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An Armstrong Family Bible Revisited

19/6/2016

9 Comments

 
Around 15 years ago, in January 2001, the Association began a quest to reunite an Armstrong family Bible with it's rightful owners.  

The search began in response to an article in the Eskdale and Langholm Advertiser which read:
An appeal to the people of Eskdale to help solve the mystery of a family Bible has come from a Hampshire couple Kevin and Ginny Goodal. The Goodals, who live in Oakley near Basingstoke, bought the bible many years ago.
The book contains a family history on the last page and the names are Branchard (sic), Armstrong and Robson. They say these are not Hampshire names and certainly not local to their village.
A friend who works in the village comes from Scotland and told them the names were connected with the border area. Ginny said: "If these names do strike a note with any of your readers, I would be very pleased to hear from them.”  ​
We couldn't trace any living descendants at the time but, 15 years later with the benefit of current internet search aids, we have traced descendants of the family to Canada, the USA and the UK.  We've been fortunate to make contact with one living descendant of this family, but none bearing the Armstrong name so the quest continues.

​The full story is published in The Armstrong News 82, including details of the various family lines that we're researching.  Any help or information from Armstrongs in Canada, America or the UK would be appreciated.
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9 Comments
Pete Flynn
11/2/2018 04:19:59 pm

I have Armstrong and Robson connections, my great grandparents John Robson and Mary Jane Armstrong. Mary was born near Stapleton , Cumberland and John was born in Wark, Northumberland.
some of Mary's siblings moved to Canada also some of the Robson's moved there.
One known living Armstrong, my nan's cousin Mary Rustad nee Armstrong was born near Rose Valley Sak Canada.
there are many Armstrong decendant's living in Canada.
Thanks mainly to Mary in Canada my Armstrong and Robson family tree goes back to the early 1700's.

Unfortunately I can not view the full story from 1982 :-(.

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Amy Armstrong
31/3/2018 07:34:56 pm

I am a direct descendant Armstrong.

I cannot open the newsletter article to obtain additional information.

thank you -

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Sandy Rathbone link
29/4/2018 02:28:55 am

I'm an Armstrong and member of the Armstrong Clan I can not get into this news 82 site

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Norma (Armstrong) Price
18/8/2018 12:51:30 am

I am a descendant of the Armstrongs. I am also trying to trace my family history but can't seem to find much before 1880's.

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Claire Armstrong
28/1/2019 02:11:58 pm

Hi
We had a family bible with all our ancestors in it!
I have only just started to trace my ancestors! :) Thanks to Nick I now know more than I did a day ago, but there's more to follow.

Whilst I can't believe that my Mother would ever have sold it, I can imagine that another family member would have though! Our family home was in Dorset only a short distance to Hamshire and 'far enough' that my mother might not have known.
I was shocked not to locate it in my mother's (many) chattels after she passed in '07.
I'd love to see some photo's of it if you can email me them, please. Or call me - Nick has my contact details. :)
Even if only to rule it out! But it'd be utterly fantastic if I can find it! :)

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Arthur Milne
6/2/2020 04:53:00 pm

My grand mother was an Armstrong, a descendent of Edward Armstrong of hook. The family bible vanished in the 1950`s I believe and my Armstrong cousins are still looking for it

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Marie Josee Gregoire
9/2/2021 02:09:34 pm

I am a descendant of the Armstrong. Delia Armstrong (1869) was my great grandmother who resided in Quebec (Canada) and her parents were Oscar Armstrong and Emacence Doyle.

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J Steuner
19/9/2021 01:19:57 pm

I am an Armstrong by birth from Texas

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Shaina Seaton-Armstrong
7/1/2023 12:51:46 pm

I come from the direct line. Started with and traced all the way back to Siward. He would be my 32nd great grandpa.

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