Dewar family, Reiff

[jmack]

Dear Listers:

Does anyone have any information regarding a family by the name of Dewar living in the Reiff area.  With the help of Gadget I have recently found the death certificate for my gt-gt-grandfather who died in Laide fo Reiff Oct 1919.  The informant as to the death is given as Mary Dewar, a grand neice.  Having consulted the 1901 census and birth and marriage entries I cannot find a Dewar from that area and was wondering if any of you could help me track this lady down?

Jane

[Gadget]

Hi Jane

I don't know of any Dewars in Reiff. Could she have married a Dewar or her mother might have married a Dewar 

I'll get my thinking cap on and my local ear to the ground. Hope to get back to you with something soon.

Regards

Gadget

(forecast fortonight is wet/sleet and SW gales - the waves will be something at Reiff  )

[Gadget]

Hi again Jane

I've had a good look and can't come up with anything and no one here seems to have heard of her. She could have come up to stay while he was ill 

I think it might be a labourious trawl through anyone in the category of his grand neice: all the grandchildren (and those they married) of both his siblings and his wife's siblings. Also, it could be that the relationship was a 'pseudo' one and she was the daughter of someone who just called him uncle 

Regards

Gadget

[loo]

Have you tried other spellings?
I am researching DURE.  I know there were DUREs in Scotland.  I have often run into misspellings of DURE as DEWAR, DUER, DARE, etc. , although DEWAR is the most common.   Also DUREE, which is actually the original.  So you might try these.  Some Scottish ones came to Canada, but they are not mine.

Unless you know otherwise, it's possibl that yours were originally DURE, which goes back to France originally, with double e; accent acute on the first e.  When I say "originally", I am not yet sure how far back.  There is reason to think it could be as far back as 1200s, acc to records in Devon.  I haven't figured out that part yet.

[jmack]

Dear Gadget & Loo;

Thanks for the interest - I have been away for a few days so I couldn't get back to you sooner.

I had checked other spellings but still came up a blank.  I am inclined to agree with Gadget that who ever this person was they came to look after him in his later years and may not have been from that area at all.  The only Dewar's I find in Ross & Cromarty are in Urray and Dingwall.  Although I did find one tantalizing piece of info in a marriage of a Mary Fraser (nee McClennan) to James Dewar in Urray in 1883 one of the witnesses being Murdo Mackenzie.  I have contacted Donald Ross on this one and Dewar is a new name to him too.  This may be one of those things I have to keep coming back to in the hope that one day the gods will be kind to me.

Thanks for all you help

Jane

[Gadget]

Hi again Jane

I think it would definitely be Dewar in 1919. By then most people up here were definitely literate and she would have known how her surname was written.

Re the McLennan. It's an outside chance but there were and still are McLennans at Reiff. It might be worth following that up. Urray is south of Contin but there was quite a lot of movement to  cattle/sheep sales at Dingwall and beyond.

Gadget

[ali.ruadh]

Jane, just seen your posting on Dewar of Reiff.  At this point I have not had time to check it out but there's a good chance that the answer to your query is in my family tree. 

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[ali.ruadh]

Yes Jane, had a check on Mary Dewar and it is the same person I have.

Alasdair

[jmack]

Alasdair:

I have tried numerous times to get in touch.  I have had numerous computer problems of late but things seem to be working again.  If you still have my e-mail address I would love to hear from you.

Jane