Smith and Finlayson of Haddington etc.

[TetleyT]

I came across this board while researching a Robert Millar, saddler in Haddington, born about 1790.  I am not sure if I have the right baptismal entry for him or not.  However, I notice the witnesses were a Mungo Finlayson and William Begbie.  There are a couple of other Millar children born to a John Millar and Mary Watt (or Wyatt) with the same witnesses.  I wondered if they were in some way related to Katherine Millar who married Mungo Finlayson.

[Briannicus]

Mungo and Katharine are my GGGG grandparents, but I've never managed to establish their origins with any certainty.
A Mungo FINLAYSON was baptised in St Cuthbert's, Edinburgh 14 May 1742, which would have made him 32 at the time of marriage, but is it, indeed, our Mungo?
The only remotely likely Katharine / Katherine Millar baptism I've found is 1733 so she doesn't fit but she could be this Katherine's mother.
I would assume that the they are all related as Haddington isn't very big even now and the fact that Mungo was a witness makes it even more likely. 
More research needed - if more information is available.

[bevj]

I'm currently transcribing the parish records of Haddington for FreeReg covering the 17th and 18th century  It might be helpful for you to know that Finlayson and Miller are both very common names in Haddington in this period, with Finlayson usually spelled as Finlasone.
Bev

[TetleyT]

I'm currently transcribing the parish records of Haddington for FreeReg covering the 17th and 18th century  It might be helpful for you to know that Finlayson and Miller are both very common names in Haddington in this period, with Finlayson usually spelled as Finlasone.
Bev

That is great.  It is always wonderful to hear of more records being transcribed.  Thank you for that alternate spelling.  I will keep that one in mind, too. 

[mirrin]

Gravestone in Haddington reads as follows   John Smith shoemaker Haddington died 13th October
1892 aged 71      Elizabeth Richardson his daughter died 18th April aged 39     George his son died 19th September 1898 aged 36      Also of Jessie Young his wife died 28th March 1908 aged 87.

[mirrin]

1851 census of  Catherine( Finlayson) widow  of Cornelius Smith with 2 children Cathrine age 41 family servant and John age 30 journeyman shoe maker. 
The address is shown as 1 Market street, St Johns, Haddington.

I visited Haddington and found the house, it is on 3 levels.  It can be found on the internet either as Kinloch house orDower house.    It is now a lovely family home.  What interests me was this house divided up into accommodation for families.

In the 1841 census they lived in Court street Haddington.