DUNCAN

 This DUNCAN page deals primarily with the DUNCANs from Haggs and Denny (Stirlingshire) and is basically a few ramblings, sources, and insights into the families that lived at Thomaston, Haggs and Braeface, Haggs.  Another branch (George DUNCAN) emigrated to Canada in the early 1960s. 

This particular branch of the family tree is very complex, with many Duncans marrying other Duncans! The complexity arises from James DUNCAN (1822-1882) marrying twice and having fairly large families (and it is from James Duncan's first marriage to Agnes Hannah (1823-1858) that the various branches in Canada result) My tree descends from James Duncan's second marriage to Anne Anderson in 1858. James DUNCAN (1822-1882) was the son of James DUNCAN and Janet PATERSON who married in 1811. His siblings appear to be Anne DUNCAN born in 1814 (Campsie), Elizabeth Millar DUNCAN born 1816 (Kilsyth), Christian DUNCAN was born 1823 and finally William Paterson DUNCAN born in 1826. (Source - OPRs). James's first marriage to Agnes Hannah will be dealt with in a separate posting! James's second marriage (following Agnes's death in January 1858) was to Anne Anderson. Their children were: Robert DUNCAN b. 1859 David DUNCAN b. 1861 Alexander DUNCAN b. 1864 Elizabeth Gray DUNCAN b. 1866 Janet Paterson DUNCAN b. 1869 Peter DUNCAN b. 1871 Matthew DUNCAN b. 1877 - married Helen Gourley McALPINE and they had 13 children! 

Matthew Duncan and Helen McAlpine married in 1904. This was a difficult certificate to trace as Helen was recorded as Nellie Gourley McAlpine (and not Helen). The residence is just given as 'Haggs', but also on the same page of certificates is the marriage of John Moir Welsh and Elizabeth Duncan (from Braeface, Haggs) - descendants from James Duncan's first marriage to Agnes Hannah. Matthew Duncan and Helen McAlpine had 13 children and I believe the only one currently surviving is George, who is in Canada. I have a newspaper clipping of the time he left Scotland with his family (wife, twin boys and a daughter)which I must scan and upload sometime soon. (Still to confirm actual dates on my next visit to Register House, but the names of the children born to Matthew and Helen were Christina, George, Robert, Matthew, Jim, William, David, Mary, Helen, Anne, Twins and 1 other) 

Denny cemetery

In loving memory of MATTHEW DUNCAN died 16th January 1938 aged 60 years Beloved husband of HELEN McALPINE died 16th August 1966 aged 82 years

DUNCAN stories: (updated October 2021)

William DUNCAN and Jane FRASER

(I was given this document by my Aunt Mary – daughter of my great-grandmother Helen (Nellie) DUNCAN nee McALPINE).  I have reproduced the document here, with some corrections and minor amendments.  It appears to be written by a great grand son/grand-daughter of Elizabeth Fraser DUNCAN and John Moir WELSH (Elizabeth is descended from the William DUNCAN and Jane FRASER line).

Grandfather WELSH had always been tremendously proud of his family, and it was assumed that his side of the family must be the most interesting one, but, to the amazement of all concerned, it was later discovered that (my) grandmother’s family was really much more interesting, for it was possible that one branch of it was descended from the ancient Kings of Scotland.

(My grandmother) Elizabeth Fraser DUNCAN, was the youngest daughter of Jane FRASER and William DUNCAN and she was born on 16^th May 1881 in Morris Run, Pennsylvania, USA.  Her father had gone to America in the latter half of the 1870s and possibly around 1879 her mother and 3 sisters had gone to join him, sailing from the Clyde on the Circassia. However, the land wasn’t as hospitable as they expected and when (my) grandmother was just 6 weeks old it was decided that her father would go further west to try and make a living and that her mother and the girls would return to Scotland on the Devonia.  But apparently they had just been gone 2 weeks when her father returned from the west and followed the family home to Scotland.

