Re: Newcomer and descendant of Archibald Livingston
Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2016 6:45 pm
Hi Kristen,
Do you mean Angus Livingston's wife Margaret who was also a Livingston by birth? No she was born up in the Fort William area of Inverness-shire apparently. There is not information mentioning a connection with the Morvern Livingstons. Certainly unlikely he married a closely related cousin although with all Livingstons in Western Argyll in the 18th and 19th centuries I can't say that never happened. My ancestor Miles Livingston married Janet Livingston in 1812 in Bowmore, Isle of Islay, back in good old Argyllshire, Janet also listed in their marriage record as a native of Morvern like Miles so who knows they might have related. Really no way of knowing particularly with the birth records in Morvern not surviving before the year 1803. Can't tell you how annoying that is.
But back to old Angus of Ohio. According to Angus Livingston's son's later Scioto County bio mentioned that his father married Angus married Margaret Livingston born in Fort William, Inverness County, Scotland which is adjacent to the highland County of Argyll. At best probably a distant cousin though not all of highland Livingstons share the same bloodline, so that is not sure thing. I don't know Margaret's genealogy and have not researched it. The Livingstons who lived in the Fort William area sometimes had family in settlements in Argyll a short distance from Fort William in Inverness County I suspect. Anyways that is another research project I suspect for another time. Definite no close relation to your Livingstons in any event I don't think. I recently did a bit of work on a Livingston family that settled in the late 1700's in Nova Scotia, Canada that were apparently connected to Livingstons that lived in the 1700's in border area in Argyllshire close to Fort William in neighbouring, Inverness-shire interestingly enough.
I realize now the main motivation for Angus of Scioto County who was first Morvern Livingston to go to Ohio was to get a job in the furnace trade, something he had developed several years of experience in Old Monkland, Lanarkshire where I found out for his son Duncan's 1890's bio., his father Angus was living at when the 1841 Scottish census was conducted. Angus apparently got some of the others into the furnace work in Ohio. At first Angus working in these furnace places Ohio confused me as what that was all about but now I realize that was his work in lowland Scotland after he left his home in Morvern in the 1830's apparently. Some of the highland men like my ancestor Miles Livingston realized back in the early 1800's that to survive in the highlands you needed to acquire a trade as Miles did as skilled boatbuilder and barrel maker. There was no future in Western Argyll as a tenant farmer as others were would find out years later when the landlords started to remove them to clear them from their land in favour of more profitable sheep.
regards,
Donald
Do you mean Angus Livingston's wife Margaret who was also a Livingston by birth? No she was born up in the Fort William area of Inverness-shire apparently. There is not information mentioning a connection with the Morvern Livingstons. Certainly unlikely he married a closely related cousin although with all Livingstons in Western Argyll in the 18th and 19th centuries I can't say that never happened. My ancestor Miles Livingston married Janet Livingston in 1812 in Bowmore, Isle of Islay, back in good old Argyllshire, Janet also listed in their marriage record as a native of Morvern like Miles so who knows they might have related. Really no way of knowing particularly with the birth records in Morvern not surviving before the year 1803. Can't tell you how annoying that is.
But back to old Angus of Ohio. According to Angus Livingston's son's later Scioto County bio mentioned that his father married Angus married Margaret Livingston born in Fort William, Inverness County, Scotland which is adjacent to the highland County of Argyll. At best probably a distant cousin though not all of highland Livingstons share the same bloodline, so that is not sure thing. I don't know Margaret's genealogy and have not researched it. The Livingstons who lived in the Fort William area sometimes had family in settlements in Argyll a short distance from Fort William in Inverness County I suspect. Anyways that is another research project I suspect for another time. Definite no close relation to your Livingstons in any event I don't think. I recently did a bit of work on a Livingston family that settled in the late 1700's in Nova Scotia, Canada that were apparently connected to Livingstons that lived in the 1700's in border area in Argyllshire close to Fort William in neighbouring, Inverness-shire interestingly enough.
I realize now the main motivation for Angus of Scioto County who was first Morvern Livingston to go to Ohio was to get a job in the furnace trade, something he had developed several years of experience in Old Monkland, Lanarkshire where I found out for his son Duncan's 1890's bio., his father Angus was living at when the 1841 Scottish census was conducted. Angus apparently got some of the others into the furnace work in Ohio. At first Angus working in these furnace places Ohio confused me as what that was all about but now I realize that was his work in lowland Scotland after he left his home in Morvern in the 1830's apparently. Some of the highland men like my ancestor Miles Livingston realized back in the early 1800's that to survive in the highlands you needed to acquire a trade as Miles did as skilled boatbuilder and barrel maker. There was no future in Western Argyll as a tenant farmer as others were would find out years later when the landlords started to remove them to clear them from their land in favour of more profitable sheep.
regards,
Donald