James Laurie or Lawrie/Lowrie FMFFMF
 

father's mother's father's father's mother's father

Link to his daughter, my 3x great grandmother:

http://genealogistsforum.co.uk/forum...ristian+Laurie

Name - "official" name and what they were known as
James Laurie

Date and place of birth
unknown

Names of parents
unknown

Date and place of baptism - if applicable
unknown

Details of each of his or her marriages - if any
To Christian Milne
Place and date unknown

Occupation(s) - if any
unknown

Children
Margaret bapt. 5 Nov 1782
James bapt. 28 Sep 1784
Christian bapt. 13 Jun 1787
Andrew bapt. 22 May 1791

Addresses where they lived (including county if in UK) - and please list which censuses you have or haven't found him/her on (if s/he lived in census times!)
Maryculter, Kincardineshire, Scotland (baptism of children)

Date, place and cause of death
unknown

Date and place of burial
unknown

Details of will / administration of their estate - if applicable
unknown

Memorial inscription - if any
unknown

Hi

I also have a 4g grandfather named James Laurie but I don't think we are related.

My MMMFMF, James Laurie III was from Dumfries (probably Kirkmahoe) and died at Milliganton, Dumfries in 1828.

Probably a really common name in Scotland !!

Cheers

Di

Hi Di, most of my Scottish names seem to be really common. :d

I have almost given up hope of finding early Scottish marriages and baptisms.

This is a possible baptism, but I have no confidence that it is the correct one. I don't know how good the coverage of the IGI is for this part of Scotland.

name: James Laurie
gender: Male
baptism/christening date: 30 Jan 1766
baptism/christening place: BANCHORY-TERNAN, KINCARDINE
father's name: Charles Laurie
father's birthplace:
indexing project (batch) number: C11252-4

On second thoughts, my James' first child was born in 1782 so perhaps this baptism is too late.

Having gone round in circles with the McLeans in my tree, I thought I'd have a look at this.

On Family Search, there is a James Laurie baptised in 1750 in Maryculter. Parents are Charles Laurie and Mary Ross.

This public tree on Ancestry appears unsourced at first glance, but has lots of info.

http://trees.ancestry.co.uk/tree/354...rson/631481392

Shona, many thanks for that. I'm not very practised at Scottish research. I hadn't thought to look to see if there was an Ancestry tree, so I'm off to have a good look.

Shona, it certainly seems to be well researched so far but the sources would have been handy.
Many thanks for finding this - I will have fun checking out the information.

According to this tree, James Laurie married again after Christian Milne died and had quite a few more children.

You could contact the tree owner to ask about the sources.