Smith and Finlayson of Haddington etc.

[Briannicus]

Dear all,

I found this extraordinarily involved family tree in some relatives' papers and thought it might be useful to others.

I also hope someone might be able to connect with me and sort out some of the more illegible surnames that I have so far had to guess at.

I also have some additional information on the reverse

Anyway, hope it helps someone.

Regards,

Brian

[MonicaL]

Hi Brian

What a find! If you want to add some dates and places, a number of these early lines show on IGI as submitted entries for the children. If you do a parent search on IGI, the information seems to match what you have on the tree but includes birth/christening dates.

Monica 

[ev]

hi brian  

what a wonderful discovery  

the IGI has george smith & janet turnbull married 19th dec 1762(m117098)
haddington east lothian
children(most are submitted entries)all haddington east lothian
john smith birth 25th feb 1760
mary smith birth 5th june 1762
james smith baptised 23rd jan 1764
george smith baptised 23rd jan 1764
john smith baptised 2nd march 1766
mary smith baptised 12th june 1768
cornelius smith birth 7th may 1770
robert smith birth 3rd april 1780

ev

[ev]

SP has catherine smith(other surname finlayson) death 1860 haddington
east lothian but age not recorded
looking at census info. 1841 & 1851(freeCEN) i think she would have been
about 77 when she died
if born c1783 and married 1809 then i think she would have been married
to cornelius smith(b. 1770) son of george smith and janet turnbull
(could be wrong of course)

1841 court st haddington east lothian(all born east lothian)
catherine smith 60 independant
catherine smith 30
james smith 20 tailor
john smith 20 shoemaker
robert smith 15 saddler apprentice

ev

[ev]

igi has -

katherine finlayson baptised 18th feb 1781 haddington east lothian
parents mungo finlayson and katherine millar(IGI - C117097)
and sisters
mary finlayson baptised 15th aug 1779 haddington
janet finlayson baptised 14th july 1794 haddington

mungo finlayson & katherine millar marriage 24th july 1774 haddington
(M117098)

would really need catherine smith(nee finlayson) death certificate(1860) to
prove if any of this relates to the tree

ev

[ev]

john smith married jessie young 28/11/1856 haddington east lothian
children all born haddington
elizabeth richardson smith 7th feb 1858
john smith 14th aug 1859
george smith 1st nov 1861

1881
high st haddington(all born haddington)
john smith 60 shoemaker
jessie smith 60
john smith 21 accountants clerk
george smith 19 bank clerk
elizabeth r smith 23

there is a marriage of john smith to agnes hume 1901 midlothian 

ev

[ev]

hi all 

think the second line(from top) of tree shows brothers george(married to
helen millar) and cornelius smith(married to cath finlayson)
their children shown on 3rd line split with blue line
so -
children of george smith(b. 1764) & helen millar(b. c1765)-
janet smith(b. 1806)
cath smith(b. 1793)
cornelius(b. 1802)
james(b. c1800)
george(b. 1795)

children of cornelius smith(b. 1770) & catherine finlayson(b. 1781?)-
cath(b. 1809)
janet(b. 1811)
margt(b. 1813)
helen(b. 1815)
james(?)(b. 1819)
john(b. 1821)
robert(b. 1823)
additional children not on tree george(b. 1817) & ann(b. 1825)

ev

ps all of this would need to be proved

[ev]

children of george smith & helen millar-

janet smith married to james bruce 20th dec 1833 dunbar east lothian
cath smith married to james finlayson 14th july 1820 dunbar east lothian
cornelius smith married to helen smith 31st march 1844 haddington e.lothian
james smith unmarried 1861 census
george smith/helen runciman can't see marriage however there is a george
smith with wife helen in 1841 with sons george and daniel

ev

[Briannicus]

Hello everyone,
I've just come home and logged on. I'm overwhelmed.

Thank you so much for the responses. I'm going to have to sit down and work through them and copy them into my file and see what's what.

I'll probably get back to you all with a question or two.

Thanks again,

Brian