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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 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. --EDITOR 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 - Tuesday, 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 - Monday, November 27, 2004 at 12:23:47 (EST) 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 - Thursday, February 12, 2004 at 20:40:47 (EST) 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 - Wednesday, February 11, 2004 at 16:17:10 (EST) 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 - Sunday, February 08, 2004 at 19:46:58 (EST)
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