Hello Emma and Janet, I am also very interested in Fordoun and visited there last September. My ancestors with connections to Fordoun are: David Murray who married Elizabeth Alexander in 1783 and then Catherine Edward in 1788. His son James Murray b 1789. He married Jean Christie in Garvock in 1815 but they had two sons, George and Wiiliam in Fordoun and a daughter, Mary, in Arbuthnott. Charlotte Lyall b 1797. Her parents John Lyall and Isobell Ross married there in 1791. Any connections. You presumably know Lewis Grassic Gibbon's novels were set in the area. Yours Jim Murray

I have a George Christie b 3 Feb 1834 married on 30 May 1866 Elizabeth Sheret b 26 Feb 1833 George Christie's Parents: David Christie & Jean Thom or Thaw 1831 Janet ----- Original Message ----- From: "diana murray" <littlewarrenfarm@fletchingcommon.fsbusiness.co.uk> > Hello Emma and Janet, > > I am also very interested in Fordoun and visited there last September. > > My ancestors with connections to Fordoun are: > > David Murray who married Elizabeth Alexander in 1783 and then Catherine > Edward in 1788. > His son James Murray b 1789. He married Jean Christie in Garvock in 1815 > but they had two sons, George and Wiiliam in Fordoun and a daughter, Mary, > in Arbuthnott. > Charlotte Lyall b 1797. Her parents John Lyall and Isobell Ross married > there in 1791. > > Any connections. > > You presumably know Lewis Grassic Gibbon's novels were set in the area.

No obvious connection, Janet, but it may emerge at some future stage. Yours Jim Murray