Curries of Dalserf

[sancti]

The name Currie and variants is recorded in Lanarkshire long before the fall of the Gaelic order in the 18th century. The Lanarkshire Currie families would have no connection to the highland clan system

[nikitah]

Thanks Sancti, but were they recorded before 1213 when Muiredach arrived in Islay and if so how can we access more info?. I have seen a tree that connects our Dalserf Currie's to Dalzeil but there's no evidence on scotlandspeople we just keep coming up against brick walls Nikitah

[sancti]

The earliest record of the name on SP is 1575 in Fife and Edinburgh which is nowhere near the clan system. If the name originated in Islay I would have expected more early names from the west coast.

Could the name be derived from the Currier occupation?

[nikitah]

Thanks again Sancti, who knows, worth thinking about, mine only go back to the mid 17 hundreds, the earliest occupation was a sawyer, then like most in the area the whole family became involved in the weaving industry, then coal mining, hard to say. Nikitah

[lafine]

Looking for info for my cousin Maxine Laird (wife of William Currie) family. Her father Frank Galbraith Laird was married to my great aunt Jean (Jane) Blair McCulloch. Thx

[Forfarian]

Welcome to RootsChat, lafine.

Frank Galbraith Laird married Jean Waugh B McCulloch in Larkhall in 1933.

This information is available only on Scotland's People. Go to www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk, invest in a few credits at modest cost, and use some of them to download an image of the marriage certificate. This will cost you just £1.50 and it will tell you their ages and occupations, where they lived, and the full names of both sets of parents, including their mother's maiden names.

Using this information you should be able to work back from there.

Happy hunting!

[nikitah]

Hi Lafine, if you go back a few posts you will find one from williamcurrie the son of Maxine and William, try sending him a pm, you will need 3 posts first though, Nikitah.