Well known family lines
that have connections
to the
Macfie
In order to better understand the family relations ,which at times appear to be very confusing, certain extracts of the books written on or about the families have been incorporated into this web page. It is suggested that if you are interested in the history of that period of time, whether it be Scottish, English, Swedish, European, Canadian or for that matter American you should take the time to obtain the books in question and read them in their entirety.
One must realize also at this time in Scotland, the industrial revolution was beginning to run at full speed, many new inventions were coming into play that allowed adventuristic gentlemen, and others, some very unscrupulous, to embark on schemes that for some of them, made them very very rich . The majority of these families, while not belonging to the upper crust of Society, or to the Aristocracy, managed to find their own level of social interaction. Mingling, associating, and marrying amongst themselves, provided them with the ways and means of enforcing their status and increasing in most cases, their financial portfolios. What Royalty had accomplished in the past to ensure their own strong succession, was now being practiced several social levels below, by the rising industrial entrepreneurial class.
It would be pleasing to the mind to have read in the multitude of documents written of the history, of Scotland, England, Canada, Sweden, Austrailia and New Zealand, that the Macfie family, or individual members there of, played some important role in the development of things , however this was not the case.
Alas, we may only claim small mentions in the records of those families who did play roles ( some of the roles, being major roles) in the development of the above mentioned countries. Certainly we are assurred that the Macfie family would have been well aware of the ideas, projects and developments that were being put forth, which would have a major bearing on the future relations of these countries and thier freinds and foes.
It is very difficult to image, that the Macfie family did not embark upon, nor join forces with these interconnected familes in projects that would surely have enriched their personal family fortunes.
What would have been the out come of the family today had the Macfie Family joined with the Fairrie Family, to form a sugar conglomerate, then joined up with the Thorburn Family to form a Sugar and Tea importing - exporting conglomerate, then joined with the Allan Family to develop the ideal transportation system and finally join with the Galt Family to develop the hinterlands of Sweden ,Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
Had the principles of big business been then, what they are now, one can only imagine what could have happend.
The following families have been protrayed as best as possible, not all the interconnecting familes have been researched, and hopefully as they are found, the necessary changes to this site will be made .
Allan of Ayrshire, Scotland
Shipping Magnates
The book titled " Ravenscrag ' / The Allan -Royal Mail Line by Thomas E Appleton , 1974 , privodes much of the family information that is depicted here. Futher comfirmation of the closeness of some of the Macfie branches and the Allan family was made by Elizabeth Normand, of the Isle of Mull, Scotland daughter of Sheila Elizabeth Allan . (circa 1993). Also consulted were many other works historical and other that have been published regarding this famous family.
James Allan -1792 | 1775 Aryshire, Scotland | Jean Brown -1821 |
| James Allan 1776- | Andrew Allan 1778- | Alexander Allan 1780-1854 |
| John Allan 1782- | Margaret Allan 1784- | Janet Frances Allan 1786- |
| Fairlie Cuningham Allan 1790- |
