Cowie, Peterhead 1841/1851

[Andrew C.]

Thanks Neale I was just about to post Andrew’s info he didn’t waste much time after his illegitimate son being born for him to marry Ann. There seems to be two OPR entries for this marriage is that because Ann and Andrew where from different parishes?


Just noticed the informant is a son in law.

[Neale1961]

There seems to be two OPR entries for this marriage is that because Ann and Andrew where from different parishes?

The marriage banns were read in both parishes, and recorded in each parish. It is just 1 marriage though. I assume the bride was from New Deer, because Andrew seems to have been from Old Deer.

[Andrew C.]

Possible daughter.

https://www.freecen.org.uk/search_records/5902663fe9379091b1c827ca/peter-williamson-1851-aberdeenshire-lonmay-1824-?locale=en

Seems to be Peter Williamson and Margaret Alexander.

[Andrew C.]

Doesn’t add any more information.

[Neale1961]

Informant for Isabella Browns death is Peter Williamson ("son-in-law")
1861 census Fetterangus
https://www.freecen.org.uk/search_records/59026ae5e9379091b1db433a/peter-williamson-1861-aberdeenshire-old-deer-1826-?locale=en

wife is Margaret ALEXANDER born Old Deer abt 1830
marriage for them in 1849 Old Deer / Lonmay

1851 census they are in Lonmay
https://www.freecen.org.uk/search_records/5902663fe9379091b1c827ca/peter-williamson-1851-aberdeenshire-lonmay-1824-?locale=en

Are we thinking that Margaret Alexander is another illegitimate child for Isabel Brown?

Margaret in 1871 in Fetterangus.
https://www.freecen.org.uk/search_records/59026e9ce9379091b1eaaaa3/margret-williamson-1871-aberdeenshire-old-deer-1831-?locale=en

[Andrew C.]

I think it is looking that way. Thanks for your help.

[Neale1961]

YES
Margaret Alexander is another illegitimate child for Isabel Brown.

Old Deer Kirk Sessions
9 May 1830
Isabel Brown (unmarried) had a child, and accused John Alexander (now married)
Image 185
https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/virtual-volumes/volume-images/volume_data-CH2-1217-2/GAZ00894?image_number=185#image_position

a little further down on same page …..
John Alexander appeared at the sessions and was interrogated and replied in the negative.
Isabel still adhered to her accusation of him as the father, but he refused all communication with her.

Margaret Alexander in 1841 census
https://www.freecen.org.uk/search_records/5a140293f4040b9d6ee6c35f/margaret-alexander-1841-aberdeenshire-old-deer-1831-?locale=en


Looks like John Alexander had married Isabel Ritchie in Jan 1830, and they had had a child named George in March 1830.  (So John had 2 women pregnant at the same time, and he married 1 of them.)

George Alexander and his brother are with their grandparents in 1841.
https://www.freecen.org.uk/search_records/5a140107f4040b9d6ee50d62/george-alexander-1841-aberdeenshire-strichen-1830-?locale=en

[Neale1961]

As far as I can see Andrew COWIE and Ann CUMINE (CUMMING) only had a daughter named Mary who was born abt 1814, never married, and died in 1902 in Strichen (age 89)

[Neale1961]

Isabel Brown’s parents - Samuel Brown and Elspeth Dickie
Don’t see a marriage

There are these children baptisms:-
•   William Brown bapt 1778 Old Deer
•   William Brown bapt  1780 Longside
•   John Brown bapt 1783 Longside

On the baptism for William Cowie in 1810 the witnesses are Samuel Brown and William Brown (assuming they are Isabel’s father Samuel, and her older brother William)

The brother William Brown in
1841
https://www.freecen.org.uk/search_records/5a13ff37f4040b9d6ee2e266/wm-brown-1841-aberdeenshire-longside-1781-?locale=en

1851
https://www.freecen.org.uk/search_records/59026636e9379091b1c804a9/william-brown-1851-aberdeenshire-longside-1781-?locale=en


The other brother John Brown
1841
https://www.freecen.org.uk/search_records/5a13ff37f4040b9d6ee2e258/john-brown-1841-aberdeenshire-longside-1786-?locale=en

1851
https://www.freecen.org.uk/search_records/59026636e9379091b1c80386/john-brown-1851-aberdeenshire-longside-1783-?locale=en


ADDED
Elspeth Dickie wife of Samuel Brown burial 15 Jan 1834 Longside (age 84)