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Subject: [SCT-ISLAY] Currie ancestry
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 12:36:25 EDT

In a message dated 11/10/02 12:08:46 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
writes:

> Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 11:43:11 -0400
> From: "KathyW" <>
> To:
> Subject: [SCT-ISLAY] Currie ancestry
>
> I've just found out more info about my Currie ancestry. My gg grandmother
> Margaret Currie married James Wallace on Islay in Foreland in 1835. I just
> determined that she had been born in Glasgow, Lanarkshire in 1811 to
> Alexander Currie and Agnes McIntyre. I don't know how she would have
> connected with James. The Wallaces were in Renfrewshire and on Bute. I'm
> wondering if the Curries had relocated to Islay at some point.
>
> According to Margaret Currie Wallace's death certificate in 1878 Alexander
> Currie had been involved in road construction. The IGI suggests that he
> was born in Glasgow in about 1764 and Agnes was also born in Glasgow in
> about 1768. They married in 1795 - and daughter Agnes was born in 1796.
> There were probably other children before Margaret's birth in 1811.
> Neither of the parents were alive in 1835 at the time Margaret married so I
> will be trying to track down their death certificates now. If this matches
> anyone else's lines I'd love to hear from you.
>
> Kathy Wallace
>

Kathy,
I saw your message on both Lanark and Islay Lists. Since CURRIE is a common
name on Islay, I would suspect not that your family "had relocated to Islay
at some point", but that they had originated there.

I note that your earliest sources seem to be the IGI. Remember that IGI is
only a secondary source, and often unreliable. I suggest that you follow the
clues in the IGI and try to find the OPR records for your family's marriage
and births. These may give you more detail and either confirm or refute the
IGI information.

Good Hunting !!

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Ken Harrison
North Vancouver, Canada

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