By: bonmac

bonmac — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 11:43:21 +0000

Hello Lyn: How wonderful that you have the surname of Barclay. I don’t think my great Uncle Alexander is a match to you but it doesn’t hurt to keep my family in mine. I do not know his father John Barclay’s (my 2nd great grandfather) family yet! I do not know if John Barclay has siblings. Your Alexander might be a cousin or not? I refer you to a post I wrote outlining the Barclay children of John and Margaret and then his second marriage to Helen. It is dated April 3, 2010 and the title is “John Barclay’s Two Families.” My Alexander’s siblings were: John Avery, James, Sarah Agnes, Mary Jane, Martha M., and George Angus Barclay my great grandfather. Alexander was born in 1840 in Connecticut or that is what they say? I have checked the descendants that I know about in these families and there are no Alexanders listed for that date of 1880. I am aware that there was a large family of Barclay’s living in Minneapolis and St. Paul because I keep running into them in census and documents at the Minnesota Historical Society. I do not know if they are connected to my Barclay’s. I have yet to get to the Scottish records and the little I have done so far,have not given me any leads on my John Barclay in Scotland nor his immigration records even though he says he came in 1833? Good luck and thanks for stopping by.

By: Lyn Barclay

Lyn Barclay — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 02:28:28 +0000

Hi
I am in search of a Alexander Barclay born abt August 1880 born in Scotland his parents were Thomas and Elspeth Barclay. He seems tro have vanished from the Scottish records. I am wondering if there could be some relationship to this Alexander Barclay. Alex’s siblings were Margaret, William, John, James and Thomas all born in Scotland.

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By: bonmac

By: Lyn Barclay