Peter Davie (177?-18??)

PETER DAVIE (177?-18??) was probably born in the 1770's. It has not yet been possible to link him to other Davies in the Garioch.

On 2 June 1793 he married 18-year-old Elizabeth Cromby at St Peter's, the chief Roman Catholic church in Aberdeen, in Justice Street. (The registers are in St Mary's, the subsequently-built Roman Catholic cathedral in Aberdeen.) The witnesses were James Barclay and Jean Davidson.

Elizabeth was the younger child of James Cromby and Margaret Copland, who had married in 1772. She was born in Fetternear on 12 March 1775. Her elder brother, John, was responsible for the establishment of Cothal Mills in 1806. It has been suggested in the company history of Crombie Mills that Elizabeth's father was a handloom weaver, and acquainted with the Kilgours of Buchan (he is described as a manufacturer on his son John's death certificate). John and his son James established a thriving textile business on the banks of the Don, and among their descendants through the female line is Diana, Princess of Wales.

The couple may have begun their married life in Middleton of Balquhain, but are most particularly associated with Fetternear, in particular with the part furthest from the river, called Hill of Fetternear.

Fetternear, which means 'land in front of the shieling hill' (or maybe 'western forest'), had been a separate parish up to 1599, and since 1566 it had been owned by the Leslie family. The Leslies were prominent Catholics, and were instrumental in the setting up of a seminary at Aquhorties in 1796, under the direction of Bishop Hay, the Lowland Vicar Apostolic.

It is not clear whether Peter came from a long-established Catholic family. During parts of the 19th century, it was expected that crofters on the Leslie estate should attend the little Catholic church of St Ninian's, on the banks of the Don at Fetternear. Peter and Elizabeth's relationship with the Catholic church is far from clear-cut. However, at least three of their children were Catholics, and the baptism of all their children is recorded on a separate page of the Chapel of Garioch register. An additional source of confusion is that their eldest son, Thomas', baptism is recorded at Inverurie in the correct chronological place, and in the records of the Roman Catholic church at Huntly, as well as in the Chapel of Garioch records. This might suggest that Peter and Elizabeth moved from Middleton of Balquhaine to Fetternear between 1794 and 1796.

The couple were possibly still alive in 1839, when a Peter and Elizabeth Davie in Hill of Fetternear were witnesses of John Davie's baptism.

1 THOMAS DAVIE (1794-18??) was born on 22 March 1794, probably at Middleton of Balquhain. He was baptized privately in Inverurie three days later. The witnesses were William Nichol and Thomas Crombie of Middleton of Balquhain. (However, the Roman Catholic register for Huntly records him as being baptized on the 24th, and the sponsors as John and Johanna Crombie!)

He became a blacksmith in Aberdeen, and was at 87 West North Street in 1841 and 1847.

He married Barbara (or Elizabeth?) Garden on 4 August 1824 at St Nicholas Blotter, Aberdeen. Barbara's father was a carter.

1.1 ?? DAVIE (1823?-??), a son born about 1823 in Old Machar, working as a flax spinner in 1851, and living at West North Street. (It is not certain that he was Thomas' son.) His wife was called Ann, and they had a son:

1.1.1 ALEXANDER DAVIE (1848?-??), born about 1848 in Aberdeen.

1.2 ELIZABETH DAVIE (1825-1863), baptized at St Peter's Roman Catholic church in Aberdeen on 16 February 1825. The witnesses were Alexander Hay and the Revd. Mr. Gordon. In 1841 she was living with her parents and working as a flax twister.

She married James McBeath, a master mariner, on 4 April 1845 in Aberdeen. They were married by Revd. Charles Gordon of St. Peter's Chapel. In 1851 they were at Seatown of Cullen. James died at sea in 1856 in the Bay of Riga, Latvia, and Elizabeth subsequently remarried, to Lewis Guthrie at Jarrow on 14 November 1859. Elizabeth died on 27 November 1863 at Hebburn Quay, Co. Durham.

Elizabeth and James had five children:

1.2.1 THOMAS McBEATH (1846?-1908) or McBETH, born about 1846 in Cullen. He moved to Jarrow with his mother. In 1861 he was working as a rivet boy and in 1868 as a ship carpenter. On 24 February 1868, he married Mary Ash Anderson in Jarrow Parish Church, Co. Durham. In 1881 he was at 59 Ward Street, Bishopwearmouth. Mary appears to have died in the 1880's, for Thomas married Mary Coulthard at Newcastle in the third quarter of 1887 and they had several children. (She had been born at South Shields at the end of 1865.) In 1891, they were at 30 Cannon Street, Newcastle. Thomas died in the second quarter of 1908, "aged 60". Thomas and Mary McBeth (née Anderson) had issue:

1.2.1.1 JAMES McBETH (1868-19??), born in Newcastle about 1868. He worked as an iron ship plater. On 1 April 1890, he married Agnes Eleanor Little at Tynemouth Register Office. He was living at 18 Buddle Street, Wallsend, at the time. They had some ten children, including Mary Elizabeth McBeth, born in 1902, the mother of Thomas Ross and grandmother of Jeff Ross, one of the contributors to these notes.

1.2.1.2 Possibly JANE ANN McBETH (1870-??), born in Newcastle in the second quarter of 1870.

1.2.2 JAMES McBEATH (1848-18??), born at Cullen on 11 January 1848. He presumably died in infancy.

1.2.3 WILLIAM COUTTS McBEATH (1850-1855), born on 23 May 1850 at Seatown of Cullen. He died there on 3 March 1855, and is buried in Cullen Old Churchyard.

1.2.4 JAMES McBEATH (1854-1930), born on 1 May 1854 at Cullen. He accompanied his mother to Jarrow, but later returned to Seatown of Cullen, where he became a fisherman. He married Isabella Finlay on 18 January 1878 in Cullen. He died at Fraserburgh in November 1930, and was buried at Cullen.

1.2.5 DAVID WILLIAM McBEATH (1856-1856), born on 20 October 1856 at 54 Woodman Hill, Aberdeen. He died a month later at Seatown of Cullen, and is buried in Cullen Old Churchyard.

1.3 CHARLOTTE DAVIE (1826?-1865), aged 14 in 1841 and living at home. On 19 January 1852, she married William Thom at St Nicholas Blotter, Aberdeen. William already had two daughters, Elspet, aged 12 in 1861, and Elizabeth, aged 10. The couple moved from Scotland to Jarrow between 1853 and 1856.

In 1861 Charlotte and William Thom, and Lewis and Elizabeth Guthrie were living a few doors from each other in Leslies Buildings, Jarrow. An Aberdonian, (Alexander?) Leslie had set up a shipyard in Hebburn / Jarrow, and a number of Aberdonians had joined the work force there. It seems that Charlotte and Ann had accompanied their husbands there, and that they were subsequently joined by the widowed Elzabeth and the young Barbara. It is not known whether their father, Thomas, might have joined them.

Charlotte Thom died at Hebburn in the third quarter of 1865. She and William had at least two children:

1.3.1 ANN THOM (1853?-??), born in Scotland and aged 8 in 1861. She married a ship's carpenter, John Watt, in the first quarter of 1873 in South Shields.