Jane and William had married on 23^rd June 1871 in the Steel Farm at the foot of Braeface Road which lay in the Parish of Kilsyth and had produced 3 daughters before William set off for America:

• Margaret who was born on 4^th March 1872
• Agnes who was born on 27^th November 1873
• Annie, who was born on 27^th March 1876

On their return the family went to live at Rustic Bank for a time before buying a property at the east end of Braeface, and it was there that their son

• James, was born on 10^th July 1886

And this completed their family.

William, soon after returning to Scotland, had set up a pork butcher’s business (also described as a hamcurer’s business) and Jane and he had worked hard over the years to make a success of it.

Their house was similar to that belonging to the Welshes at the west end of Braeface, and it contained in one long single storey building a room, kitchen, stable and byre.  At the west end of the building in front of the stable and the byre were added a series of stone and wooden structures that extended to the road and consisted of a milk house, a shed where the sausage machine was located, a slaughter house, a workshop, and a boiler house where the pigs’ food was prepared.  In another long building parallel to and behind the house were the pig houses, and at the west end of this building they kept their butchers’ carts, though later, around 1916, when James was the proud possessor of the first motor car in Braeface,  it was pressed into service as a garage.

To the east and slightly to the rear of the house was the well from which they obtained their drinking water, prior to the installation of mains water around 1904.  (They were fortunate to have the main water pipe from the reservoir behind Boughridge passing through their property, so they were amongst the first people in Braeface to have running water in their house).  Their water for washing prior to the installation had had to be carried from the Back Burn that ran in a north-westerly direction through their property behind the house.

Incidentally, close to the point where this burn passed under the road to Boughridge and The Wairds,  Jenny Hay’s Well was located and it is just possible that she may have been related to the Helen HAY who married James WELSH.  (*  Note by GenealogyGems - If this is the case, then the McALPINE line descended from this couple)

When she left school, Margaret DUNCAN went to work in the stocking factory at Cumbernauld. She married John FLEMING who worked in the mining industry on 21^st February 1896 and for a period they acted as house-parents in Quarrier’s Homes at Bridge of Weir.  They had no family.  She died on 30 Jan 1927 at the age of 54 as a result of cancer of the stomach.  John subsequently married an Englishwoman whose name was Minnie ENGLAND and moved to 71 High Craigends, Kilsyth.  John and Minnie had one daughter, Dorothy, prior to John’s death on 29 Jan 1940 at the age of 67.

Agnes DUNCAN also worked in the stocking factory at Cumbernauld prior to her marriage to John BLAIR, who was an engineman in the mining industry, on 31 Dec 1894.  They had a large family:

• Jean, who married William STIRLING
• Mary, who married James STIRLING and went to live in Canada
• Agnes, who died when she was a child
• John, who never married and stayed all his life in the Haggs
• Margaret, who married John WAUGH
• William, who died on 17 Nov 1910 when he was 5 years 11 months old
• James, who went to Canada but stayed there for only a short time before returning to Scotland where he set up a chicken farm with John. However, he eventually married rather late in life and after a time he sold the family house in Haggs and went to live in Brighton.

Annie DUNCAN went into service in the Alva area where she met Alexander MURDOCH of Alva.  They were married on 30^th Dec 1900 and for a while Sandy worked on one of his father-in-law’s pork butcher’s carts.  During this time they lived in the east lodge of Banknock House, but later when a dispute arose with her brother James over money which had been received in payment of customers’ accounts they quietly left and went to live at 4 Leishman Square, James Street, Alva.  In Alva Annie apparently attended the Baptist Church.  She and Sandy had 3 of a family:

• Jean, who married George DAVIDSON
• Isabel, who married John WALLACE
• James

Unfortunately, Annie succumbed to influenza on 2 Nov 1918 at the age of 42 during an epidemic caused by a particularly virulent strain of the virus, though the intimation of her death in Kilsyth Chronicle said that she died of pneumonia.  Sandy and the children subsequently emigrated to Canada and (our) branch of the family eventually lost contact with them.

