« Reply #1 on: Tuesday 29 March 16 10:37 BST (UK) »
Hi Jen,
Hope you're still a member. Just came across your original post today and the placename of Woodston jumped out at me as I have a connection to Nether Woodston (possibly an adjacent farm?)
John Duncan was born at Nether Woodston, St Cyrus in 1822. He is my 1st cousin 5x removed and the son of John Duncan and Ann Burn(s). I haven't got much on John as I haven't researched that line yet. What I do know is that he was born as I say in 1822 at Nether Woodston, lived in St Cyrus for a while, Aberdeen, showing up at Nelson Street in the 1891 census (by that time, another family related to mine was farming Nether Woodston (or not, as it is shown in the Ancestry transcription as Nether Warburton) - John Kinnear (born Garvock in 1848) and his mother, Ann Robbie (born Edzell c1808) and his sister, Ann Lindsay Kinnear (born Garvock 1845). I'm not sure if the two families are connected other than both having been on the farm 70-odd years apart.
The names of Sherret and Patullo are familiar to me as I too have come across them, but alas they are not (I think) related to me, however I do have some Sherrets in Benholm and Johnshaven (namely Margaret, born Benholm in 1816, who married my 3x Great-Grand Uncle, Thomas Watt at Benholm in 1842), which I believe is the next parish along the coast, so there may be a connection a few more generations back, but I'm not going to be actively researching her unless there is a link further back that Watt line to the Sherrets. One of my cousins is related to the Sherrets on both sides of his tree, but not sure whether they are your St. Cyrus ones or not (PM me if you are interested in getting in touch with him and I can contact him to give him your email adress).
Gordon, Carter, Lunie, Young, Pirie, Duncan, Belgrie, Croll, Watt, Ferguson, Peat, Brand, Smith, Wallace, Middleton, Miller, Bell, Mollison, Gauld/Gault/Gall, Clerk/Clark, Anderson, Grassick, Robertson, Niper, Kerr, Kinnear, Edwards, Low, Stewart, M(a)cDonald, Lamb, Petrie, Cowlie, Muckart, Tweedale, Davidson(e), M(a)cLeod, Stephen, Grassie, Mitchell, Whyte, M(a)cLean, Carnegie, Will, Robert, Fairweather, Hill, Reid, Steel, Jackson, Page, Murfitt, Bass,