John USHER (1651-)

Margaret TURNBULL (-)

James FRIER (-)

James USHER (1672-)

Agnes FRIER (1684-1779)

Thomas USHER (1719-1803)

 

Family Links Spouses/Children: Jean MEIN Thomas USHER Christened: 13 Sep 1719, Melrose, Roxburghshire 3 4 Marriage: Jean MEIN on 13 Jan 1776 in Melrose, Roxburghshire 2 Died: 20 Oct 1803, Darnick, Roxburghshire aged 84 5   General Notes: The Services of Heirs record confirms Thomas as the uncle of John Usher of Toftfield, though the parish registers reveal that he was a half-uncle, not the son of Isabella Mercer as the 1956 Usher book chart believes.   Noted events in his life were: • He was employed as a Portioner in Darnick, Roxburghshire. 6 Thomas married Jean MEIN, daughter of Andrew MEIN and Janet ATCHISON, on 13 Jan 1776 in Melrose, Roxburghshire.2 (Jean MEIN was christened on 20 Mar 1747/48 in Melrose, Roxburghshire and died in may / june 1812.)   Marriage Notes: From Andrew Usher's narrative. Thomas Usher, brother to John Usher, lived in Darnick and was married to Jean Mein (1766). He was joint proprietor of Toftfield, but having no family of his own he left the whole to my father, James Usher, late of Toftfield, or Tylehouse as it was sometimes called.

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2 Charles S. Romanes, Melrose parish registers of baptisms, marriages, proclamations of marriages, session minutes (1723-1741) and mortuary rolls: 1642-1820, 3 volumes (Edinburgh: Scottish Record Society, 1913); 1776 Jan 13: Thomas Usher m. Jean Mein ; c. John Trotter.

3 Old Parish Records., 799. JAMES USHER/AGNES FRIER FR154.

4 Charles S. Romanes, Melrose parish registers of baptisms, marriages, proclamations of marriages, session minutes (1723-1741) and mortuary rolls: 1642-1820, 3 volumes (Edinburgh: Scottish Record Society, 1913); 1719 Sept 13: James Usher and Agnes Frier in Darnick, a.s.n. Thomas Usher; w. Charles Frier, John Usher.

5 Mort Roll, Melrose, 1803 Oct 20, Thomas Usher, Darnick, 84.

6 John Macleod, editor, Services of Heirs, Roxburghshire, 1636-1847, volume 69, part CXXVI (Edinburgh: Scottish Record Society, September 1934), p. 684. Cit. Date: 25 Oct 2001; General Service of John Usher, late of Toftfield, now residing at Weirbank near Melrose, eldest son of the deceased James Usher of Toftfield, who was the eldest son of the deceased John Usher of Toftfield, to his grand-uncle Thomas Usher, portioner of Darnick (as heir of conquest).
Expede 11 June 1822. (Four papers)
R. 19 June 1822