I started my study a few years back, when my father made an idle comment about “I wonder where the Duguid family shop was?” Now I have finished just one grandparent’s history. It splits into four sections.
Section One covers the Duguids of Port Glasgow, descended from John Duguid (Dennyloanhead) and Elizabeth Munro (Cluny, Aberdeenshire), from their move to Port Glasgow in 1858 to the present day. Comprises the main report 87pp, a main tree and two subsidiary trees, a location map and a timeline.
John Duguid is my great great grandfather.
Section Two covers Elizabeth’s line, and looks at the Munros of Cluny parish throughout their tenure there. I then go back to look at the Boddies and Boynes of Kemnay parish prior to their move to Cluny parish around 1818. Comprises the main report 82pp, a main tree and a subsidiary tree, and a location map.
Section Three follows on from Section One, and looks at the Duguids of Dennyloanhead. From my point of view, this is from the move from Carriden of James Duguid and Elizabeth Bryce in 1790-96, through their children and grandchildren, including John Duguid who moved to Port Glasgow. But I have also looked at the other descendents from Dennyloanhead, who include about 20% of the Duguids in Glasgow in late Victorian times (look for Proud or Hepburn middle names), and a sizable group of Grimsby/Hull Duguids (first son usually called Andrew). Comprises the main report 78pp, a main tree, and a location map.
Section Four, which I have just completed, follows on from Section Three. It takes me back from James Duguid and Elizabeth Bryce’s marriage and early life, first looking at James’s parents James Duguid and Marion Knox and their family. This is what I call the first Carriden generation. I then go back to the single Abercorn generation of James Duguid and Elizabeth Buchan, who married in Abercorn in 1722. I look at the development of Hopetoun House and grounds in the 1720’s as a pull factor which brought the Duguids, Buchans and Coupers all to Abercorn at this point – a bit like the North Sea bringing workers to Aberdeen. But I then look down the generations for another hundred years after my line “left the room”, and have looked at Bo’ness through to the 1890’s. So on the tree I have mapped the 3rd 4th and 5th Carriden generations too. Loads of Stirrat Duguids and Paris Duguids, with at least two marriages between these pairs of families. Comprises the main report 84pp, a main tree and one subsidiary one, and a location map
Turnerboy, William Duguid’s marriage in 1851 to Janet Stirrat is in the fifth Carriden generation, and James Duguid marrying Ann McDougall in 1875 forms the bottom of my tree.
chuditch1, Mary Helen Duguid who marries Robert Bain in 1889 also forms part of this sixth generation, Her father’s two marriages to Ann Murray and Catherine Doig also appear in generation five.
Happy to share this information with either of you, in abstract or in full (usually vis Dropbox) or with anyone else who may be interested.
