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Member Since: July 2005 Posts: 4 Send Message	Helen	Report	2 Sep 2006 13:41
Member Since: July 2005 Posts: 4 Send Message	Jessie Harkness Born 1880ish in Dumfries, Scotland I think. Married a Andrew McVinnie around 1900. They had 11 children Samuel Mary (known as Poll) Robert (died) John (my grandfather) Jenny Jessie Meg (Maggie-Jane) Sarah Violet Annie Edith (known as Eadie) If any one has any info about their mother Jessie Harkness it would help me alot. Thanks Helen Rawlins
Member Since: September 2007 Posts: 2 Send Message	Marilyn	Report	24 Sep 2007 07:01
Member Since: September 2007 Posts: 2 Send Message	Elisabeth Harkness b. about 1850 ,daughter of Samuel and Violet had daughter Mary Jane Smith Harkness 1869. Mary Jane married Isaac Bone 1896 , (witness at wedding was Jessie Bone) and their daughter Annie was born 1897. Annie , my grandmother , married Thomas William Bone in 1919 in Cumberland She died in 1950 in Carlisle Thomas Wlliam then married Jessie Harkness Mc Vinnie (who was related to Annie , possibly cousin ) in 1951,married in Dumfries. Jessie Died in March 1999 Jessie was named in your list of the children of Jessie and Andrew McVinnie - I knew some of her siblings and their children.