Haliburton/Nicolson: anyone like a challenge?.....

LesleyB · Post by **LesleyB** » Fri Jun 23, 2006 7:59 pm

This looks like one of yours:

Records of Pittenweem Relief, United Presbyterian, United Free and St Fillan's Church

Reference and contact details: GB 0227 CH3/802
Title: Records of Pittenweem Relief, United Presbyterian, United Free and St Fillan's Church
Dates of creation: 1814-1941
Held at: University of St Andrews
Extent: 0.4 metres
Name of Creator: Pittenweem Relief, United Presbyterian, United Free and St Fillan's Church

Administrative/Biographical History
The Relief congregation of Pittenweem was first established in 1777 and although the exact date is not recorded, George Haliburton Nicolson, the first minister of the charge, was ordained during the latter half of that year. A new church was opened in 1847, the year that it became part of the United Presbyterian Church, within the Presbytery of Kirkcaldy. Following the union of the United Presbyterian Church and the Free Church of Scotland in 1900, the congregation became Pittenweem United Free Church; and following the 1929 union of the Church of Scotland and the United Free Church Pittenween U.F. was termed Pittenweem St Fillans, Church of Scotland. In 1941 Pittenweem united with the parish church of Pittenweem St Adrian under the name of Pittenweem, and after the union the former United Free church was converted for use as church halls with the parish church remaining in use as the place of worship. The kirk session of Pittenweem, which was linked in 1971 with Carnbee, sits within the Presbytery of St Andrews.

Sources: Robert Small, The History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church 1733-1900 (Edinburgh, 1904); John Alexander Lamb, The Fasti of the United Free Church of Scotland 1900-1929 (Edinburgh, 1956); Hew Scott and others (ed.), Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae , vols. 9-11 (Edinburgh, 1915-2000).

Post by **Liz Turner** » Fri Jun 23, 2006 8:05 pm

You got that one! He is one of the three sons of janet haliburton and James Nicolson. George was a minister and so was his brother Charles. Charles was born 21/1/1747 in Banchory-Devenick, Kincardineshire. He was minister of the English Church in Amsterdam 1775-1781 and then Chaplain to the British Embassy in Constantinople, where he was until he died.

George Haliburton Nicolson had, I believe 5 children, Janet Haliburton N, Charles N, Walter N, Margaret N, and Bethia Anne N.

Thanks for the support here in confirming things that I've got, but from slightly different sources. How do you find the time to do this? I wish I could retire and do this permanently - I love tracking things down!

Liz XX

PS - My other connection to this church in Pittenweem, is that my Nicolson forebears were the builders!

LesleyB · Post by **LesleyB** » Fri Jun 23, 2006 8:05 pm

Could Jean possibly be Janet do you think?

Don't think so - that Jean seems to marry a guy called Edward Burd, according to that page. They lived at Ormiston and had a son James who went to Philadephia in 1747 it says.

LesleyB · Post by **LesleyB** » Fri Jun 23, 2006 8:06 pm

How do you find the time to do this?

I enjoy a good Google...and no one has turned up for dinner yet!!

LesleyB · Post by **LesleyB** » Fri Jun 23, 2006 8:07 pm

The other Nicolson researcher has another post here
http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/NI ... 0946921731
OK, sorry you know who that is. Had missed that post

Found this - not looking good for Jedburgh:
Dreghorn Castle
The name Redford came to prominence in 1674 when the eldest son of Sir James Foulis (Lord Colinton), the Lord Justice Clerk, was raised to the bench and took the title Lord Redford. By 1712 Redford was in the possession of George Haliburton, Lord Provost of Edinburgh from 1740 to 1742. He sold it in 1740 to John Young, a brewer in Edinburgh, whose daughter, Mrs Alien, succeeded to it on his death.
(surely "Mrs Alien" has to be a typo and was really Mrs Allen?

)

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com ... eghorn.htm

Post by **Liz Turner** » Fri Jun 23, 2006 8:09 pm

Yip - that's my "cousin" Murray. His family of Nicolsons married my family of Nicolsons back in the late 1800s/early 1900s and over the years various members of the family have kept in touch.

I've now been "forced" to buy more credits on SP, in case anyone comes up with any suggestions over the weekend - can't wait until pay day, the suspense would kill me!

LesleyB · Post by **LesleyB** » Fri Jun 23, 2006 8:31 pm

Hi Liz
This any use?
http://www.scotsfind.org/marriages_acce ... 1-1750.pdf
Won't copy & paste! You need to search for Haliburton:

Register of marriages for the Parish of Edinburgh
Nicolson
Mr James. minister at Nether Banchory; Mrs Janet Haliburton, second d. of George H Merchant in N.N.K 8 nov 1741

NNK = new North Kirk parish according to preface.
JJ

Post by **Liz Turner** » Fri Jun 23, 2006 8:45 pm

Yeah Lesley - this is him - I've got a copy of this somewhere at the back of my cupboards.... I did the search there on Haliburton and it came back with a reference to George Haliburton former bailie. I'm really going to have to bite the bullet and buy his blasted Will and see what it says - hopefully he left lots to his family and went into copious detail ...

You're doing a great job!

Hope your dinner isn't spoiling! If we turn up Janet's mother's name, I think we'll need a major celebration!

Liz

LesleyB · Post by **LesleyB** » Fri Jun 23, 2006 8:58 pm

In 1741 that George, whose 2nd daughter was Janet was a Merchant.
George Haliburton, formerly of Dreghorn Castle, was provost in 1740-42.
Do you think they would mention he was provost, if indeed it is the same guy, in the marriage lines? Or would it just say Merchant? I don't know.

Post by **Liz Turner** » Fri Jun 23, 2006 8:59 pm

Now that's interesting Lesley - somewhere in my on-line searching last night I also saw a reference to Mrs Alien (!) and I agree that must be a type surely

I find when I start doing these things I end up away off on a tangent - like for this one, I'll now have to go and look up Redford to see what it looked like. That's how I found the website about ebooks about Glasgow last night - ended up spending two hours on that and forgetting my Haliburtons!!

Liz