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Thank you Maggie.  I have posted the names and dates of the children in the Irish thread and will just continue with that one instead of running people all over the place.  Sorry about that.

I appreciate your help!!

Kaite

   
I have a Scots family who moved to Ireland sometime around 1851. They lived there until about 1858 when they returned to their homeland of Perthshire, Scotland.

Can anyone tell me what would take a family from Scotland to Ireland at the tail-end of the potato famine?  Were there any special events at that time that would entice a family to go there to seek their fortune or perhaps to help rebuild Ireland?  Was there a "great migration" of Scots to Ireland at this time??

What part of Ireland might they have gone to??  This is a huge brick wall for me!! I don't even know where to begin.

They had a total of 13 children. The first two were born in Scotland. The next 5 were born in Ireland. And then the last 6 were born in Scotland.  All records I have found so far, (marriage, obits, death certs, etc.,) say the Irish births were in "Ireland".  I have no idea where in Ireland.

To compound the problem of finding them, their surname is RICHARD, which of course brings up a zillion search results due to the fact the Richard is a common forename as well.

Later family were protestant - if thats a clue??  The father and his older sons were all millwrights after the return to Scotland ... what they did before that, I'm not sure although three previous generations, were all weavers.

Can anyone help before this family drives me crazy?   

Thank you!!   

P.S. I've also posted this in the Ireland thread... trying to tackle this from both sides!
www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=525849.msg3806624

Hello Everyone!

I stumbled on this site today when searching for my John Stevenson b. 1763 St. Ninians.  You're all talking about Stevensons from the generation after my John ... wondering if these are John's children?  Here is my line from John Stevenson forward to my great grandfather John Richard b. 09 April 1857, Perthshire (probably Muthill):


1 John Stevenson b 30 Nov 1763, St Ninians
      married 5 Feb 1786 at St. Ninian's, Stirling, Scotland
 + Margaret Rattray chr. 02 Aug 1765

{John married 2nd Janet ___ 14th Apr 1799 ... their children are listed at the bottom}

        John STEVENSON and Margaret RATTRAY had the following children:
James           20 Feb 1787
Robert          17 Aug 1788       m. 18 March 1808 to Jean Forsyth
John              13 March 1790
Janet           19 March 1792
Margaret        12 March 1794    m. Alexander MATHER

  2  Margaret STEVENSON b. 12 March 1794 St. Ninian's, Stirling,  SCT

      + Alexander MATHER b. ? in Deanston by Dune, Scotland

     3  Catherine MATHER b. 1823 Deanston by Dune, Scotland
          + George RICHARD b. 1818  Muthill, Scotland

          4 John RICHARD b. 09 April 1857 Perthshire, Scotland  d. 07
              Sept 1938 Lincoln, Lancaster Co, NE USA
                   married 23 Jan 1885  Scotland
          + Helen Taylor b. 10 Jan 1859 Auchterarder, Scotland d. 02 Feb
                    1920 Lincoln, Lancaster Co, NE USA

 John and Janet Stevenson had the following children:
                Alexander 03 Jan 1800
                William 27 Feb 1804
                 Hugh 21 Jan 1806
                Catherine 10 June 1807

I'm excited to have found others searching for this family!!  I have a Family Bible printed 1799 Edinburgh, that has a handwritten list of John's children and their birthdates.  I've attached a photo of the "lineage" page for you.