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Shetland / Shetlanders with "dark hair and swarthy skin"?!
« on: Wednesday 28 December 11 20:07 GMT (UK)  »
The Scott line of my ancestors hailed from Shetland and I have traced them back as far as into the seventeenth century. According to family legend, some of them had "dark hair and swarthy skin." I don't suppose anyone has ever heard of this occurrence in Shetland? Some of the family were not Scottish, but came from somewhere else, after their ship, which was emigrating to America, was wrecked - supposedly at Vaila Sound. This would seem to indicate the Bachelor of Leith, but according to all the records, everyone in our family tree was born in Shetland and certainly all have Shetland names (this ship was sailing from Caithnes and Sutherland in 1774). Also, I was wondering if the ancestors with dark hair and swarthy skin could have been descended from sailors of the Spanish Armada??

The member of the family who is said to have been shipwrecked has been potentially identified as Lilias Bain, born in 1760 and married to Peter Peterson, but again this has still to be independently verified...

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Dumfriesshire / When there is no record...
« on: Thursday 09 April 09 15:04 BST (UK)  »
What do you do when you know of a person's birth, yet there is just no corresponding record? I know statutory records were only introduced in 1855, but before then my family had always registered births, christened their children. But for some reason, there is suddenly no record when it comes to my gg grandfather in 1846. His name was Robert Gibson and I KNOW from our own records, confirmed against censuses and age at marriage, that he was born in Dumfries on 26 April 1846. Yet, for some strange reason, his parents (whose own births are recorded)  either did not record their son’s birth or there is somehow no record on Scotlands People, IGI, etc. The same applies to all his siblings. Is the fault with the records or with the parents???




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Dumfriesshire / Stonemasons of Dumfriesshire
« on: Wednesday 18 March 09 20:14 GMT (UK)  »
Can anyone tell me what is the best way of finding out more information about stonemasons in Dumfries town and shire around the late eighteenth and first half of the nineteenth century? My great-great-great grandfather Alexander Gibson (1805-1878) was a stonemason in Dumfries, and possibly his father before him in the Glencairn or Holywood area. Was there a guild and are there lists of members anywhere?


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Lanarkshire / McCALL of Crawford & Leadhills
« on: Thursday 26 February 09 17:36 GMT (UK)  »
I am looking for more information on my gggg grandmother, Mary McCall. I believe that she was born in Crawford & Leadhills on 15 April 1782 to Robert McCall and Isabel McKonnen (or Isabella McConner).

What I definitely know is that Mary McCall married James Gibson (1773?-1832) and they seem to have lived in Glencairn in Dumfriesshire, where they had three children – Alexander (1805?-1878), Isabel (1807-after 1861) and Robert (1819?-1848).

Mary is at Heather House (Holywood) in the 1841 census, Gribton Lodge (Holywood) in the 1851 census and Gribton Gate (Holywood) in the 1861 census. Holywood is in Dumfriesshire.

Mary McCall died at the age of 82 at Gribton Lodge on 17 January 1863 and is buried in Holywood Churchyard.

I wonder if anyone has any information on the wider family of Mary McCall in Lanarkshire, especially her parents or any sibs?


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Dumfriesshire / Catholic Apostolic Church (Irvingites)
« on: Sunday 22 February 09 14:09 GMT (UK)  »
My Gibson family hail from Dumfriesshire and were all members of the Catholic Apostolic Church. The CA Church was very much a product of Dumfriesshire, because it was founded from the teachings of Edward Irving (1792-1834) of Annan. Two of the twelve "apostles" also hailed from the area - Thomas Carlyle (1803-1855) of Annan and William Dow of Irongray.

According to a family legend, my great-great-great grandfather, Alexander Gibson (1805-1878), was involved in the founding of the movement, though I have never found any concrete evidence to support this. His son, Robert Gibson (1846-1901), married Agnes Thomson Lawson (1848-1899) at the Catholic Apostolic Church on Queen Street in Dumfries on 2 November 1868.

All subsequent generations were members of the CA Church until it eventually died out following the death of the last "apostle" in 1901. When Agnes Lawson's youngest brother, Alexander Gibson Lawson (1868-1954) died, he was buried according to the rites of the CA Church, possibly by the very last priest, Wilfred Maynard Davson. His daughter Margaret (Meg) Lawson married Jim Pearson at the CA Church in Dumfries on 5 August 1929.

I would be interested in hearing from anyone whose family were also "Irvingites", especially those who attended the Catholic Apostolic Church on Irish Street and then Queen Street in Dumfries or McAslin Street in Glasgow.


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Dumfriesshire / GIBSON & GRIERSON
« on: Sunday 22 February 09 14:07 GMT (UK)  »
Hello

I am looking for the family of James Gibson (1773? - Gribton, 1832), who married Mary McCall (1782, Leadhills - 1863, Gribton).

Their son Alexander Gibson (1805?, Glencairn - 29 September 1878, Dumfries) was my ggg grandfather. He married Janet Grierson (5 October 1806, Glencairn - 24 August 1868, Dumfries) on 17 June 1827. Janet was the daughter of James Grierson (20.5.1765-28.11.1851) and Isabel McMillan (born Holywood, 16 August 1782). Her grandparents were James Grierson and Elspeth Nicholson (1731-1788) and, possibly, William McMillian and Janet McKeand or McKane.

Other known children of James Gibson: Robert (1819? - Wanlockhead, 24 Jan 1848) and Isabella (born 24 Feb 1807, Glencairn). Robert Gibson married Margaret Brown of Gelston on 30 May 1845.


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