James Allan and Jean Brown acted as Aunt and Uncle to the famous Robbie Burns ( Jean Brown -stepsister to Robbie's mother)
Alexander Allan 1780-1854 | 1806 Saltcoats,Aryshire, Scotland | Jean Crawford 1782-1856 |
| James Allan 1807-1880 | Hugh Allan 1810-1882 | Bryce Allan 1812-1874 |
| Jean Allan 1814- | Janet Allan 1816- | Margaret Allan 1819-1891 |
| Andrew Allan 1822-1901 | Alexander Allan (jr) 1825-1892 | Unknown |
Margaret Allan (1819-1891) married Claud Macfie (1822 -1903) son of William Macfie of Greenock .Known as Claud Macfie of Cogarburn , his is of the Langhouse strain. Nephew to Alexander Macfie of Clarenceville Quebec
| James Allan 1807-1880 | 1841 Scotland | Eleanora Blair Gilkison 1821- |
| Alexander Allan 1842- | Robert Gilkison Allan 1843-1915 | Eleanora Brown Allan 1846- |
| Jane Crawford Allan 1848- | James Hugh Allan 1849- | Mary Glikison Allan 1851- |
| Janet Charlotte Allan 1855- | Richard Gilkison Allan 1857- | Bryce Allan 1859- |
| Obituary- Robert G Allan |
Jane Crawford Allan 1848- | Mar 20, 1867 Greenock, Scotland | William Macfie 1840-1912 |
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Mary Gilkison Allan 1851-1918 | January 15, 1873 Greenock Scotland | John Graham 1843-1921 |
Eleanor Allan Graham 1873- | John Graham (jr) 1877-1914 | Mary Allan Graham 1880- |
| Allan James Graham 1883- |
John Graham the son was a Captain in the Liverpool Scottish, he was killed in action at Hill #60 in the German war of 1914
Hugh Allan 1810-1882 | 1844 | MatildaCarolyn Smith 1825-1881 |
| Matilda Jane Allan 1855- | Margaret Allan 1857- | Hugh Montague Allan 1860-1951 |
| Bryce James Allan 1862- | Edith M Allan 1865- | Mabel G Allan 1867- |
| Arthur E Allan 1871- | Alexander Allan | Jean Allan |
| Phoebe Allan |
| Hugh Montagu Allan 1860-1951 | 1893 Montreal, Quebec, Canada | Marguerite Ethel MacKenzie -1957 |
| Marguerite Martha Allan 1895-1942 | Hugh Allan 1896-1917 | Gwendolyn Allan 1898-1915 | Anna Allan 1900-1915 |
Marguerite Martha, died in Vancouver BC, she was a dramatist and actress
Hugh Allan was killed in action WWI
Gwendolyn and Anna drowned which the sailing ship Lusitania was sunk ( see Kemp page for story)
| Bryce Allan 1812-1874 | 1844 Greenock Scotland | Janet Blair |
| Alexander Allan 1844-1927 |
Bryce Allan was named Baronnet in and was henceforth known as of Aros House, Isle of Mull, Scotland
Janet Blair's brother Robert was involved in the sugar refinining business in Greenock
| Obituary- Bryce Allan |
| Obituary-Robert Blair |
Alexander Allan 1844-1927 | Married 1866 | Juliana Elizabeth McEwan -1926 |
Bryce Allan |
Alexander Allan was 1st Provost of Tobermoray, Scotland, Julianna's family was from Islay
| Obituary- Julia Allan |
Bryce Allan | Married | Hilda Mary Allan |
Alister Hugh Allan |
Married | Mr Sykes |
Edward Sykes | Elizabeth Sykes |
Elizabeth Sykes | Married | John Murray Normand |
Hugh Normarnd | Charles Normand |
See letters from Mrs Normand
Andrew Allan 1822-1892 | 1846 Scotland | Isabella Smith 1830-1881 |
| Hugh Andrew Allan | Brenda Allan 1868- | |
There are 8 children of this union, however only Brenda shows on the 1881 Canada Census, two other childern are listed but they appear to be perhaps cousins - Isabella Mackenzie 11 years and Allan Mackenzie 8 years
| Robert Gilkison 1791- | 1819 Port Glasgow, Scotland | Eleanora Brown 1792- |
| Robert Gilkison (jr) 1820- | Eleanora Blair Glikison 1821- | Richard Brown Gilkison 1825- |
| David Gilkison 1827- | Mary Walker Gilkison 1830- |
It is believed that Robert (1791) Gilkison's brother William Gikison (1777) was best friend to John Galt, and is mentione in t he book titled "The GALTS", a Canadain Odyssey, (part 1 and Part 2) by H B Timothy (1977), as being buried in an unmarked grave close to the tombstone of the great Mohawk indian Chief Joseph Brant .
