gibson/wright/coltart, Glencairn, Dumfries
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Re: gibson/wright/coltart, Glencairn, Dumfries
| Dean W. Sandeman (View posts) | Posted: 2 Jul 2002 8:59PM GMT |
Classification: Query
Dear Ms. Cunningham,
I read with interest you query on Wright. I am a researcher for a branch of the Ferguson Family of Craigdarroch. The Craigdarroch Fergusons became Cunninghams. I have the following snippet on the Wrights.
JOHN Ferguson.
b. 1755.
c. Feb. 16, 1755, the son of Sir James Ferguson and Elenora Dalrymple at Drumlanrig.
m. April 27, 1778 to Jenny Wright at St. John the Devine's, Preston, England (c. May 23,1754 as Janet Wright, the daughter of Andrew Wright, and Elizabeth Dickson of Dumfries, Dumfries, Scotland.
d. "John Ferguson in Drumjohn in the Parish of Kirgunnion; deceased on 20 October last and filed 24th October 1814.
Sources can be sent if you need.
It crosses my memory that perhaps you should also look in Preston for Wrights as there were close economic ties between Moniave ( or merchants in Dumfries) and Preston.
Fergusons, Wrights, and Dalrympl were in both places.
Also Maxwells were orginally at Maxwelton and sold to the Lauries. (There may have been a family relationship.) I think the name Gibson was either in trade or a merchant in Dumfries in the 1700's And McGhee was married to Ferguson. But her father in law Ferguson, as Justice of the Peace, in late 1600's declared her aunt a McGhee a witch and had her burned at the stake. See the Moniave Gazette or talk to editor. Fergusons then married a McGhee girl who placed a curse on the groom of Craigdarroch and haunts the house to this very day. From what I have been able to assemble the McGhees fled to Ireland and were bannished from Dumfries. Mostly, they changed the spelling to McGee, MacGee or Gee. Some came to America. Some eventually came back to Glencairn, or perhaps some recanted. It is a story that could use a family historian.
Dean W. Sandeman
I read with interest you query on Wright. I am a researcher for a branch of the Ferguson Family of Craigdarroch. The Craigdarroch Fergusons became Cunninghams. I have the following snippet on the Wrights.
JOHN Ferguson.
b. 1755.
c. Feb. 16, 1755, the son of Sir James Ferguson and Elenora Dalrymple at Drumlanrig.
m. April 27, 1778 to Jenny Wright at St. John the Devine's, Preston, England (c. May 23,1754 as Janet Wright, the daughter of Andrew Wright, and Elizabeth Dickson of Dumfries, Dumfries, Scotland.
d. "John Ferguson in Drumjohn in the Parish of Kirgunnion; deceased on 20 October last and filed 24th October 1814.
Sources can be sent if you need.
It crosses my memory that perhaps you should also look in Preston for Wrights as there were close economic ties between Moniave ( or merchants in Dumfries) and Preston.
Fergusons, Wrights, and Dalrympl were in both places.
Also Maxwells were orginally at Maxwelton and sold to the Lauries. (There may have been a family relationship.) I think the name Gibson was either in trade or a merchant in Dumfries in the 1700's And McGhee was married to Ferguson. But her father in law Ferguson, as Justice of the Peace, in late 1600's declared her aunt a McGhee a witch and had her burned at the stake. See the Moniave Gazette or talk to editor. Fergusons then married a McGhee girl who placed a curse on the groom of Craigdarroch and haunts the house to this very day. From what I have been able to assemble the McGhees fled to Ireland and were bannished from Dumfries. Mostly, they changed the spelling to McGee, MacGee or Gee. Some came to America. Some eventually came back to Glencairn, or perhaps some recanted. It is a story that could use a family historian.
Dean W. Sandeman