Drummond from Portmoak

[Forfarian]

David 1782, Christian 1784, James 1788 according to F/S father James, mother Whytt

The originals are on www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk and may contain information not included in the index listing at F/S.

See screenshot - and note that there are in fact five children, not three.

[briann1]

Hi Forfarian the mother Whytt on SP & FS is the family I’ve been looking at but can’t get any other info on the son James and on the James I’m looking for he married Mary Husband in Whitby and on census in Sunderland just says from Scotland

[Forfarian]

I think you'll find that all five are the same family, despite the variant spelling of White/Whyte/Whytt.

Have you viewed the originals of these five baptisms on the Scotland's People web site? As I said, they may contain more information that is in the index there and on FS.

The sort of extra information that you sometimes get with a baptism is the father's occupation, where they lived, and names and even residences of witnesses to the baptisms, which may provide useful clues to the parents' family relationships.

I see that you said that they were married in 1782. There is no listing of a marriage on either SP or FS, so where did that come from?

[briann1]

Hi I got this information from another tree when I was a member of ”A” but I know some tree info is not always true.
The only difference from the births with mothers Whyte and Whytt is the place of birth but they could have moved from Orwell to Portmoak and the registra could have written a different spelling of mother’s surname. I found no further info on the births or christenings
Thanks for your input.

[Forfarian]

Hi I got this information from another tree when I was a member of ”A” but I know some tree info is not always true.

It does look as if someone might have been guessing based on the Portmoak baptisms.

The only difference from the births with mothers Whyte and Whytt is the place of birth but they could have moved from Orwell to Portmoak and the registra could have written a different spelling of mother’s surname.

Exactly. It would be too much of a coincidence to have two couples with the same names in parishes next door to one another having families consecutively.

I found no further info on the births or christenings.

That's a pity.