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« on: Thursday 08 July 10 13:30 BST (UK) »
What a small world, John Mclean Beatts was my Great Great Great Great Grandfather.
The actual surname is not spelled Beats or Bertts, but Beatts, for some reason the name gets distorted in different censuses over the years.
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John McLean Beatts
William Beatts (John M Beatts son, though he wasnt a Druggist, he was a goldsmith & diamond cutter)
William Beatts (great great grandfather Died in WWI)
William Beatts (My great granftather)
William Beatts (Grandfather died in 1993) -One of his sons resides in US atm.
William Alan Beatts (My dad)
William Kevin Beatts (Me)
One of my family members has traced the Beatts family back to 1703 when they had occupancy of a house on the banks of the river Tay, in a village called GranTully near Avimore. This would have been J M Beatts ancestors. One of them named William Beatts, which you can see has become a dynasty in our family, myself being William Beatts IX (9th).
The Beatts family have several parts that have emmigrated to the US over the years, but some of us still remain in bonny Scotland :-)