Robert named his last children after his father David and his mother Mary Walker. It would appear that his first children Robert and Eleanora Blair were named after Robert's wife's parents , Richard Brown
and Eleanora Blair ( married 1785).
| William Brown | Ayrshire, Scotland |
| Jean Brown -1821 | Agnes Brown 1732-1820 |
| William Burns 1721-1784 | 1757 Ayrshire, Scotland | Agnes Brown 1732-1820 |
| Robert Burns 1759-1796 | Gilbert Burns 1760-1827 | Agnes Burns 1862-1834 |
| Annabella Burns 1767 | William Burns (jr) 1767-1790 | Isabell Burns 1768-1771 |
| John Burns 1769- | Isabella Burns 1771- |
Robert Burns, Poet Laureate of Scotland, being the most famous of the children of this family
| Hugh Crawford 1742- | 1767 Ardrossan, Scotland | Janet Malcom |
| Sarah Crawford 1768- | Margaret Crawford 1769- | Janet Crawford 1771- |
| John Crawford 1777- | Jean Crawford 1782-1856 | Agnes Crawford 1784- |
| Mary Crawford 1785- | Bryce Crawford 1786- |
Jean Crawford's family provides the names we find in the the Allan family , Hugh , Bryce and perhaps Janet
GALTof Irvine, Renfreshire Scotland
Novelist
The book titled "The GALTS", a Canadain Odyssey, (part 1 and Part 2) by H B Timothy (1977) provides most of the information protrayed on this site, futher confirmation of the Galt- Macfie family connection can be found in the book titled "John Macfie of Edinburgh and his family" by JWS Macfie (1938) ( Limited private printing)
In his book H B Timothy writes " Galt's name and that of his birthpalce are connected with an event which helped to make both maritime and Canadain history.On June 1, 1819 the Jean , a square sterned carvel built brigantine with one deck and two masts, sailed on her maiden voyage from Greenock. This famous vessel, which in her time held the record for the fastes crossing from the Clyde coast to Quebec and was for several years one of the main connecting links between Britian and the Canadaa, was built at the Irvine shipyard by Gilkison, Thompson and Company. The Gilkison member of the firm: James Gilkison shipmaster of Irvine, who was one of the vessel's owners; and her captain, Alexander Allan , of Saltcoats in the parish of Ardrossan, were all relatives of John Galt."
The main purpouse of this particular web page as I stated at the beginning was to relate the different families to the Macfie family of Greenock and Inverkip , but from the above quotation one can clearly see that within these families themselves there are amany many relationships that are outside of the Macfie.
The exersice of tracing the origins of the Galt family is quite willingly left to those interested members of this renown family. Suffice it to state H B Timothy politely begining his history of the Galt family writes
" In the ground of Montgreenan House which lie partly in Stewarton parish are the remains of a waukmill. It is here that John Galt's grandfather, also named John Galt, lived and worked like his Stewarton forbears as a dyster; and it was here that his seafaring father, Captian John Galt was born in November 1750. "
| John Galt 1750-1817 | 1776 Greenock, Scotland | Jean Thompson 1746-1826 |
| John Galt (jr) 1779-1839 | Agnes Galt 1781-1855 | James Galt 1783-1798 | Thomas Galt 1785-1811 |
Agnes Galt married Robert Andrew Macfie, son of Robet Macfie (1746-1827). Robert Andrew is brother of Alexander Macfie of Clarenceville Quebec Canada
Thomas Galt had entered into partnership with his brother John in 1809 ,however frollowing an unexpected turn of events, Tom decided to seek his fortunes in Honduras and left Scotland May 18, 1809. He remained and died at Honduras leaving no family.
| John Galt (jr) 1779-1839 | April 23, 1813 Islington, England | Elizabeth Tilloch 1781- |
| John Galt (iii) 1814- | 1815- | Alexander Tilloch Galt 1817-1893 |
Alexander Tilloch Galt became known Sir Alexander Tilloch Galt , one of the Father's of Confederation of the Dominion of Canada
The Galt family arrived in New York in mid March 1828, where John met them and brought them first to a house at Burlington Bay, then about September 1828, the family took up permenant residence in the renovated Priory at Guelph, Ont. The three boys were sent to boarding school in Chambly, Lower Canada. Due to the circumstances of John's function with the Canada Company, however the family was obliged to return to England and in June 1830 were established at 29 Halfmoon St . London England.( at a cost of two hundred and fifty guineas per annum). Seeking to solidify his expenditures, the family moved soon afterward to Old Brompton and took up residence in Barn Cottage.
