Bervie - Lownie

[Beckey]

Am looking for any details on the following family.

1841 Gourdon,Bervie,Kinkardineshire.
Alexander Lownie 30 Whitefisher, Ann 30 (nee Gowan), David 12, Margaret 10, Ann 8, Christina 6, Andrew 4 Hugh 1. and Elizabeth b.1847.
Elizabeth married a Roderick Forsyth in 1867 at Benholm.

Any information appreciated.

[bervonian]

Hi Beckey,

Could you give me an idea of what you are trying to find ?
Marriages of Alexander & Ann's children ?
I have access to the Bervie Census for every ten years after 1841, and also the Bervie Parish Register.

Bervonian.

[Beckey]

Hi Bervonian,
Thanks for replying, what I am after is any info on Elizabeth Lownie and Roderick Forsyth.

Roderick was shown born Benholm ca.1843, parents John Forsyth & Mary Bain, they were shown 1841 in Cromarty and could have moved after that date.

Elizabeth shown born (IGI)  ca.1847 Bervie, parents Alexander Lownie & Ann Gowan.

On Marriage cert. 9/11/1867 Johnsaven, Roderick age 24 Sacking Weaver living Johnsaven, Benholm (father dec.).
Elizabeth, Domestic age 20 living Gourdon, Bervie.

In 1881 the family (6 children) living Queen St. Bervie and that is as far as I have got at the moment, cost mounting up with "scotlandspeople".

The Forsyth side goes down through John 1868 to a marriage with Elizabeth Wait, my wife's aunt.
So any thing would be a help thank you.

Beckey

[runningbear]

alexander lownie born 2/5/1806 (son of alexander and ann gowan!!!)

ann gowan born 19/1/1807 (daughter of Alexander and Helen Kemlo)

married october 1827

lownie children from marriage:

margaret- 15/4/1831
annabella- 31/3/1832
andrew- 5/12/1836
hugh- 30/9/1840
twins- alexander & jane- 31/7/1843
elizabeth- 1847
john-1851

alexander lownie was born 12/8/1776 (son of david and mary jamie)

ann gowan was born 27/9/1780 (dau of alexander and isabella allan)

they married 28/7/1801

lownie children from the marriage

david- 20/3/1803
andrew-6/4/1805
alexander(yours)
ann- 3/6/1809
isabel- 21/2/1812
alexander-24/8/1813 (why 2 alexander's)

david(1803) married christian stewart and had a son david born 1/6/1825


alexander gowan married isabel allan on the 26/12/1767

gowan children from the marriage

james-1768
isabel-1770
lileas-1771
robert-1773
john-1775
john-1776
elizabeth-1778
anne-1780
margargret-1784


alexander gowan married helen kemlo

gowan children from the marriage

robert-24/3/1801
alexander-21/4/1803
helen-14/12/1804
ann-yours
david-8/9/1808
james-12/8/1810
hugh-12/1/1814
isobella-11/11/1817
margaret- 1820


Joe

[Beckey]

Hi Joe again,

That has filled a few more holes, thanks.

[DGM]

Dear Joekar
While browsing through the Bervie stuff I came across your reply and was wondering if the Hugh Lownie 30/9/1840 might be the same Hugh that I have that married Isabel Grieve Mowat 2/12/1864. Although I have his birth date as 11/101840 that might in fact be his christening date. If this where the case I can see a lot more of this family linking to mine.

Donovan

[Isles]

Hi Donovan.
I trawled through ScotlandsPeople and found that there were 5 Hugh Lownie deaths between 1866 and 1915.  They are:

d. 1876 Bervie aged 1
d. 1886 Angus aged less than 1 year
d. 1899 aged less than 1 year
d. 1907 aged 25
d. 1915 Benholm aged 74

The last one may be the Hugh who married Isobel Grieve Mowatt.

[DGM]

This is the Hugh that married Isabel Grieve Mowatt.  I feel confident that the Hugh Lownie that you had as 30/9/1840 born to Alexander Lownie and Ann Gowan is in fact the same as mine and that my date of 11/10/ 1840 is rather the baptism date and not the birth date. It came off a piece of paper that was handed down through the family.

Donovan

[cmdowd]

I am looking for the birth information of a William Lownie, who emigrated to the United States sometime around 1855-56. In the 1860 US census it states that he is age 29 (b 1931). In the 1870 census he is 43 (b 1827). The only information I have is the he came from Scotland.

His children were:
William Alexander
Elizabeth
Christina
Mary Ann
Michael
Ellen
Carrie

William Alexander's son was named Chester Alexander, causing me to think that Alexander may have been a family name, perhaps the father of William who emigrated??

Not much to go on, but wondered if anyone had access to census for perhaps the 1830s and 40s.

Christine