Kilgour and its connection to Falkland

[dumork]

My wife has an ancestor Helen Kilgour born about 1793 Falkland to James Kilgour and Katherine Reid. Helen apparently had sisters Barbara b 1789 and Katherine b 1791.

Does anyone have information on this family?

[hdw]

Here's another Kilgour family, in case anyone's interested.

William Kilgour married Agnes Methven in 1835 at Auchtermuchty. Their son

James Kilgour married Marianne Lonie in 1864 at Cameron. Their daughter

Agnes Kilgour married Robert Redpath in 1886 at Newburn.

Harry

[VTsamon]

I am looking for the burial place for Robert Kilgour who was born in 1773 and died in 1835 both in Falkland Fife.  He married Jean Law on 1/3/1796. Any ideas where he might be buried?

[Forfarian]

If he was born in Falkland and died in Falkland why would he be buried anywhere other than Falkland parish kirkyard?

As he doesn't seem to be listed in the Fife Family History Society's Fife Deaths Index, the likelihood is that he is there but that there is no stone.

[WMO]

If you know that he died in 1835, what other information does that source give you?
There is a Robert Kilgour who died in Falkland in 1853 aged 84 (Fife Death Index gives source as Falkland OPR).
Regards,
Bill

[Forfarian]

Here's the 1853 extract from the OPR index at Scotland's People. As he was said to be 84 on 1 February 1853, and if that is accurate, he was born 1768/1769. If it's not accurate, he could have been born a year or three later.

If you think this could be the Robert Kilgour you are interested in, you need to look at the original at www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk and see whether or not it tells you where the grave is, and/or who else is buried in the same lair.

There is also a burial of Jean Law, 67, in Falkland on 17 September 1840.

In the 1841 census in Falkland are Robert Kilgour, 70; Agness Kilgour, 35; Jean Kilgour, 25; Robert Christie, 14. In 1851 Robert Kilgour, 78, born Leslie, is alone in a house in Falkland.

There's no surviving record of the baptism of a Robert Kilgour in Falkland between 1731 and 1791, but there is a baptism of Robert, son of Thomas K and Elizabeth Greig, in Leslie on 25 April 1773.