Borland
I am not only looking for distant relatives but also ancestors of William Borland and Rachel Brady. Ed and Alice Laing hadwritten a book called Pioneers of Clearsprings. Chapter 6 is "The Borlands of Clear Springs" (2001)and consists of4 pages Whichwere sent to me as pictures. Im not sure how to add them to this post.Unfortunately Ed has passed away and Alice is in a nursing home. However, their son Ray and his wife Bertha still living in the area.
I am the great great great great grand child of (1)-William,born 1747, was 48, and their mother, Rachel Brady, was 45 when (2)-Alexander Borland and his twin sister Elizabeth were born in 1795. (William and Rachel had seven children in 17 years.)Alexander married Charlotte Neill in 1830 in his hometown. Alexander and Charlotte came from Ireland and emigrated to Canada. They had 8 children. Thomas , William,( died 1859 in Ontario at age 64)John, Jenny, Robert were born in Ireland while Paul, Lyle, and Mary were born in Goulbourne, Ont. , Canada. Their son, (3)-Robert Borland, was father of (4)-William Borland, who married Florence Pearl Skillen. William had 2 children, a son, Leslie, who married Lottie Jacobs and adopted 2 girls, Gail and Rita, and daughter, (5)-Dorothy. Dorothy married Royce Murray, had 7 children (6)-Betty, Linda, Brian, Gordon, Jean & Joan( twins), and Mark.
Betty married Herbert Andrews, they had 3 natural children and one adopted(7)- me(Kimberly, 1959) my brother Kenneth, 1960, Heather, 1962, and Laurie(8)-my kids,Kathleen (Kathii 1977),Terrence(1978), Christopher (1980), James(1983),Kenneth (Paul)(1984), (9)- my 9 grandkids. James has Shianne( January 2003), Charlotte(September 2003), Zachary & Kaley(twins, August 2004); Kathii has Kyle(1994), Ethan (2004, Aidan (2005)
Thats 9 generations accounted for.
So my grandkids are the great great great great great grandchildren of the first Borlands to come to Canada, Alexander and Charlotte, and great great great great great great grandchildren of William and Rachel.
My new problem is trying to find where William and Rachel cane from. The book says Alexanders hometown is Belloma Ireland but when I google it I find nothing. I also know that Alexander leased his property in Ireland prior to emigrating. It is listed in some places that Alexander and some of his children were born in Landhead Ballymoney, Antrim, then they were in the Goulbourn township, Carleton County, Ontario in 1842 where the rest of the children were born.
(I do know that one part of the family changed their name to Boland while living in Russell.)