BROWN / WATSON of Crail

[blackisler]

Harry,
I've just stumbled on this as I've just discovered Charles Black and Margaret Peebles in our tree. Do you know if the same Margaret Peebles had an illegitimate daughter Alison Jack (father Thomas Jack, never married), in circa 1853? I have more details if necessary.

Carrie

[hdw]

Hi! I'd forgotten all about this correspondence.

I don't know which Margaret Peebles had the illegitimate daughter called Alison Jack, but I looked up the birth of that child on Scotlandspeople, and she was born on 25th June 1853 and baptised on 28th November 1854. I bet there was some manoeuvring behind the scenes to get Thomas Jack to admit paternity! I have a lot of material on the Jacks.

Strangely, Alison Jack doesn't appear in the 1861 census and I can't find her death any time between 1854 and 1861. I'd be interested in any information you have.

Harry

[garvaghnames]

I have an Ahnentafel report for William Wood, b 1895, Fife, Scotland. It features Wood, Wallace, Morris and other names in Cellardyke/Kilrenny, Pittenweem etc. These reports can be hard to read in email so there is a PDF image available on request. Mary Ann Wallace (MS McPhee), b 1816 France, is an interesting ancestor. Her father was in the 71st Regiment of Foot and some evidence leads me to the tentative belief that he was James McPhee, b Minnigaff, Kirkcudbrightshire, who enlisted at Leith and served in the Peninsular War and at Waterloo, though this link to Mary Ann is not proved definitively as yet. Mary Ann also had a sister, Helen McPhee, who is captured in one census in Fife and, I believe, married in Fife.

All links and colour detail gratefully received

Ahnentafel: Ancestors of William WOOD b 1895 Pittenweem

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Generation 1

1.   William WOOD, son of James WOOD and Mary Ann WALLACE was born about 1895 in Pittenweem, FIF, SCT. He married Annie Currie YOUNG. She was born on 21 Jan 1897 in Larkhall, Lanarkshire, Scotland.


Generation 2

2.   James WOOD, son of William WOOD and Margaret Watson MORRIS was born about 1867 in Pittenweem, FIF, SCT. He married Mary Ann WALLACE.

3.   Mary Ann WALLACE, daughter of James WALLACE and Lillias SMITH was born about 1867 in Cellardyke, Kilrenny, FIF, SCT.

Mary Ann WALLACE and James WOOD had the following children:

i.   Lilias Wood was born about 1892 in Anstruther, FIF, SCT.

2.   ii. William WOOD was born about 1895 in Pittenweem, FIF, SCT. He married Annie Currie YOUNG. She was born on 21 Jan 1897 in Larkhall, Lanarkshire, Scotland.

iii.   James Wood was born about 1898 in Pittenweem, FIF, SCT.

Generation 3

4.   William WOOD, son of Alexander WOOD and Grizal WATSON was born on 14 Dec 1827 in Cellardyke, Kilrenny, FIF, SCT. He married Margaret Watson MORRIS on 28 Apr 1848 in Kilrenny, FIF, SCT.

5.   Margaret Watson MORRIS, daughter of John MORRIS and Margaret DUNCAN was born on 19 Jul 1829 in Pittenweem, FIF, SCT. She died on 21 Feb 1909 in Pittenweem, FIF, SCT.

Margaret Watson MORRIS and William WOOD had the following children:

i.   Alexander Wood was born about 1849 in Pittenweem, Fifeshire.

ii.   John M Wood was born about 1851 in Pittenweem, Fifeshire.

iii.   William Wood was born about 1852 in Pittenweem, Fifeshire.

iv.   David Wood was born about 1854 in Pittenweem, Fifeshire.

v.   Margaret Wood was born about 1860 in Pittenweem, Fifeshire.

vi.   Mary Wood was born about 1862 in Pittenweem, Fifeshire.

vii.   Grace W Wood was born about 1865 in Pittenweem, FIF, SCT. She married DUTCH.

viii.   Thomas Wood was born about 1866 in Pittenweem, Fifeshire.

3.   ix. James WOOD was born about 1867 in Pittenweem, FIF, SCT. He married Mary Ann WALLACE, daughter of James WALLACE and Lillias SMITH. She was born about 1867 in Cellardyke, Kilrenny, FIF, SCT.

6.   James WALLACE, son of John WALLACE and Mary Ann McPHEE was born on 01 Aug 1841 in Cellardyke, Kilrenny, FIF, SCT. He died on 31 Dec 1906 in Anstruther, FIF, SCT. He married Lillias SMITH on 10 Sep 1864 in Anstruther, FIF, SCT (At the United Presbyterian Manse. Witnesses: Daniel Fleming and Elizabeth Wallace.).

7.   Lillias SMITH, daughter of Alexander SMITH and Jacobina 'Binnie' WOOD was born on 28 Oct 1841 in Cellardyke, Kilrenny, FIF, SCT. She died on 17 Jan 1910 in Anstruther, FIF, SCT.

Lillias SMITH and James WALLACE had the following children:

i.   Jacobina WALLACE was born about 1864 in Kilrenny, Fifeshire. She married James Anderson. He was born in Pittenweem, FIF, SCT.

3.   ii. Mary Ann WALLACE was born about 1867 in Cellardyke, Kilrenny, FIF, SCT. She married James WOOD, son of William WOOD and Margaret Watson MORRIS. He was born about 1867 in Pittenweem, FIF, SCT.
 
iii.   Lilias WALLACE was born in 1869 in Kilrenny, Fifeshire.

iv.   John WALLACE was born in 1871.

v.   James P WALLACE was born in 1875.

vi.   Lillias Smith WALLACE was born in 1877. She died in 1936.

vii.   Margaret E WALLACE was born in 1880.

More on request

[hdw]

Hello! The Wood family-tree is a well-known one in the East Neuk of Fife, and they have been well researched by a number of people. I think it can be proven that most of the Woods of St. Monans, Pittenweem and Cellardyke are related to each other. I have known a lot of Woods in my time and am related to some of them.

Harry (Watson)
(originally from Cellardyke)

[garvaghnames]

Hello and thanks for replying. Any links to other researchers of Wood and Wallace would be great. Do you want a PDF of my research of not? My uncle was a Wood from St Monans whose father died before my uncle was born. He went to school in St Monans and went down to live with an aunt or granny in Lancashire when he was 11.

Best regards

[hdw]

Thanks, I have a PDF on the computer that somebody else sent me, and I've done a fair amount of research on the Woods myself. The links between the different towns are interesting.

There was a boy called Wood from St. Monans in my class at secondary school in Anstruther, and my dad had a cousin married to a St. Monans man called Wood who became an inspector in the Thames River Police in London. They retired back to Cellardyke and my dad and I used to first-foot them at the New Year.

Harry

[James Wood]

There was a boy called Wood from St. Monans in my class at secondary school in Anstruther, and my dad had a cousin married to a St. Monans man called Wood who became an inspector in the Thames River Police in London. They retired back to Cellardyke and my dad and I used to first-foot them at the New Year.

Harry

Your Dad's cousin must have been Mary Anderson, married to my Grandfather who was the Inspector on the Thames River Police. He had sons William and Robert  and daughter Marina . I am Robert's son, I have a son named Robert and we live at the East Neuk after having travelled all over the world.

[hdw]

Spot on! Hello, and welcome to Rootschat.

Harry