DALGAIRNS, Charles - Extra Data
Leader of DALGAIRNS' Party
New Register House, Edinburgh
Old Parish Registers for Meigle, Perthshire
Parents:
David DALGAIRNS in this parish and Beatrix LAING in Perth
1 August 1778
This marriage is also in Perth parish registers, where the event took place. The register reads: David DALGAIRNS Baker in the parish of Meigle and Beatrix LAING in this parish, daughter to the deceased Charles LAING, late Merchant in Perth. Elder Thomas BROWN. The above persons were regularly proclaimed and married August the 6th day by W. John DUFF one of the ministers of Perth, August the first day 1778 contracted.
William and Charles, twins, to David DALGAIRNS in Meigle, 9th August 1779
Sep'r 4th 1781, David, a posthumous son to David DALGAIRNS in Meigle
Old Parish Registers for Newtyle, Angus
Charles DALGAIRNS in the parish of Meigle and Charlotte DALGAIRNS in this parish were married July 15 1804
Old Parish Registers for Meigle, Perthshire
Agnes, baptised 24 June 1805
Betty, baptised 24 February 1807 (born 16 February)
Magdaline, baptised 5 January 1809
Charlotte DALGAIRNS buried 12 July 1810 in Howff Cemetery, Dundee
Old Parish Registers for Eassie and Nevay, Angus
Andrew DALGAIRNS in Ingliston and his wife Charlotte GREENHILLS had a daughter born on the 8th and baptised the 15th December 1790, called Charlotte.
If this is Charles DALGAIRNS' wife she would only have been 13 when she married. Girls in Scotland at this time could legally marry at 12.
Star (London) Newspaper 28 August 1802
DIED at Ingliston, County of Forfar, the 16th inst, Mrs. Charlotte GREENHILL, wife of Mr. Andrew DALGAIRNS
Parish Registers for Andrew's wife give her name as Charlotte GREENHILL, but his gravestone appears to give her name as Mary. Mary may have been a second wife. The stone is covered in lichen and is difficult to read, but the MI seems to say:
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