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Harknesses Exchange Place Thank you for visiting our pages. Entries are monitored for appropriate content. No commercial or selling type messages are permitted. ALL CAPITAL LETTER messages will be reduced to all small letters; this means that "ALL CAPS" will mostly be ignored. NOW, all posts are done, manually, after they are reviewed. This is because of the garbage posts this site has received. So, do your post by emailing the webmaster, and your post will be placed by hand. Please email the board webmaster: Rodney Harkness (housecrafter3@gmail.com) NOTE: Due to the length that this all-on-one-page message board had gotten, all messages were erased except a few that were yet interesting or especially relevant. --EDITOR i found your web site and thought i would give it a try. when in scotland, lockerbie to be exact i was searching for schoolar ancestors. i find it difficult to write in lower case as per your instructions. in an old parish record i found george schoolar's and janet harkness' child james baptised in april 22 1758 as george had been married before, his marriage to janet harkness happened between 1752 and 1758 further search turned up a few harkness families in the area but none that connected with janet. i know nothing else about janet, only having discovered her married to george schoolar. the schoolars were builders in and around the lockerbie area and build and designed many of the town's old buildings. i found his obit and discovered that he and janet are buried in the dryfesdale church yard, he was a member of the quhytewollen lodge and thus had a masonic funeral. in the surname of scotland text i found that harkness is a scots name connected with annandale and nithsdale, that they were covenanters and executed for their faith. one alexander was a schoolmaster at dumfries 1820-30. a branch of the family went from dumfriesshire to ulster in the 17th century and settled in limerick making them plantation scots. what i am interested in is who janet's family were and where they were located. thanks, judith cairns roe r3r1k1 jroe@mts.net winnipeg manitoba - Jan 2, 2011 [This is for the] Harkness family that was primarily of Halifax, Yorkshire, although they were [also] briefly in Kendal, Westmorland as well. My great grandmother was Ellen Harkness, b. 28 Nov 1841 in Halifax. She married twice and died 18 May 1914 also in Halifax. Her parents were Alexander (1798-1866) and Susey Halliwell Harknes Alexander (doesn't have a middle name that I know of) seems to be a son of Anthony who married Ellen (Nelly) King at Halifax 13 July 1783. Anthony appears to have had 15 children (Alexander being #10), most [were] christened at So Parade Wesleyan church in Halifax. I found a burial for Ellen there, but none for Anthony in the church records. That's as far back on the Harkness name that I have [currently]. Helen Gay Rockwood, Michigan - March 20 2009 My name is Roger Steven Harkness, born May 4th, 1959 in Kearney Nebraska. I have three brothers and two sisters. Robert, Bradley and Richard. My sisters are Debora and Patricia, my Father's name was George Harkness, now deceased. Currently I live in Oklahoma and call myself the Okcitykid. It was my truck driver handle because I look much younger than I am. I'm a Navy Veteran of 14 years July 1977 to June 1992 and also call my self the peacefulvet. You can find me by doing a google search on either okcitykid or peacefulvet. I have a blog at peacefulvet.info/blog where I try to post my poetry on a daily basis and share a bit of my history. Thanks, Roger Harkness Kearney, Nebraska - Feb 19, 2009 Hello: I would like to find a person called David Buck Harkness who is my father and has never met me. He was from Alabama, but was living in Tennesse when he marrried my mother named Mary Elizabeth Morton. I was born in Nashville Tennesse. My parents were divorced when I was born. So, he never knew that my mother was expecting a baby. The only thing I know about him is his name, that he worked in Shell Oil Company as a station attendant in Tennesse and he was 28 years old. I was born in October 31 1959. I was so happy to see so many Harknesses here. I have never met another one. Well I would like to find my father or any member of his family, or any information please contact me at my e-mail address. Thanks, Terry Lee Harkness <terrylharkness@netzero.net> GARLAND, TX, USA - February 28, 2006 [EDITORS NOTE: The paragraph above was re-written for readability by the editor.] I find this site extremely fascinating! I am very curious about the Harkness family. I can trace my branch of the Harkness family back to the plantations of Alabama. I have yet to meet another Harkness of color (descendant of enslaved people). such as myself! If anyone has any questions, feel free to email me. Seleena Harkness <seleenaharkness@yahoo.com> Hawaii, USA - November 27, 2004 EDITORS NOTE: Seleena is not alone, there IS a "Black"/African-American line of Harknesses. The Harknesses from Scotland exhibited less American style prejudice and inter-married with many non-Scottish peoples. Scots as a group are likely to intermarry outside of their race. Seleena is a true Harkness. This is a great site. I too am looking into the Harkness surname. My Harkness connection goes back to around 1735 or so; her name is Nancy Harkness. She is my Gr-Gr-Gr-Gr-Gr-Grandmother. We belive she lived in Ireland and Married a man named Philip. We belive his last name was Slaven. They had only one child (a boy) named Barnabus. Born in 1759. Nancy died 7 or 8 years later and the father remarried and Barnabus went to live with his mothers relatives. Barnabus married an Elizabeth Graham and at this time believed to be in Downs Ireland. They came to the United States about 1790. If anyone can give me some pointers on how to find some information on Nancy's Family, it sure would be great. This is my 'Block Wall' and so far I have not been able to find any information on these family in this time frame. I'm looking forward to hearing from any one who might have some Ideas. Sherrie Harrison <kharris671@earthlink.net> Temecula, Ca USA - February 12, 2004 Hi. I've just came by this site and am amazed! I'm one of the Harknesses from Carrickfergus, N Ireland where the family has been for the past 75 years. Before that we were in Belfast and Crumlin, Co Antrim. The family moved from Glasgow, Scotland in the 19th century. The family business for over a 100 years was John Harkness & Company (existed until the 1970s) which was a transport business in Ireland. the main claim to fame was the transportation of the anchor for the Titanic to the Belfast ship builders Harland & Wolff. Hello to all the Harknesses out there and congratulations on a great site! James Harkness<james.harkness@harknesskennett.com> Guildford , Surrey England - February 11, 2004 If there is any of my family looking for me they can contact me at P. O. Box 2555, Albany, Oregon 97321 John Wayne Harkness <m64124bo@motel6.com> Albany, Oregon USA - February 08, 2004
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