1.3.2 JANE THOM (1856-??), born in Hebburn, South Shields.

1.4 ANN DAVIE (1827?-18??), aged 13 in 1841 and living at home. She married Gilbert McDonald Gillevray in Aberdeen in 1850. They moved to Tyneside between 1853 and 1855. Gilbert died in the third quarter of 1868, at the age of 39. In 1871, Ann was at 30 Monkton Road, Hedworth Monkton in Jarrow with John, Margaret, Charlotte and Helen. Their children were:

1.4.1 ISABELLA GILLEVRAY (1851-??), born in Scotland.

1.4.2 ALEXANDER GILLEVRAY (1853-??), born in Scotland. He was a joiner, boarding at 32 Potter Street, Hedworth Monkton, Jarrow in 1881, along with his brother John. He is recorded as being widowed.

1.4.3 ANN GILLVEARY (1854-??), born in Walker in the third quarter of 1854.

1.4.4 ELIZABETH GILLVARY (1856-??), born in Hebburn in the fourth quarter of 1856.

1.4.5 JOHN MATHISON GILLVARY (1859-??), born in Hebburn in the second quarter of 1859. He was working in a grocer's shop in 1871, but by 1881 described himself as a painter.

1.4.6 MARGARET ROSS GILLVEARY (1861-??), born in Hebburn. In 1881 she was in service with her uncle, William Allison.

1.4.7 GILBERT GILLVARY (1864-1868), born in Hebburn in the first quarter of 1864. He died at the beginning of 1868.

1.4.8 CHARLOTTE GILLVEARY (1866-1871), born in Hebburn, who died at the age of five at the end of 1871.

1.4.9 HELEN GILLVEARY (1868-??), born in Hebburn.

And also, it seems:

1.4.10 JAMES GILLVEARY (1870-1871), born in the South Shields registration district, who died in infancy.

1.4.11 Another JAMES GILLVARY (1873-??), born in the South Shields registration district in the second quarter of 1873.

1.4.12 Another GILBERT GILLVARY (1874-1874), who died in the third quarter of 1874 before reaching his first birthday.

1.5 BARBARA GORDON DAVIE (1840-1903), aged five months in 1841. She was at her sister Eliza McBeath's house in Seatown of Cullen in 1851. She probably accompanied her family to the Jarrow area, and married William Allison on 7 December 1857 at the Roman Catholic Christ Church, Walker. William was a ship's carpenter from Dunrossness, Shetland Isles, and had been born on 9 January 1831. At the time, they were living in Hebburn. In 1861 they were in Commercial Road, Jarrow, with two children, John (1859) and George (1861). On the 1881 census they are in Hebburn at 63 James Street. By this time they had nine more children. On the 1891 census they are still in Jarrow where Barbara died in the third quarter of 1903 aged 62.

Their children (all born in Jarrow) were:

1.5.1 JOHN ALLISON (1860-??)

1.5.2 GEORGE ALLISON (1861-??)

1.5.3 WILLIAM ALLISON (1864-??)

1.5.4 ARTHUR ALLISON (1866-??)

1.5.5 GILBERT GILVERY ALLISON (1868-1912). He was an iron and steel ship plater. He married Margaret Robertson in the third quarter of 1889. In 1901 he was living at 3 Stephen Street, Jarrow. His children included:

1.5.5.1 WILLIAM ALLISON (1891-??)

1.5.5.1 SARAH ELEANOR ALLISON (1893-??)

1.5.5.1 GILBERT ALLISON (1896-1968)

1.5.5.1 THOMAS ALLISON (1900-??), aged 11 months at the time of the 1901 census.

1.5.6 DAVID CHARLES ALLISON (1870-??)

1.5.7 ROBERT ALLISON (1873-??)

1.5.8 BASIL ALLISON (1875-??)

1.5.9 BARBARA ALLISON (1877-??)

1.5.10 ALBERT VICTOR ALLISON (1878-??)

1.5.11 JOSHUA ALLISON (1880-??)

2 AMELIA DAVIE (1796-1872), also called EMILY and AMELIA MARY, was born in Fetternear on 22 February 1796 and baptized on 10 March. William Nichol and Thomas Crombie were again the witnesses.

She married a farmer, Peter Walker in Mains of Fetternear, on 15 November 1823. He was eighteen years older than her, and she was his second wife. He had been married to Isobel Whyte, who had died at Mains of Fetternear on 1 October 1820. One of the four children of this first marriage, Charles Walker, born in 1815, was living with the family in 1841.

Peter Walker farmed in Mains of Fetternear until he was 66, dying on 6 December 1844. He is recorded on the voters' register of 1830. He is buried in the cemetery of St Ninian's Catholic Church at Fetternear, and the records of the Roman Catholic chapel at Aquhorties, which survive from 1842 to 1845, show Emily as an Easter communicant.

In 1845, after her husband's death, Emily was at Nether Fetternear, and in 1851 she described herself as a knitter, and had two lodgers. Amelia lived to be 76 (her gravestone says 77), dying on 11 July 1872, and being buried with her husband in the cemetery at Fetternear.

2.1 VIOLET WALKER (?1824-??), born in 1824 or 1825. She may have married James Adam, who was born in 1825 or 1826 and was living with the Walkers in 1841, for we know that Amelia had a granddaughter:

2.1.1 ANN ADAM (1849-1855), born in Chapel of Garioch parish in 1849, who died on 25 July 1855.

2.2 CECILIA WALKER (?1827-??), born in 1827 or 1828. In 1851 she was living with her sister and brother-in-law, the Woods, in Inverurie. She married a farmer, William Westland at Nigg on 25 May 1860. In 1881 they were living in retirement at 188 Crown Street, Old Machar. They had issue, including:

2.2.1 DOUGLAS WESTLAND (1860?-??), a railway porter in 1881.

2.2.2 ANN WESTLAND (1862?-??), a dressmaker in 1881.

2.3 ANN WALKER (?1829-1900), born in 1829 or 1830. In 1841, she was staying with her half-sister, Janet, who had married John Scott on 13 February of that year. Ann married Adam Wood on 15 December 1849. He was some ten years older than her, having been baptized on 19 January 1820 at Chapel of Garioch. The banns were called in Chapel of Garioch and Monymusk. Their son was born in 1851 at Kintore, but on census day in that year they were living at Port Elphinstone, Inverurie, where Adam was a stone-dyker. In 1861 he was a carter for a coal company, living in High Street, Kintore but by 1871 he was farming 70 acres at Longfold, Bourtie. In 1881 he was farming 90 acres at Headiton, Insch.

He died on 10 December 1890. The widowed Ann kept on the farm at Headiton. Her sons William and Robert were farming with her. Ann died on 20 July 1900 at Headiton in Insch. The couple had issue:

2.3.1 GEORGE WOOD (1851-1908), born on 9 February 1851 at Kintore and baptized there on the 27th. He became a cattle dealer in Aberdeen. He died on 24 December 1908.

