Ewing - Orr - Leckie - BuchananI've been playing around with the 2 Ewing lines connected to our family, but can't make them link up. Can anyone find something I've missed?
Branch A (Orr-Ewing)Allan's aunt
Helen Robertson married
James Ewing. James was the son of
William Ewing and
Susanna Orr. His older brother Archibald became Sir Archibald Orr-Ewing, 1st baronet, and Archibald's descendants used the surname Orr-Ewing with a hyphen. Other descendants of William and Susanna frequently used Orr as a middle name, but stuck to the surname Ewing.
Susanna Orr was chr. 1 May 1785 in Paisley, dau of John Orr and Agnes Anderson.
William Ewing's birthdate is given in a Gilmour family history at
http://homepages.luc.edu/~pgilmou/familyhistory.pdf as 10 Feb 1773, but there is no entry for him in the IGI. Can anyone verify this?
I listed James Ewing's siblings a couple of pages back, and 2 of them have middle names Leckie and Buchanan, which make me think they ought to tie up with Branch B.
Branch B (Leckie Ewing)Christian Leckie Ewing (1829) m.
Archibald Robertson, cashier. Her parents were
William Leckie Ewing (1798) and
Eleanora McFarlane (1801).
Eleanora McFarlane was the dau of John McFarlane and Christian Wardrob(!), and had a brother John, who married William Leckie Ewing's sister, Janet Buchanan Ewing.
William Leckie Ewing was the son of
Robert Ewing (c1766), a merchant, and
Isabel Leckie (1772). Robert Ewing's father was also called Robert. Isabel Leckie was the dau of
William Leckie and
Janet Buchanan.
I can't find anything to link the 2 groups, except the middle names Leckie and Buchanan, which may be pure coincidence. If anyone has any bright ideas, I'd love to hear them - otherwise I'm giving up on this line!
Rambler
