Armour family

[brigidmac]

The only possible source on my tree is a baptism on ancestry
Glasgow Lanarkshire Scotland
 9th February 1701
Father john armor
Mother jean mckinnie

Maybe the other information came from a dna match

[brigidmac]

Other trees have the mothers name as Mary Bankhead

[Macharskin]

brigidmac

Perhaps we'll never learn who Jane Armour's mother was - unless another Armour Family Bible turns up!

Seems to me though she was more likely born in Ayrshire rather than Larnarkshire. Have you a record of her death?

M.

[lmfamilyresearch]

Jane Amour b 1700 abt Kilmarnock is at the top of my tree
Married Hugh Dunlop

I match DNA with people who have
Ayr ARMOUR. And earlier from Argyll
But I haven't joined the dots yet

Janes father may have been James son of Robert b about 1650

So there must be a connection to the Argyll family but I don't know what

I figure there's got to be some sort of connection but who knows.

There is also a rumour in my family that we are somehow related to Jean Armour, Robert Burns wife.  Either that or it's we're related to Robert Burns.  I have both Armours and Burns in my family tree.  The Armours are in Argyll and the Burns are in the Kilbirnie area.

[Forfarian]

There is also a rumour in my family that we are somehow related to Jean Armour, Robert Burns wife.  Either that or it's we're related to Robert Burns.  I have both Armours and Burns in my family tree.  The Armours are in Argyll and the Burns are in the Kilbirnie area.

Robert Burns' father was born William Burness in Kincardineshire and moved to various places for work, not including Kilbirnie. William's brother, also named Robert, left Kincardineshire at the same time and was in Ayrshire but not as far as I am aware in Kilbirnie. Certainly none of his family were born in Kilbirnie.

Jean Armour was born in Mauchline, Ayrshire, but I don't know where her forebears were from.

See https://burness.ca/g0/p93.htm#i929

[lmfamilyresearch]

Apparently it's my Armour side that are rumoured to be related to Jean Armour.  Also apparently, it's indicated that my Kintyre Armours originally are from Ayrshire.  However, I have not yet been able to find anything concretely shows this.  Kintyre in the 17th Century (by Andrew McKerral) indicates on page 106 that "and John Martin, servant to James Armour of Hillabee...", where perharps "Hillabee" is also known as "Hill of Beith" in Ayrshire?  At any rate, it would be interesting to see if my Kintyre Armours can be connected to Jean Armour, Robert Burns' wife.

[brigidmac]

 Ive had a look at AMOUR names on trees of matches to my DNA+ my aunts

Here's the top ones i found

I think my janets parents are John Armour b 1665+ jean Mckinie
With siblings b 1889-1706 Susanna Elizabeth. James. John ,Martha  ARMOUR

Other trees have descendants of James ARMOUR b 1702 Kilmarnock Ayrshire m agnes dickie

One traces back to an agnes ARMOUR b 1652 Kilmarnock m Robert Harper

Another has mary ARMOUR 1736-1791

Then theres John ARMOUR b1680 AYR (Son of Robert )m Marie Mary BANKHEAD:
Children john 1700. Robert 1705. joseph 1709. margaret 1713 all born Ayr

We also have DNA matches to many well established Canadian
From Alexander ARMOUR 1814-1886 from Argyll m Mary MILLOY 9 children mostly born Canada

Does anyone have these people on their trees ?

[lmfamilyresearch]

Kintyre Families (by Angus Martin) indicates that a James Armour from Ayrshire went to Kintyre c.1665.  Not sure where that information came from but maybe somehow he is related to Jean Armour of the original post?

How popular of a name was Armour in Ayrshire?

[lmfamilyresearch]

We also have DNA matches to many well established Canadian
From Alexander ARMOUR 1814-1886 from Argyll m Mary MILLOY 9 children mostly born Canada

Does anyone have these people on their trees ?

I'll try and remember to post back about these names if I come across them.  I'm slowly putting together an Armour tree for myself.