2.3.2 PETER WOOD (1853-1906), born on 8 May 1853 at Kintore. He married Margeret Mitchell at Rathven, Banffshire, on 11 December 1875. In 1881 and 1891, he was a blacksmith, first at Drybridge, then at Arradoul Smithy, Rathven. Margaret died in the 1880s.

Peter subseqently remarried, to Jane Adam, from Drumblade, who was some six years older than him. In 1901 the family were at Etterlick, Premnay. Peter was a farmer. Jane died on 20 August 1905. A year later, Peter took his own life, dying on 31 August 1906. He was found lying in a turnip shed at the farm, shot through the chest. A gun lay beside the body. He was reported to have been in his usual good health in the morning, and to have been "much respected and a general favourite in the district". He is buried in the New Cemetery at Insch.

The children included:

2.3.2.1 HELEN WOOD (1875?-19??), born in Lenzie, Banffshire and aged 15 in 1891.

2.3.2.2 ELSIE WOOD (1877?-19??), born in Rathven, Banffshire and aged 13 in 1891.

2.3.2.3 MAGGIE A WOOD (1879?-??), aged 11 in 1891.

2.3.2.4 MARY J WOOD (1881?-??), aged 9 in 1891.

2.3.2.5 GEORGE WOOD (1883?-1948), born in Rathven, Banffshire and aged 17 in 1901. He married Alice Isabella Howie, who died suddenly at Edderlick on 17 January 1919, aged 29. He died at Broadmyre on 7 August 1948.

2.3.2.6 PETER WOOD (1885?-19??), aged 15 in 1901.

2.3.2.7 ADAM JOHN WOOD (1887?-19??), aged 13 in 1901.

2.3.3 ADAM WOOD (1856-??), born on 2 July 1856 at Kintore.

2.3.4 JOHN WOOD (1858-1859), born on 20 October 1858 at Kintore. He died in infancy on 21 April 1859.

2.3.5 ALEXANDER WALKER WOOD (1860-1905), born on 24 April 1860 at Kintore. He became a member of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons and died at Turriff on 1 December 1905.

2.3.6 ANN WOOD (1863-1871), who died on 3 September 1871 aged 8 years and 5 months.

2.3.7 WILLIAM WOOD (1865?-??), aged 15 in 1881.

2.3.8 ROBERT WOOD (1867?-??), born in Bourtie and aged 13 in 1881.

2.4 JOHN WALKER (?1830-??), born in 1830 or 1831. He was at Hill of Fetternear in 1858.

2.5 PETER WALKER (1831-1887), born on 3 November 1831 and baptized on the 7th. He married Isabella Read on 3 December 1859 at Inverurie. She was from Ordiequhill in Banffshire, and some twelve years younger than Peter. The family farmed at Blackhall. In 1881 he had 14 acres at Hillhead of Fetternear. He died of cancer of the liver at Hill of Fetternear on 18 March 1887.

Peter and Isobel's children included:

2.5.1 PETER WALKER (1860-??), born in Inverurie on 23 September 1860. He married his cousin Margaret Walker in 1882, and was a railwayman at Inveramsay Junction.

2.5.2 ISABELLA WALKER (1862-1864), born on 17 June 1862. She died on 29 January 1864, aged 2.

2.5.3 ALLAN WALKER (1867-??), born in Inverurie on 14 April 1867.

2.5.4 ALEXANDER SANGSTER WALKER (1869-??), born in Chapel of Garioch on 14 December 1869.

2.5.5 ANNE WALKER (1872-??), born in Chapel of Garioch on 30 November 1872.

2.5.6 CHARLES WALKER (1874-1951), born on 21 July 1874, who was a railway guard. He married Ann Smith, and died in 1951 at Logie Mar, Ballater.

2.5.7 WILLIAM W WALKER (1876?-??), aged 4 in 1881.

2.5.8 MARTHA WALKER (18??-??), who became Mrs Milne.

2.6 ALEXANDER WALKER (1833-1897), born on 25 April 1833. He was a farm servant at Oldtown of Balquhain when he married Ann Millar, m.s. Mathieson on 25 May 1855. She was a 35-year-old widow with six children. After their marriage they set up home at Reshivet, and later at nearby Gunhill of Inveramsay, in Chapel of Garioch, a farm of 130 acres. Alexander died on 20 February 1897 at Gunhill. Ann moved to Aberdeen and lived with her daughter Margaret at 32 Thomson Street until her death on 18 February 1906.

Alexander and Ann Walker had three children:

2.6.1 ALEXANDER WALKER (1856-1934), born on 3 May 1856 at Reshivet. He carried on the farm at Reshivet. On 3 November 1878 he married Jane Middleton, from Bridgend, Chapel of Garioch. The family lived at Reshivet until Alexander retired, when they moved to the Bakery at Kincardine O'Neill, where Alexander died on 27 December 1934. The story of Alexander and his descendants is given in the account of the Walker family prepared by Dorothy Morgan (m.s. Walker) of 24 Scotland Drive, Dunfermline.

2.6.2 PETER WALKER (1858-1946), born on 3 August 1858, who was a salesman for farming machinery with Barclay, Ross and Hutchison in Aberdeen. In 1892 he married Barbara Innes. He died at 17 Pitstruan Place, Aberdeen, in 1946.

2.6.3 MARGARET WALKER (1860-1948) was born on 24 September 1860. She married her cousin Peter Walker, a railway porter at Inveramsay Junction in 1882. She died in 1948 at 9 Chattan Place, Aberdeen, aged 87 - the same age as her brother Peter.

3 JAMES DAVIE (1797-1867) was born in Fetternear on 23 January 1797 and baptized three days later. William Nichol and Thomas Crombie again acted as witnesses. Of him more anon.

4 ELIZABETH DAVIE (1800-1890), also called ELSPET and LIZZIE, was born in Fetternear on 10 May 1800 (her headstone says 15 May), and baptized on 12 May. Robert Thomson in Chapel and Archibald Booth in Fetternear were the witnesses. Between 2 September and 13 October 1827 she married William Bowie, the Catholic son of a sawyer, living in Aquhorties. William was some eight years older than Elizabeth, having been born at Huntly on 14 December 1791. He had followed in his father's footsteps as a sawyer, describing himself thus in 1841, although in 1831 he had taken a 19-year lease on 6½ acres of land on the Aquhorties estate - he continued to pay the rent for this at least until 1843 (when the Catholic church gave up the estate), and was still there in 1851, when he described himself as a farmer of 16 acres. William was best known in later life, though, as a gamekeeper, and on his tombstone are the words "55 years a faithful servant of the Balquhain family."

The couple appear in the registers of the Catholic church of Fetternear as godparents to an illegitimate child of Elizabeth Nichol, born at White Cross in the 1840's, and to other illegitimate children.

William Bowie died on 27 July 1871 at Hill of Fetternear, aged 83. Lizzie Bowie survived him, and stayed at West Aquhorties with her unmarried son, John. She died at West Aquhorthies shortly after her 90th birthday, on 15 July 1890. Her parents were given as Thomas Davie and Jane Crombie by her son John. The couple are buried in the cemetery of St John's Catholic Church at Fetternear.

