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Jean Brown & James Allan
« on: Tuesday 19 May 09 23:21 BST (UK) »
Looking for any information on Jean Brown and James Allan who were married 28/4/1775 in Dundonald.

They were living at Oldrome when their children were born, and I believe James may have worked on the Fairlie Estate as a Wright.

I believe Jean's parents were Gilbert Brown and Margaret Blain, but have yet to find the evidence.

Any information that will trace and connect ancestors would be most welcome.

Sheila-Ann
Ayrshire: Allan; Broun/Brown; Richmond; Blain; McGren; Ross; McCallum; Culbertson
Coldingham: Porter; Martin/Martine; Craig; Chrystal/Chrystle; Douglass; Ker; Simson/Simpson
Kilbarchan/Elderslie: Love; Fullerton; Spiers; Lang; McKemmie
Kent: Copeland; Proctor

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Re: Jean Brown & James Allan
« Reply #1 on: Wednesday 20 May 09 10:18 BST (UK) »
hi sheila-ann  :)

don't know if you've seen this -

http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:1812727&id=I85580139

there are several other entries that have the couple but not the parents on
that site
they all seem to have alexander allan born 1780 as a connection

also quite a few public member trees on ancestry have them but they don't
seem to be any further forward(backward ?) than you

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Re: Jean Brown & James Allan
« Reply #2 on: Wednesday 20 May 09 10:23 BST (UK) »
Census information Crown copyright , All Census information from transcriptions - check original records , Familysearch/IGI is a finding tool only - check original records

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Jean Brown & James Allan
« Reply #3 on: Thursday 04 June 09 23:58 BST (UK) »
Hi EV,

Alexander Allan (Allan Shipping Line) was the third child of Jean and James; my direct ancestor is their fourth child, John.

Jean is the half-sister of Agnes Brown; Agnes married Gilbert Burns and their oldest child was Robert.  Jean was therefore Burns' aunt and my direct ancestor John his first cousin.

According to info picked up on various sites, Burns stayed with his aunt after his father stopped working as gardener at Fairlie Estate at the time when Jean Armour's father was trying to bring some action against him as the father of her soon-to-be-born-child.  James also worked at the Fairlie Estate as a wright/joiner.

Thanks for the website addresses.  Will take a look at them and see what other information I can find.

Regards,

Sheila-Ann
Ayrshire: Allan; Broun/Brown; Richmond; Blain; McGren; Ross; McCallum; Culbertson
Coldingham: Porter; Martin/Martine; Craig; Chrystal/Chrystle; Douglass; Ker; Simson/Simpson
Kilbarchan/Elderslie: Love; Fullerton; Spiers; Lang; McKemmie
Kent: Copeland; Proctor

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Re: Jean Brown & James Allan
« Reply #4 on: Sunday 23 February 14 19:55 GMT (UK) »
Hi,

It has been said that the mother of Robert Burns (Agnes Broun) and the mother to our Elizabeth Shields were sisters. Logically, that would mean that the mother of Eliz. aka Betty Gillies would have to be Janet Broun.  We were then told that because of this Betty and Robert Burns were full cousins.  I am really struggling to figure this out and wondered if you had anything you could provide me?

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Debbie Rea

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