My grandmother, Elizabeth Fraser DUNCAN, married John Moir WELSH on 25 Jul 1904 and, despite having had a mastectomy in 1932, lived until she was one month short of her 80^th birthday.  Between leaving school and getting married she stayed at home to help her mother in whatever way she could and she had been responsible for doing the book-keeping for her parents’ business.

John DUNCAN married Margaret DUNCAN on 2 May 1917 and they had 3 children:

• Elizabeth, who married Peter DUNCAN
• Jean, who married William DUNCAN
• William, who married Isabel BAIN of Bottomhead Farm (though the marriage later broke up?)

As usual in those days, James being the only son, was the apple of his parents’ eye and all their hopes were pinned on him.  However, following an episode of rheumatic fever at 18 he had not been very robust and in consequence had been rather pampered.  But he was a clever young man and he invented various tools, such as the turnip shawer, a double-edged bracken cutter, the Denny grain lifter, etc., though instead of being patented in his own name, for various reasons which I won’t go into, it was arranged that these would be patented in the name of Cruikshank Agricultural Engineers, Denny, and they paid him a retainer.  He also had talents in other directions for before his marriage he was the big drummer in the Haggs Pipe Band.  Apparently his uniform included a tiger skin, which, when it was not in use, hung on a peg behind the room door, and some of his nieces took great delight when they were visiting their grandmother in hiding under it in order to frighten the younger members of the family.

Some time after he married Margaret, who was the only daughter of the Duncans of Glenhead Farm, he insisted that his parents put up the money to buy The Wairds Farm for him.  This was located behind their property and was another long single storey building consisting of a room, a kitchen with a tiny bedroom going off it, a bedroom backed by a scullery and, lastly, a byre at the east end.  All would have been well but for the fact that Margaret wasn’t at all industrious or supportive, took care of nothing and squandered all the money she could get her hands on.  As a result he went from one crisis to another, which, after his parents’ death, caused him to seek financial help from his remaining 2 sisters – Agnes and Elizabeth – and this eventually caused a rift in the family that was never healed.  He and Margaret had by that time gone through all of his parents’ estate, and that was said to be of considerable size, plus several legacies which had come to Margaret over the years from her own relatives.

William DUNCAN died on 18 May 1921 at the age of 73 and for 6 or 7 years following his death my mother slept in her grandmother’s house to keep an eye on her and to keep her company.  However, the old lady eventually couldn’t be left alone during the day, so other arrangements had to be made, and for the last year or so of her life she went to live with her son James at The Wairds.  When Jane died on 17 Aug 1929 at the age of 79 she was buried beside her husband in the Denny Cemetery, though no headstone marks their grave.

Investigations into the family tree revealed that Jane’s father was John FRASER, who had been working at Harvie’s Mailing in the Parish of Denny at the time of his marriage to Margaret MARSHALL on 30 Apr 1844 but apparently he died soon after Jane’s birth.  Unfortunately this is all the information which I was able to elicit.  However, when I examined the 1841 census for the Denny area, I found only one John FRASER and he was a labourer of 35 years of age, who interestingly enough, seemed to be staying in Haggs with the family of a William MARSHALL.  The latter was 25 years of age and may possibly have been a brother or at least a relative of Margaret MARSHALL.

Margaret MARSHALL, who was born in the Parish of Falkirk in 1827, was the daughter of John MARSHALL, joiner, and Elizabeth BRUCE, and was working at Sourgrass in the Parish of Denny at the time of her marriage, but at the time of the 1841 census she seemed to have been working at Bottomhead. She was still in her 20s when she was widowed, and, as was to be expected, she subsequently remarried on 2 Dec, 1854, at which time she was living at Parkfoot.  Her second husband was Robert McGREGOR and her second family included two daughters who were named:

• Margaret, who married great-grandfather’s brother Thomas DUNCAN
• Janet, who married J. REID

And at least one son named:

• Robert, who was born in 1861 and died at High Banton on 21 Feb 1919. He married Janet PATERSON and she died at the age of 66 in High Banton on 9 Mar 1928.  Their family included:
• Janet PATERSON, who died at the age of 17 years on 5 Jul 1909 in High Banton
• Robert, who married Margaret LINDSAY, youngest daughter of Mr and Mrs MIRRILEES, 25 Shawpark Street, Glasgow, in Milton Crescent Halls, Glasgow, on 21 Dec 1934. The ceremony was conducted by Rev D Montgomery.
• John PATERSON, who was born in 1890 and died at the age of 38 at High Banton on 2 Mar 1928. His wife was Margaret MARSHALL and they had 2 daughters.

