Famous Ancestors

[Furfeffemy]

Yes, spyware is pretty bad. So is SPAM. Edited post to delete SPAM.

[Luc1977]

If somebody know something about his family, relatives, whichever, tell me.

William Jameson was born in Edinburgh in 1796 and studied at Edinburgh's Royal College of Surgeons ca. 1814-1818. Between 1818 and 1826, he made several voyages as a ship's surgeon, first to Baffin's Bay and later to South America. In 1826 he settled in Quito, Ecuador, and in the following year he was appointed professor of chemistry and botany at the University there. He was made assayer to the mint in 1832 and director in 1861. In 1869 he went back to Edinburgh (by way of Argentina, to visit his sons), and returned to Ecuador in 1872. He died shortly thereafter.
Jameson carried out botanical investigations at Baffin's Bay in Ecuador, and in other South American countries; corresponded with Scottish and English botanists; sent plant specimens back to Great Britain (possibly elsewhere?); and published articles in a half dozen British and Scottish botanical journals. In 1864 he was appointed by the Ecuadorean government to write a flora of Ecuador. Volumes 1 and 2 of his Synopsis Plantarum Aequatoriensium (in Spanish) were published in 1865, but the work was not completed. [The British Museum has the text of the unpublished 3rd volume, p. 1-136; the U.S. Department of Agriculture Library has a Photostat of this.]
Jameson apparently also continued his studies of chemistry, as one would expect from his position as assayer to the mint. The biographical sources consulted did not mention any correspondence with chemists or any publications on chemistry, but the Gray Herbarium archives contain what appears to be a manuscript for a text on chemistry, probably never published.

[PHENOM]

Apparently a lot of people claim this but i am a direct descendant of Rob Roy.

[ScotSites]

Originally Posted by PHENOM

Apparently a lot of people claim this but i am a direct descendant of Rob Roy.

And like everyone else who makes the same claim (as well as everyone else who makes similar claims for other people) please excuse us if we don't just take your word for it!

[PHENOM]

No offence taken. After all it's not a competition is it? I know it my Grandparents know it and have traced it with proof that i will not bore people any longer with. Was my first post from Australia. So hello to all.