4.1 CHARLES BOWIE (1828-1913), born in 1828. He was a farmer, perhaps at Aquhorties. However, in 1856 he was at Oldmeldrum, and according to his marriage certificate, his usual residence in 1862 was Ireland. He married Isabella Singer on 11 May 1862 at the Catholic Church in Huntly St,, Aberdeen. They returned to Ireland, and later moved to Watten in Caithness. In 1881, the family was at Whitehaugh in Chapel of Garioch. Isabella died at Davah, Inverurie, on 8 February 1899. Charles retired from farming and moved to the town of Inverurie. He died at 68 High Street, Inverurie, on 16 September 1913.

Among Charles and Isabella Bowie's children were:

4.1.1 CHARLES BOWIE (1856-1879), born illegitimately at Gardenshillock, Fintray, on 29 January 1856. He worked as a slater, but died at the age of 23 on 21 August 1879. He is buried at Hatton of Fintray.

4.1.2 WILLIAM BOWIE (1862?-?), born in Galway, living at home in 1881.

4.1.3 JAMES BOWIE (1870-1938), born at Watten, Caithness on 23 January 1870, who became a gamekeeper. He married Jeannie Mathieson Mann. He died of cancer on 28 October 1938 at 62 Fonthill Road, Aberdeen, although his usual residence at the time was Helmsdale, Delgaty, Turriff.

4.1.4 ALEXANDER BOWIE (1872-??), born on 9 August 1872 at Watten, Caithness.

4.1.5 ELIZABETH BOWIE (1874-19??), known as Lizzie, was born on 13 November 1874 at Watten, Caithness. On 11 December 1913, three months after her father's death, she married William Mearns Pirie at the Gordon Arms Hotel, Inverurie.

4.2 WILLIAM BOWIE (?1831-??), born perhaps in 1831. He had an affair with Jane Fowler, who lived at Skene. He then left for Canada, and there are letters from him dated 1853 or so headed "My Dearest" saying that he regretted leaving her in the lurch, that he was pleased that the young son was making good progress in the care of Jane's parents, and suggesting that they all emigrate to Canada. They did not, and neither did William return. It is said he died in Vancouver. The son:

4.2.1 WILLIAM BOWIE (1851-1937), baptized at Skene on 9 February 1851, became a mason. He helped build Crathie Church, where his mason's mark could be seen until recently, and also the church at Tullynessle, when he met and married Jane Lumsden in 1877. She lived at the nearby 14th-century castle of Terpersie. William later became a well-known builder in Aberdeen, and had eight children, born between 1878 and 1898. In 1881, he and Jane were at 42 Holburn Road in Old Machar, with their first two children, William C Bowie, aged two, and Isabella A Bowie, aged 8 months.

4.3 JAMES BOWIE (?1831-1913), born in 1831 or 1832. He was a master tailor. His first wife was Jane Bisset, whom he married on 19 January 1860 at St Peter's Church, the old Catholic church in Chapel Court, Aberdeen. Jane died at Blackburn in Kinellar on 1 September 1874. On 29 January 1876 James remarried, to Jane Donald. She was 29 and a housekeeper, from the other side of the road, Blackburn in Newhills. James died on 8 September 1913. He and his first wife, Jane Bisset, had five children:

4.3.1 WILLIAM BOWIE (1862-1938), born on 12 September 1862 in Kinellar. He was at Home Farm, Fetternear, in 1913. He became a domestic gardener, and later a stonemason at Kintore. He died, unmarried, on 10 June 1938 at Aberdeen. He is buried at St John's, Fetternear.

4.3.2 JAMES BOWIE (1864-??), born at Kinellar on 18 June 1864. In 1881 he was following in his father's footsteps as an apprentice tailor.

4.3.3 JOHN BOWIE (1866-??), born on 20 August 1866. In 1881 he was working for his uncle John at Aquhorties.

4.3.4 ALEXANDER CHARLES BOWIE (1868-??), born on 9 July 1868.

4.3.5 PETER BOWIE (1871-1890), born on 14 February 1871. He worked for his father as a journeyman tailor, but died of consumption at the age of 19 on 21 November 1890 in Kemnay village. (According to the gravestone at St John's, there were three other brothers.)

4.4 PATRICK BOWIE (?1833-1901), also known as PETER BOWIE, was born in 1833 or 1834. Like his father and other members of his family, he became a gamekeeper, and in 1859 was at Clashnadarroch in Rhynie. On 6 June in that year he married Helen Ross, a farmer's daughter from Gartly. The wedding took place at Manse of Gartly according to the forms of the Church of Scotland, although Peter and Helen's children continued to maintain the Catholic faith. After 1860, Peter became Head Gamekeeper of the Forest of Birse estate. This estate was owned by the Marquis of Huntly, by a Mr Heaven, and then by Lord Cowdray. The Bowies lived at Newmill, Birse, in the tied cottage. (The box bed in this cottage was only converted into a cupboard in the 1970's.) On retirement, Peter moved with Helen to a house nearby which he is said to have had built, and which he named Clashnadarroch.

Peter Bowie died at Clashnadarroch, Birse, on 19 November 1901, aged 67. He is buried in St Machar's kirkyard, Aboyne, with his widow, who survived him. She lived on at Clashnadarroch until her 84th year, and is remembered (by Charlie Meldrum, her grandson) as 'a delightful old lady, much liked.' She died on 25 October 1915.

Peter and Helen Bowie had nine children:

4.4.1 MARGARET ANN BOWIE (1858-1914), born (illegitimately) on 8 September 1858 at Helen Ross' home, Shanquhar in Gartly. In 1881 she was a kitchen maid at Desswood House, Kincardine O'Neil. She married George Meldrum (1867-1926), from Whitehills, Banff. The Meldrums emigrated to America about 1900, and it is said that George had a wholesale food business, but that owing to the increase in automobiles and large stores, he went bankrupt. In 1910 they were at "Whitehills", Waukegan, Lake County, Illinois. George had heart trouble, and died on 20 August 1926, shortly after the closure of the business. Margaret had died on 20 September 1914. The couple had a son:

4.4.1.1 CHARLES BOWIE MELDRUM (1896-), born at Bothwell, Glasgow, in 1896. He was living in Chicago in 1984.

4.4.2 HELEN BOWIE (1860-1942), born at Drumfergue, Gartly, on 20 March 1860. In 1881 she was in service at 34 Castle Street, Aberdeen. Her employer, like her elder sister's, was a local advocate. She married Jonathan Ewen, who was some four years younger than herself, the factor of Joseph Farquharson's estate at Finzean. He was known as "the Piper of Finzean", and judged Piping and Highland Dress at the Games in Aboyne and Braemar. He and Helen lived at a house in the Ballater Road, Aboyne, called "Cameratta" (now "Olrig"). Helen was widowed in 1936, and her sister Mary came to live with her, staying on after Helen's death on 11 May 1942.

