Fife Surname connections

[TunjiLees]

I saw somebody else do this with a mesure of success, so I decided to do the same.

These are my ancestral lines from Fife that I know of:

BETT/BEAT (1680s-1770s) - Crail, Aberdour, Dunfermline (John married Isabell Norrie 1709)
BUTTERCASE (1790s-1890s) - Kemback, Dairsie (David married Margaret Young in 1833)
CARMICHAEL (1760s-1890s) - Kirkcaldy (Thomas m. Margaret Hugh 1790)
CURRIE (1770s-1890s) - Kirkcaldy
DEMPSTER (1690s-1880s) - Abdie, Auchtermuchty, Largo, Kilmany, Cupar, Kettle, Flisk (George m. Mary Kirkaldy 1852)
DON (1850-1930s) - Newburgh, Cults, Newport
HOG(G)AN (1690s-1750s) Auchterderren, Auchtertool, Aberdour
HUNTER (1800s-1900s) - Kirkcaldy, Abbotshall (Robert Hunter m. Margaret Kidd of Ireland 1826)
KEITH (1820s-1910s) - Leuchars, Forgan, Wormit, Newport
KE/INNEL (1730s-1820s) - Aberdour
KNOX/KNOCKS (1670s-1780s) - Beath, Auchtertool, Aberdour (William m. Katharine Robertson 1705. James m. Christian Gibb 1748)
LEES (1870s+) - Dysart, Kirkcaldy, Abbotshall
MCEWAN (1790s-1870s) - Dysart
MCLEOD (1800s-1850s) - Kirkcaldy, Abbotshall
MORRIS/CE/SON - (1750s-1870s) - Aberdour, Dunfermline
RAE Mary (1800s-1850s) - Kirkcaldy (dau. of Henry Rae/Margaret Nicol)
SCOT(T) (1680s-1860) - Leuchars
SUTHERLAND (1790s-1860s) - Abbotshall
TAYLOR (1820s-1870s) - Kemback, Leuchars, Ceres (James m. Agnes Gold 1844)
WRIGHT (1790s-1840s) - Dysart


If you think you have connections to these lines or any useful information at all then please reply, thank you.

Kind Regards

[jamielees]

Hello,

Would like to compare notes on your LEES from Fife.

Best Regards,
Jamie Lees

CANADA

[TunjiLees]

Hi,

We can certainly compare notes.

I'm researching
William Lees (1884-1922) m. Helen Currie
son of
Thomas Lees (c1853- 1902) m. Christina McEwan
son of
Oliver Lees m. Isabella Waldie

Whom are you researching with the LEES surname?

Cheers

-Tunji

[jamielees]

Hi Tunji,

The family I am researching is David LEES and Mary HAY who married in Edinburgh 1768. They had 10 children....

Janet LEES b. 1769 Bo'ness, Lanark d. 1858

James LEES b. 1771 Bo'ness, Lanark d. 1858 Coatdyke, Lanark married Katherine WOOD.

George LEES b. 1775 Bo'ness, Lanark

David LEES b. 1777 Bo'ness, Lanark married Jane COWAN

Richard LEES b. 1779 Dunfermline, Fife

Margaret LEES b. 1781 Dunfermline, Fife

Robert LEES b. 1784 Dunfermline, Fife d. 1855 Braehead married Margaret COWAN

Mary LEES b. 1785 Dunfermline, Fife

Andrew LEES B. 1788 Dunfermline, Fife Possibly married Elizabeth COLMAN (not yet confirmed).

Mary LEES b. 1790 Dunfermline, Fife

Looking forward to your reply.
Jamie Lees
Canada

[TunjiLees]

Jamie,

Sorry but I doubt there are any connections between our Lees families. Mine only moved to Fife in the 1870s before which they lived in Midlothian.

Cheers

-Tunji

[jamielees]

Thanks Tunji

Jamie Lees
CANADA

[ostler]

BETT/BEAT (1680s-1770s) - Crail, Aberdour, Dunfermline (John married Isabell Norrie 1709)

I have a Margaret Beat(t) or Bett who married William Malcolm, 25 May 1798 in Abbotshall. No more information than that, unfortunately.

Sorry but I doubt there are any connections between our Lees families. Mine only moved to Fife in the 1870s before which they lived in Midlothian.

I have Lees from East/Midlothian as well. John Lees married Elizabeth White 20 Sep 1794 in Whittinghame, had at least five children:

Elizabeth b1796
Archibald b c1797
Isabel b1799
Agnes b1801
Jane Hastie b1806

Archibald Lees married Janet Dudgeon 17 Mar 1827 in Gladsmuir, and Margaret Ritchie in Prestonpans 16 May 1856. They had at least ten children:

John, Adam, Peter, Elizabeth, John, Euphemia, Margaret, Archibald, James and Agnes Dudgeon.

Euphemia Lees married Andrew Sanderson 18 Jun 1862 in Edinburgh Parish. They were my great(x3) grandparents.

[jamielees]

Interesting. I have an Elizabeth WHITE who married a David LEES b. 1830. Date and location of marriage unknown at the moment.

He was son of Robert LEES and Margaret COWAN. Robert was born in Dunfermline Fife in 1784.

Robert's parents were David LEES and Marion/Mary HAY, who had 10 children including Robert. The majority born in Dunfermline, Fife.

Do you know who your John LEES' m. 1794 parents were? Where is Whittinghame I am not familiar with it.

Jamie Lees
CANADA

[JAP]

Hi Jamie,

A Google for:
GENUKI + whittinghame
finds
http://www.clerkington.plus.com/GENUKI/ELN/Whittinghame/index.html

This has a brief and a lengthy description of the parish (and the village), a map of where the parish is within East Lothian/Haddingtonshire, and a link to a modern day map.

Regards,

JAP