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QUIGLAY, James
(About 1795-)
McQUELLAN, Catherine
(About 1795-)
QUIGLAY, James
(About 1822-1868)
DONAGHAY, Agnes
(About 1828-Between 1891/1914)
QUIGLEY, James
(About 1853-)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. LYONS, Margaret

2. MARTIN, John

QUIGLEY, James 4

  • Born: About 1853, Kilmarnock Parish, Ayrshire, Scotland
  • Marriage (1): LYONS, Margaret on 8 Feb 1877 in St Joseph's RC Chapel, Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, Scotland
  • Marriage (2): MARTIN, John 1 2 3
  • Died: 17 August 1914 at 1.20 am, 10 Gillsburn Place, Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, Scotland

   Cause of his death was pericarditis.

  General Notes:

James and his family were recorded by the 1861 census for the parish of Kilmaurs. James was the eldest child of the four children recorded. He was aged 8 years and a scholar. He had been born in Kilmarnock parish.

In 1869 James informed the registrar of the death of Catherine Quigley aged eight and a half months, recorded as his sister. (see Catherine's note)

In 1878 James Quigley gave notice of his daughter Margaret's birth before the registrar, James Gregory, in Kilmarnock on 8 April. Margaret had been born five days earlier. James Quigley's occupation was that of stone mason.

James resided at 28 Bentinck Street, Kilmarnock, according to the 1891 census. He was employed as a mason. He was recorded as 37 years old and was born in Kilmarnock. His wife and four sons lived with him there. Their house had one windowed room.

James Quigley was the informant of the death of James Lyon, his father in law, in 1906 at Kilmarnock.

When James died in 1914, he was recorded in the death certificate as 'James Quigley stonemason journeyman married to Margaret Lyons' and his age was noted as 57 years. Both of his parents were then dead.

In 1920 when his daughter Agnes married, James was already deceased. His occupation was recorded then as mason. 4 5 6 7

  Medical Notes:

John Robortson (sic) MB CM certified the cause of death.

Edward Quigley, the deceased's son who had been present where the death occurred, gave notice of his father's death before the registrar, Matthew Richmond, at Kilmarnock on 17 August 1914.


James married Margaret LYONS, daughter of James LYONS and Margaret McCREATH, on 8 Feb 1877 in St Joseph's RC Chapel, Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, Scotland. (Margaret LYONS was born 9 June 1855 at 11.30 pm in Stewart Street, Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, Scotland 4 8 and died in 1939.)


  Marriage Notes:

The marriage was celebrated according to the rites and forms of the Roman Catholic Church. The priest was P. F. Forbes. The witnesses were Michael Sheridan and Catherine Lyons.

James Quigley was an unmarried man of 24 years. He was a stonemason and resided at 25 Fore Street Kilmarnock. His father was deceased.

Marget Lyons (sic) was a mill worker aged 22 years. She was single and of Shaw Street Kilmarnock.

The marriage was registered on 12 February 1877 at Kilmarnock, James S. Gregory being the signing registrar.

James next married John MARTIN.1 2 3 (John MARTIN was born about 1850.)


  Marriage Notes:

"Daughter married William Gordon, III. of Terpersie. Her name is given in neither of the two references in the Balbithan MS., pp. 47-9."

from Leichestoun




"His (ie George Gordon's) eldest Son William Gordon of Terpersie married the blind Lady Litchestons daughter Gordon, whose mother was a daughter of the Earl of Findlaters Ogilvy..."

from Balbithan MS




"William Gordon, who was interred in the church of Tullynessle, married (according to the Balbithan MS., pp. 47,49) his kinswoman, the 'blind Lady Litcheston's daughter (Gordon), whose mother was a daughter of the Earl of Findlater (Ogilvy),' and the relict of the laird of Birkenbog (Abercrombie). In a somewhat obscure birthbrieve, dated February, 1703, relative to the descent of the two sons of Patrick Gordon of Harlaw, son of an Alexander Gordon of Kincraigie, the latter is said to have married Marjorie Gordon, daughter of William Gordon of Terpersie by his 'wife' Margaret Gordon of Auchannachy. If for 'Auchannachy' we read Auchanacie, the reference is clear enough, for the Leichestoun Gordons were connected with Auchynachie."

from Terpersie 1 2 3

Sources


1 e-books, The House of Gordon vol. 1 ed. John Malcolm Bulloch (1903) Balbithan MS Terpersie.

2 e-books, The House of Gordon vol. 2 ed. John Malcolm Bulloch (1907) Cadets of Lesmoir: Terpersie by D. Wimberley assisted by J.M. Bulloch.

3 e-books, The House of Gordon vol. 2 ed. John Malcolm Bulloch (1907) Cadets of Lesmoir: Leichestoun by J.M. Bulloch assisted by D. Wimberley.

4 GRO, Kilmarnock v 597 En D 11 page 33.

5 GRO Scotland, Death certificate RDS 597 No 26 Kilmarnock burgh 1869-sister Catherine.

6 GRO Scotland, Death Kilmarnock 597 no 32 1906.

7 GRO Scotland, Births Kilmarnock 1878 no 251.

8 GRO Scotland, Birth certificate Kilmarnock 597 No 427 1855.

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