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28 February 2002

 

Dr Geoffrey Mann

geoff.mann@btinternet.com

 

 

 

 

 

HALLEY Family Summary

17-18C, Fowlis Wester. Perthshire

 

click here for the HALLEY family tree  (see below for index of marriages on the tree)

 

click each individual to rehis or her life and records

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

8 John HALLEY  c1655-?

   m Margaret ALLEN 1677 Fowlis Wester

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7 John HALLEY 1683-?

   m Margaret SUTTER 1706 Fowlis Wester

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6 Anna HALLEY 1722-?

   m Patrick BAYNE 1748 Methven

 

 

 

John HALLEY, probably the son of Andrew HALLEY, married Margaret ALLAN at Fowlis Wester, Perthshire in 1677.  They baptised 8 children at Fowlis while living at a nearby farm called Upper Gorthy.

 

Their son John married Margaret SUTTER and  baptised 7 children at Fowlis while living on the same farm, Upper Gorthy.

 

Their daughter Ann married William THOMSON in 1742 and went to live in her husband's parish of Methven.  The following year however, William was hung for murdering his brother.  5 years later, Anne remarried Patrick BAIN and returned with him to a farm called Fornought, only a mile from where she was born.

 

 

 

 

 

INDEX OF MARRIAGES ON THE HALLEY FAMILY TREE

 

 

SURNAME           DATE/PLACE MARRIAGE    TREE  MARRIED TO:

ALLEN Margaret             13May1677 Fowlis Wester PER           HalyT0  HALLEY John

ANNAN Janet                 1Sep1712 Fowlis Wester PER           HalyT0  HALLEY Andrew

BAYNE Patrick               5Jun1748 Methven PER                 HalyT0  HALLEY Anna

LEITCH John                23Aug1701 Fowlis Wester PER           HalyT0  HALLEY Agnes

MORAY Janet                10Nov1683 Fowlis Wester PER           HalyT0  HALLEY Patrick

SUTTER Margaret             8Nov1706 Fowlis Wester PER           HalyT0  HALLEY John

THOMSON William            25Nov1742 Fowlis Wester PER           HalyT0  HALLEY Anna

 

 

OUTSTANDING QUESTIONS

 

1)       B8  Extraction of the wills of Andrew and John HALLEY of Over Gorthy

 

2)       B6 Can it be confirmed that Anna HALLEY, who married Patrick BAIN, was the widow of William THOMSON?