Duncan MacGregor

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Personal and Family Information

Duncan was born in 1860 in Tirfuir, Lismore, Scotland, the son of Alexander MacGregor and Mary Buchanan.

He died in 1929 in Polmont.

His wife was Mary O'Grady Geddes, who he married in 1892 in Luib Hotel, Killin, Scotland. Their seven known children were Margaret (1893-?), Thomas (1897-?), Duncan (c1900-?), Mary Jane Geddes (1903-1965), Helen (1905-1946), Janet (c1907-?) and Alex (c1910-?).

Pedigree Chart (3 generations)


 

Duncan MacGregor
(1860-1929)

 

Alexander MacGregor
(1824-1879)

 

Dugald MacGregor
(c1795-<1861)

   
 
 
     
 
 
   

Janet Connel
(c1798-?)

 

Connel Connel
(c1764-?)

 
   

Mary McColl
(c1764-?)

 
   

Mary Buchanan
(1820-1894)

 

Duncan Buchanan
(1795-?)

   
 
 
     
 
 
   

Mary Carmichael
(1796-1871)

 

John Carmichael
(c1756-?)

 
   

Mary
(c1756-?)

 

Events

EventDateDetailsSourceMultimediaNotes
Birth1860
Place: Tirfuir, Lismore, Scotland
Death1929
Place: Polmont

Notes

Note 1

!Source: http://web.ukonline.co.uk/members/tom.paterson/paterson.htm

!Notes: Duncan was born on the 1st February 1860 at Tirfuir on the south-west foot of Lismore Island, the second son and sixth child to Alexander and Mary. It looks like he was named after his grandfather Duncan Buchanan following the standard naming pattern. Tirfuir , pronounced Tirry-foor, means cold-place and may have been the original name for the island. It is now just a few farm buildings but still standing, a few hundred yards away, is the pre-christian Pictish broch. Duncan followed the farming family tradition and it was whilst working as a ploughman at Inneshewan, near Killin that he met his future wife, Mary Geddes [as she was known then]. They married on 28th November 1892 at the nearby Luib Hotel.