June 2009 - Latest News on the website covering the history of the Mutch family name in North East Scotland.

Major changes to Family Lines J94 and R9

Most changes I have to make to the listings on the website are straightforward. Adding additional birth or death information, details of a newly discovered spouse or child, but now and again things get very complicated.

For some time I have been receiving additional information on family line J94. This is shown in the 1929 Genealogy of Mutches as family E21. That listing however is incomplete and it states that the details were received late in the preparation of the book. The listing there shows three marriages for John; unknown, Christina Henderson and Christina Duncan, along with several children under each of the named wives.

The book also claims that John was the son of Robert and Isabella Shand [R9].

Originally I had entered three separate family lines; J63 - John and Christian Henderson, J67 - John and Isabel Urquhart and J94 - John and Christian Duncan. This was because Ellen Sutherland had provided details of these families which, among other things, proved that the John in J94 was the illegitimate son of Robert and Jane Minty. This had been further confirmed by a copy of J94’s marriage registration sent to me by Sheila Leith.

Therefore the John in J94 had been shown on the site with Robert and Jane Minty [R13] as his parents and notes added to the others about the question of parentage.

Elizabeth Ryder-Weldon had also provided information on the family of John and Isabel Urquhart and established that his mother was also Jane Minty. All of the above lead me to the conclusion that the three lines are the same John who married three times and that he is the same John referred to in the 1929 genealogy. However, John was the illegitimate child of Robert and Jane Minty.

The revised marriages and children of John match very closely to the partial data listed in the 1929 genealogy except for the fact that John’s mother was not Isabella Shand. The fact that he was listed with the rest of Robert and Isabella’s children would imply that he was raised as part of Robert’s family.

I have now updated J94 to show all three marriages and details of their known children. In addition I have updated R9 to show John’s correct parents and removed R13, J63 and J67 as they are now included in R9 and J94.

As I said, this has been a complicated issue to resolve and I trust I have tied all the loose ends together correctly. Please let me know if I have made any errors on the revised pages.

Corrected parents for Alexander [A28]

Alexander, who married Jane Blyth, had previously been shown as the son of David and Jean Singer [D1]. This information was taken from the Hay Family Tree posted by James M Hay on GenCircles.

Mary Lazell has now passed on the details from his death registration which give his parents as James and Ann Black [J9]. The website has been updated to show his correct parents.