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Picture No:728
Courtesy of:Roddie Macpherson
Year:2008
GraveyardContin Parish Churchyard
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Adam & Margaret (Stoddart) Laidlaw.

To/the memory of/ADAM LAIDLAW/who died at Rogie/on the 10th June/ 1845/aged 54 years/and his wife/MARGARET STODDART/who died at Rogie/on the 20th November/1848/aged 53 years.

The departed were natives/of Selkirkshire.


Picture Added on 27 January 2008.


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This is the gravesite of my great great grandfather
6 family members migrated to Australia at various times between the years of 1840 and 1853. One son William stayed behind, had a large family of 10 sons, but nothing is known about the family.
Would be interested to hear about any of them up to the present year 2009.

Added by Ann Parry. on 20 December 2009.
These are my g-g-g-grandparents. Most of their children migrated to Victoria, Australia in the middle of the 19th century. It seems only William stayed in Contin in Scortland.

-5..-4..-3..-2..-1..0...+1..+2 << My mother generation 0 when we started this.

4->.Adam LAIDLAW b.1790 d.1845 SC i.Contin m. Margaret STODDART b.1794 d.1848 SC i.Contin
....1->.Mary LAIDLAW b.1815 SC d.1875 i.Bordertown AU
....2->.Margaret LAIDLAW b.1817 SC d.1886 SC
....3->.Adam LAIDLAW b.1821 SC d. UNKNOWN
....4->.William LAIDLAW b.1821 SC d.1879 SC i.Contin
....5->.James LAIDLAW b.1823 SC d.1892 AU
....7->.Walter Stoddart LAIDLAW b.1825 SC d.1905 AU i.Newlands
....8->.Helen Stoddart LAIDLAW b.1827 SC d.1851 SC
....9->.John Laidlaw b.1829 SC d.1852 AU Goldfields i.Bendigo
...10->.Robert LAIDLAW b.1831 SC d.1914 AU Lake Roy << MY G-G-GRANDFATHER!
...11->.Thomas LAIDLAW b.1833 SC d.1915 AU

I have found the outcomes for most of these people.

The one that remains a mystery is 3->.ADAM LAIDLAW B.1821 SC D. UNKNOWN. There doesn't seem to be any trace of him. Whether he stayed in Scotland or emigrated.

He is not to be confused with another Adam Laidlaw born in 1821 who went to Nova Scotia, or is descended from Adam Laidlaw and Elizabeth Kerr.

I would like to find out what happed to him. He seems to be born the same year as William. Perhaps he was a non-surviving twin?

Added by Malcolm Macdonald on 19 July 2016.

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