John Galt's three sons decided themselves that the possiblities in Canada were endless and they could not do wrong by returning so in early 1833 John and Thomas , left, John to a farm at Goderich where he later bacame Register of Huron County. Thomas put in six years at the Toronto headquarters of the Canada Company, then turned to the study of law and went on to become Chief Justice of Upper Canada (Ontario). Alexander Tilloch, took leave in 1834 , was nominated for junior clerkship in the office of the British American Land Company at Sherbrooke, Lower Canada ( Quebec), rose to the position of Commissioner , become involved in the county's politics and is well know as one of the Father of Confederation of the Dominion of Canada (1867).
On the 25 of March 1834, the Galts left Barn cottage with the intentions of taking up a holiday or recuperation period ( John Galt was now suffering from various afflications) at the home of his father at the corner of Blackhall and West Burn St in Greenock, which up until now was occupied by Agnes Macfie, his sister ( she had inherited the residence at the death of her parents). Agnes (Galt) Macfie offered to assit her brother , by giving him, his father's house, and generously allowing him half her income. Agnes Macfie by this time had already advanced to her brother and his family better that one thousand pounds.
John remained only until August of 1834 in his father's home, as he found the house and garden so surrounded by buliding that he was unable to "take the air" and so found himself a dwelling at Maybank Gourock.
" To appreciate the place of John Galt in the Pre-Confederation period of Canadian history, one must remember what the Canada Company stood for in the story of Upper Canada, for it cannot be too forcibly said that John Galt was the Canada Company. One hunderd years ago, Toronto was the grubby little town of York; Hamilton and London were villages; the population of the entire province was only only about one hundred and fifty thousand. Although eleven millions acres, out of a total sureyed area of sixteen million, had been granted to individuals or set aside as Crown reserves, the growth of the population had been very slow since the first influx of Loyalists and there was nothing that could be dignified with the name of an immigration policy . JOHN GALT gave Upper Canada such a policy." ( 'A Family of Nation Buliders' L J Burpee, 1927)
"That policy applied to or included Lower Canada as well, for writing from Downing St, London, to the Earl of Bathurst on Mar 9 1824, Galt mentioned being informed by Wilmot Horton that the gouvernment had resolved to dispose of the Crown reserves in Canada in connection with a general measure that was intended to embrace the waste lands of all the North American Colonies." ( H B Timothy, 1977)
"Unlike our Fathers of Confederation who "builded better that they knew" Galt knew how well he had built. " When my numerous books are forgotten", he said in the Literay life, : I shall yet be remembered - I contrived the Canada Company, which will hereafter be spoken of among the eras of nation destined to greatness". It is said of him that in less than three years he preformed prodigies of enterprise that entitled him to be regarded as the Father of the Eldest Dominion; that more than any other man he was responsible for the development of Canada ; and that he ranks high among those who prepared the gound for Confederation." ( 'Building the Canadain Nation', G W Brown , 1955)
FAIRRIE family of Irvine, Renfrewshire Scotland
Sugar refiners
The booket titled " The Sugar Refining familes of Great Britian" by Geoffrey Fairrie, (1951) provides some of the information used in the web page . Futher confirmation of the Fairrie Macfie family connection was culled from the book "John Macfie of Edinburgh and his family: by JWS Macfie ( 1938) and the book titled " Notes on the Sugar Industry" by John M Hutcheson (1901)
