This is a post I made a while ago in the Common room, putting it here for posterity...
Boongie Pam:
Hope this is of interest to someone, I've already posted it in Perthshire but other places are mentioned so thought I'd pop it here as well?
My mum is a small scale dealer in old books and she got hold of an old family bible recently.
I've transcribed the family detailed.
Where I'm not sure of the word I've put <?>.
[Plate at the front]
Jas. FERGUSON
1823
James FERGUSON born 16th April 1795
Euphemia BROUGH born 19th June 179<crossed out 5>3
married 29th September 1815
Our children born
1st John born at Grisby <?> Lincolnshire 10th March 1818
2nd James born at Bossie Perthshire 2nd January 1820
3. William born at Bossie Perthshire 10th September 1821
4. Robert born at Bossie Perthshire 15th July 1824
5. Mary born at Bossie Perthshire 7th December 1826
6. Alexander born at Inchrye Fifeshire 4th December 1828
[In pencil and very faded there is an arrow drawn down from 3rd William]
married at Fossom <?> - married Elizabeth HAIG and died the 22nd January 1902 she died Edinburgh 22nd February<?> 1908.
Cheers,
Pam
Sasha has added so interesting detail
Sasha
Hi Pam,
For 'Grisby' read Girsby, Lincolnshire.
There is the following baptism on the IGI:
John Ferguson, 15th March 1818, Burgh on Bain, parents James and Uphemia Ferguson.
From the Genuki site:
Burgh on Bain is a village and a parish on the River Bain, seven miles west of Louth and 19 miles northeast of Lincoln. The parish covered about 1,870 acres of the Wold Hills in 1842 and includes the hamlet of Girsby, just north of the village of Burgh on Bain. By 1900, the parish boundaries had shrunk the acreage to about 1,600 acres
Unfortunately no connection to the family - wonder why they ended up in Lincolnshire for a time? (Perhaps there's a connection to the local manor house Girsby Hall?)
Sasha.