NOTE:  A Margaret (Peggy) McGREGOR died at 12Edward Street, Kilsyth on 21 Jun 1934 and the notice was placed in the Kilsyth Chronicle by her Aunt Maggie, High Banton, but I do not know how she fits into the picture.

(Update by GenealogyGems: death records are available online after 75 years and a search on Scotlands People shows that there was only one Margaret McGREGOR in Kilsyth reported in 1934. She appears to be the 16 year old daughter of John McGREGOR and Margaret MARSHALL)

Sadly Margaret’s life ended rather tragically on 19^th January 1877, when she was 50 years of age, for on that wild and stormy night she fell or was blown into the Forth and Clyde Canal near Wyndford bridge, and apparently, although the bridge keeper later admitted that he had heard what could have been a scream, he had put it down to the whistling of the wind, hadn’t gone to investigate, and in consequence she had drowned.  She is buried in the old part of Kilsyth Cemetery.  Apparently her second husband was involved in a pit accident in the United States in 1875.

Jane had an older sister, Elizabeth, who was born in 1847 and who in due course married a Mr GEOFFREY of Dennyloanhead.  When he died Elizabeth remarried, her second husband being William MARSHALL.  Apparently she had 2 children, one of whom was thought to be Ina GEOFFREY and the other was thought to be Marion MARSHALL.

To return to William DUNCAN, he was the second son of James DUNCAN and Agnes HANNAH, who were married on 30 Nov 1844 in the Parish of Haggs.  His brothers were

• James (died Oct 1907), who was the eldest, married Isabella BLAIR (died 22 May 1912). One of their daughters married Archibald HAHHAH who died 3 August 1912 and they had a grand daughter (Mary DUNCAN) who also died on 3 August 1912.  Apparently “Big Will” who married Jean BLYTHE and whose son John was Detective Chief Superintendent of Police in Glasgow before being appointed to the post of Deputy Commander of Scotland’s Regional Crime Squad in March 1969 after 30 years with the force, was one of this family.

• Thomas DUNCAN (married Margaret McGREGOR). Margaret was the daughter of Margaret MARSHALL and Robert McGREGOR (mentioned previously) and their family consisted of
• James DUNCAN who married Ellen MILLER and had 2 daughters. Ellen died at Lea Cottage, Banton, on 12^th October 1929 when she was 47 years of age. The family later moved to 45 Townhead Street, Kilsyth.
• William
• Thomas

• John DUNCAN 1931 (married Jean MILLER) and died on 11 April 1931 when he was 75 years of age at 37 Kilsyth Road, Haggs. John was apparently involved in running a little Gospel Hall at the end of the Rows in Banknock and Jane FRASER (William’s wife) encouraged her family to attend, with the result that Margaret and Agnes (children of William DUNCAN and Jane FRASER)  in later life became members of the Brethren Assembly at Haggs.  Margaret, in turn, having no family of her own, took an interest in her nieces and was instrumental in her sibling (Elizabeth) joining the Brethren Assembly in Haggs in due course.  John died on 11 April 1931 when he was 75 years of age at 37 Kilsyth Road, Haggs.

It proved difficult to trace William’s father, James, in the records, but eventually, having consulted the records in Denny Cemetery and having ascertained that he was buried there on 2 Dec 1882, we found from his death certificate that he had been born in 1822, and that his parents were James DUNCAN and Janet PATERSON.  In the Kilsyth Parish records whilst looking for something else, I came across a record of the baptism of Elizabeth Millar DUNCAN who was the daughter of James DUNCAN and Jean PATERSON and had been born on 26 Nov 1816, so at some point the family had lived in the KILSYTH Parish.