Letters written by Agnes Macfie (née Fairrie) 1813-1900 to her nephew James Fairrie (1832-1918) Steam Yacht MONA 9th Octr 1888. Dear James, When Mrs. Ewing of Canada was here she and the London Fairries were speaking a great deal about our ancestors in Irvine. I showed her your letter to me about the James C. Fairrie in Liverpool. She said she had heard of an Alexander Farrie, merchant in Kilbride, subscribing to a book in Glasgow in 1739. This may be the family referred to in Sheriff Blair's record where there were eight children. J. C. Farrie's father or grandfather may have been one of the eight. Mrs. Ewing wonders if the Register books in Irvine coud give some particuars of the Farrie family - I have so many present things to engage my attention that I cannot feel any or much interest in the past. Eliza Fairrie said her father told her that it was my father who changed the spelling of the name while at school - his Master said that if the word was to be pronounced long there shoud be an 'i' in the first syllable, so it was your grandfather who began to spell the name as we now do, and your Liverpool friend's spelling is the original. Andrew has gone to Beach and may have little time here on his return, so I thought it better to write this than to explain it to him. I am your affectionate Aunt Agnes Macfie Miss Dumas gave me a note about a Spanish Galleon 'Florencia' which was wrecked off the coast of Scotland after the invasion of the Spanish Armada. The Galleon was commanded by one Fereira, a Spanish Grandee of the first class who is supposed to be an ancestor of the Fairrie family. Edward Fairrie has in his possession an old Armada Medal. |
Part 2 Letters written by Agnes Macfie (née Fairrie) 1813-1900 to her nephew James Fairrie (1832-1918) Steam Yacht MONA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Appin, Argyllshire 28th January 1892 My Dear James Yours of the 21st came opportunely when our cousin Mrs Ewing, who is much interested in our ancestors, was here. We did not learn anything new from the papers except the doubt thrown upon the idea that the Fairries came to Scotland in the Spanish Armada. Mrs Ewing remembers Aunty Nan saying that she had in her youth waded out to a gun which lay on the shore between Kilbride and Fairlie, said to have belonged to the Spanish Armada. Now Mrs. Ewing suggests that if anyone was at leisure in London and cared to go to the British Museum, they might look at the Record of the Armada to see whether any of the vessels were wrecked on the Firth of Clyde. |
Mr Hutcheson in his personal notes on the Fairrie family begins " The first Mr James Fairrie of whom I have any notes was born in 1688 and was a shipmaster at Irvine; the second was his son ,born 1730, who was a West India Merchant and shipowner; and the third James in succession, born 1754, was the originator of the firm of Messrs James Fairrie & Co, sugar refiners , Greenock"
| James Fairrie 1696- | July 7, 1714 West Kilbride, Scotland | Marion Thompson |
| Jean Fairrie 1718- | 1720- | Anna Fairrie 1722- |
| Janet Fairrie 1723- | James Fairrie 1727-1799 |
| James Fairrie 1727-1799 | October 9, 1751 Irvine, Scotland | Jean Robertson 1730- |
| Marion Fairrie 1752-1815 | 1754-1815 | Agnes Fairrie 1755-1768 |
| Jean Fairrie 1758-1845 | Thomas Fairrie 1759-1760 | Thomas Fairrie 1761- |
| William Fairrie 1762- | Robert Fairrie 1764-1816 | John Fairrie 1766- |
| Agnes Fairrie 1768-1855 | Frances Fairrie 1770-1852 | Matthew Robertson Fairrie 1772- |
| Charlotte Bannatyne Fairrie 1775-1804 | Adam Fairrie 1777-1863 |
Thomas Fairrie went to West Indies
Matthew Fairrie went to East Indies
| Marion Fairrie 1752-1815 | 1777 Irvine, Scotland | David Johnstone 1751-1836 |
| Jean Johnstone | -1823 | Jessie Johnstone 1786-1817 |
| David Johnstone 1792- | Mary Beckwith Johnstone 1792- | William Johnstone 1794-1829 |
Geffory Fairrie begins the story of his family as follows " James Fairrie was the third bearer of the Christian name and of the third generation of the family. He went to sea with his father in 1768 at the age of thirteen. He was later given command of the "Orangefield" and soon experienced the perils and privations of the sea since England was at war with america, France Spain and the Dutch whilst he was on a voyage from Pensacola to Jamaica in 1779. The "Orangefield" was attacked and captured near Point Pedro, on the north coast of Jamaica, by Spaniards from Cuba, and James was struck by bullets in the right arm, which was later a,putated in Green Island Harbour ,Jamaica. The "Orangefield" was recaptured and James regained his ship in Montego Bay, Jamaica, in November 1779. "
"In August 1781 ,James was in command of the "Dispatch" bound from London to Charlestown, Carolina but his ship was driven ashore by an American Privateer; after considerable hardships he reached Charlestown in a river ship. He left Charletown in October in the "Hope" a British Sloop of War which was bound for New York for repairs. The "Hope" had to be beached on the Island of Saplelo, off the coast of Georiga, but James eventually arrived at Savannah in an English Galley."
