Re: MOIR
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Goldie & Lido Doratti
Finding Patrick's thread interesting. I have record of a James Innes
married to Isobel MOIR 11 Nov. 1797, Huntly AB. The parish of Forgue AB
has MOIR families there. Over the years I have seen this name spelled
various ways including MOIR, MAIR, MORE, MOR. I suspect Isobel's father to
be Alexander Moir or MAIR from Forgue. No proof. The couple settled
in Oriquhill, Banffshire. Goldie
From: Patrick
Fero
Sent: Sunday, February 2, 2020 12:53 PM
To: Scots@Scotland-Genealogy.groups.io
Subject: Re: [ScotGen] MCCOLMAN, CAMPBELL, BELL,
GRAHAM Not
to confuse matters, although admittedly I probably am, but we've got Muirs in
our background also, but can find no link between them and those being discussed
here. This is the limited information I have: Nothing much back beyond William Moir
(1818-1861)/Catherine Woodward (1828-1896) except his parents were likely
William and Mary Moir. No direct evidence back beyond that.
Also no direct evidence of any surname spelled More or Muir other than the
belief that all of them stem from the same gene pool farther
back. Our clan likely came from
Aberdeenshire.
The 1861 London Ontario census shows Margaret and
William Moir and three kids (James 1819; Alexander 1824; and William
1818) living in the same neighborhood as the Woodwards and the Dwyers (all
eventually intermarried). St. Peter's Basilica Parish records there show
our Moirs were married in 1850 and had child #1 (Isabella) in
1851.
Have not yet found the precise emigration year or
the vessel on which they sailed but it's narrowed to 1848-49. And,
William and three of the six kids all died in the 1861 influenza epidemic
(December).
Catherine remarried in Detroit in 1863 to Patrick
Keating and they and the three surviving Moir kids (Isabella 1851, Daniel 1854,
and William1856) moved up to Ovid in that time frame.
Patrick Fero Pennsylvania On 1/30/2020 5:08 PM, Jocelyn Gould
wrote:
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