Balfours

[Skoosh]

Ah ken that Harry, they were Orkney lairds & oppressors of the peeps! A Traill laird cleared my gg grandfaither!

Skoosh.

[buckhyne]

My g/g/g/granddad, Willie Lawrie, married his second wife, Ann Balfour in 1848, Largo, Fife.
Ann was born circa 1806, Largo and her parents were Robert Balfour & Mary Wallace who married in 1803, Largo.

I also have a marriage of Isabella Anderson Lawrie to Henry T Balfour.
They were married in 1861, Kirklandhill Farm, Methil, Fife.
Henry T Balfour was born circa 1828, Leven, Fife and was an iron founder & engineer.
At the time of his marriage his address was London, England.
His parents were Henry T Balfour, iron founder & Agnes Bisset.
In the 1881 census Henry & Isabella are visiting an Alexander Balfour in Scoonie.

1881 census: Leven Bank, Scoonie, Fife, Scotland
Alexander   Balfour   Head   M   56   1825   City Councillor & Merchant West Coast At America & Ship Owner, Leven, Fife, Scotland
Janet   Balfour   Wife   M   36   1845   Wife Of Above Dundee, Forfarshire (Angus)
Henry T   Balfour   Visitor   M   52   1829   Engineer (Gas) Iron Founder  Leven, Fife
Isabella   Balfour   Visitor   M   48   1833   Engineer's Wife    Cupar, Fife, Scotland
William A   Bisset   Visitor   Un/m   71   1810   Retired Brick & Tile Manufactr Leslie, Fife

Isabella had a sister Magdalene Lawrie who died in 1907, Scoonie.
In her death certificate the doctor in attendance as well as the informant was an R. Balfour Graham, physician.
The next death on the certificate was of a Robert Balfour Graham Wallace, age 2.
Again the doctor in attendance was R Balfour Graham.

[hdw]

Alexander Balfour was one of the founding partners of the shipping firm of Balfour Williamson & Co. which traded between Liverpool and Valparaiso in Chile. Stephen Williamson was a native of Cellardyke in east Fife who later became a Liberal MP. You can read about Balfour in the latest edition of the FFHS journal. I've done a select all and paste from the online version of the relevant section:

Alexander  Balfour  was  the  son  of  Henry  Balfour  (1796
-
1854),  who  had
founded the Durie Foundry in  Leven in  1810,  and Agnes  Bisset (1804
-
1881),
and  was the  grandson  of Al
exander  Balfour (1765
-
1855),  a  native  of Kilmany
and  one
-
time Provost  of Dundee,  after  whom  he  was named. He could count
as one of his distant relatives, James W ilson of Carsekerdo, Ceres, one of the
signatories to the American Declaration of Independence,
4
th
July 1776.

Harry

[buckhyne]

Alexander Balfour was one of the founding partners of the shipping firm of Balfour Williamson & Co. which traded between Liverpool and Valparaiso in Chile. Stephen Williamson was a native of Cellardyke in east Fife who later became a Liberal MP. You can read about Balfour in the latest edition of the FFHS journal. I've done a select all and paste from the online version of the relevant section:

Alexander  Balfour  was  the  son  of  Henry  Balfour  (1796-1854),  who  had
founded the Durie Foundry in  Leven in  1810,  and Agnes  Bisset (1804-1881),
and  was the  grandson  of Alexander  Balfour (1765-1855),  a  native  of Kilmany
and  one-time Provost  of Dundee,  after  whom  he  was named. He could count
as one of his distant relatives, James Wilson of Carsekerdo, Ceres, one of the
signatories to the American Declaration of Independence,4th July 1776.

Harry

Thanks for that Harry.

[buckhyne]

Denmylne, well done on trying to restore the castle.
I hope you succeed.
I worked on Steam trains and Diesel Trains as a fireman & guard for 30 years and each time I passed by Newburgh on the branch line from Perth to Ladybank (on the route to and from Edinburgh) I had a wonderful view of your castle.
From roughly 1998 to 2006 I had my own website written by me in HTML.
It was called Scottish Railways Route Guides and covered the routes Edinburgh to Inverness via Ladybank, Edinburgh to Inverness via Stirling and Edinburgh to Aberdeen.
I tried to interest Scotrail with a view to publishing them as Route Guides but to no avail.
Having said that I had over 500,000 hits on the website and was linked to several Scottish Tourism sites.
Anyway here is what I wrote regarding Denmylne.

[buckhyne]

In auld Abdie Kirk is the Denmylne Aisle.
Again this is what I wrote regarding the Kirk.
I managed to photograph quite a few images of the surrounding area but I don’t know why I didn’t photograph Denmylne.

[Fred-K]

Hello, I came across your posts in my research on the ancestry of the Balfoort family.

They seem to descend from a Scottisch solider, fighting for The Heer van Bleskensgraaf, Veere, Holland. His name was John Balfoort, born around 1590 and son of Henry Balfoort (1567)
Hé was to be son of Henry Balfour (1546) who can be tracés back to Inchyra on the Tay.

He was to be son of David Balfour(1503), Lord of Powis and Inchyre.

Can you tie them into the family lines you know ?