NOTE – update by GenealogyGems:  There are a few more children born to James DUNCAN and Janet PATERSON; namely Anne and David DUNCAN born 1814; Christian Gillies DUNCAN born 1823)

Later still I found that at the time the 1841 Census was taken the entries for Easter Thomaston included a William HAY (Labourer) aged 40 and his family, a William SCOTT (Farmer) aged 45 and his family, and another household whose occupants were listed as follows:  Janet PATERSON aged 50 who was undoubtedly the above mentioned Jean (Jean/Jane/Janet are all interchangeable in the records), James DUNCAN (Coal Miner) aged 20 who was my great great grandfather, and William HANNA (Labourer) aged 35.  It is a well-known fact that the SCOTTs, the HAYs, and the HANNAHs appear in our family tree and presumably the families were living in Easter Thomaston at that time were relatives of one kind or another.  No mention was made in the 1841 census of James DUNCAN senior, and although it did not state that Janet PATERSON was by then a widow, it seems likely that this was the case.

It is of interest to note that in the Haggs Parish Records a marriage between a James DUNCAN and an Isobel WALKER was recorded in 1792 and I suppose that it is just possible that this couple were the parents of the last named James DUNCAN.  This is still to be proved through documentation.

My great-grandfather William’s mother was Agnes HANNAH (spelt HONEY in the records in Edinburgh), who was born on 13 Sep 1823 to William HANNAH, Innkeeper of Haggs, and Janet SCOTT.  Sadly she died at the age of 35 on 29 Jan 1858, of a haemorrhage following childbirth, and she was buried in the Churchyard at Dennyloanhead.

Later her husband, my great great grandfather James, remarried and his second wife was Ann ANDERSON, and this was the fact which had caused the original difficulty which was encountered in tracing him, because Agnes HANNAH was not mentioned on his death certificate.

(This story has been reproduced from an original typed document.  Author unknown, other than it appears to be the grand daughter/grand son of Elizabeth Fraser DUNCAN and John Moir WELSH).

Ancestors of Helen DUNCAN

Generation 1

Helen DUNCAN, daughter of Matthew DUNCAN and Helen McAlpine, was born on 29 Sep 1914 in Haggs, Stirlingshire, Scotland. She died on 17 Dec 1949 in Kilsyth, Stirlingshire, Scotland. She married (1.) William ERSKINE on 04 Jul 1934 in Blythswood, Renfrewshire, Scotland. He ran off to Bolton, and they divorced.  She later married (2)  John Mitchell.

1.

Generation 2

Matthew DUNCAN, son of James DUNCAN and Anne Anderson, was born on 30 Aug 1877 in Haggs, Stirlingshire, Scotland (Thomaston). He died on 16 Jan 1938 in Haggs, Stirlingshire, Scotland. He married Helen McAlpine on 15 Jun 1904 in Haggs, Stirlingshire, Scotland.

2.

Helen McAlpine, daughter of David McAlpine and Christina White, was born on 22 Feb 1884 in Haggs, Stirlingshire, Scotland. She died on 16 Aug 1966 in Haggs, Stirlingshire, Scotland.

3.

Helen McAlpine and Matthew DUNCAN had the following children:

1.

i.

Helen DUNCAN was born on 29 Sep 1914 in Haggs, Stirlingshire, Scotland. She died on 17 Dec 1949 in Kilsyth, Stirlingshire, Scotland. She married William ERSKINE on 04 Jul 1934 in Blythswood, Renfrewshire, Scotland. She married John Mitchell.

ii.

James DUNCAN.

iii.

Matthew DUNCAN.

iv.

Robert DUNCAN.

v.

William DUNCAN.

vi.

David DUNCAN.

vii.

George DUNCAN.

viii.

Christine DUNCAN.

ix.

Mary DUNCAN.

x.

Anne DUNCAN.

