Collessie Parish Church M.I.

[lesliejean]

Hi Norrie

My sister-in-law sent me the link to this topic.  I looked through your list and found 5 couples who are related to me and would be grateful for the inscriptions and photos of them. I don't know if you have a limit as to what you provide - I don't want to be too cheeky.

They are:
        David Douglas and Lillias  Bruce CO105
        John Douglas and Margaret Bonthron CO106
        William Johnston Douglas and Lucy Melville Myles CO107   The 3 of them being brothers

        Kenneth McKenzie and Ann Muckarsie CO157

        William Petrie and Janet Smart CO 179

Kind Regards

Leslie Haynes (nee Kirkcaldy) from Australia

 

[NorrieG]

My sister-in-law sent me the link to this topic.  I looked through your list and found 5 couples who are related to me and would be grateful for the inscriptions and photos of them

Hi Leslie  no problem on how many, its easier if I get names or numbers as you did
I have over 20.000 Headstones in various Fife Cemeteries,willing to do any lookups
I will send in 3 postings

105 in memory of David DOUGLAS Ladybank
died 4.10.1885 age 72
wife Lily BRUCE died 9.7.1889 age 81
William youngest son died at Orange New South Wales
6.6.1887 age 36
John eldest son died 22.2.1900 age 57
Interred at Sighthill Cemetery Glasgow

106 In Memory of John DOUGLAS died at Ladybank
12.11.1885 age 74
wife Margaret BONTHRONE died 25.6.1888 age 75
his father David DOUGLAS died at Sunneybank
10.10.1896
his mother Margaret CAMPBELL
no dates as stone is buried in ground

     

[NorrieG]

Hi Leslie 2nd post

107 erected by Isabella GIBSON in memory of her father
William Johnston DOUGLAS died at Ladybank
27.2.1902
and Lucy Melville MYLES her mother
who died at Edinburgh 15.3.1893?
David her only brother died at Edinburgh
12.12.1893 age 43?
Intered at North Merchiston Cemetery Edinburgh

157 Kenneth McKENZIE died at Monkstown 2.11.1918 age 69
his wife Ann MUCKERSIE died 6.10.1917 age 71
Norrie

[NorrieG]

Hi Leslie 3rd posting

158 John Anderson MUCKERSIE Monkstown died 9.4.1924 age 68


179 Erected by Janet PETRIE in memory of her
Grandfather William PETRIE died 22.3.1873
Her Grandmother Janet SMART died 9.1.1873
Her sister Jemina Helen died 28.4.1878
Her Aunt Helen PETRIE died 24.11.1891
Also their cousin Jane REEKIE died 29.12.1895

Norrie

[NorrieG]

Hi Leslie this view shows the 3 Douglas stones with the church in the background

Norrie

[lesliejean]

Hi Norrie

Thanks so much for those photos and inscriptions - they all belong to my tree.  Also, I see you have included one more Muckarsie so I will see where he fits in and there is some extra information I can work on now. 

The 3 Douglas brothers, John David and William  are all brothers of my great great grandmother Mary Dougas who married Richard Muckarsie.  I have Richard dying 28.12.1849 in Collessie and Mary 3.06.1877 also in Collessie.  They were not listed on your Cemetery lists so I didn't ask about them before but I was wondering if you do have them.  Maybe they are buried in the old part of the graveyard or don't have a headstone if you don't.

Thanks so much again for your efforts
Leslie Haynes

[NorrieG]

grandmother Mary Dougas who married Richard Muckarsie.  I have Richard dying 28.12.1849 in Collessie and Mary 3.06.1877 also in Collessie

Hi Leslie sorry nothing for the above couple in Collessie Cemetery
inscriptions in the cemetery go back to the late 1700s

the other Muckersie inscription is form a stone next to Annes stone

John Muckersie born 1857 Auchtermucty parents George Muckersie
& Elizabeth Stevenns listed on Family search

Norrie

[lesliejean]

Hi Norrie,

Thanks for checking Mary Douglas and Richard Muckarsie for me.  I got the death certificate for John Muckarsie - he never married and was living with his sister, Ann and her husband Kenneth McKenzie from 1891 to 1911 Census probably till they died.

Have you a Margaret Muckarsie b. 1836 in Collessie in any of you records?  She is the daughter of Richard and Mary above. She gave birth to my great grandfather, James in 1859 in Edinburgh - his birth certicate shows him as Muckarsie and illegitimate but the family always knew him as James Mowat.  I have not been able to find James in the 1861 or 1871 Census but then he appears as James Mowat in 1880 marrying Jane Smart in Collessie, listing John Mowat as his father.  Margaret is a complete mystery.  I have not found her in any Censuses and any deaths and marriages for Margaret Muckarsie do not seem to fit.

Kind regards
Leslie Haynes
Even on James' death certificate no parents are listed.

[NorrieG]

Hi Leslie  I keep coming back to your request, I have nothing my index for a Margaret Muckarsie

do you know why she was in Edinburgh in 1859? working there.

on James wedding certificate was Margaret alive?

you said on his wedding certificate he said his father was John Mowat
this is from Family Search could this be him

Margaret Mucharsie   Can't find her on 1881 census for all Britian, where did she go,?

Birth:   25 Jul 1839   Saint Cuthberts, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
christening:      SAINT CUTHBERTS, EDINBURGH, MIDLOTHIAN, SCOTLAND
residence:   1839   Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
      
   
name:   John Mowat
gender:   Male
baptism/christening place:   SAINT CUTHBERTS, EDINBURGH, MIDLOTHIAN, SCOTLAND
birth date:   25 Jul 1839
birthplace:   Saint Cuthberts, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
father's name:   George Mowat
mother's name:     Catharine Campbell

Norrie