4.4.3 ELIZABETH BOWIE (1862-??), born in 1862. She is said to have had a row with her father and to have walked out, intending to go to Australia, but never arrived there, and was never heard of again. (In 1881 she was in domestic service at 1 Chapel Street, Aberdeen.)

4.4.4 WILLIAM BOWIE (1863-1944), born at Newmill in 1863. In 1881, he was a kennelman at East Porter Lodge, Aboyne. He became a journeyman joiner. He went to South Africa for a few years, and then to New Jersey, where he married Elizabeth O'Brien (1868-1932) on 19 January 1891. They had two children in the U.S.A., and returned to Aberdeen about 1900, living at 39 Victoria Street. After his wife's death, William lived with his daughter in Ilford, Essex, until the air raids on London, when he moved to live with his sisters at "Cameratta", Aboyne. He died there on 2 September 1944.

William and Elizabeth's two children were:

4.4.4.1 WILLIAM AUGUSTINE BOWIE (1892-1932), born at 35 Concord Street, New Jersey, on 2 March 1892. He was ordained a priest, and served in Aboyne. He died, aged 40, on 19 August 1932 at Ilford, Essex, and was buried in Springbank Cemetery in Aberdeen. A notice in the Aberdeen Press and Journal the following day read: LATE FR. BOWIE, ABOYNE. The death occurred at Ilford yesterday of the Rev. William A. Bowie, Roman Catholic priest in charge of St Margaret's Church, Aboyne. Father Bowie, who was only forty years of age, served as a curate in St Mary's Cathedral, Aberdeen, after his ordination, and a few years ago he was given charge of the Aboyne mission. Some months ago he became ill, and underwent an operation. Although, throughout those months, Father Bowie knew that had only a short time to live, he bore his fate with heroic cheerfulness.

4.4.4.2 ELIZABETH BOWIE (1893-1948), born in New Jersey on 23 August 1893. She was a teacher, and married Francis Mitchell, a paper buyer, on 1 July 1924 at Aberdeen Roman Catholic Cathedral. She died at Dobins Cottage, Fulmer, Bucks., on 27 October 1948, and her husband survived her by thirty years. Elizabeth and Francis Mitchell had a daughter:

4.4.4.2.1 ELIZABETH MARIA TERESA MITCHELL (b.1927), born in Essex on 27 August 1927. She lived at "Cairn Robin", Aboyne during the 1980's, and is the researcher of part of these present notes.

4.4.5 MARY BOWIE (1865-1956), born at Birse on 8 April 1865. She worked as housekeeper at Birse Lodge, Aboyne. She lived with her sister, Helen, at "Cameratta", Aboyne, from 1936 until about 1954, when she moved to "Dunmuir", also in Ballater Road, with her sister-in-law, Christina Bowie, until her death on 7 April 1956, aged 90.

4.4.6 PETER BOWIE (1866-??), born on 4 July 1866. He married Jessie Kynoch of Cambus o'May in 1887. They had two children:

4.4.6.1 JESSIE HELEN ROSS BOWIE (1889-??), born on 15 July 1889.

4.4.6.2 PETER BOWIE (1891-??), born on 24 January 1891, who married Jane Ann Duguid.

4.4.7 CHARLES BOWIE (1868-1947), born on 18 September 1868. He went to take charge of a lead and zinc mine at Broken Hill, Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia). He died at Johannesburg on 10 May 1947.

4.4.8 JOHN ROSS BOWIE (1872-1935), born on 13 September 1872 at Birse. He was a carpenter. Around 1903 he spend seven years in Pittsburgh. He finally emigrated to America on the SS Celtic, arriving from Liverpool on 19 November 1910, and bound for his sister, Margaret Meldrum, then living near Chicago. His immigration record gives his height as 5'10", his hair as brown and his eyes as "fair". He married Ann Liebe (or perhaps Lederer), who had been born on 27 July 1879 in Germany, (the Meldrums' domestic servant?) in Chicago. He died at Isle of Pines, Cuba, on 22 April 1935. Ann survived him, dying in 1959 at 1477 North Ashland Avenue, River Forest, Cook County, Illinois. She is buried at Queen of Heaven Cemetery, Hillside, Chicago.

4.4.9 FRANCIS BOWIE (1874-1939), born on 13 November 1874. He was gardener at Coull House, Coull, in 1922 when he married a laundrymaid, Christina Thomson (1886-1965), on 5 September at St Margaret's Roman Catholic Church, Aboyne. He died of tuberculosis at "Dunmuir", Aboyne, on 18 July 1939.

4.5 JOHN BOWIE (1835-1924) was Elizabeth and William's fifth child. He was born in 1835. He was a farmer, and remained single throughout his life. In 1881 he was farming 46 acres at West Aquhorties. His mother was staying with him, and his 14-year-old nephew John was working for him. He was at Yarrowhillock, Fetternear, in 1900. He died on 27 June 1924 at Holyland Cottage, Fetternear, aged 89, and is buried at St John's, Fetternear, with his parents.

4.6 ELIZABETH BOWIE (?1837-??), also known as Betty and Betsy, was born in 1837 or 1838. She is probably the Betsy Bowie who married Alexander Taylor on 27 June 1858 at the Catholic church in Inverurie. The witnesses were Alexander Davidson and William Bowie. The marriage was solemnized again six days later at the Church of Scotland church in Monymusk. This time the witnesses were William Davie and Peter Bowie.

4.7 VIOLET BOWIE (1840-1904) was born in 1840. She lived at home until she was 33, and then on 10 January 1874 she married James Ross, gardener at Fetternear, at St John's Church. In 1881, James was gardener at East Lodge, Belhelvie. Violet has been described as 'unofficial midwife for the Fetternear estate.' She died of breast cancer on 7 November 1904, and is buried at St John's. Her husband, James, survived her, and died at Westertown in Fetternear on 1 January 1910.

Among Violet and James Ross' children were:

4.7.1 WILLIAM ROSS (1874-19??), born at Fetternear on 14 December 1874. He was living at 26 Holburn Road, Aberdeen in 1910.

4.7.2 MARY ROSS (1877-??), born on 29 April 1877 at Fetternear House.

4.7.3 LIZZIE ROSS (1878-??), born in Chapel of Garioch and aged 2 in 1881.

4.7.3 ALEXANDER ROSS (1880-??), born on 12 August 1880 and baptized on the 30th. The sponsors were Alexander Bowie in Keithhall and Margaret Stuart of Inverurie.

4.7.4 JAMES ROSS (1883-1905), born in Belhelvie in 1883, who was accidentally drowned at St Anne's, Canada, on 17 July 1905, aged 22. He was the youngest son.

4.8 ALEXANDER BOWIE (1844-1893), baptized at the Roman Catholic chapel at Aquhorties on 17 November 1844. Like his brother Peter, he became a gamekeeper, and was at Souterford in Keithhall on 21 January 1871, when he married Martha Walker, the daughter of Martha Hay and Charles Walker, who farmed at Hill of Fetternear. They seem to have settled in Keithhall. Alexander was killed in an accident at Inverurie level crossing, when he was knocked down by the 8.45 train on 19 January 1892.

Alexander and Martha Bowie had seven children, all baptized at Keithhall.

