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Hi Misty

Good to hear from you.
I have a lot of information available to share with you. Not sure what you do know and what you would like to know. What is your area of interest? I have also recently found the MI in the Necropolis. My late Mother-in-Law remembered travelling up to Scotland when she was very young to visit family in Bishopbriggs. I have some pictures of her father, Alfred Sutherland Hunter, which I could share if you are interested.

Regards
Mousey

I had thought she might have meant Loch Laggan. Maybe the clerk was deaf and miss-heard her.

Thanks Dave for replying.

The minister was definitely from Glenshee.

I think I have attached an excerpt of the marriage entry showing the name 'Lochloran'

I have made lots of progress with this Hunter family but have now again come up against a block.

Alfred Sutherland Hunter and Norman Murdoch Hunter were brought up by an Brownlee family after their parents had both died 1911. I was told that Mr Brownlee was a Tailor by trade and lived in the Glasgow area. He had a son who was badly injured or killed in WW1. I would like to find out more about this Brownlee family - what connection, if any, they had with the Hunter family which led to this arrangement.

I also have read the will of Moses Alfred Hunter, the father of the above, and he had an interest in a property "aquired right by assignation" namely No.3 Queens Gate, Dowanhill, Glasgow. Also "granted quoad the personal obligation by John Tait merchant, Thurso amd Robert Muir Easdale, merchant, Glasgow, as Trustees". And "in favour of the Rev. William Young and others Trustees for behoof of Mrs Marion Carruth or Young - recorded in the Division of the General Register of Sasines - 18th May 1910".

Can anyone help me understand what all of this means?

Mousey

Roly

I have been in contact with a Hunter descendant who currnetly lives in the USA who has a copy of the Bakers book with the Hunter enteries you have on Ancestry.

She found that Archibald Campbell, Baker and Helen Paterson had:
- a lawful son , William, born 5th Dec 1770 wit. John Craig and William Ewing
- a lawful dau, Helen, wit. David Smith and Andrew Menzies, Baker

Archibald Campbell was John Craig's apprentice and William Ewing was apprentice to John Patersone (1747).

Andrew Menzies is the son of John Menzies.

Helen Paterson born July 23, 1754 to James Paterson and Mary Menzies, wit. John Reid and James McEldoer (sp?).

IGI has James Paterson and a Mary Menzies or Minges having children
Jean Pateron 29 Dec 1748 Glasgow
William Paterson 24 Jan 1751 Glasgow
Helen Paterson 23 Jul 1754 Glasgow

James Patersone entered the Incorporation of Bakers in 1752 and is the son of John Patersone.

The National Archive of Scotland holds sequestration papers dated 1796 (CS230/SEQNS/H/1/11) for John Hunter, Baker of Glasgow. Trustee named is James Smith, who died in 1805 replaced by Patrick Smith who himself was replaced (1813)by Henry Haldane. Creditors include a Robert Jamieson.

There is a will for a James Smith, Baker of Glasgow, dated 21/5/1804 and also a will of a Patrick Smith, Slater, Glasgow 13/9/1810.

I plan to eventually order a copy of these papers as I am sure they hold vital clues.

The Edingburgh Gazette 1st Feb 1820 has an entry which states that a Joh Jamieson senior, was a merchant in Glasgow who split from the firm of Paterson, Jamieson and Co. of Glasgow. The firm continued with the following partners:
James Paterson, John Jamieson snr, Robert Paterson, John Jamieson jnr and Matthew Alexander.
This was witnessed by James Thomson and Andrew Ramsey.

I have to go for now but I will see what else I have to add.

Marie