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Scotland (Counties as in 1851-1901) => Scotland => Orkney => Topic started by: Louttit Fan on Saturday 17 March 12 21:03 GMT (UK)
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Hi all,
New here and hopeing to found out some info, been researching the louttits from orkney islands for about 3 months now, mainly from the st andrews area of orkney's have gather a lot of info from present day to early 1700 , and trace connections to austrailia,america, canada and cuba all connected to our louttit side , but have hit a brick wall when it comes to david louttit who married barbara spence inon 12 april 1749 , barbara was born i think 12 aug 1729 in st andrews , but i cant find a dob for david , they had 9 children
David - christened 29 June 1749
william - christened 29 Oct 1752
Robert - christened 18 June 1754
James - christened 21 August 1757
Thomas - christened 22 July 1759
John - christened 31 Dec 1761
Margaret - christened 4 september 1764
Barbara - christened 23 June 1967
Jean - christened 27 October 1772
http://trees.ancestry.co.uk/tree/33824088/family
This is where im at with the louttits so far
Hope somebody can give me or find info on davids dob and or death
Many Thanks
Kevin
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Hi Again,
Just to say myself and wife will be in the orkney's in St Andrews area in sept this year doing research on the louttit and taking pics , maybe we can help somebody whilst there, we will be visiting kirkwall, orphir, stromness, and a few other places whilst there.
Kevin
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Hi Kevin
If you are not already, may I suggest that you join the Orkney Family
History Society and then when you're in Orkney you can call in and they will
help you. I found them very helpful when I was there Sep 2011. Are you aware
that there is a 1821 census available for Deerness, Orphir, St Andrews, Sandwick
and Stromness. None of that helps with David Louttit's dob but there are valuation rolls
and Church records etc available which may assist you. Some are in the Orkney Library,
some in the Archives and others in the OFHS office. The Archives and OFHS are upstairs
at the library.
Joy
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Hi Joy
Yes i have heard of them , and think i will join, im stopping with a distance relative in st ola in the orkney's and he has been researching for a long time on the louttits and has a fantastic amount of info so will check with him to see if he has been in there for a chat before we go up
Many thanks for your help
will keep you informed
Kevin
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www.cursiter.com is good for orkney info
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Hi
Thanks for that had a look there already, really seem to be at a dead end with this.
Kevin
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I have an ancestor David Loutit 1781-1863, married Janet Flett and lived Orphir, mainly. His parents were John Loutit and Margaret Irvine.
No known connection with St. Andrews (1851 census has him born Rendall), but perhaps
thse names may connect with some of your Lottit researches.
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Hi
Thanks for that will check through and see if i can find him or them we had a lot living in the orphir area too
Kevin
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there is a record of a john, thomas, edward, and david louttit in canada around the 1790's worked for the hudsons bay company.
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I have my Louttit part of my family tree all the way back to Piers Louttit born 1424 he had a son named David Louttit there are a few David Louttit’s in the family tree including my dad and my great Papa and a lot more my brick was was and still is since 2015 Piers Louttit in the 1400’s I have a tree on ancestry and even had my DNA tested recently if you ended up finding lots out about the Louttit family tree please let me know I live in Canada my last name is now hifanated (Louttit-Schad) I also noticed in the family tree that lots of relatives connected with (Spence, Sinclair) families I dove in very deep when I started looking for my family tree I’m still finding interesting information about my family tree including a branch that goes to a Bruce but can’t tell if it is of importance or not or if it’s correct but it’s off a woman’s branch married to a Louttit and then off another branch I also found the Murray family related to me just don’t know the importance of the line to me yet as well as the Stewart and Stuart line’s in my tree they stop short and I don’t know how they would link up from what part of the lines it just ends up giving me a headache lol thinking about all of it.
Kendra Louttit-Schad
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Hi my name is Kendra Louttit-Schad my dad’s name is David Louttit we live in Saskatchewan Canada my tree goes up past the David Louttit you are talking about I hit a brick wall in 1424 with a Peirs Louttit no wife only shows one child David Louttit married to a Jenet Flett and his son is the only other Louttit in my tree that doesn’t have a wife listed and so on me and my dad did our dna as well for more research but I found a relative not of the same name but a Ritchie who is going to Orkney soon and he is going to look into everything for me while he is there , my 2nd great grandfather William Louttit born May 15th 1866 in Woodstock,Holm Orkney travelled over to Saskatchewan Canada and died December 1st 1932 in Salcoats,Saskatchewan Canada his son David Ritchie Louttit was in ww1 after came home then he married and had kids ,my papa (my dad’s father Winton Marshall Louttit) tried to go off to the ww2 but was too young for drafting he passed away February 2015 I did all this research to begin with for him cause he asked me as he only new up to his grandfather