4.8.1 ELIZABETH BOWIE (1873-??), born on 21 June 1873 and baptized on 13 July. Her sponsors were John and Violet Bowie.

4.8.2 CHARLES BOWIE (1874-??), born on 28 December 1874 and baptized on 18 January 1875. The sponsors were John Bowie of Fetternear and Isabella Grant of Chapel House, Inverurie.

4.8.3 WILLIAM BOWIE (1876-??), born on 2 October 1876 and baptized on the 22nd. The sponsors were Isabella Grant again, and William Grant of Disblair, Fintray. He married Annie Stewart at Inverurie on 6 June 1906.

4.8.4 ALEXANDER GEORGE BOWIE (1878-??), born on 16 January 1878 and baptized on 4 February. Isabella Grant was again a sponsor, with James Glennie.

4.8.5 FRANCIS ALEXANDER BOWIE (1880-1953), also known as Frank, born on 4 January 1880 and baptized on the 20th. John Bowie and George Wilson, the minister, were sponsors. He was employed as a foreman coach painter. Among his interests were painting landscapes and portraits, in oils and watercolours. He also enjoyed shooting in the Coltness Estate at Wishaw, with the landowner Lord Holsworth. He was living in Glasgow Road, Wishaw in 1905. On 22 June 1911, he married Annie Matheson.

Annie was some three years older than Frank, born on 14 September 1876. From Scalan, Glenlivet, she was the Catholic daughter of Alexander Matheson, a famer, and Barbara Stuart.

Frank and Annie lived all their married life in Kirkfield Terrace, Kennedy Street, Wishaw, and latterly at Battenburg Place, Kirk Road, Wishaw. Anie died in April 1951, and Frank lived on until November 1953. They are buried in Cambusnethan Cemetery, Wishaw.

Frank and Annie Bowie had two children:

4.8.5.1 BARBARA JOSEPHINE BOWIE (1914-1978), also known as Babs, born on 15 March 1914. She attended Bothwell private school in Glasgow. During World War II, Babs was posted to Birmingham where she worked for the war effort in a munition factory. She never married. Shortly before the War, Babs gave birth to a daughter whom she named Barbara Anne Bowie. This child was adopted at 5 days old and was renamed Margaret Smillie. In the early 1950's Babs obtained the post of Nanny (Child's Nurse) to the family of the Chef of the Munro Clan just outside Dingwall, Ross & Comerty. Even after the Munro children had grown up, Babs remained with the family until her sudden death from a cerebral haemorrhage on 27 May 1978. She is buried in Cambusnethan Cemetery, Wishaw (but not alongside her mother and father).

4.8.5.2 FRANK ALEXANDER BOWIE (1915-1968), also known as Frank, born on 5 December 1915. He attended St. Ignatius School, Wishaw. He was employed as an electrician. During World War II he was posted to work in the shipbuilding industry in Glasgow. On 27 December 1940, Frank married Catherine Doak Mills, known as Carrie.

Carrie was from Wishaw, the Catholic daughter of John Mills, a steelworker, and Elizabeth Jack. She was born on 21 December 1917, the second oldest of five sisters. Prior to her marriage, and until she retired at 65, Carrie worked as a nurse (for most of her life in Law Hospital, Carluke).

Through his life, Frank suffered with heart disease which restricted his lifestyle to some degree. Unlike his father and grandfather, Frank did not follow country pursuits, but preferred mechanical oriented activities. Frank died suddenly of heart failure on 2 December 1968. He is buried in Cambusnethan Cemetery, Wishaw alongside his parents and wife. Carrie survived him, dying on 29 March 1999.

Frank and Carrie had five children:

4.8.5.2.1 ANNE MATHESON BOWIE (b.1941), born on 9 October 1941. Anne married Andrew Kirson, Catholic son of a Lithuanian family in 1961. They have five children:

4.8.5.2.1.1 FRANCIS ANNE KIRSON (b.1962). She married Larry Connolly in 1983. They have three children.

4.8.5.2.1.2 ANDREW JOHN KIRSON (b.1964). He married Carlyn Critchton in 1986. They have two children.

4.8.5.2.1.3 BRIAN DAVID KIRSON (b.1966). He married Monica Brolly in 1989. They have three children.

4.8.5.2.1.4 CLARE BARBARA KIRSON (b.1970). She married Robert McCulloch in 2000. They have one child.

4.8.5.2.1.5 KATHYRN KIRSON (b. 1983).

4.8.5.2.2 ELIZABETH JACK BOWIE (1946-1947), born on 13 October 1946. She died on 12 May 1947 and is buried in Cambusnethan Cemetery, Wishaw, alongside her parents and grandparents.

4.8.5.2.3 KATHRYN HELEN MILLS BOWIE (b.1949), born on 23 October 1949. Kathryn married Peter Daly, Catholic son of a Wishaw family in 1971. They have two children:

4.8.5.2.3.1 KENNETH CHARLES DALY. He has a partner, Carol Rodger. They have one child.

4.8.5.2.3.2 JOHN FRANCIS DALY (b.1975), born on 11 September 1975. He married Susan Adams from Cumnock, Ayrshire (born 4 March 1980). They have a son, Jack Ross Daly, born on 20 May 2006.

4.8.5.2.4 JOHN ALEXANDER MILLS BOWIE (b.1953), born on 12 September 1953. John married Alison Margaret Adams in 1984, Protestant daughter of George Gillies and widow of John Adams. Alison had three children. They couple have no children of their own. John is the contributor of this part of these notes.

4.8.5.2.5 FRANCIS ALEXANDER BOWIE (b.1961), known as Frank, born on 19 January 1961. Frankie married Marie Therese Hynds, the Catholic daughter of a Wishaw family in 1988. The couple have two daughters:

4.8.5.2.5.1 ANNA THERESA BOWIE (b.1993), born on 14 January 1993.

4.8.5.2.5.2 LUCY MARIE BOWIE (b.1997), born on 10 April 1997.

4.8.6 MARTHA BOWIE (1881-??), born on 2 December 1881 and baptized on the 21st. George Wilson the minister was sponsor.

4.8.7 VIOLET ANN BOWIE (1887-??), born on 23 January 1887 and baptized on 13 February. John Bowie and Jane Mann (possibly related to the priest) were sponsors.

5 PETER DAVIE (1802-1875) was born in Fetternear, probably on 6 September 1802, although he may not have been baptized until 8 September 1808. Again Robert Thomson in Chapel and Archibald Booth in Fetternear were the witnesses. He married Cathren Cumming of Fintray on 14 June 1828, and lived in Hill of Fetternear. She had been born on 18 October 1804. In 1855 their croft was near James, his brother's. In 1861 and 1871 he is recorded at Mossside. Cathren died at Mosside of Fetternear on 18 December 1872, aged 68, and Peter died of bronchitis at Mossside on 31 March 1875 aged 78. His testament was registered at Aberdeen Sheriff Court on 12 April. In it, he left his estate to his surviving sons, Thomas, Alexander, John and James, and to his daughter Elizabeth Campbell. He appointed the Free Church minister, David Mitchell, to be his executor. The witnesses were Robert Grant and William Dawson.

