Sands Norrieston and Port of Menteith

[valr]

Just to say I have come across a document I prepared some time ago listing Sands burials in these parishes including modern ones.
Pls contact me if you would like a copy.
Val

[twm254]

love to have a copy as Sands and Dow are part of my family

[valr]

hi sent you a message dont know if you got it? Pls pm me your email address and I will send WHat I have
val

[Chevalier]

Val:


I would like to continue our discussions about the Sands family in Port of Menteith.  Please write to me directly.


Thanks,

Terrance

[twm254]

hi Val,
thanks for your reply, there is a possibility we have a connection.  The Dows and Sands are great-great grandparents of mine.  The oldest Dows I have traced are Archibald and Margaret who were wed sometime around 1818.  They had a son Archibald who married Jane Sands in 1842.  To the best of my knowledge they had six kids - Archibald, Robert, Margaret, Alexander, Jane and William.  Archibald married AgnesGraham in 1871, Robert wd Elizabeth muir also in 1871 and William married Catherine Stewart in 1879.
The Sands go back a bit further.  Robert wed Jean McLay in 1772 and I have traced 7 offspring - John, David, James, Jean, Robert, William and David.  Robert married Margaret McQueen in 1812, William and Margaret Kennedy got together that same year.  Robert and Margaret are my direct line.  I have traced 9 kids - Janet, Robert, Archibald, Jane (my direct link), Robert (again), Mary, Margaret, Helen and James.
All of the above are from the maternal side of my family but I noticed that you also include the jolly family in your list.  On my paternal side there are Jollys who hail from Kincardine.  My grandmother married twice, her first husband Alexander Jolly was killed in 1918 during WW1.  His parents were Robert Walker Jolly and Janr Douglas Annand who wed in Arbuthnot in 1879 and went on to have 8 children.  Robert's parents were David and Isabella Stephen Gordon who had 9 kids.
It would be interesting to know if we are related in some
 way.  I reside in Glasgow and my e-mail is (*)

Tommy

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[Chevalier]

Hello!

I see that you are descended from Robert Sands and his wife Margaret MacQueen, so am I.  Their eldest child, Janet, was my thrice-great-grandmother.  I have collected a large amount of data on the Sands family in Port of Menteith Parish which I shall be glad to share with you.

Hope to hear from you.


Sincerely,

Terrance

[twm254]

Hello Terrance,
Thanks for making contact, it's nice to know that there are other members of the family out there, no matter how distant, are sharing a common purpose. I know that your thrice great grandmother married John McFarlane in 1835 and that Mary married John McGregor in 1847.  My link comes through Janet Sands marrying Archibald A Dow at Port of Menteith on 6th February 1842.  He died on 21st April 1888, she sometime after 1881. 
To concentrate on my lineage for the moment, their son Robert, who was born at POM on11th December 1845, married Elizabeth Muir on 17th November 1871 in Airdrie.  She was born there on 27th August 1847 dying there also on 8th August 1847.  Robert lived to a ripe old age dying sometime after May 1942.  Their daughter Margaret Harvie Dow was born in Airdrie on 25th September 1872.  She married Thomas Whitelaw in Glasgow on 15th January 1892 and they had one son Thomas Whitelaw also born in Airdrie on 16th November 1892.  Thomas senior died of cancer on3rd June 1897 while Margaret survived until 29th October 1953 when she died in Campbeltown.  Their son Thomas married Mary McKenzie Campbell in Glasgow on 30th January 1920.  She was born there on 4th June 1892 and survived her husband who was killed in action in Malta on 26th April 1942.  They had 3 children the eldest, my mother Elizabeth Knox Smith Whitelaw was born on 11th December 1920 and died in June 1999.  Her husband was John Malcolm born in Glasgow on 20th January 1920.  They wed on 26th June 1942 and John died on 26th July 1983.  They had 3 kids, I was the eldest of them, born on 4th April 1944.  You have my e-mail, perhaps I could have yours and we could correspond further.
Yours
Tommy

[Chevalier]

Thank you for your detailed message by which I see that we are 5th cousins.  I shall write to you directly as you suggested.

Your cousin,

Terrance

[Doune]

Terrance,  :-[wehave corresponded over the years, unfortunately I have lost your address We do have similar interests, I have not been monitoring the Perth list for some time now, my mess is located at its new home http://buchananstewart.tribalpages.com have a new server the old msg no longer  exists

Regards Doun