"James got a passage in a small, armed merchantman, the "Amazon" of Dublin, bound for Jamaica from Savannah, but this ship was captured after a running fight with an American Privteer the " Marquis de Lafayette" . The .Amazon" wastaken as a prize to Cape François , now Cape Haitien, on the north coast of Haiti, where James and the crew ere imprisoned. Eventually he got to Jamaica in december and thence back to the Clyde in July 1782."
"James continued his seafaring life for some further 25 years, during which he spent the winter of 1787-1788 in Quebec, building a ship, the "Alfred" in which on her maiden voyage he carried a cargo of wheat to Barcelona. Eventually he decided that life ashore would be less hazardous so, in 1797, he purchased a site at Cartsdyke Bridge, Greenock, and erected a sugar refinery under the name James Fairrie & Company"
1st marriage
| James Fairrie 1754-1815 | August 13, 1783 Irvine, Scotland | Janette Patterson |
| John Fairrie 1790-1864 | 1795-1858 | Jean Fairrie 1793- |
| Adam Fairrie 1798-1879 | Jane Fairrie 1789- | James Fairrie 1786- |
2nd marriage
| James Fairrie 1754-1815 | July 11, 1808 Greenock, Scotland | Mary Colquhoun |
| William Fairrie 1809-1840 | 1810- | James Fairrie 1811- |
| Agnes Fairrie 1813-1900 |
"In 1809 Messers James Fairrie & Co erected a refinery at Cartsdyke Bridge; the site had been purchased or feued by Mr James Fairrie from the Rev William Willis, minister of the Associated Congregation at Crawfodsdyke, in 1797. His firm secured two additional pieces of ground in 1811 and 1815. Mr James Fairrie, who had been a shipmaster from many years, carried on this refinery til his death at Greenock and the 22nd December, 1815. Three of his sons continued it, and although thier ages were then only 25, 20 and 17 , they soon made thier mark- Mr John Fairrie, at first in Greenock and later in London; Mr Thomas Fairrie remained in Greenock all his life; and Mr Adam Fairrie, first in Greenock an then in Liverpool. The three brother continued in thier partnerships while they lived , each at the head of the business they established and carried on in London, Liverpool and Greenock. The refinery was frequently enlarged, and was in full operation until it was destroyed y fire in 1846. after which it was never rebuilt. The site became part of Messrs Scott & Sons' yard. " ( Hutcheson, 1901)
" The Cartsdyke refinery was enlarged from time to time and in 1819, Howard's vacumn pans were installed. This was the first refinery in Scotland, and second out of London, to adopt the vacumn pan. In 1846, the refinery was destroyed by fire and never rebuilt.
During the period 1837-1839 James Fairrie & Company rented a refinery at Shawswater in Greenock. In 1845 they purcahsed a refinery in Ker Street which had been erected about 1831. They made additions to the site in 1846, 1847, 1852 and 1853, and on the death of thomas Fairrie in 1858 the refinery was sold to The Greenock Sugar Refining Comapny which ceased operating in 1865. It was then purchased by Abram Lyle, John Kerr and other who had founded The Glebe Sugar refining Company in that year.
When the Cartsdyke refinery was burnt down in 1846, James Fairrie & Comapny rented a refinery in Sugar House Lane and worked it until 1854. This refinery was built on the site on which the first other than primitive refinery in Greenock had been erected in 1765." (Geoffery Fairrie, 1951)
| John Fairrie 1790-1864 | Feburary 8, 1821 Edinburgh, Scotland | Helen McCormick -1865 |
| Elizabeth Crawford Fairrie 1822- | 1825- | Janette Patterson Fairrie 1826- |
| John Samuel Fairrie 1828-1903 | Son Fairrie 1830- | William McCormick Fairrie 1832- |
| Adam Fairrie 1833-1834 | Thomas Fairrie 1834- | Helen Jane Fairrie 1836-1857 |
Helen Jane Fairrie died at Langhouse , Inverkip, Scotland . Langhouse being the home of the Macfie family
The Watt Library in Greenock provided many more children and dates of birth, than do the IGI records, the 1881 British census helped a bit but with out the names it is hard to complete this family..
