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Title: Coupar Angus
Post by: simmo on Tuesday 17 August 04 14:32 BST (UK)

Hi   I,m new to Rootschat ,can someone tell me is Coupar Angus Perthshire or Angus.My surname interests are Symington, Watson,Kilgour,Gardiner,Gilzean,moon and Hannah

Title: Re: Coupar Angus
Post by: Boongie Pam on Tuesday 17 August 04 18:12 BST (UK)

Hi Simmo,

Welcome to Rootschat.

http://www.dundee.ac.uk/archives/genuki/ANS/CouparAngus/welcome.htm

The GENUKI page above gives more detail but it looks like Coupar Angus is designated as Angus but lies mostly in Perthshire.

Confused?  I am ???

Cheers,
Pam
 ;D

Title: Re: Coupar Angus
Post by: Geoff on Friday 03 September 04 01:28 BST (UK)

Hi Simmo,

Would your MOON family have a connection to Blair Athol or Longforgan, Perthshire?

I was told that Angus and Perthshire should be regarded as one and the same.

Cheers
Geoff

Title: Re: Coupar Angus
Post by: simmo on Saturday 04 September 04 11:09 BST (UK)

Hello geoff
My Moons do indeed come from Perthshire.I have James Moon born Errol 1841 M Grace Symington 1863.James' Parents were John Moon and Elizabeth or Betsy Anderson they Married 1841 Errol.Ive not been able to find John Moons birth place or parents for sure but he could have been born in Longforgan to Alexander Moon and Elizabeth Irons. If you have any info that would be very welcome

Simmo

Title: Re: Coupar Angus
Post by: Geoff on Tuesday 14 September 04 02:05 BST (UK)

Hi Simmo,

Sorry I'm so long getting back to you, Bit unwell of late, Ok now thought.

Alexnder MOON & Elizabeth IRONS are my 4X great grandparents. They did have a son John, he was born 1812 at LLongforgan. The sixth child of nine.

On the 26th January 1841 he married Elizabeth ANDERSON at Kilspindie. This place is 3 miles from Errol and about 6 from Longforgan. 

Cheers
Geoff

I only have 4 children to this couple but there has to be more of them registered somewhere.
The 1st I have is James b 1841 & then a 10 year gap to the next.

Title: Re: Coupar Angus
Post by: GinaA on Monday 05 September 05 18:26 BST (UK)

hi just started to look at the family tree and l have Moons going back to 1838 l have a James moon 1841 Married Grace Symington 19-6-1863 l have his parents down as John Moon & Marjory Thompson married 17-2-1838 l hope this of some help to you they all come from Coupar Angus   Gina

Title: Re: Coupar Angus
Post by: Geoff on Monday 05 September 05 23:06 BST (UK)

Hi Gina,

I think we have a connection here, but one of us has a wrong bride I think.

I'll send you a personal message.

Cheers
Geoff

Title: Re: Coupar Angus
Post by: ADP on Monday 05 September 05 23:10 BST (UK)

Back to your first question - Coupar Angus was one of many parishes that straddled a county boundary - Angus and Perthshire. The Local Government (Scotland) Act 1889 sought to tidy up these matters by shifting parish and county boundaries about. That took effect a few years later. Coupar Angus OPRs and civil registration documents were listed under Angus until 1892. From 1893, it was officially transferred to Perthshire.

ADP

Title: Re: Coupar Angus
Post by: alvan on Sunday 03 June 12 13:09 BST (UK)

Hi Simmo,

my grandmother was a Gilzean and she and her family migrated here to Australia

Title: Re: Coupar Angus
Post by: Skoosh on Sunday 03 June 12 13:50 BST (UK)

I think Coupar Angus is in the parish of Bendochy.

Skoosh.