The Old Cook's Brae, by William RobB:
This is about Port Logan, the wee bairns were sliding down between High & Laigh rows...
Double Cousins:
Murray, McMurray, and single cousins: McGaw, McCulloch, McCracken...
Friendly Neighbours:
William Robb, nailer and William Cook were friends. One census night...
The Greive Family from Howden near Selkirk:
with some thumbnail photographs of the farm building and some cricket players from Selkirk Cricket Club...
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