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I have an Ahnentafel report for William Wood, b 1895, Fife, Scotland. It features Wood, Wallace, Morris and other names in Cellardyke/Kilrenny, Pittenweem etc. These reports can be hard to read in email so there is a PDF image available on request. Mary Ann Wallace (MS McPhee), b 1816 France, is an interesting ancestor. Her father was in the 71st Regiment of Foot and some evidence leads me to the tentative belief that he was James McPhee, b Minnigaff, Kirkcudbrightshire, who enlisted at Leith and served in the Peninsular War and at Waterloo, though this link to Mary Ann is not proved definitively as yet. Mary Ann also had a sister, Helen McPhee, who is captured in one census in Fife and, I believe, married in Fife.

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Generation 1

1.   William WOOD, son of James WOOD and Mary Ann WALLACE was born about 1895 in Pittenweem, FIF, SCT. He married Annie Currie YOUNG. She was born on 21 Jan 1897 in Larkhall, Lanarkshire, Scotland.


Generation 2

2.   James WOOD, son of William WOOD and Margaret Watson MORRIS was born about 1867 in Pittenweem, FIF, SCT. He married Mary Ann WALLACE.

3.   Mary Ann WALLACE, daughter of James WALLACE and Lillias SMITH was born about 1867 in Cellardyke, Kilrenny, FIF, SCT.

Mary Ann WALLACE and James WOOD had the following children:

i.   Lilias Wood was born about 1892 in Anstruther, FIF, SCT.

2.   ii. William WOOD was born about 1895 in Pittenweem, FIF, SCT. He married Annie Currie YOUNG. She was born on 21 Jan 1897 in Larkhall, Lanarkshire, Scotland.

iii.   James Wood was born about 1898 in Pittenweem, FIF, SCT.

Generation 3

4.   William WOOD, son of Alexander WOOD and Grizal WATSON was born on 14 Dec 1827 in Cellardyke, Kilrenny, FIF, SCT. He married Margaret Watson MORRIS on 28 Apr 1848 in Kilrenny, FIF, SCT.

5.   Margaret Watson MORRIS, daughter of John MORRIS and Margaret DUNCAN was born on 19 Jul 1829 in Pittenweem, FIF, SCT. She died on 21 Feb 1909 in Pittenweem, FIF, SCT.

Margaret Watson MORRIS and William WOOD had the following children:

i.   Alexander Wood was born about 1849 in Pittenweem, Fifeshire.

ii.   John M Wood was born about 1851 in Pittenweem, Fifeshire.

iii.   William Wood was born about 1852 in Pittenweem, Fifeshire.

iv.   David Wood was born about 1854 in Pittenweem, Fifeshire.

v.   Margaret Wood was born about 1860 in Pittenweem, Fifeshire.

vi.   Mary Wood was born about 1862 in Pittenweem, Fifeshire.

vii.   Grace W Wood was born about 1865 in Pittenweem, FIF, SCT. She married DUTCH.

viii.   Thomas Wood was born about 1866 in Pittenweem, Fifeshire.

3.   ix. James WOOD was born about 1867 in Pittenweem, FIF, SCT. He married Mary Ann WALLACE, daughter of James WALLACE and Lillias SMITH. She was born about 1867 in Cellardyke, Kilrenny, FIF, SCT.

6.   James WALLACE, son of John WALLACE and Mary Ann McPHEE was born on 01 Aug 1841 in Cellardyke, Kilrenny, FIF, SCT. He died on 31 Dec 1906 in Anstruther, FIF, SCT. He married Lillias SMITH on 10 Sep 1864 in Anstruther, FIF, SCT (At the United Presbyterian Manse. Witnesses: Daniel Fleming and Elizabeth Wallace.).

7.   Lillias SMITH, daughter of Alexander SMITH and Jacobina 'Binnie' WOOD was born on 28 Oct 1841 in Cellardyke, Kilrenny, FIF, SCT. She died on 17 Jan 1910 in Anstruther, FIF, SCT.

Lillias SMITH and James WALLACE had the following children:

i.   Jacobina WALLACE was born about 1864 in Kilrenny, Fifeshire. She married James Anderson. He was born in Pittenweem, FIF, SCT.

3.   ii. Mary Ann WALLACE was born about 1867 in Cellardyke, Kilrenny, FIF, SCT. She married James WOOD, son of William WOOD and Margaret Watson MORRIS. He was born about 1867 in Pittenweem, FIF, SCT.
 
iii.   Lilias WALLACE was born in 1869 in Kilrenny, Fifeshire.

iv.   John WALLACE was born in 1871.

v.   James P WALLACE was born in 1875.

vi.   Lillias Smith WALLACE was born in 1877. She died in 1936.

vii.   Margaret E WALLACE was born in 1880.

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Robert Hutchi(n)son born about 1826, Garvagh, Co. Londonderry, son of Hugh Hutchi(n)son and Elizabeth Johnston. Robert married Rosanna Docherty (1821-1861) in Renfrewshire, Scotland, in 1847 and was still in Scotland in 1891. Land and tax tell me that there was a Hugh Hutchinson at Met(t)ican, Garvagh. Any further information on these Hutchi(n)sons and Johnstons would be much appreciated. I have a lot on the family in Scotland.

This and related lines contain other names that may come from the Garvagh area. Robert's wife, Rosanna Docherty, was born in Ireland in about 1821. Her father was John Docherty (1799-1878), son of John Docherty (a tailor or sailor?) and Susan Cochran(e).

Rosanna's mother was known in Scotland as Agnes or Nancy Darroch but was born in Ireland around 1799/1800 when she was Agnes or Nancy Darragh. Her father, Daniel Darragh, was married to Rose Bradley or Broadley. I know that there were Darraghs (including a Daniel) at Metican/Garvagh too.  I suspect that Agnes Darragh had a brother called Laurence/Lawrence Darragh (a thatcher) who also ended up in Scotland with his son, John (a tailor).

I am not assuming anything, but if there are MIs or other sources that shed light on these names and families, I would be grateful for the information. From the marriages in Scotland, my assumption is that the Dochertys and possibly the Hutchi(n)sons were Roman Catholic though it all got mixed up a bit in Scotland.