TORRANCE, Margaret

   Another name for Margaret was McNAIRN, Margaret.

Margaret married James McINAIRN. (James McINAIRN was born about 1795 and died before 11 Jan 1869.)

Margaret had a temporary relationship with Margaret SCLANDERS, daughter of James SCLANDERS and Ann STEWART. (Margaret SCLANDERS was born on 22 May 1802 in Larbert parish, Stirlingshire, Scotland ^{1 2}.)

  Marriage Notes:

George Gordon and Christian Home never married. In later life Christian Home continued to style herself 'single' or 'unmarried', and George Gordon married someone else soon after his relationship with her. This is a not untypical pattern in North East Scotland at that time. Their children George Strachan and Georgina were their 'natural' children, conceived and born outside marriage. Christian Home never married anyone else.



"Voluntarily compeared Christian Home, an unmarried woman, residing at Mains of Tullyangus, and acknowledged that she had been guilty of the sin of fornication. Being solemnly exhorted to speak the truth and interrogated, she declared that George Gordon an unmarried man residing at Hardgate of Clatt had been guilty with her and was the father of the child. Voluntarily compeared also the said George Gordon, and acknowledged that he had been guilty with Christian Home & that he was the father of the child. After a suitable admonition both parties were dismissed for the present." (! June 1845)

"Sederunt the Rev. James Walker, Modr., Messrs James Wilson, John Sangster, the Rev. John Minto, Elders, Mr Minto, Cler.
Tokens of the admission to the Communion were given to 9 individuals, and their names added to the roll.
Thereafter compeared George Gordon and Christian Home, acknowledging their sincere sorrow for the sin of which they had been guilty. The said Christian Home having produced a certificate bearing the she had been admitted a member of the Established Church, at Glasgow, and had, during her residence there, maintained an irreproachable character, received a suitable admonition and was absolved.
George Gordon also produced a certificate of good character from his native Parish. The Minister reported that the said George Gordon, having formally waited upon him & expressed his desire not only to be absolved from Church censure but also to be admitted into full communion with the Church, had been examined by him as to his knowledge of the ordinance of the Lord's Supper. The Session being satisfied as to his religious knowledge, the Moderator after a suitable admonition, absolved him from censure and admitted him to the privileges of the Church." (Saturday 26 July 1845)

from Minutes of the Kirk Session of the Parish of Clatt




Old Parish Registers
Clatt parish Aberdeenshire.
Baptisms

' Gordon & Home
12 June 1845
George Gordon, Wright, lately residing in Hardgate of Clatt, and Christian Home at Mains of Tullyangus, had a natural son born on the twelfth day of June, Eighteen hundred and forty five, named George Strachan, and baptized on the twenty ninth day of July following by the Rev. James Walker; Witnesses, Robert Gordon, Senr., Gordonston, and George Leggat, Farmer, in Mains of Tullyangus.'




George Gordon and Christian Home's daughter, Georgina, was born in the parish of St Nicholas, Aberdeen, in May 1847. George Gordon's name was recorded in the entry of her birth, not in her baptism, in the Parish of Clatt, Book of Birth and Baptisms, as

"George Gordon, Wright, late at Hardgate of Clatt."
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