5.1 WILLIAM DAVIE (1828-1860), born on 14 September 1828 and baptized on the 22nd. He was working as an agricultural labourer for James Cumming at Castlehunger in Fintray, presumably a relative of his mother, on Census Day 1841. He died on 30 September 1860.

5.2 PETER DAVIE (1830-1857), born on 29 August 1830 and baptized on 4 September. The witnesses at his baptism were James Davie in Overtown and Peter Walker in Mains of Fetternear, his uncles. He was a farm labourer at Kinnellar in 1851. He died at Mosside at the age of 26 on 21 April 1857, and is buried at St Ninian's, Fetternear.

5.3 THOMAS DAVIE (1832-1895), born on 4 November 1832 and baptized on the 7th. The witnesses at his baptism were the same two uncles as at his brother Peter's baptism. He was a general labourer. He married Jane Smith, a 22-year old cotton weaver living at 90 Gallowgate, St Nicholas, Aberdeen, on 6 June 1862. The witnesses were George Dawson and John Davie. The family lived in Monymusk and Dyce. Jane died on 25 December 1876 in Dyce. Thomas died on 9 November 1895, from suffocation as the result of an accident at Black Hill Sand Pit, Dyce. The Aberdeen Journal of Monday, 11 November, reported: At Dyce on Saturday, a large sand bank fell on an old man named Thomas Davie. Before being extricated he was quite dead.

Thomas and Jane had seven children:

5.3.1 JANE DAVIE (1865-??), born on 7 January 1865 at Monymusk.

5.3.2 PETER DAVIE (1866-??), born on 25 July 1866 at Monymusk.

5.3.3 THOMAS DAVIE (1868-??), born on 19 November 1868 at Dyce. On census night 1881 he was staying with his aunt, Elizabeth Campbell, in Monymusk. He married Isabella Wilkie. They had a son:

5.3.3.1 THOMAS WILKIE DAVIE (1898-??), born in 1898 at Dyce.

5.3.4 ELIZABETH DAVIE (1871-??), born on 29 April 1871 at Dyce. She was a domestic servant. On 2 May 1916, she married Robert Gerrard, a crofter at the United Free Church, Newhills. They were both living at Quarry Croft, Keig.

5.3.5 JOHN SMITH DAVIE (1873-??), born on 31 December 1873 at Dyce.

5.3.6 GEORGE DAVIE (1875-1875), born in January 1875 at Dyce. He died in June of the same year.

5.3.7 CHRISTINA DAVIE (1876-??), born at Dyce in 1876 and aged four in 1881.

5.4 ALEXANDER DAVIE (1835-1904), born on 22 December 1835 and baptized on 12 January 1836. The witnesses at his baptism were William Clerihew and Margaret Kesson in Hill of Fetternear. In 1861 he was a farm servant, working for James Cumming at Castlehunger in Fintray. He married Martha Smith on 13 June 1861 at Inverurie. At some stage, Alexander and his family moved to Aberdeen.

Martha died in the 1860's, and on 1 August 1868, Alexander married again, to Jane Dunn, who had been his next door neighbour and had already borne him a daughter. He worked as a railway carter, and later as a porter to a "bottler of ales" and to a druggist. At the time of his death he was described as a provisions packer. Jane died on 21 March 1904, and Alexander died, of influenza, eight days later, at 5 Canal Street, Aberdeen. He was buried at St Peter's Cemetery on 2 April 1904.

Alexander and Martha had two children:

5.4.1 CATHARINE DAVIE (1862-??), born at 28 Gerrard Street, Aberdeen on 1 April 1862. In 1884, she was in domestic service at Kirkstyle, Kemnay. On 26 December 1884, she married James Kilgour, a quarry workman, in a Free Church ceremony at Burnside of Fetternear.

5.4.2 ALEXANDER DAVIE (1863-1945), born at 21 Water Lane, Aberdeen, on 23 November 1863. He moved to Sunderland, Co. Durham, where he worked in the steel industry. He married Mabel Appleby on 6 April 1891 at Sunderland Register Office. He later became bar manager at the Richmond Hotel, in Richmond St., Sunderland. In his later life he worked on Seymours Farm, Hylton Castle "because of his health". He died at Sunderland General Hospital on 25 June 1945, and was buried at Southwick Cemetery, Sunderland, three days later.

Alexander and Mabel had seven children, and their descendants live in the Sunderland area.

5.4.2.1 MARGARET DAVIE (?1892-?1936), known as Maggie.

5.4.2.2 ALEC DAVIE (?1894-??)

5.4.2.3 MABEL DAVIE (1895-1976), born at Sunderland on 21 October 1895. She married Joseph Willima Butler on 3 July 1924 at St Hilda's Roman Catholic Church, Southwick, Sunderland. He was a colliery worker, who had been born on 15 August 1898. In 1939, they were living at 61 Morgan Street, Sunderland. Mabel died on 16 January 1976 in Sunderland. Their children included:

5.4.2.3.1 THOMAS A BUTLER (1924-??), born on 29 April 1924. In 1939 he was an apprentice French polisher.

5.4.2.3.2 MARGARET BUTLER (1926-??), born on 28 October 1926. She moved to Liverpool and became Mrs Kelly.

5.4.2.3.3 JOSEPH W BUTLER (1929-??), born on 13 January 1929.

5.4.2.4 NORMAN DAVIE (?1898-?19??). He may have married Mary Fletcher.

5.4.2.5 ELSIE DAVIE (?1900-??), born in Sunderland. She is said to have moved to Motherwell, Lanarkshire, and to have married firstly Dick Johnston and secondly James Noble.

5.4.2.6 CATHERINE DAVIE (1902-??), known as Kitty, born at the Richmond Hotel, 27 Richmond Street, Sunderland, on 8 May 1902, and christened at the Venerable Bede, St Peter's, Monkwearmouth on 22 June. She married George McCabe.

5.4.2.7 FRANK DAVIE (1904-1970), born at the Richmond Hotel, Sunderland, on 3 March 1904. He married Veronica Rowe (known as Vera) on 30 November 1929 at Sunderland Register Office. He is grandfather of Diane Ross, one of the researchers of these notes. Frank died at 8 Rockingham Road, Sunderland, on 12 April 1970. Veronica Davie died on 4 April 1999.

Alexander and Jane had nine children:

5.4.3 JANE ANN DAVIE (1868-??), born out of wedlock at 41 Jopps Lane, Aberdeen on 14 June 1868.

5.4.4 PETER DAVIE (1869-1872), born at 107 Loch Street, Aberdeen, on 31 October 1869. He died on 3 January 1872 at St Andrew Street, Aberdeen of burns to his abdomen, legs, hands and face.

5.4.5 JOHN DUNN DAVIE (1870-??), born at 40 Spring Gardens, Aberdeen, on 27 November 1870. On 15 July 1898 he married Jane Coutts Fraser Rowell. The address was given at 523 George Street in St Machar's, Aberdeen.

