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Topic: Kirkcudbright 1841 or earlier (Read 1459 times)
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Candolim_Imp
RootsChat Senior
Posts: 324
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I'm looking for the Blair family of Kirkcudbright (many thanks, by the way, for the link on this board for the 1851 returns).
There were 2 Blair families in Kirkcudbright town in 1851, both headed by Davids... the one I'm particularly interested in is the older David... who I believe was a shoemaker (tho retired and not listed as such in 51). He was 78 in 1851, with wife Margaret (60) and they were living with daughters Jane (30) and Charlotte (28). All were born in Kirkcudbright.
I would expect to find Elizabeth Carson Blair in the household at this time, as she was born 1826-1831... by 1851 she and her sister, Mary, were in Liverpool (but we have a baptism match in 1811 for Mary as daughter of David Blair & Margaret McMonies. Though we don't have Elizabeth's baptism, we know she was Mary's sister and she named her father as David at her marriage).
I've already discovered that this David Blair was the grandson of Hugh Blair of Borgue, whose marriage was annulled by his brother's court action after Hugh's wife became pregnant.... because Hugh was deemed to be unfit to manage his affairs or mentally competent to understand his own marriage... a book was written on the case and the life of the family in 2000, in which Hugh was diagnosed as autistic. The brother wanted to avoid Hugh's expected child inheriting the family estate... which annulment achieved, by rendering the child legally illegitimate.
After the court case in 1748, Hugh moved to Kirkcudbright with his "wife", where they baptised 2 children, the eldest being David, father of the David I mention above.
Any help at all on this family would be much appreciated, or any links to sites I might search.
Impy
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Hodge; Southport, Lancs
Pugh; Salop, Liverpool
Hulm; Bootle, Southport
Guildford; Liverpool
Clausen; Denmark, Liverpool
Yapp/Yopp; Salop
Marshall, Rimmer, Howard, Johnson, Jackson; Southport
Bury; Heref, Herts
Dady; Norfolk, Southport
Colebourne; Liverpool
Small; Barbados, Liverpool
Murray; West Indies, Liverpool
Williams; Africa, Liverpool
Jenner; Glos
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kenjo
RootsChat Aristocrat
Posts: 1195
http://www.whalesrevenge.com
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Hi,
This might be of interest to you.
This is the Land Owners of Scotland 1873....
The name is first then where they are living at the time, and then the number of acres and then the earnings for the year of the property.
regards
kenjo 
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Candolim_Imp
RootsChat Senior
Posts: 324
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Many thanks for those contributions. The other Blair family in KK was, I think, descended from Hugh's brother, John (who had Hugh's marriage annulled)... I think both families came out of the years of legal wrangling with little left of the money they'd been fighting over.
The family of 1841 here was my partner's GG grandmother (Elizabeth) and her family.
This is one of only 2 British lines in my partner's family, and I've discovered that it traces back to Robert the Bruce and the Stewarts, through Robert III's daughter (Hugh's mother was descended from the Agnews)
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Hodge; Southport, Lancs
Pugh; Salop, Liverpool
Hulm; Bootle, Southport
Guildford; Liverpool
Clausen; Denmark, Liverpool
Yapp/Yopp; Salop
Marshall, Rimmer, Howard, Johnson, Jackson; Southport
Bury; Heref, Herts
Dady; Norfolk, Southport
Colebourne; Liverpool
Small; Barbados, Liverpool
Murray; West Indies, Liverpool
Williams; Africa, Liverpool
Jenner; Glos
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BronwynJ
RootsChat Extra
Posts: 5
Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
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I'm descended from a John BLAIR who gave his birthplace as "Galway in Scotland", which I presume was either Galloway or Galtway. Either way, it's close to Kirkcudbright.
My John BLAIR was born about 1815. He moved to Manchester, & later to Australia.
As far as I know he had no contact with his family of origin after moving to Australia, & so far we know nothing of them.
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Blair, Galloway, Scotland, 1815
Pegg, Nouton, Leicestershire, 1833
Neal, London, 1805
Gathercole, Eriswell, Suffolk, 1786
Billiman, Hockham, Norfolk, 1791
Coles, Launton, Oxfordshire, 1779
James, Banbury,1830
Stuffins, St Ives, Cambridge, 1811
Chapman, Sutton St Edmond, Lincolnshire, 1817
Austin, Tetsworth, Oxfordshire, 1808
Tuffrey, Bicester, Oxfordshire, 1839
Grant, Boat of Garten, Invernesshire, 1766
Neve, Tiffenden, Kent, 1749
Tanner, Ditchling, Sussex, 1674
Luxford, Hurspierpo
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