FORSYTH Family History: Map Scotland

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Sunday, December 19, 2010

Counties of Scotland - Pre 1974

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Friday, November 5, 2010

Map of South-Eastern Scotland

Bartholomew Map showing south-eastern Scotland. Click on map to enlarge.

Distance from Edinburgh

Selkirk 31 miles, Penicuik 10 miles

INTRODUCTION

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This blog is dedicated to compiling information about the ancestors and descendants of John Forsyth who was born in Dirleton, East Lothian, Scotland in 1835. He came to Canada about 1855 (perhaps with his brother, Charles) and appears in the 1861 Census in King Township, York County.

There is a John Forsyth in St. Andrew's Ward in Toronto in 1853 city records. He is a teamster, but no age is given; therefore, it is impossible to confirm that this is our ancestor.

By the mid 1860s, our John Forsyth had married and taken his young family to the wilderness of Macaulay Township in Muskoka where he was employed in road building for several years.

His parents, John and Charlotte Forsyth, sister Alison, and youngest brother, Robert, immigrated to Canada after 1861, as they are in the Scottish census for that year. In the 1901 Census, Robert gives his immigration date as 1863. Alison married in Muskoka about 1865 and lived close to her parents and brother John. The other brothers, Charles and Robert, lived in the Toronto area. It is thought that some of Charles' descendants moved to the American Mid-West.

Thanks to JP in Ontario and CF in Alberta for sharing photos.

Family of James Forsyth d. 1842 & Helen Scott of Yarrow, Selkirk d. 1860

Christian Forsyth 1801-1881
b. Penicuik, Mid-Lothian
M. 1825, Dirleton
= Francis Hewat, Blacksmith
of Nisbet Loanhead, East Lothian
Buried: Pentcaitland Churchyard
(Monument exists)

Marion Forsyth 1804-1877
b. West Linton, Peebleshire
M. 1821, Edinburgh
= John Cochrane, Dyer
of Haddington, East Lothian
Buried: Haddington Churchyard
(Monument exists)

John Forsyth 1806-1884
b. Penicuik, Mid-Lothian
M. 1828, Dirleton
= Charlotte Cockburn
of Dirleton and Dunbar, East Lothian
Both buried Falkenburg, Ontario,
Canada (Monument exists)

Robert Forsyth 1808-1900
b. Farleyhope, (West) Linton, Peebleshire
Bap. Penicuik, Mid-Lothian
Baker ?
=

James Forsyth 1811-1890
b. Lasswade, Mid-Lothian
Bap. Penicuik, Mid-Lothian
M. 29 Aug 1835 / 11 Jan 1836 Edinburgh
= Jane Fraser, dau of Wm
Lived South Leith (Edinburgh)

Helen Forsyth, abt 1814
b. Dirleton, East-Lothian
M. 1846, Aberlady, E.L.
=Peter Wallace, Labourer
Lived Gladsmuir, E.L.

Thomas Scott Forsyth 1818 -
b. Dirleton, East Lothian
Railway Guard-Berwick to Edinburgh
=Ann (Cameron of Canongate, Edinburgh)
=Margaret
Died 1872 Probably buried Berwick on Tweed

Janet Scott Forsyth 1822 - 1901
b. Dirleton, East Lothian
= Charles Thorpe Bovis, Shoemaker
1865 in Sydney, NSW, Australia
Both died Woollahra, Sydney \

Dear Ancestor

Your tombstone stands
Among the rest
Neglected and alone
The name and date are chiselled out
On polished marble stone
It reaches out to all who care
It is too late to mourn
You did not know that I exist
You died and I was born
Yet each of us are cells of you
In flesh and blood and bone
Our blood contracts and beats a pulse
Entirely not our own
Dear Ancestor..the place you filled
One hundred years ago
Spreads out among the ones you left
Who would have loved you so
I wonder if you lived and loved
I wonder if you knew
That someday I would find this spot
And come to visit you.

Author Unknown

FORSYTH Family History

Sunday, December 19, 2010

Counties of Scotland - Pre 1974

Friday, November 5, 2010

Map of South-Eastern Scotland

Forsythia

FORSYTH Tartan

FORSYTH CREST (a green griffin)

Charles Forsyth of Weston, Ontario

John Forsyth, Jr. of Muskoka, Ontario

Mary Dales Forsyth

INTRODUCTION

Family of James Forsyth d. 1842 & Helen Scott of Yarrow, Selkirk d. 1860

Parents of Charlotte Cockburn

Family of John Forsyth d. 1884 & Charlotte Cockburn d. 1881

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