Generation 3

James DUNCAN, son of James DUNCAN and Janet PATERSON, was born in 1822. He died on 02 Dec 1882 in Haggs, Stirlingshire, Scotland (Braeface). He married Anne Anderson on 19 Oct 1858 in Denny, Stirlingshire, Scotland.

4.

Anne Anderson, daughter of WIlliam ANDERSON and Elisabeth GRAY, was born in 1836.

5.

Anne Anderson and James DUNCAN had the following children:

i.

Robert DUNCAN was born on 30 May 1859 in Haggs, Stirlingshire, Scotland (North Thomaston).

ii.

David DUNCAN was born on 18 Apr 1861 in Denny, Stirlingshire, Scotland (North Thomaston).

iii.

Alexander DUNCAN was born on 04 Apr 1864 in Denny, Stirlingshire, Scotland (Thomaston).

iv.

Elizabeth Gray DUNCAN was born on 29 Oct 1866 in Denny, Stirlingshire, Scotland (Thomaston).

v.

Janet Paterson DUNCAN was born on 21 Jun 1869 in Denny, Stirlingshire, Scotland (North Thomaston).

vi.

Jessie DUNCAN was born in 1870 in Haggs, Stirlingshire, Scotland.

vii.

Peter DUNCAN was born on 31 Jul 1871 in Denny, Stirlingshire, Scotland (Thomaston).

viii.

Ann Anderson DUNCAN was born on 03 Sep 1874 in Haggs, Stirlingshire, Scotland (Thomaston).

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x.

Agnes DUNCAN was born on 05 Mar 1880 in Haggs, Stirlingshire, Scotland (Thomaston).

David McAlpine, son of David McALPINE and Helen GOURLAY Welsh, was born in 1852. He died on 06 Jun 1914 in Haggs, Stirlingshire, Scotland. He married Christina White.

6.

Christina White, daughter of William WHITE and Mary ALLAN, was born on 23 Apr 1862 in Denny, Stirlingshire, Scotland. She died in 1926 in Haggs, Stirlingshire, Scotland.

7.

Christina White and David McAlpine had the following child:

3.

i.

Helen McAlpine was born on 22 Feb 1884 in Haggs, Stirlingshire, Scotland. She died on 16 Aug 1966 in Haggs, Stirlingshire, Scotland. She married Matthew DUNCAN on 15 Jun 1904 in Haggs, Stirlingshire, Scotland. He was born on 30 Aug 1877 in Haggs, Stirlingshire, Scotland (Thomaston). He died on 16 Jan 1938 in Haggs, Stirlingshire, Scotland.

Generation 4

James DUNCAN.  He died before 1858. He married Janet PATERSON on 17 Aug 1811 in St Ninians, Stirlingshire, Scotland.

8.

Janet PATERSON, daughter of David PATERSON and Elizabeth MILLAR, was born in 1790. She died on 24 Apr 1870 in Denny, Stirlingshire, Scotland (Thomaston).

9.

Janet PATERSON and James DUNCAN had the following children:

i.

John McDonald DUNCAN was born on 13 Aug 1813 in Campsie, Stirlingshire, Scotland.

ii.

Elisabeth Millar DUNCAN was born on 26 Nov 1816 in Kilsyth, Stirlingshire, Scotland.

4.

iii.

James DUNCAN was born in 1822. He died on 02 Dec 1882 in Haggs, Stirlingshire, Scotland (Braeface). He married Anne Anderson on 19 Oct 1858 in Denny, Stirlingshire, Scotland. She was born in 1836. He married Agnes Hannah on 30 Nov 1844 in Haggs, Stirlingshire, Scotland. She was born on 13 Sep 1823.

iv.

Christian Gillies DUNCAN was born on 23 Aug 1823 in Denny, Stirlingshire, Scotland.

v.

William Paterson DUNCAN was born on 19 Nov 1826 in Denny, Stirlingshire, Scotland.

WIlliam ANDERSON.  He died after 1858. He married Elisabeth GRAY.

10.

Elisabeth GRAY, daughter of John GRAY and Jean CLELAND, was born on 22 Oct 1797 in Slamannan, Stirlingshire, Scotland. She died on 02 Jan 1864 in Slamannan, Stirlingshire, Scotland.

