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- From: humphreysnooze@hotmail.co.uk
To: clanman@orcon.net.nz
Subject: Macfarlane family tree - Jane Lithgow
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2013 13:55:14 +0000
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Hi, I don't know if this is any use for you, but your site has been a great help to me in compiling my own family tree, I have information about this person
Jane Lithgow person idI76005
she is the mother of Alexander Reid (also in your database - goes on to marry a Jane Macfarlane from bridge end callander). Took me ages to find his birth certificate as it turns out he was illegitimate - registered as Alexander Lithgow at birth. His marriage certificate lists his mother as jane Reid ms lithgow (deceased) - which also turns out to be only partially true. Alexander drowns at Ayr harbour trying to rescue a child . The death is reported by a Samuel Hamilton who is described as a cousin - he names alexander's parents as Alexander Reid, gardener (deceased) and Jane Mathieson, formerly Reid m.s. Lithgow (note there is no mention of deceased).
I had been unable to find lithgow and reid together in the census, because alexander's name had been abbreviated and I'd been doing the wrong types of searches, so I looked for samuel hamilton and made the assumption that his father had married a lithgow. Sure enough I was able to find a robert hamilton and a janet Lithgow being married ( her parents being given as samuel lithgow and Jane Frame) -I thought the samuel was a good sign and I looked them up in the census, finding them as a family in 1881. I didn't check samuel's birth certificate as scotland's people were bleeding me dry by this point.
Then I discovered an Alexr Reid 2 years old staying in a lithgow household in hamilton - his mother moves away after the first census, but he remains and is brought up by his granny Jane Lithgow, who in the last census, reverts to being Jane frame after the presumed death of her husband samuel.
The upshot of all this is
Jane Lithgow's Parents are Samuel Lithgow and Jane Frame (abt 1807)- I've located the church records for their marriage 20th march 1826 in glasgow city, but I will have to order them.
Jane Lithgow's brother Samuel turns out to be the father of Alexander Frame Lithgow - a famous composer of marching band music, especially a tune called "invercargill" which is still played by the us marine band. Alexander's family all emigrated to new zealand in 1876 I think.
My part of the family descends from malcolm macfarlane's son Alexander (1828-1881). His Grandson Alexander idI36067 married Rose Cavanagh in 1906 and their daughter Janet was my grandmother
anyway I've included some documents to back things up. Hope this is useful, bit of an addiction though isn't it.
Have a good christmas and thankyou for going to the trouble of setting up this webpage. btw it was great to see a photo of Peter Macfarlane, putting a face to the name, we only have a few photos as their was a fire at the bungalow that Alexander and Rose lived in and a lot was destroyed.
Mark
[E-mail from mark lough <humphreysnooze@hotmail.co.uk> rec: 24 Dec 2013]
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