My Great Granny was Christina Kennedy, always known as Dewar. She was the illegitemate child of James Dewar and Margaret Kennedy, however on her marriage certificate in 1882 she put her mother's name as Janet. I have the Kirk Session Minutes proving this. Christina was born 5th February 1859 at New Inver, Tullipowrie, Logierait and James Dewar was residing at Pitcastle, Logierait in 1858 and Ardunaig, Killin in 1860. According to Christina's marriage certificate, James Dewar is a mason. James Dewar had a further illegitimate child, admitted in Kirk Session Minutes, he was a James Clark, known as Dewar born to Janet Clark on 22nd December 1859 in Killin. James Dewar did not marry either of these two women. Not exactly a clean living young man!! I have named him the "Tayside Tomcat" I have Christina in the 1881 Census working as a domestic servant in a hotel at Amulree and Crieff Road, Dull. I am looking for any clues as to both James Dewar's and Margaret Kennedy's parentage. I have the 1851 Census Index for Logierait and there are only 2 Margaret Kennedy's, one is aged 2 and the other 6. Logierait 7/8/33: - If it is the 6 year old, then she was only 15 when she had Christina! Her parents were: - James and Catherine. Does anyone have these people in their family, or have access to the 1861, 1871 census so that I can put a further fix on them? Your help would be appreciated as these are my "brick wall" Heather J

Heather - while I cannot connect directly with the people you mention, I think I'm "close" in a couple of ways, and I think we ought to compare notes and keep in touch. I have a DEWAR family: Archibald DEWAR (1756, Killin - 1831, Canada) m. Margaret FERGUSON (~ 1770 Comrie - 1835, Canada) who had 5 children born in assorted locations in Perthshire (Dundurin, Comrie, Killin). This family moved to Ontario, Canada in 1818 where the children married into the following families: McNIE, KENNEDY, COMRIE, BUCHANAN, McEWEN - most of which are good Perthshire names from places like Balquhidder, Dull and Comrie. It may well be that we connect somewhere along one of those lines (or another) and that "missing" Scots from Perthshire in that time period can be found in Ontario. You can see my database online at the "My Tree" link below. Regards - Glen C. Bodie Personal contacts------------------------------- Web http://www.glenbodie.com Home mailto:glen@glenbodie.com My Tree http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gcbodie/MyTree/bodie_antle.htm Snail Mail: 76 Strathcona Ave, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4J 1G8 Fax: (208) 248-6782 (via http://www.efax.com) Thornicroft surname----------------------------- Web http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gcbodie/thornicroft Mail mailto:thornicroft@glenbodie.com Query http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=board&r=rw&p=surnames.thornicroft Mail List mailto:thornicroft-l@rootsweb.com Antle surname----------------------------------- Web http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~antlenf/default.htm Mail mailto:antle@glenbodie.com Query http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=board&r=rw&p=surnames.antle Mail List mailto:antle-l@rootsweb.com Researching------------------------------------- A.NTLE, B.ODIE, C.OFFIN, C.OMRIE, D.EWAR, F.ARQUHARSON, F.ORD, F.REEMAN, L.AW, L.ILHOLT, M.ACHRAY, M.CNIE, M.CPHAIL, M.UTCH, O.SBORNE, R.ENNIE, S.MITH, S.TERNS, S.TEWART, T.HOMSON, T.HORNE, T.HORNICROFT, T.UPPER, W.ALKER >> M.UTCH+F.ARQUHARSON info at http://www.islandregister.com -----Original Message----- From: HEATHER WILLIAMS [mailto:hjw@brickhouse.fsnet.co.uk] Sent: Friday, July 09, 2004 9:34 AM To: PERTHSHIRE-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Kennedy and Dewar in Logierait My Great Granny was Christina Kennedy, always known as Dewar. She was the illegitemate child of James Dewar and Margaret Kennedy, however on her marriage certificate in 1882 she put her mother's name as Janet. I have the Kirk Session Minutes proving this. Christina was born 5th February 1859 at New Inver, Tullipowrie, Logierait and James Dewar was residing at Pitcastle, Logierait in 1858 and Ardunaig, Killin in 1860. According to Christina's marriage certificate, James Dewar is a mason. James Dewar had a further illegitimate child, admitted in Kirk Session Minutes, he was a James Clark, known as Dewar born to Janet Clark on 22nd December 1859 in Killin. James Dewar did not marry either of these two women. Not exactly a clean living young man!! I have named him the "Tayside Tomcat" I have Christina in the 1881 Census working as a domestic servant in a hotel at Amulree and Crieff Road, Dull. I am looking for any clues as to both James Dewar's and Margaret Kennedy's parentage. I have the 1851 Census Index for Logierait and there are only 2 Margaret Kennedy's, one is aged 2 and the other 6. Logierait 7/8/33: - If it is the 6 year old, then she was only 15 when she had Christina! Her parents were: - James and Catherine. Does anyone have these people in their family, or have access to the 1861, 1871 census so that I can put a further fix on them? Your help would be appreciated as these are my "brick wall" Heather J ______________________________