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Title: Jean Littlejohn
Post by: s58roads on Monday 23 December 19 16:37 GMT (UK)

I have a note which says Jean Littlejohn was christened at Farnell on 12 Jan 1718.
I believe her parents were an Alexander Littlejohn and Isabel Greig.
If these were her parents when and where were they married please?

Title: Re: Jean Littlejohn
Post by: Forfarian on Monday 23 December 19 16:57 GMT (UK)

If you have checked on www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk and not found it, there is almost certainly no surviving record of it anywhere.

Title: Re: Jean Littlejohn
Post by: s58roads on Tuesday 24 December 19 08:57 GMT (UK)

Thanks, Forfarian nothing on SP.

Title: Re: Jean Littlejohn
Post by: ColC on Tuesday 24 December 19 10:24 GMT (UK)

I note the record for Jean in Farnell 1718; there was an earlier birth at Farnell  but only father named.

LITTLEJOHN   ALEXANDER   ALEXR. LITTLEJOHN   16/12/1711   Farnell

Sadly the marriage records at Farnell, if that is where they married, do not begin on SP until 1716
and death records only 1752 – 1795. 

By the way I also see that another Jean was born the same year in the County.

LITLEJOHN   JEAN   ALEXR. LITLEJOHN/JANET MILN   08/06/1718   Brechin

There were marriages elsewhere in the County such as below.

LITLEJOHN   ALEXANDER   JEAN MILL    19/06/1711   Arbroath
LITLEJOHN   ALEXANDER   JEAN LANGLANDS   02/08/1720   Brechin
LITTLEJOHN   ALEXANDER   JEAN BROWN   08/06/1718   Farnell

There were also a number of Greig marriages, I wonder if Isabel/Isable had been married before?

GREIG   ISABLE   JAMES LINDESAY   27/04/1704   Monifieth

Colin

Title: Re: Jean Littlejohn
Post by: Gadget on Tuesday 24 December 19 11:53 GMT (UK)

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LITTLEJOHN   ALEXANDER   JEAN BROWN   08/06/1718   Farnell

Jean Brown is of Brechin in the Kirk Session minutes (proclamations) for Farnell . No marriage found for Alexander and Isobel.

Gadget 

Title: Re: Jean Littlejohn
Post by: s58roads on Tuesday 24 December 19 16:24 GMT (UK)

Thanks Colin & Gadget for this information.
I see from Alexander's baptism record, 16 Dec 1711 Farnell, that father Alexander was a Cottar in Carcary/Carchary  which I believe is near Farnell. As you say there is no mention of a wife on this record.
I have a record of a baptism for an  Isobell Greig,12 Dec 1670 Brechin, with parents James Greig and Elspit Souter. Isobell could be my 5th Great Grandmother with Jean Littlejohn as a possible 4th GGM although this would make Isobell 48 at the time of Jean's birth in 1718
Geoff