Patons of Dunbarney

[chrispaton]

Hi all,

My brick wall is with a John Paton or Patton, my 5x great grandfather, who I believe was from Dunbarney. he married Agnes Watson in 1772 and had at least three children, Agnes, John and William. The first two children were born in Rimalton, Dunbarney, with William born in Sconieburn, Perth, just a couple of hundred yards  up the road and now the site of the prison.

John was a salmon fisherman and handloom weaver. I suspect that he was originally from Dunbarney, but the OPR records are very poor. Through the OPRs and the Kirk Session records I have located two possible candidates for brothers to John - William Paton and James Paton, and I suspect their father may have been called William also. The information on these gents is at my website at http://chrispatonscotland.tripod.com/id70.html and the circumstantial case outlined for the possible connection.

I would like to locate any male members of the Paton family descended from James or William who can trace their line back to Dunbarney in the late 18th C, in order to discuss the possibility of doing a Y-chromosome DNA test. If our two lines are related, we should have a very similar genetic profile in our Y-chromosome DNA, and if so, I may be able to bypass my brick wall and work around it through these other lines.

So if you are descended from a Paton from this parish, please do get in touch!

For the burial records of all Paton and Pattons in Perth from 1794, please visit my site at http://chrispatonscotland.tripod.com/id64.html.

Chris