11.

Elisabeth GRAY and WIlliam ANDERSON had the following children:

i.

Robert ANDERSON was born on 26 Feb 1823 in Slamannan, Stirlingshire, Scotland.

5.

ii.

Anne Anderson was born in 1836. She married James DUNCAN on 19 Oct 1858 in Denny, Stirlingshire, Scotland. He was born in 1822. He died on 02 Dec 1882 in Haggs, Stirlingshire, Scotland (Braeface).

David McALPINE was born in 1821. He died on 27 Nov 1874 in Haggs, Stirlingshire, Scotland. He married Helen GOURLAY Welsh.

12.

Helen GOURLAY Welsh.

13.

Helen GOURLAY Welsh and David McALPINE had the following child:

6.

i.

David McAlpine was born in 1852. He died on 06 Jun 1914 in Haggs, Stirlingshire, Scotland. He married Christina White.  She was born on 23 Apr 1862 in Denny, Stirlingshire, Scotland. She died in 1926 in Haggs, Stirlingshire, Scotland.

William WHITE, son of George WHITE and Christina WILSON, was born in 1819. He died on 24 Dec 1884 in Cauldhame, Stirlingshire, Scotland. He married Mary ALLAN.

14.

Mary ALLAN, daughter of John ALLAN and Ann SMITH, was born in 1819. She died on 01 Jun 1893 in Haggs, Stirlingshire, Scotland.

15.

Mary ALLAN and William WHITE had the following child:

7.

i.

Christina White was born on 23 Apr 1862 in Denny, Stirlingshire, Scotland. She died in 1926 in Haggs, Stirlingshire, Scotland. She married David McAlpine.  He was born in 1852. He died on 06 Jun 1914 in Haggs, Stirlingshire, Scotland.

Generation 5

David PATERSON.  He married Elizabeth MILLAR.

18.

Elizabeth MILLAR.

19.

Elizabeth MILLAR and David PATERSON had the following child:

9.

i.

Janet PATERSON was born in 1790. She died on 24 Apr 1870 in Denny, Stirlingshire, Scotland (Thomaston). She married James DUNCAN on 17 Aug 1811 in St Ninians, Stirlingshire, Scotland. He died before 1858.

John Gillon.  He married Margaret ANDERSON.

20.

Margaret ANDERSON.

21.

Margaret ANDERSON and John Gillon had the following child:

10.

i.

WIlliam ANDERSON.  He died after 1858. He married Elisabeth GRAY.  She was born on 22 Oct 1797 in Slamannan, Stirlingshire, Scotland. She died on 02 Jan 1864 in Slamannan, Stirlingshire, Scotland.

John GRAY.  He married Jean CLELAND on 24 Aug 1793 in Slamannan, Stirlingshire, Scotland.

22.

Jean CLELAND.

23.

Jean CLELAND and John GRAY had the following child:

11.

i.

Elisabeth GRAY was born on 22 Oct 1797 in Slamannan, Stirlingshire, Scotland. She died on 02 Jan 1864 in Slamannan, Stirlingshire, Scotland. She married WIlliam ANDERSON.  He died after 1858.

George WHITE.  He married Christina WILSON.

28.

Christina WILSON.

29.

Christina WILSON and George WHITE had the following child:

14.

i.

William WHITE was born in 1819. He died on 24 Dec 1884 in Cauldhame, Stirlingshire, Scotland. He married Mary ALLAN.  She was born in 1819. She died on 01 Jun 1893 in Haggs, Stirlingshire, Scotland.

John ALLAN.  He married Ann SMITH.

30.

Ann SMITH.

31.

Ann SMITH and John ALLAN had the following child:

15.

i.

Mary ALLAN was born in 1819. She died on 01 Jun 1893 in Haggs, Stirlingshire, Scotland. She married William WHITE.  He was born in 1819. He died on 24 Dec 1884 in Cauldhame, Stirlingshire, Scotland.