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From: "hilo" <>
Subject: Re: [PERTH] Village of Comrie, Perths.
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 18:38:46 +0800
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Hello Bob

I'm researching the McEWEN/McEWAN's from Comrie.

I'll contact you privately. I have some records and photos of graves that
might assist you.

Lois
Western Australia

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Subject: [PERTH] Village of Comrie, Perths.


> Just wondering who is doing research on families living in Comrie,
> Perthshire, in the mid-to-late 1700s. The surnames of interest to me are
COMRIE,
> DRUMMOND, STALKER, and MCFARLANE.
>
> An ancestor of mine, James DRUMMOND, of Muthill, Perthshire, married one
> Janet COMRIE, daughter of William Comrie and C(K)athrine DRUMMOND,or
Comrie, in
> Muthill, 1829.
>
> I've heard by e-mail from Mr. Terry Howard, of Seattle, Washington
> (), that local lore in Comrie says that the Drummonds,
Docharts and
> Comries of Comrie were often really MacGregors (the MacGregor surname
having been
> abolished in the Proscriptive Act of 1603, for apparently political
reasons.
> MacGregors assumed the surnames of Comrie, Dochart, and Drummond until
1774,
> when the Proscriptive Act was lifted).
>
> I'm not at that stage when I can comment on these findings, or use them in
my
> research. I would appreciate of course, any enlightenment on this issue,
but
> for the time being, I'm trying to sort out some of the existing names in
Old
> Parish Registers.
>
> I have prima facie proof (death certificate, giving parents' names of the
> decedant, of my g-g grandmother, Janet Comrie (1804-1886)), daughter of
William
> Comrie (b. 1781) and C(K)athrine Drummond, m. 1803, of the village of
Comrie.
> Whether the parents were really MacGregors, I leave to speculation.
>
> However, I'm reasonably certain that her spouse, James Drummond of
Monkscroft
> Farm, Muthill, WAS a Drummond, because his family was not living in Comrie
at
> the time in question.
>
> If you can follow all of this, I salute you. If you can't, then I'd like
to
> hear what you know of William Comrie's (b. 1781) family.
>
> I suspect he was born to James Comrie (b. 1762) and Jean McFarlane, both
of
> Comrie. I'm stretching to propose that James Comrie's parents were
Alexander
> Comrie (b. 1722) and Jean STALKER.
>
> The STALKER family is prolific in Comrie in the first half of the
eighteenth
> century.
>
> Any clues?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> ---Bob (Robert Drummond) Robertson
> Napa Valley, California
>

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