5.4.6 ISABELLA GRANT DAVIE (1872-??), born at 27 St Andrew Street, Aberdeen on 24 May 1872. Her name was first registered as ISABELLA CLARK PROCTER DAVIE and later changed. She married John Bruce in St Nicholas, Aberdeen.

5.4.7 JAMES DAVIE (1873-??), born at 17 St Andrew Street, Aberdeen on 8 November 1873.

5.4.8 FRANCIS PROCTER DAVIE (1874-19??), born at 17 St Andrew Street, Aberdeen on 13 December 1874. He married Isabella Weymuss Marr on 2 January 1907. His address was 11 St Swithin Street, St Machar's.

5.4.9 ELSPET RICHARDSON DAVIE (1876-19??), born in Aberdeen and aged four in 1881. She married John Munro McCaskill at St Machar's in 1907.

5.4.10 WILLIAM GORDON DAVIE (1879?-??), born in Aberdeen and aged one in 1881.

5.4.11 MARGARET DAVIE (1881?-??). In 1901, she was a "clerkess" living at home, aged "22".

5.5 JOHN DAVIE (1838-1880), born on 24 May 1838 and baptized on 4 June. The witnesses at his baptism were James Minto in Bankhead and Alexander Hosie in Middleton. He married Barbara Watts on 23 June 1870, the second daughter of George and Elspet Watts. She was 26 years old. George Watts was a farmer who also kept the New Machar Inn at Rainnieshill, New Machar. The witnesses were Alexander Reid and Pat Polson (?). John died on 13 August 1880, of erysipelas. Helen Ewen, a neighbour, was the informant. He is buried at Kirkton of Rayne.

Barbara went to live at Lower Todlochy Cottage, Monymusk, with her widowed mother and her three surviving children. She died on 10 July 1919.

John and Barbara Davie had four children:

5.5.1 JOHN WATTS DAVIE (1871-1906), born on 17 August 1871 at Burnside of Fetternear. He died on 26 May 1906 and is buried at Kirkton of Rayne.

5.5.2 CATHERINE CUMMING DAVIE (1874-1946), born on 22 March 1874 at Fetternear. She died on 3 October 1946.

5.5.3 PETER DAVIE (1875-1877), who died of bronchitis aged 15 months on 11 March 1877.

5.5.4 GEORGE WATTS DAVIE (1879-??), born in Chapel of Garioch in 1879 and alive in 1881.

5.6 CATHERINE DAVIE (1840-1849), born on 13 December 1840 and baptized on the 19th. The witnesses at her baptism were Patrick Walker in Mains of Fetternear, and William Clerihew in Burnside. Cathren died, aged 8, on 13 June 1849, almost the same week as her sister Mary.

5.7 MARY DAVIE (?1843-1849), who died on 4 June 1849, aged 5. She is buried at St Ninian's.

5.8 ELIZABETH DAVIE (?1846-1907) was born in 1846 or 1847. She married James Campbell, described as a quarrier, in a Free Church ceremony at Woodend Cottage, Fetternear, on 25 October 1873. He was 44, she was 27. The witnesses were James Mitchell and James Stephen. In 1881, they were at Monyroad Croft, Monymusk. James' age was transcribed as 31. With them was a nephew, Thomas Davie, aged 13, son of Elizabeth's brother Thomas. James died on 25 November 1905, aged 75. Elizabeth died at Kintore in January 1907. They had two children:

5.8.1 ELIZABETH CAMPBELL (?1875-??), born in Kintore in 1875 or 1876.

5.8.2 JAMES CAMPBELL (?1882-??), born in Monymusk, and aged 8 in 1891.

5.9 JAMES DAVIE (?1848-1926) was born in 1848 or 1849. He was living with his father at Mossside of Fetternear at his death in 1875. He may have remained at Hill of Fetternear until about 1879. On 1 June 1872 he married Jane Joss, a 21-year-old domestic servant from Muirs of Clova, Kildrummy, at Woodend Cottage, Fetternear, according to the forms of the Free Church. The witnesses were Peter and William Davie. He was a quarry worker. In 1881 and 1891 he was at Burnside in Fetternear. Jane died on 25 December 1898 in Kemnay, and the 1901 census shows James living at Whitestones Place, Kemnay alone with his two youngest children. James died in Aberdeen on 10 February 1926.

James and Jane had nine children:

5.9.1 JAMES DAVIE (1873-??), born in Monymusk on 5 July 1873.

5.9.2 CATHERINE DAVIE (1875-19??), born in Chapel of Garioch in 1875, who married William Wiseman on New Year's Day 1896 at Craigton in Kenethmont. She was twenty years old at the time, and working as a domestic servant. She gave her address as Whitestone, Kemnay: he was a 'furnishing tailor' of Meikle Wartle in Rayne, and seven years older than her. The witnesses were John D. Davie and Maggie Ann Middleton.

5.9.3 PETER DAVIE (1876-1879), born on 21 November 1876 at Fetternear. His father registered his birth, but the register was amended in 1879 on the authority of a declaration dated 12 February 1877 and made by Alexander Yule, the Free Church minister. The declaration altered Peter's name to ALEXANDER YULE DAVIE. He died of German measles on 24 September 1879.

5.9.4 PETER DAVIE (1878-1879), born on 26 July 1878 at Mossside of Fetternear. He died two days after his brother from the same infection.

5.9.5 JANE DAVIE (1880-??), alive in 1881.

5.9.6 WILLIAM DAVIE (1882-??), born on 18 January 1882 at Burnside of Fetternear. He was a quarry worker, lodging in Kintore, in 1901.

5.9.7 JOHN DAVIE (1884-1958), born on 24 September 1884 in Fetternear. He was a tailor's apprentice at Portsoy in 1901. He married Nellie Findlator Logan on 31 December 1914 in the Church of Scotland Manse in Inverurie. She had been born on 8 January 1890 at Port Elphinstone. John died in 1958 at inverurie, and Nellie died in 1961. Their children included:

5.9.7.1 JOHN DAVIE (1914-1990), born around 1914 in Inverurie. He died at Bucksburn in 1990. He had a son, also John, and a grandson, Cameron.

5.9.7.2 ALEXANDER JAMES DAVIE (1915-1949), born on 15 September 1915 in Inverurie. He married Charlotte Thom Simpson at the Kintore Arms Hotel, Inverurie on 28 June 1938. She had been born on 21 January 1916 in Inverurie. Alexander died at Whitley Bay, Northumberland, on 31 December 1949. His widow survived him, dying at Melton, Victoria, Australia on 3 April 2006. They had three children.

5.9.7.3 WILLIAM DAVIE (1916-1941), born around 1916 in Inverurie. Bill served in the Army in the Second World War, and died in action in Crete in 1941.

5.9.7.4 DOROTHY DAVIE (1927-2005), born around 1927 in Inverurie. She married and had a daughter. She died in Edinburgh in 2005.

5.9.7.5 A fifth child.

5.9.8 GEORGE DAVIE (1889-??), born on 23 May 1889 in Fetternear.

5.9.9 MARY DAVIE (1891-??), born on 10 October 1891 in Fetternear.