McMinn Mystery Deepens...

[Gadget]

Hi Daisy and all 

Daisy has summoned me but I'd be grateful for a brief summary of what is required from my various Kirkcudbrightshire sources, please. I've read a few pages but there are 12 in all and tis late 

I noticed that there was mention of Kirkmabreck - I know that some of the records are missing for there.

Gadget

PS - I have MIs for all the KKD parishes 

[Daisy Loo]

Monica is not here, and JAP not online to ive summary of what they found, but details are on pg 9 &10, I think...there's a summary of JAP's and a few details of what Monica has found.  There's no rush for this though Gadget

Alexander McMinn, b. abt 1807 in parish of Kirkudbright, in or near Kirkudbright town....father Alexander McMinn, Mason.

We're trying to find his family from this 

I have his marriage, he got married to an irish woman in Clonmel.

Edited.

[JAP]

Gadget,

I suspect that any McMINN MIs (any spelling - and some are quite innovative!) - especially in Borgue or Twynholm - would be greatly appreciated.

JAP

[Gadget]

There are quite a few MIs for McMinn (variations) in those two parishes but only one Alexander so far. I think he might be too young to be Alexander (b.c. 1806)'s father. Here he is:

Borgue:
Alex McMinn d.Knockmuck 15 Aug 1852, aged 68
wife Mary Milroy d. 25 April 1859 aged 74
also descendants.

Looking through the whole set, there are a considerable number in many of the parishes and it will take a while to go through and sift out any relevant ones and then type them up.

I'll report back.


Gadget


Added - this is the family that Monica gave on the 1851 in reply #124

[Gadget]

Because of it's significance, here is the full list of McMinn's on the MI:

Alex McMinn d.Knockmuck 15 Aug 1852, aged 68
wife Mary Milroy d. 25 April 1859 aged 74
also descendants.
son John d. 27 March 1827 aged 14
daughter Mary d, 2 Oct 1836 aged 7
son William d. Kirkpatrick Durham 30 July 1849 aged 39
son James d Dublin 25 March 1895 aged 85
son Thomas d. London 15 August 1876 aged 56
daughter Janet d. Knockmuck 10 October 1877 aged 61
son Alex d. Knockmuck 15 March 1904 aged 78   - this Alex b.c. 1826
daughter Isabella d Knockmuck 6 Feb 1906 aged 84
grandson Alex Douglas d 17 Mar 1936 aged 84


Seems that it might be a different family 


Gadget

[Gadget]

Next to it:

John McMinn d 1 Jan 1864 aged 87
wife Irvine Conning d. Chapeltown Village 8 Dec 1851 aged 68
son John d. 19 April 1827 aged 13
daughter Marion d Viewfield 19 Jan 1884 aged 75
daughter Margaret d Gordon Villas Kirkcudbright 2 Jult 1894 aged 81
daughter Elizabeth d High Street Kirkcudbright 8 July 1897 aged 79


a distance from the other two:

James McMinn d Tongue Croft 23 April 1858 aged 75
Two children~
daughter Eliza d. 1829
son James d 1834
wife Eliz Paple d. Tongue Croft 8 April 1886 in her 88th year
Margaret McMinnd. Bishopton 8 July 1852 aged 51

In Senwick (grouped with Borgue)

John McMinn d 14 June 1761 aged 87


I can't do any more for a while - it's doing my eyes in. Will have another go this evening.


Daisy - what document did the b. Kirkcudbright or close by come from?


Gadget

[Daisy Loo]

Gadget, thanks for doing this...

the document was his discharge papers...

"Born in the parish of Kirkudbright in or near the town of Kirkudbright in the count of Galloway"....he attested at the age of 21, in 1828.  His age is confirmed on his death cert, where he dies at the age of 71, in 1878.

The discharge papers are the only thing that confirm where he was born, and what age he was, that I have.  Of course, he could have been older...but think not, as he married in 1846 (at the age of 39), and between 1849-1869 he had at least 8 children that we know of.  So by the time he had his last child he would have been 62!  The other option was that he was born later, and was actually younger than everyone thought.

[Gadget]

Nothing in Twynholm or Kirkcudbright,  Daisy,  that links in 

Just wondering if he might have been the illegitimate son of the 'young' Alexander (aged about 16)  before he married Mary. The problem is, how would we find out? And how did he get to Sheffield by 1828? OK, many of our Scottish ancestors went considerable distances but it would be interesting to find out what he was doing there.

Borgue, Twynholm and Rerrick all border on Kirkcudbright. There's also Dundrennan Abbey.


Gadget

[Daisy Loo]

Nothing in Twynholm or Kirkcudbright, Daisy, that links in

Just wondering if he might have been the illegitimate son of the 'young' Alexander (aged about 16) before he married Mary. The problem is, how would we find out? And how did he get to Sheffield by 1828? OK, many of our Scottish ancestors went considerable distances but it would be interesting to find out what he was doing there.

Borgue, Twynholm and Rerrick all border on Kirkcudbright. There's also Dundrennan Abbey.


Gadget

hmm...probably going to be questions that I'll never know the answers to!

Thanks for looking though Gadget...if I manage to turn up anything more specific (I am still looking for Attestation Papers, pension records etc), I might come back to you again.  really appreciate you looking though.