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Perthshire / Re: Belston, Methven and Auchtergaven
« on: Tuesday 24 June 14 00:25 BST (UK) »
Hello Holly, great to get your reply. It is swings & roundabouts with Ancestry & Scotlandspeople. Each has specialist areas. Ann Paton died 18th January 1835. Peter Paton her brother , tenant at Gibbieston was appointed sole executor but seems he had died by he date of the inventory in 1844.
Legacies went to sons James, William, Andrew, & Peter with the residue to son john. Perhaps Janet pre- deceased her mother . I do not have a birth record for Janet.I have not researched further back than Ann & Andrew Paton but will check for earlier docs or wills. Although the children of Andrew b 1800 & his wife Elspeth all predeceased their parents one granddaughter Anne Paton Scott lived at Balquarn until her marriage in 1902 to Peter Ewan, blacksmith of Auchtergarven. Leases on the farms were for 19 years & if the landlord had other plans for the land & the lease was not renewed the Patons became landless peasants. Andrew & Elspeth managed to make a reasonable living on their 40 acres & Elspeth left an estate valued at just under 4000 pounds sterling at the time of her death 12th Aug 1897.
I would be pleased to learn more about the Canadian Patons & how/when they emigrated.
Best Wishes, Lesley.
Legacies went to sons James, William, Andrew, & Peter with the residue to son john. Perhaps Janet pre- deceased her mother . I do not have a birth record for Janet.I have not researched further back than Ann & Andrew Paton but will check for earlier docs or wills. Although the children of Andrew b 1800 & his wife Elspeth all predeceased their parents one granddaughter Anne Paton Scott lived at Balquarn until her marriage in 1902 to Peter Ewan, blacksmith of Auchtergarven. Leases on the farms were for 19 years & if the landlord had other plans for the land & the lease was not renewed the Patons became landless peasants. Andrew & Elspeth managed to make a reasonable living on their 40 acres & Elspeth left an estate valued at just under 4000 pounds sterling at the time of her death 12th Aug 1897.
I would be pleased to learn more about the Canadian Patons & how/when they emigrated.
Best Wishes, Lesley.