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In reply to interest about Valentine’s of Fettercairn, I think you will find my sister Lorna Herring’s Valentine family tree on Ancestry, extremely useful. She has researched the family right back to the 1600s and many of the people queried will have links in our family tree. We are Valentine’s twice over as our Gt Grandparents were Valentine first cousins. They both are descended from David Valentine and Agnes Swan who lived in Benholm but his forebearers were from Fettercairn. Our line ended up in Perth, Scotland and our Gt Grandmother was born in Tasmania. There are many Valentine relations still there and the Scottish and Tasmanian family have maintained the link from 1860s onwards!

As for there being no Valentine’s in Fettercairn, well population is only 350! There are many of the family in nearby towns and Dundee and Perth. I am interested to know if any other Valentines from Fettercairn had ancestors who were Glasites? Our Gt Grandfather George Valentine was but I’m not sure how far membership of this church went.

I’ve found it to be a family with a strong identity in this corner of Scotland, some very interesting characters and certainly in our branch’s case a family who loved to travel but keep in touch with their roots. Hope this may help other Valentine researchers.

Hello Mgil2503, I also have Valentines in my direct ancestry. My 3x ggm was Elizabeth Valentine, she married James Davidson Ewen. She was born in Luthermuir. Her parents were James Valentine, born Fordoun and Agnes Wyllie. James' first wife was Margaret Tevendale.

James Valentine's parents may have been James Valentine and Ann Craig, which then leads me to your sister's tree which has James' parents as John Valentine and Janet Johnstoun. John born 1722, at Deanstrath, Fettercairn.

I was actually in Fettercairn yesterday and found several Valentine gravestones at St Marks Church, I got photos of a small number of them:

Alexander Valentine who died at Fasque in 1910 and his wife Agnes Cobban.

Robert Valentine, late farmer of Bogmuir died aged 82 in 1868, his wife Helen Rhind.

William Valentine, later farmer of Drumhendry died aged 72 in 1870, also his wife Christina Valentine (I assume her maiden name was also Valentine?)

James graduated from Aberdeen University, Faculty of Medicine, April 1881

The Degree of M.B.
James Berhardt Klingner Robb, M.A., Portsoy

Wonderful, thank you. So James B K Robb was a qualified doctor come September 1881 when Bernhardt K R Valentine was born

In 1881 James above was a medical student in Aberdeen - Might he have delivered the Valentine's son

I think this is James B K Robb, in Montrose postal directory, at 145 High Street, just with his middle initials the wrong way round. I can’t seem to find a date for this directory, but he was practicing in Montrose.

Hello everyone. I have query about the name used for someone in my tree Bernhardt-Klingnar-Robb Valentine. It's clearly not your typical Scots name used in 1881. I've always been intrigued by this name. I've not found anything significant on Google, other than modern people with similar names (and they are usually German).

This is probably a long shot, but does anyone have any idea where a name like this would come from in Rossie Island in 1881? I haven't found anything on Scotland's People other than the gentlemen named above.

Here's some background to the family -

Bernhardt K R Valentine was born in September 1881, Rossie Island, Craig to parents; Joseph Valentine and Mary Hillock. Joseph and Mary married in Kirkcaldy in 1874. Mary was born in Kirkcaldy. Joseph was born Marykirk, Kincardineshire and further back they are from Kincardineshire generally. No obvious conections to Germany or other countries in mainland Europe. Mary's parents were Andrew Hillock born Abbotshall, Fife and Barbara Walker born Haddington.

Joseph and Mary have other children who all have typical names for this time period -

James b. 1875 Dundee
Barbara b. 1876 Dundee
Joseph b. 1877 Wormit
Andrew b. 1879 Arbroath
Agnes Wylie b. 1883 Burntisland
Mary Hillock b. 1885 Burntisland
Catherine Ann b. 1887 Burntisland

In the 1881 census Joseph, Mary and their first 4 children are living in Carnegie Street, Montrose, and Jospeh is a General Labourer. The family are in Kinghorn by the 1891 census.

In the 1901 census Bernhardt is the head of household of a bothy at Pitlochie in Strathmiglo, Fife.

Bernhardt marries Helen Wood Greenfield Riddle in 1907, St Giles, Edinburgh. Their children are named;

Elizabeth Greenhill Riddle Valentine
Mary Hillock Valentine
Joseph Valentine

No repetition of the name Bernhardt here.

I'd also like to add that there was an RCE regarding the spelling of the name on Bernhardt's birth entry. The spelling was altered from Bernhardt-Kingner-Robb Valentine to Bernhardt-Klingnar-Robb Valentine. So the spelling must've been important to the family. This was corrected less than a month after the birth of Bernhardt.

Any insights appreciated. Thank you!

Thank you Forfarian. Geograph is a truly wonderful site. It's lovely to see pictures of the area and how the land and surroundings appear. Amazing