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Subject: Re: Burns
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 16:06:35 EST


In a message dated 03/12/2002 20:38:21 GMT Standard Time,
writes:


> There is an aspect not covered. There were a fair number of Scots who
> settled in Norway as traders or employees of such traders, They usually
> settled in larger coastal cities like Bergen (notably), Stavanger, Haugesund
> and probably less likely in Oslo (Christiania), Kristiansand and Trondheim.
> Some of them remained but I have no doubt that some returned home. It would
> be tedious, but one could search for Burns in those cities in the 1801
> census.
>

It's also worth bearing in mind there are several people called Burns in the
BRITISH census for 1880 who were born in Norway. None of them Harriet but it
might be worth looking in other British censuses (or should it be censi?)

cheers

Catherine

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