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Hi.

Thanks so much for your reply.  I don't have a tree on Ancestry that I know of (unless someone else in the family made one).  I'm pretty new at this.  The Hillock information looks great though.  Thanks so much for sharing it with me.  I think you're right about some of it being a bit off - Alexandrina could appear in the time between 1891 and 1901 but Christina seems to have disappeared.  One of them is right as I expect the "Ina Hillock" I am looking for would have been short for one or the other of those names.  Thos must be Thomas too, I think.   

Thanks again for your help!  Much appreciated!!

Chica

Hi again Norrie,

Wow, that's amazing!  Where do you find the time to do it all? 

I know that Andrew was a relative of the Annan Morris I am interested in so it must be the right Morris.  Do you have photos of those headstones? If so, I would love a copy.   If anyone is interested, I have a photo of Annan Morris' wife's grave in Pretoria, South Africa.  Her name was Janet Bryce Smart and she left Kinghorn (and all her family) sometime after Annan died.  This Annan was the one in your message below who was 1 year old in the 1881 Census.  He died in Kinghorn in 1919 - 8 years after his marriage to Janet Bryce Smart.  From your previous message, it looks as though Andrew was Annan's uncle and John was Annan's father.  Thanks so much for all the new Morris information!!!

I have lots of relatives that should be in the Kinghorn cemetery as that's where most of my mother's family came from or ended up.  Smarts, Browns, Bryces, Christies, Taylors, McCurrachs, Watsons, Hillock, Morton, Morris and Morrison.  The heads of households were as follows:

James Brown (married to Janet Bryce)

William Smart (married to Elizabeth Watson)

James Christie (married to Christina Morrison)

William McCurrach (married to Ann Taylor)

Also, I am looking for a couple of stones in particular in the Kinghorn cemetery.  One is Ina Hillock.  Her father was Alexander (Sandy) Hillock, her mother (I think) was Robina Christie, she had a sister (another Robina) and perhaps a brother named Thomas. 

Another is Elizabeth Watson McCurrach (nee Smart).  Her parents were  David Smart and Janet Brown.  Her husband, James Christie McCurrach is buried in Wendover, I believe, as is their daughter, Kathleen McCurrach as the family moved there because James was the farm bailiff for General Sir Bruce Hamilton at the Hale. 

Thanks again so very much for all your help, Norrie.  I really do appreciate it!! 

Chica

Hi.  Does anyone have any information about the McCurrach family that lived/worked at the Hale Farm in the early 1900s?  Thanks.  Chica

Hi Carole:

So, basically, we can tell that Kenneth left home, went to work on a farm in Towie, then onto work as a carpenter in Auchindoir before settling down in Glenmuick and starting a family, right?  I don't know of a Louisa - only Margaret and Mary Ann (and I don't know what happened to Mary Ann - I have never heard anything much about her).

Thanks again so much Carole!  It's all beginning to fall into place!!!  Chica