" When John Fairrie went to London he started a refinery in Church Lane, Whitechapel, and worked it unde the name Fairrie Brothers & Company until his death in 1864. Fairrie Brother & Company were the first refiners in Britain to use granular bone charcoal in tank type filters in 1830, and to restore its refining power by burning the charcoal in pipes. The first French beet sugar refined in London was melted in this refinery in about 1856/57." ( Geoffery Fairrie, 1951)
| Janette Patterson Fairrie 1826- | April 26 1855 London England | Henry J Phillip Dumas |
| Elizabeth Henrietta Dumas 1865- | 1859- | Janet C Dumas 1861- |
| Henry J F Dumas 1862- |
Henrietta Dumas
Married Edward Price
Helen Price
Married Henry Seccombe
Ralph Seccombe
More information is required to complete this family line
| Thomas Fairrie 1795-1858 | June 26, 1832 Greenock, Scotland | Jane Martin -1847 |
1793-xxxx | 29 June 1807 Greenock, Scotland | John Denniston 1776-1833 |
| John Denniston (jr) 1808- | 1810- | James Denniston 1812- |
| Archibald Denniston 1814- | Hugh Denniston 1815- | 1821-1897 |
| Elizabeth Denniston 1817- | Jean Denniston 1818- |
Cynthia Landels of New Zealand as descendant of Thomas Denniston has been kind enough to share her family tree with me thus allowing all who visit this page to see much further along the family tree . Cynthia can be reached at clandels@xtra.co.nz
| Adam Fairrie 1798-1879 | April 26, 1830 Greenock, Scotland | Margaret Johnstone -1873 |
| James Fairrie 1832-1918 | 1833-1898 | Margaret Fairrie 1831- |
| Janet Fairrie 1835- | John Fairrie 1838- | Thomas Fairrie 1840- |
| Jane Fairrie 1842-1856 | Mary Anne Fairrie 1845-1863 | William Henry Fairrie 1846- |
| Charles Robert Fairrie 1849-1850 | Helen Abigail Fairrie 1837- |
According to IGI records there were 11 children, notes from Watt Library, Greenock , have only 10 children listed and not all the dates match the names.
" When Adam Fairrie went to Liverpool in 1847, he constructed a refinery in Vauxhall Road, and worked it under the name J. T. & A. Fairrie until 1866, when the firm became Fairrie & Company, Limited. On his death in 1789, the business was continued by his sons James (1832-1918) and Adam (1833-1898). When James (the son) retired about 1905 his son James (1861-1926) became the head of the business and operated it in conjunction with his cousins Adam (1866-1941) and Henry (1870-1914). When the fifth James died in 1926, the business was continued by his sons Leslie and Geoffery along with thier cousin Adam, until Fairrie & Company Limited , joined Tate & Lyle Limited in 1929. The company was operated as separated unit until 1937, when the melting of raw sugar ceased." ( Geoffery Fairrie, 1951)
| James Fairrie 1832-1918 | Liverpool, England | Jane 1839- |
| James Fairrie 1861-1926 | Septimus Harold Fairrie 1867- | Beatrice Fairrie 1871- | Herbert J Fairrie 1873- |
| James Fairrie 1861-1926 |
| Leslie Fairrie | Geoffrey Fairrie |
| Geoffrey Fairrie |
| Anthony Fairrie | James Fairrie |
1833-1898 | September 25, 1862 Liverpool, England | Emma Moore -1873 |
| Adam Fairrie 1866-1941 | Henry Fairrie 1870-1914 | Emmie Fairrie 1873 | Helen Jean Fairrie 1873- |
| Emmie Fairrie 1873- | October 18, 1898 Liverpool England | Andrew Stewart |
| Helen Jean Fairrie 1873- | March 15, 1899 Liverpool England | Ronald P Shaw |
| Margaret Fairrie 1835- | September 12, 1850 Liverpool England | Arthur Moore |
| Robert Fairrie 1764-1816 | August 1821 Irvine, Scotland | Mary Troop |
| Jean Fairrie 1822-1887 | ||
