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received queries concerning the following
surnames:
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| Name | Enquirer | Email Address | Query |
| WARDEN | Patricia Valentine | abacussafety@ dsl.pipex.com |
John WARDEN, excise officer, was born c1727, possibly in Edinburgh, and moved to Inverness from Moulin, Perthshire between 1759 and 1761. He died, aged 62, in 1789 and was married to Margaret MACDONALD with issue: - Anne, born 1753, married James WARDEN, a miller, in Edinburgh; Ewan (also known as Hugh), born 1758, became an excise officer and married Elizabeth MCBEATH (MACBETH; Jean, born 1758, and probably died in infancy; Robert, born 1759, excise officer, was discharged in 1795, moved to Glasgow and became a clerk - married to Katherine GRANT; John, born 1761, Excise Officer, married Ann MUIRISON, died Turriff around 1836; William, born 1764, of who we can find no information. The elder John owned tenements in Dornoch which, following John’s death Margaret MACDONALD sold in two lots in 1789 & 1814. Ewan (Hugh) had a son, also named Hugh, born 1780 Latheron, mother unknown. Hugh was famous in the area as a musician; he was blind, he played the violin and gave dance lessons, he also held an Annual Dance – ‘The Wardens Benefit Ball’ - at the Caledonian Hotel, Caithness. Any information on this family will be most welcome. |
| WARDEN | Patricia Valentine | abacussafety@ dsl.pipex.com |
Information sought for the following: - Margaret MACDONALD, born c1738, who married John WARDEN (excise officer). Margaret was a daughter of Hugh MACDONALD, Sheriff Clerk in Sutherland and Christian KIRK, daughter of Robert KIRK, Minister in Dornoch. Hugh and Christian married in 1738. Margaret inherited tenements and land from her father called ‘Goose Croft’ and ‘Croftpeddie’ or ‘Croftfeddie’ both in Dornoch; also Croftloan in Balloan. The properties were later sold in two lots in 1796 and 1814 following the death of her husband John WARDEN. Christian KIRK’s father was Robert KIRK, born 1644 in Aberfoyle. He is my husband’s 7 x great grandfather. He studied at Edinburgh University and at St. Andrews, receiving his Masters Degree at seventeen. After his ordination he served at various parishes for the next twenty years. He married Isobel CAMPBELL in 1678; she died two years after the marriage and his second wife, Margaret CAMPBELL, Isobel’s cousin, had a son Robert, who in turn had a daughter, Christian KIRK. Many thanks in anticipation. |
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John Burdon | joburd2@ btopenworld.com |
My 4xgreat grandfather, Captain John FRASER, married Jean WYMESS in Edinburgh in 1790. From records held at the National Archives I discovered that he was discharged from the 87th Regiment of Foot in 1789, and that he was born in Loth, Sutherland c1737. He enlisted at the age of approximately 25 and completed over 25 years service, before being invalided out and discharged from the garrison at Edinburgh because of wounds sustained during his service. An initial check of OPRs indicate that in Loth baptisms were recorded from 1795 and in neighbouring Golspie from 1740. I include the latter as, according to Scotlandspeople, a John FRASER, was baptised in that parish 2 March 1740, father John. I was hoping members with local knowledge of these parishes would be able to enlighten me as to whether the church in Loth was constructed prior to 1795 when the first baptisms were recorded in the OPR. |
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