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Title: Buchan
Post by: slainsview on Sunday 12 September 10 17:42 BST (UK)

I am looking for information on Christian Buchan who came to the States sometime before 1857 as her daughter Jane was born in Oswego NY on July 7 1857.

I think the family moved back to Scotland as I found Jane aged 3 in the 1861 census.

The family seem to have gone back to the States as I think I have found Christian's death in Madison Arkansas in 1882 - 22 Feb however I then found her husband's death in Scotland in 1893.

Really need to have this clarified from the US end- many thanks for any help.

Margie..............Cruden Bay and Peterhead.

Title: Re: Buchan
Post by: slainsview on Sunday 12 September 10 18:17 BST (UK)

Further to my earlier posting I have now found more information and discovered that
Charles Gordon Buchan the fatHer of Peter who was married to Christian was born in the USA- don't know where but have a date- 5 Sept 1785.
He couldn't have stayed in the states very long as he married in 1810 to Elspet Buchan in Lonmay parish again.

I am not sure of the above information as it seems a bit early to be travelling so far especially with a wife as Charles's birth seems to suggest a family. This one is a real puzzle and I think the answers can only be found at your end as I have the family history all the way to the present day except for that period!



Margie

Title: Re: Buchan
Post by: Lisa in California on Monday 13 September 10 07:52 BST (UK)

Do you have Peter and Christian's dates and places of birth, please?  I'm not finding any American records, yet.

Title: Re: Buchan
Post by: slainsview on Monday 13 September 10 23:49 BST (UK)

Thank you Lisa - that was what I expected as I did not think that information from another source was accurate so disregard Peter and Christian altogether.

What is accurate is when Robert Bruce emigrated he went to a nephew Charles Buchan but we can find no entry for Charles in the Ellis Island records. We have no idea when he went to the USA.

When Robert arrived in NY on board the Assyria out of Glasgow, Charles his nephew was living at 547 Seaside Avenue, Terminal Island,Los Angeles.

Hope you have more success than we had. Many thanks,

Margie...............Peterhead and Cruden Bay