On this day in JANUARY ...

[loobylooayr]

Lovely image Doran54 - you're lucky to have it  ( I've not got many photos sadly)

Looby

[DORAN54]

thanks looby 

[DORAN54]

That's a special anniversary!

Your gran looks incredibly young, doesn't she.

she was 19yrs old

[SS1857]

On Sunday 29th January 1769, Marion Tweedie, the first child and eldest daughter of my 4xG grandparents Robert Tweedie and Margaret Somerville was born in Carnwarth, Lanarkshire. Neither myself nor my good friend and fellow RootsChatter, Meg, who shares this line and to whom I am indebted for much of my Tweedie information, can find out much about her mother. Marion married a farmer, John Trevit, predeceased him and lies with him and two of their children in Carnwarth.

Do you know if Margaret Somerville is a decedent of the Somervilles - who were one of the most noblest families in Scotland way back in the 14th/15th Century?     

[Alastairm]

Hi
You may be interested in this photo. It is of the family of David Pate, Master Bootmaker in Stirling and his wife Marion Crocket and family. They were married in Linlithgow in 1846 and both died in 1882. He is the son of John Pate and isabella Scott.

[RobEwing]

On this day in 1887, Samuel Greer McEwan the eldest son and first child of my GG grandparents, Robert McEwan and Hannah Greer was born at Longriggend. As Lance Corporal Samuel. G. McEwan of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders he would die in 1914 during the retreat from Mons in WWI only weeks after having been sent to the front. He is remembered at Le Cateau Communal Cemetery and on various war memorials in Scotland as well as in the book of remembrance in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders museum in Stirling Castle. He left behind his wife Agnes Shearer who he had married the year previously. She was pregnant with their first child. The child was named Samuel Mons McEwan but lived for only 3 weeks.

On January 12 1856, James the son of my GG grandparents, James Stein and Elizabeth Pate was born in Linlithgow. He was the first of three sons they would have named James. He died aged only 20 days and is buried alongside several of my Steen, Pate and Auld ancestors in St. Michaels Kirkyard which is just outside the gatehouse of Linlithgow Palace, the birthplace of Mary Queen of Scots.