Jean married Mr Blair
| John Fairrie 1766- | Irvine, Scotland | Miss Shaw |
| Janet Fairrie | ||
Janet married Hugh Cameron
| Frances Fairrie 1770- | Irvine, Scotland | Mr Bruce |
It is understood that Mr Bruce is from Canada
| Adam Fairrie 1777- | August 1807 Irvine, Scotland | Rachel Campbell |
| John Fairrie 1808- | Janet Fairrie 1809- | Adam Fairrie (jr) 1813- |
| John Fairrie 1817- | Jean Fairrie 1820- | Robert Fairrie 1822- |
| Rachel Fairrie 1824- |
JOHNSTONE family of Greenock
| Father Johnstone 1720-1799 | Dumfries, Scotland | Mother Johnstone 1721-1802 |
| James Johnstone | David Johnstone 1751-1816 | Robert Johnstone -1823 |
| Jean Eliza Johnstone -1830 | Mrs Cruthers -1826 | Jane Johnstone -1818 |
| David Johnstone 1751-1816 | 1777 Greenock, Scotland | Marion Fairrie 1852-1815 |
| Jean Johnstone 1778- | Robert Johnstone | James Johnstone |
| Jessie Johnstone 1786-1817 | David Johnstone 1792- | Mary Beckford Johnstone 1792- |
| William Johnstone 1794-1829 |
Notes on David Johnstone Esq
| Robert Johnstone -1823 | Feb 17 1810 Beith, Ayrshire , Scotland | Jean Wilson -1819 |
| Jane Johnstone 1818- |
| David Johnstone 1792- | Dec 09, 1817 Glasgow, Scotland | Jane Buchannan |
| Jane Brown Johnstone 1819- | David Johnstone 1821- | Marion Fairrie Johnstone 1823- |
| John Buchannan Johnstone 1824- | William Johnstone 1826- | Frances Buchannan Johnstone 1828- |
| Janet Johnstone 1829- | James Johnstone 1831-1854 | Thomas Robertson Johnstone 1832- |
| Mary Johnstone 1835- |
| Mary Beckford Johnstone 1792- | Jan 4, 1820 Port Glasgow, Scotland | Claud Marshall (jr) 1788- |
| Claud Marshall (iii) 1821- | Sarah Paterson Marshall 1822- | Marion Fairrie Marshall 1823- |
| David Johnstone Marshall 1824- | Robert Marshall 1825- | Janet Fairrie Marshall 1828- |
| Mary Marshall 1830- | James Marshall 1831- | William Johnstone Marshall 1832- |
| Elizabeth Catherine Marshall 1833- | V W Marshall 1833- |
| William Johnstone 1794-1829 | August 1821 Irvine, Scotland | Elizabeth Steele |
| Janet Johnstone 1822- | David Johnstone 1825- | Marion Johnstone 1827- |
MARSHALL family of Glasgow
| Claud Marshall | April 23, 1777 Glasgow, Scotland | Janet Fairrie |
| Robert Marshall 1782- | Sarah Marshall 1784- | Catherine Marshall 1781- |
| Janet Marshall 1786- | Claud Marshall jr 1788- | Margaret Marshall 1790- |
It is not believed that Janet Fairrie, wife of Claud Marshall is directly related to the James Fairrie family protrayed on the family connections page , however nothing can be discreditied. There is the story that the first Faiire established in Scotland was a soldier or sailor with the Spanish Armada, who managed to find himself washed ashore from a wrecked Spanish man of war
| Robert Marshall 1782- | Irvine, Scotland |
| Sarah Marshall 1784- | Irvine, Scotland |
| Catherine Marshall 1781- | Irvine, Scotland |
| Janet Marshall 1786-1858 | Greenock, Scotland | William Macfie 1776-1854 |
| Claud Marshall (jr) 1788- | January 4, 1820 Glasgow, Scotland | Mary Beckford Johnstone 1792- |
| Claud Marshall (iii) 1821- | Sarah Paterson Marshall 1822- | Marion Fairrie Marshall 1823- |
| David Johnstone Marshall 1824- | Robert Marshall 1825- | Janet Fairrie Marshall 1828- |
| Mary Marshall 1830- | James Marshall 1831- | William Johnstone Marshall 1832- |
| Elizabeth Catherine Marshall 1833- | V W Marshall 1833- |
The Allan family The Galt family The Fairrie Family The Johnstone family The Marshall family William Macfie Robert Macfie of Langhouse Robert Macfie
