oh.........so I don't know who I am talking to any more
but if you are in Forfar then you have all the access that I have
so not those adamsons
so are you related to Noreen and the Wyllies and Adamsons and Leightons and Fairweathers and Dons?
Not actually in Forfar now. In fact I quite often drive through Stracathro on my way north or south.
I am connected to the Leightons through marriages but not related as far as I know.
William Leighton, brother of Andrew who was in Syde, married my relative Margaret Wyllie in 1778. She was a daughter of another Andrew Wyllie (cousin of the one in Syde) who was in Mill of Conveth in Laurencekirk and later in Pitarrow in Fordoun. His first wife was Elizabeth Skair who may have been related to Andrew Leighton's mother Anne Skair.
Then there was David Leighton who married Agnes Sang in Tannadice in 1764. She was my 4th great-aunt. David's father was John Leighton but I know no more about him. However David and Agnes' large family included Margaret, born 1782 and died 1866 in Kirriemuir. She left a will in which there was no mention of any of her siblings at all, but she left legacies to my 3rd great-grandfather Thomas Binny, whose wife was Agnes' niece Mary Sang, to 'the surviving children of the late George Fairweather my cousin, formerly in Pitdreichy' and to 'the surviving children of the late James Fairweather my cousin formerly in Shandford'. She also left money to John Sang SSC, who seems to have been her solicitor although he lived and practised in Edinburgh. He was a brother of Thomas Binny's wife Mary Sang. (I would dearly like to know why she was so selective, because she had quite a lot of other cousins, quite apart from her nine siblings.) I have managed to identify the two Fairweathers referred to. They were the sons of George Fairweather and Margaret Leighton in Menmuir. This Margaret was also the daughter of a John Leighton, so she must have been a brother of David Leighton who married Agnes Sang. How this John Leighton relates to David Leighton, husband of Anne Skair, I do not know.
Sorry, I seem to have rambled on a bit.
