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Surnames: CHALMERS, BISSETT, MCLANDERS, PARKER, TOSH, SCOTT, CAITHNESS
Classification: Query
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Hi Everyone,
Many thanks to all who have helped so much in my Chalmers hunt to date!
The present state of play is that I have now traced my CHALMERS ancestry back to James
CHALMERS (dates unknown), Occupation: Land Factor, who was married (presumably?) to Agnes
PARKER. Their son, James CHALMERS, was born in Perthshire, circa 1836 (calculated from
marriage details and census, as I haven't yet been able to find a baptism date for
him) and was married in 1861 at Monifieth to Janet (Jessie) BISSETT. (According to the
marriage details, James CHALMERS senior and Agnes PARKER were both deceased by this
time).
James CHALMERS junior was a Private Soldier in the Scots Grays at the time of his marriage
to Janet BISSETT of Panbride in 1861, but by 1881 he was working as a Foreman Mason and
living in Dundee at 2, Ogilvies Road.
The children of James CHALMERS and Janet BISSETT were:
James CHALMERS (1855 - base-born; possibly not the son of James CHALMERS, as he was
baptized as BISSETT, though at the 1881 census he had the surname of CHALMERS);
William CHALMERS (1863);
Ellen CHALMERS (1865);
Janet CHALMERS (1867);
Thomas CHALMERS (1868);
David McKenzie CHALMERS (1871);
Mary Parker CHALMERS (1872)
Thomas CHALMERS (b. 1868, above) was my G. Grandfather. He was a blacksmith by
profession, and married Helen Walker MCLANDERS in 1891 at Dundee.
I am now trying to discover something - anything! - about the first James CHALMERS - the
one who married Agnes PARKER. I presume they came from Perthshire, but that is only an
assumption, as that is where their son, James, was said to have been born. I am really
hoping that someone out there will perhaps recognize names or details and be able to give
me a clue as to where I should look next, as I really am stuck.
Many thanks,
Sue