Comrie family of Perthshire

[BROADFIELD]

To Anderson    re message  2009 I think  your  James Comrie and Elizabeth Kennedy are also my family, would like to hear from you.       Broadfield

[BROADFIELD]

To Anderson 
         Don't know if we're the same family or not but I have a James Comrie born 1845 in Muthill, his father was John Comrie born 1815 in Blackford, and his father was James Comrie but I havn't any dates for him. Would love to hear from you. 
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I have a pile of photographs and odds & ends which relate to an Elizabeth Stirling Comrie known as Bessie. She died in 1997 in Perth, Scotland age 87. A spinster with no known surviving family.  Born in St Andrews, Fife, and illigitimate.  Several family and farming photo's.  Connections to Comrie, Perth, St Andrews.
I offered them to the Perth & Kinross Family History Society some years ago but they expressed no interest.  I would like them to be in the possession of a family member.

[leslie123]

Over the weekend I bought an antique Scottish embroidery
sampler that was stitched by Jemima Byres Comrie. It is undated but the style tends to place it in around 1810-1850. I have been able to find a Jemima Sim Comrie who was born in about 1856, daughter of Peter Comrie (born in Comrie in about 1804) and Elizabeth Syme who were married in Duddingston, Midlothian. I presume this is not the right Jemima. Since I have NOTHING else to go on here, I was hoping that someone might have some ideas. I would love to find out more about the girl who stitched it.

[SurfinNan]

In my family I have
James Comrie b 1813 in Fowlis Wester married Helen Young b1824 in Burnbrae they emigrated to New Zealand.

Information about James Comrie is as follows

 Father: William Comrie (1763-1836) Mother: Janet McLachlin (1778-1850) He had 12 siblings: William, Alexander, Duncan,  Janet, Catherine (orChristian), Ann McLachlan, Margaret, Peter, James, Archibald and, John Dixon. All of Perthshire, Scotland.

I would like to get in touch with any New Zealand Comries associated with this family. I am interested in Helen Young.

Thank you
Evelyn

[jimmain]

I recently discovered that my most distant ancestor, Josiah Drummond, was actually a McGregor.
His parents were Donald Drummond alias McGregor/ Katrine Ferguson who had their children in Callander. Donald Drummond's father was Neill McGregor who married Janet Comrie; Donald was born in Monzie.
Both Josiah (Emilia Crearar) and his brother Donald (Ann Drummond) lived and worked in Fowlis Wester where they had their families in the 1760s.
I have found little information in Scotlands People about the Comries and am hoping that someone might be able to provide some clarification about the Comries in Fowlis Wester and surrounding area (including Callander)

[jcomriegreig]

Dear Jennifer FT

My name is John Comrie-Greig. I am 82 but I still have all my marbles. I was born in Falkirk, Scotland, and educated in Falkirk and Edinburgh, but now live in Perth, Western Australia.

I saw, by chance, your message of 9 April 2010 on RootsChat about Ann Jemima Comrie. I have before me as I write this, my transcript of Ann Jemima's marriage certificate in 1860 and of her death certificate in 1918. I also have a full family tree of her branch of the Comries.

I won't give the details here as 15 years have elapsed since you wrote the post, and it might be a waste of my time to write it all out, but if you should find this post of mine, still want the information and are still in circulation, please write to me.

To anyone else out there on RootsChat who might wish to know the details of any Comrie who was born, married or died in Scotland between 1855 and 1978, I have it all. I spent a great deal of time in 1961, 1967, 1968, 1969 , and again in 1980, painstakingly transcribing the certificates in Register House in Edinburgh. I would hate to see it all that effort wasted. I have 2600 cards with the details.

You are all welcome to e-mail me.

Regards

John Comrie-Greig

[jimmain]

Hi John,
Nice to hear from you.
I tried to send a personal message, but wasn't able to .
My interest in the Comrie line dates back to the grandmother of Josiah Drummond who married Emilia Crearar 1762, Fowlis Wester. For years, I searched for the parents of Josiah Drummond. He had four brothers, and I was never able to find anything on any of them.
In Ancestry, there are about 30 trees that place in the Drummond royalty line, but all this is incorrect.
I enlisted the aid of British Ancestry last year, and they concluded that these Drummonds were actually McGregors.
Donald McGregor Drummond (born 1694, Monzie) married Catherine Ferguson.
Donald's parents were Neil McGrigor and Janet Comrie.
So, I'm not sure if your tree goes that far back. It would be quite exciting to have information from that time.
Looking forward to hearing from you.