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Topic: Humphry Low 1760 - 1844 (Read 580 times)
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anndra
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Humphr(e)y Low(e) was the Schoolmaster at Dowally, Perthshire for 40 years from the early 1790s. He was a tenant of the Atholl Estate and had his farm on easy rates provided he taught the local children. He is mentioned as such in both of the Statistical Accounts, and he was also the Session Clerk and Precentor of St Anne's Dowally for many years.
His grandfather, William Lowe, Haugh of Kilmorich, fought at Culloden with the Atholl Brigade and is listed in 'The Muster Roll of Prince Charles Edward Stuart's Army 1745-46' and in the Duke of Atholl's 'Chronicles of Atholl and Tullibardine Families' .
Humphry was the only son of six children to James Low and Jean Miller, had two wives, Margrat Kennedy (no issue), and Margaret McLauchlan (3 boys and 3 girls). He also had an illegitimate daughter, Marjory, with Janet Cochran at Kettins, Forfarshire. The entry quaintly records her as being 'begotten in fornication' - and him the Session Clerk!
Anyone related or know anything more about him?
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anndra
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Anyone have any information on William Lowe 1697- ?, Haugh of Kilmorich, or any other Lowe/Low families in the area?
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Black,Hutton,Lyle,Ayrshire; Dickson,Berwickshire; Haig,Leitch,Clazy,Harle,Berwickshire/Roxburghshire; Low/Lowe,McLagan,Millar,Mclauchlan,Stewart,Douglass, Perthshire; MacKenzie,McAngus,McRae,Skinner,Vass,Ross-shire; McDonald,Duff,Muir, Inverness-shire; Raff,Thomson,Riach, Moray; Shiels,Monteith, East/Midlothian; Meiklejohn,Turcan,Cumming,Nasmyth,Donald, Fife.
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Cambron
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Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
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Probably telling you what you already know but on SP you can trace Humphrey b1760 to James b1722 to William and Isobel Douglas.
Parishes of Logierait and Dowally are virtually interchangeable at this time.
For some reason SP gives a trace on William as a William Roy.
The Lows were quite a prominent family in the area from 1600 onwards.They had charters for Achnagie in Tulliemet and subsequently Chapelton.I would think the Dowallie branch stemmed from them although there were also Lows at Stenton in Dunkeld to the south and Strathtay in the north in the same time frame.
My family were tenants of the Tulliemet Lows at various times in the 17 and 18 centuries.
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anndra
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Many thanks Cambron
Yes, I have that as the line. Can't find anything of William however except according to Jane Anderson, the Atholl Estate Archivist, William was a Cottar so that there is no way of tracing him further back. If he'd had a tack there would have been.....
James, his son, and father of Humphrey, had a tack at Reiranich, on the hill behind Kindallachan. which Humphrey took over on his death. It is only a pile of stones now and has been included in the adjacent farm.
There was a William born 1697 in Og(g)il, Tannadice Parish to James Lowe, no mother recorded........ The right age and the the right father but who knows?
Haugh of Kimorich seems to feature in the family as William is recorded there in the Muster Roll and Humphrey's son, William's great grandson, James 1801 - 1855, my 2ggrandfather, has on his death record 'Haugh of Kilmorich (54years)' in the 'Where born and how long in this District'.
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Cambron
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Presumably you know there is a family graveyard in Dowallie Churchyard?
In the 1692 Hearth Tax Record for Dowallie, Killmorich list,there is a Robert Low sharing with a James Dowglas and John Low elder and younger sharing with a Donald Scot and Donald McInroy.
From what you know of subsequent naming conventions in the family could Robert or John have been the father of William?
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anndra
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Yes Cambron, I have been to the church several times thanks.
Humphrey has a monument there which is red sandstone and is inscribed in Latin. It is severely eroded but I have the MI inscription from the survey. His son James, Jacobus, is there as well although there is no mention of his wife Margaret McLauchlan.
Re the naming convention, William and Isabel only had one son and a daughter registered, James and Janet.
James only had one son, Humphry, and five daughters. I think that Humphry was named after the Duke's Steward, John Stewart's son Humphry who was born the year before. The name did not continue and I have found no other Humphr(e)y Low(e) in Scotland, although there was an Umphry Low born in Edinburgh in the early 1600s .
Humphry had three sons registered, 1. James, 2. William, and 3. Robert, but I think he was named after his wife, Margaret McLauchlan's father who was Robert, although he was the third son.
James 1 had only two sons, 1.1 James and 1.2 William, although his wife's father was John.
William 2 had one son by his first marriage, 2.1 James, and two by his second, 2.2 John after his wife's father, and 2.3 William.
Robert 3 I have not found any marriage.
It would appear therefore that they followed the convention fairly closely ..... with the exception of Humphr(e)y!
I think William's father would therefore have been James, or possibly William but is unlikely to be John or Robert.
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