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Perthshire / Re: Seaton's in Blair Atholl Perthshire 1800 and beyond
« on: Monday 24 February 14 01:15 GMT (UK) »
Hi Bimini
I am so glad to hear from you. It is always lovely to be in touch with cousins. I am actually Amelia’s 2nd great-grandchild, 3rd was a typo, so we are on the same plane ancestrally speaking. Her only son Samuel was my great grandfather.
I couldn’t see any connection between the posts about the Stewarts in London and you on Rootschat but assumed I had missed something. Does this mean that someone else wants to know what we do?
Annie in some family histories was said to have been been married in Scots church by Dunmore Lang. I found this strange, as Matthew Molony was a Catholic, Catherine was Congregational by this time and Annie was christened in the McGarvie Scots church, not the Lang church. Was it just a guess do you think?
Also Annie was responsible for the removal of the Stewart corpses from Devonshire Street to Waverley cemetery in 1901 rather than Amelia and I wondered why. Amelia was really old by then of course.
The farmsteads Levage where our Malcolm was born, and Balinluig, home of his grandfather Malcolm when he was married just disappeared from records after 1786 and Strathgroy (the name of the district) doesn’t seem to have had any records thereafter either so I am wondering if this was when David and Euphemia moved off the farm. The Murrays of Atholl were amongst the first to clear the farmlands (for deer parks in their case I believe, lovely people) so maybe our Stewarts became crofters or moved far away to the mills of Glasgow (for instance). In this case it will be almost impossible to trace British movements I think, including when Malcolm landed in London. I have quite a good trace on Catherine Bromley.
Charles Stewart was gaoled in 1848 for four months, I don’t know why, and later in Maitland twice for crimes to do with drunkenness. He married Mary Didsbury in Auckland in 1852, they came back to Sydney where their son was born, then she went back to New Zealand where the child died of measles aged 10 months. Mary lived until 1915 and was buried with her mother (her father had departed for Sydney long before the mother died) in Auckland. Charles ended up in Newington Asylum and as with so many, it is likely his problem was drink.
I have never seen the baptismal records for the children born to Malcolm and Catherine in Sydney, so would be grateful if you could verify the residences and father’s occupation on them for me. Annie’s marriage certificate might answer the above question if you have it – place of wedding, officiating minister.
And the Sydney Gazette of 24/5/1837 gives you a glimpse of Malcolm – have a look.
Do keep in touch, Jill
I am so glad to hear from you. It is always lovely to be in touch with cousins. I am actually Amelia’s 2nd great-grandchild, 3rd was a typo, so we are on the same plane ancestrally speaking. Her only son Samuel was my great grandfather.
I couldn’t see any connection between the posts about the Stewarts in London and you on Rootschat but assumed I had missed something. Does this mean that someone else wants to know what we do?
Annie in some family histories was said to have been been married in Scots church by Dunmore Lang. I found this strange, as Matthew Molony was a Catholic, Catherine was Congregational by this time and Annie was christened in the McGarvie Scots church, not the Lang church. Was it just a guess do you think?
Also Annie was responsible for the removal of the Stewart corpses from Devonshire Street to Waverley cemetery in 1901 rather than Amelia and I wondered why. Amelia was really old by then of course.
The farmsteads Levage where our Malcolm was born, and Balinluig, home of his grandfather Malcolm when he was married just disappeared from records after 1786 and Strathgroy (the name of the district) doesn’t seem to have had any records thereafter either so I am wondering if this was when David and Euphemia moved off the farm. The Murrays of Atholl were amongst the first to clear the farmlands (for deer parks in their case I believe, lovely people) so maybe our Stewarts became crofters or moved far away to the mills of Glasgow (for instance). In this case it will be almost impossible to trace British movements I think, including when Malcolm landed in London. I have quite a good trace on Catherine Bromley.
Charles Stewart was gaoled in 1848 for four months, I don’t know why, and later in Maitland twice for crimes to do with drunkenness. He married Mary Didsbury in Auckland in 1852, they came back to Sydney where their son was born, then she went back to New Zealand where the child died of measles aged 10 months. Mary lived until 1915 and was buried with her mother (her father had departed for Sydney long before the mother died) in Auckland. Charles ended up in Newington Asylum and as with so many, it is likely his problem was drink.
I have never seen the baptismal records for the children born to Malcolm and Catherine in Sydney, so would be grateful if you could verify the residences and father’s occupation on them for me. Annie’s marriage certificate might answer the above question if you have it – place of wedding, officiating minister.
And the Sydney Gazette of 24/5/1837 gives you a glimpse of Malcolm – have a look.
Do keep in touch, Jill