Kirkcaldy Adie Family

[Blairvadach]

Hi Blairvadach,
Rebeckah Forker (c.1822-1897) was the daughter of Alexander Forker (c.1796-1856) and Jane Spence Thomson (1795-1867). Alexander was the son of Thomas Lonie Forker (1763-1847) and Rebeckah Smith (1763-1840), and possibly the brother of your Christian.

Thomas was son of Alexander Forker (1727-1778) and Christian Lonie. Rebeckah Smith was born in Shetland, but her father and family originated in Orkney.

The spelling Forker/Farker is an anglicized form of Farquhar.
Hope this helps.

Hi AK
Thanks for your reply.
My Christian Forker 1806--1874 was indeed the sister of Alexander Forker.
Christian married John Stark 1800-1861 and their daughter Elizabeth 1828-1890 married John Stark 1831-?. I got a bit confused with her marrying a man with the same name as her father!!!

Elizabeth and John had a daughter, Christina 1857-1943. Christina married Evariste Laval in 1874. Evariste studied to be a doctor in Edinburgh. He originated from Mauritius and ended up back there practicing as a doctor, Christina and Evariste had other children also born in Mauritius. ( his father was a merchant from Maritius)

Do you have any further details on Rebeckah Smith being born in Shetland or her father and his family origins in Orkney?
Cheers

[akAdie]

Hi AK
Thanks for your reply.
My Christian Forker 1806--1874 was indeed the sister of Alexander Forker.
Christian married John Stark 1800-1861 and their daughter Elizabeth 1828-1890 married John Stark 1831-?. I got a bit confused with her marrying a man with the same name as her father!!!

Elizabeth and John had a daughter, Christina 1857-1943. Christina married Evariste Laval in 1874. Evariste studied to be a doctor in Edinburgh. He originated from Mauritius and ended up back there practicing as a doctor, Christina and Evariste had other children also born in Mauritius. ( his father was a merchant from Maritius)

Do you have any further details on Rebeckah Smith being born in Shetland or her father and his family origins in Orkney?
Cheers

This is all so very interesting! It explains why I didn't have much info on Christian Forker until now.
Rebeckah Smith was born 26 Jul 1763 in Vertingsgarth, Sand Cunnings, Shetland. Her father was Magnus Smith born 24 Feb 1723 in Holm and Paplay, Orkney. However, I have not spent much time researching this line farther back yet.
Let me know if you'd like to connect on Ancestry.
Thanks for the info on Christian!
 

[Ian Nelson]

She can't have been only 43 in 1851 if she was first married to David Burnett.

If she was 43 in the day of the 1851 census, she would have been born in 1807/1808.

David Burnet and Agnes Bailie were married in 1814, when she would then have been only 6 or 7 years old.


I have in my extended Family Tree some Burnetts from Kirkcaldy who married into the Galloway family of Kirkcaldy.

Agnes Burnett (28) married Thomas Galloway in 1916 in Kirkcaldy.  Her parents were John and Isabella Burnett.
Do you know of a connection to your Burnet ?
cheers, Ian

[Blairvadach]

Hi AK
Thanks for your reply.
My Christian Forker 1806--1874 was indeed the sister of Alexander Forker.
Christian married John Stark 1800-1861 and their daughter Elizabeth 1828-1890 married John Stark 1831-?. I got a bit confused with her marrying a man with the same name as her father!!!

Elizabeth and John had a daughter, Christina 1857-1943. Christina married Evariste Laval in 1874. Evariste studied to be a doctor in Edinburgh. He originated from Mauritius and ended up back there practicing as a doctor, Christina and Evariste had other children also born in Mauritius. ( his father was a merchant from Maritius)

Do you have any further details on Rebeckah Smith being born in Shetland or her father and his family origins in Orkney?
Cheers

This is all so very interesting! It explains why I didn't have much info on Christian Forker until now.
Rebeckah Smith was born 26 Jul 1763 in Vertingsgarth, Sand Cunnings, Shetland. Her father was Magnus Smith born 24 Feb 1723 in Holm and Paplay, Orkney. However, I have not spent much time researching this line farther back yet.
Let me know if you'd like to connect on Ancestry.
Thanks for the info on Christian!

Hi AK
Unfortunately, I do not have Ancestry.
I have tried to post a photo of Christian and her husbands headstone but its telling me the file is too big.
This is the site if you want to look at it.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/215833613/christian-stark

Cheers Tam

[akAdie]

I have in my extended Family Tree some Burnetts from Kirkcaldy who married into the Galloway family of Kirkcaldy.

Agnes Burnett (28) married Thomas Galloway in 1916 in Kirkcaldy.  Her parents were John and Isabella Burnett.
Do you know of a connection to your Burnet ?
cheers, Ian

Hi Ian,
I don't know of any connection, but I can share what I know about my 4th gg's first husband.
David Burnet married Agnes Baillie in 1814, recorded in both Dysart and South Leith. He died in 1821 at 26 years old. I believe David's parents were Jean Diston and David Burnet Sr.
Agnes and David had four children including two boys David (b.1815-d.1881) and Alexander (b.1820-d.1868). Alexander passed away in Brooklyn but David remained in Fife. Both David and Alexander were bakers like their father.  David Jr. married Ann Lister and they had a son also named David born in 1852. I do not have any further info on him but I hope this helps!

[akAdie]

Hi AK
Unfortunately, I do not have Ancestry.
I have tried to post a photo of Christian and her husbands headstone but its telling me the file is too big.
This is the site if you want to look at it.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/215833613/christian-stark

Cheers Tam

Hi Tam! Thank you for this. Do you have any photos of Christian or her family? I have one photo of Rebeckah. If you want I can email you a copy

[Blairvadach]

Hi AK
Unfortunately, I don’t have any photos of Christian.
I have only recently started this side of the family research over the last three months. I have an adopted daughter and this is her birth family’s heritage. We had very little information to go on. We knew some information but it was too “young” to be able to access Scotland’s people. We did strike accord with some letters from birth relatives and were able to pull on that thread which was invaluable in tracking back. What helped me was we knew her birth name prior to adoption and it’s not a common name.
The Forkers are linked by marriage to the Stark family.
They too lived in Fife and the. Starks eventually moved to Edinburgh and this is where Christina Stark married Evariste Laval ( Evariste was a Mauritian merchant and Christina’s father was also a merchant) Maybe some fatherly matching!!!
Thanks very much for your help in piecing some of this information.
I am working on each generation which gets quite complicated when it’s  six or seven generations back 32 or 64 people. 😳😳
I will probably take out a Ancestry subscription when my Find my past subscription runs out.
Regards Tam