QUEEN, Thomas ¹

   Another name for Thomas was QUIN, Thomas.²

  General Notes:

The 1851 census for Carluke in Lanarkshire recorded Thomas Queen aged 8 years living with his family at Hunterfield. He had been born in Ireland.

In 1861 Thomas Quin was recorded living with his parents and brother in Cleland's Land in Waterllo village in the parish of Cambusnethan. He was 17 years old and worked as a coal miner. He had been born in Ireland. ^{1 2}

Thomas married James STRACHAN in Mains of Rothney, son of James STRACHAN and Margaret MERSON.³ (James STRACHAN in Mains of Rothney was christened on 3 Feb 1787 in Grange parish, Banffshire, Scotland and died on 24 Nov 1863.)

  Marriage Notes:

"By his wife, Janet Guild, daughter of a wealthy armourer of Aberdeen - probably of Matthew Gwill (or St. Nicholas Guild), who was in 1596 'dekin of the Hammerman' - and Mariane Ronaldsoun, m at Aberdeen 6th Nov^r 1570 (who died in 1667, having endowed a hospital at Aberdeen for the maintenance and education of ten poor orphans), sister of the eminent Dr. William Guild (sometime Principal and Lord Rector of King's College, Aberdeen), he had, with other issue, a son David, who succ to Finshaugh, and died 19th Dec^r 1643, whose representatives are the Bannermans, Baronets of Elsick, and a daughter, Janet Anderson, m the Rev. John Gregory of Drumoak ; and from this lady the famous mathematical abilities shown by her descendants are presumed to have come."

from Moirs and Byres ³