![]() It is not clear why a merchant in Glasgow would have moved to Graitney and become an agricultural labourer - perhaps this is purely a coincidence and there were two couples named Archibald Downie and Jean Jervie. The pattern of births in several different places, probably farms, suggests that Archibald was an agricultural labourer, who would have regularly moved from farm to farm, being hired at the regular feeing markets, probably in Annan. The Graitney parish register for the period up to 1783 is in very poor condition and difficult to read, but it shows that Agnes was born in Graitney Green and the others in places whose names are difficult if not impossible to read. 22nd Aprile Named Alexander wits John Harvie David Hamilton and Jean Jervie his Spouse had their 1st child Born 7th Baptd. There is some mystery about how Archibald and Jean came to Graitney their first child Alexander's entry in the Barony register of Births and Baptisms shows that Archibald was a merchant, probably in Anderston:Īrchbald Downie merchant in Andn. So far, only descendants of Archibald Junior have been found, and it is those descendants who feature on these pages.įamily of Archibald Downie and Janet Gass Archibald Senior probably came to Graitney from the Glasgow area because the couple had a son Alexander born in Barony, Lanarkshire on 22 April 1770 before having eight children baptized in Graitney between 17. The story starts in the parish of Graitney (modern day Gretna) in the County of Dumfries with the baptism of Archibald, son of Archibald Downie and Jean Jervie on 15 February 1781.
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