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Perthshire / Re: Crieff Perthshire McRobbie Douglas Drummond
« on: Tuesday 03 November 15 18:22 GMT (UK)  »
Hello again,

Tell you what I'd like help with: did John McRobbie and Jane Boyne have TWO sons named John, one in 1878 and one in 1879?
I've seen the 1878 birth on Ancestry; I've seen the 1879 death. The 1879 death seems to say he was 24 hours old.

Mark

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Perthshire / Re: Crieff Perthshire McRobbie Douglas Drummond
« on: Monday 02 November 15 19:36 GMT (UK)  »
Hello Amanda,
Impeccable timing as I have just been updating the McRobbie section on my website, douglasofmonzieandfowliswester.com

Please take a look and let me know anything I have wrong and anything I am missing. Having joined Ancestry at the start of the year I now have documentary evidence to back up second hand info on trees etc which others have shared with me and I've been adding that on bit by bit.

I'm short of info on the Harbottles, Kerrs and Stevensons so if you have anything to add there I'd appreciate it.

Mark

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Perthshire / Re: Crieff Perthshire McRobbie Douglas Drummond
« on: Sunday 19 January 14 19:24 GMT (UK)  »
Hello,
I live in Northern Ireland. We have a common connection in that i am descended from Margaret Douglas's brother Charles.
I'm afraid I can't help you with your query as such. I also failed to find a death for John in Scotland, though deaths weren't well recorded before civil registration.
I was aware that the McRobbies moved to Canada. There is info on a lot of them in the Dictionary of Scottish Emigrants which I found very interesting. My Charles apparently married a woman named Janet Haggart and they had a son christened in Dec 1816. I descend from him. Your Margaret, by the way, was actually born in 1783 but many records say 1780 because that number is written very large at the top of the page in the Old Parish Register whilst many entries underneath come from later years.
There were two other sisters in the family, Grace, who emigrated to Puslinch township in Canada and Helen. I've not had much success with her family, though a cousin in America has apparently had a lot of success recently.
Hopefully we will be able to give each other some more information of interest.

Best wishes,

Mark

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