from Dalmeny and Queensferry.....

[jennyblain]

Jean asked:

PS Jenny who are your families in Dalmeny and Queensferry?

Here they are: much less detailed than the Linlithgow connections just now!
Mary Bell born 30 Jan 1779, Echline, married James Philip or Philp, carpenter in South Leith, 17 May 1799.

Mary's parents were Alexander Bell, wright in Queensferry and Christian Stark. I haven't found their marriage. They had at least three children, Christian, Alexander and Mary, but I don't have details of the others or any further info on Alexander Bell.

Christian Stark was baptised Queensferry, 21 Sep 1754. Parents were Andrew Stark and Christian Morison, who married in Dalmeny 13 Sep 1745, Christian from Dalmeny and Andrew from Queensferry.

Andrew Stark was b. 10 May 1724, North Leith, parents Andrew Stark and Jane Bryce (a previous child, also Andrew, b. 1720). I don't have further info on these.
Christian Morison may have been from Kirkliston - there is a dau Christian b. to Robert Morison and Jean Hasting, 17 Oct 1723, but that's speculation.

Jenny

[Jean Jeanie]

Hi Jenny

I'll keep my eye open for your lot when I'm chasing mine

Jean

[jennyblain]

A little more information: Alexander Bell and Christian Stark seem to have had a slightly elder child Beatrix born in 1775 in Queensferry.

Then from 1783 to 1794 there are - this is distressing - apparently a string of children born in Queensferry, father Alexander Bell, all either stillborn or dying on the day of birth. Five of them

These may of course be a quite different Alexander Bell (and the mother is not named), but we know that Alexander Bell was a wright in Queensferry at the time of the marriage of his daughter Mary in 1799.

I will try to find out more about Beatrix. Her birth isn't appearing in the IGI but does in SP!

Jenny

[tonyj]

I couldnt help but read these posts as I live in the Ferry on the estate built on the Echline farmland.
Im afraid I cant add to the information as such but thought that you may not know there is a street in the village called Morison Gdns - according to a local publication "The origin of Street Names in Queensferry & Dalmeny" this street was named after Alexander Morison who was Queensferry Provost from 1917 to 1926. Maybe your Morison family migrated to Queensferry from Kirkliston - all of 2 or so miles!
Tony