John Cormack Runciman (1830 - 1830)

Born 6 Jun 1830 in Edinburgh, Edinburghshire, Scotland, United Kingdom

Ancestors

Died 27 Jul 1830 at age 0 in Edinburgh, Edinburghshire, Scotland, United Kingdom

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Biography

This biography was partly auto-generated by a GEDCOM import & partly created by Alan Runciman, a great grandson of John’s brother James who was born some 10 years later, around 1840.

Name

Name: John Cormack /Runciman/ ^[1]

The middle name Cormack prompts an expectation that it honours a relation such as a grandparent or other family member. No evidence of this is apparent and although it’s anyone’s guess who John is actually named after – a close family friend for example – it could be that it underlines strong religious beliefs of his parents, as the most likely ‘visible’ candidate for honour is the Rev John Cormack. He was minister of Stow Church, Haddingtonshire from 1807 to 1840. His biographical entry in Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae can be seen here . No other John Cormacks reach published status. It’s not established yet whether at one time the family worshipped at Stow, but it’s not a location that springs out from family history. John’s father Alexander & his siblings were all baptised in the parish church at North Berwick. However that covers a period only to 1806. Nothing is evident from then until John’s parents Alexander R & Jane Thomson appear for marriage in Edinburgh in 1829. Similarly, the Thomsons are researched to Lesmahagow & Edinburgh before the marriage. At the time of John’s birth in 1830 Alexander is noted as a ‘Wright Edinr’.

Birth

Birth: 6 June 1830

Edinburgh, Scotland

Date: 1830^[2]

John’s birth location is not stated in the record but given that his death place is recorded some 7 weeks later as ‘Greenside’ it’s reasonable to assume he was also born at Greenside. Greenside is an area in Edinburgh lying to the east end of Edinburgh’s main thoroughfare, Princes Street. It was popular with the trades people who had workshop space there. Perhaps Alexander, a wright, had living accommodation with small workshop attached.

Baptism

4 July 1830

Edinburgh, Scotland

John was baptised in the Martyrs’ Reformed Presbyterian Church. There are recognised indications of Presbyterianism within family knowledge & research. Firstly, it was carried down within the family that the Thomson line (of John’s mother Jane) relates back to John Potter, a Scottish Covenanter. Secondly, it proved difficult to find baptism records of this particular Runciman family. Given the era (1830-40s) absent records very often were a sign of disaffection with the Authorised Church of Scotland for not being sufficiently strictly Presbyterian. During this period large numbers of disaffected parishioners joined the Reformed Presbyterian etc churches, leading to the Great Disruption in 1843. For a variety of reasons, records of baptism in the breakaway churches either weren’t recorded or if so were secreted away to be lost later or, if they have indeed survived, possibly not yet digitised. Since 2017 some ‘dissenting’ records have been coming available online. The discovery of John Cormack Runciman’s baptism record among those of the Martyrs’ Reformed Presbyterian Church in Edinburgh confirms his parents must indeed have a strong Presbyterian conviction. (Their following two children were also baptised there).

Death

Death:

Date: 27 July 1830

Place: Edinburgh, Scotland

Note: aged 0^[3][4]

The cause of death is noted as a ‘Bowel Compl’ (presumably an abbreviation for ‘complication’.) As noted above, John died at Greenside.

Ancestors of Interest

Personal Profiles

John Potter, a Hanged Covenanter, captured in Ayrshire and taken to Edinburgh to be hanged

and

William Runciman of Crail , who drowned at an early age in a fishing tragedy,

plus

some facts and comments about the early Runciman ancestors are summarised in The Early Generations.

There are also 3 other Runciman 'lineages' which thanks to DNA testing are now discovered to be branches of the same lineage with a Most Recent Common Ancestor (MRCA) in the 1600s, most likely in East Lothian or the Scottish Borders. Lorna Henderson manages a Runciman One Name Study which gives a good insight to our Crail Line's relationship to the other DNA-related lines - as well as the non-related lines.

Associated Profiles

Runciman Lineage 1b-The Early Generations As the name implies this Profile covers the latest research known of the earliest ancestors on my 'Crail' Line.

Crail Fishing Disaster History and Latest News. John is a descendant of William of Crail who drowned with 7 others in the 1765 Crail Fishing Disaster. A 250th anniversary commemoration for the drownings was held in Crail on 16 May 2015.

Scotland and Beyond In 2004 a history of the William Runciman of Crail line was published. The latest research & continuing updates are now published on the web rather than in print. As Scotland and Beyond has been out of print for some time Jen Jelley & Diane Middleton, compilers & publishers of the 2004 book, kindly agreed to make their publication available in PDF format. This Profile contains the link.

The Runciman Cradle Tour provides the reader interested in seeing some of our ancestral locations with a suggested itinerary and their association to the family.

Similarily there is a Crail Trail for those who wish to visit where William of Crail spent his married/working life and eventually to meet his early death from drowning.

Sources

• Source: S1596 Title: IGI: Online searches, Subject: Online search: assorted surnames Abbreviation: IGI: Online searches Repository: #R149
• Repository: R149 Name: Family Search (LDS) Address: State: Utah Country: USA Note: http://familysearch.org
• Source: S1597 Title: FamilySearch Labs Record Search (LDS), Url: http://search.labs.familysearch.org/recordsearch/ Abbreviation: FamilySearch Labs Record Search (LDS)
• Source: S201 Title: 1841 Census for Scotland, Record Type: Census transcripts, Location: Scotland, Record Info: via Ancestry.com Abbreviation: Census: 1841 SCT via Ancestry Publication: 1841 Repository: #R121
• Repository: R121 Name: Ancestry.com Address: Country: USA
• Source: S203 Title: 1851 Census for Scotland, Record Type: Census transcripts, Location: Scotland, Record Info: via Ancestry.com Abbreviation: Census: 1851 SCT via Ancestry Publication: 1851 Repository: #R121
• Source: S207 Title: 1871 Census for Scotland, Record Type: Census transcripts, Location: Scotland, Record Info: via Ancestry.com Abbreviation: Census: 1871 SCT via Ancestry Publication: 1871 Repository: #R121
• Source: S3222 Title: "Scotland and Beyond" (2004) plus subsequent research by Alan RUNCIMAN, Ros RUNCIMAN, Lawrence FLETCHER, Lorna HENDERSON & many, many others, Compiler Address: UK, Australia and New Zealand Abbreviation: "Scotland and Beyond" (2004), plus subsequent research Author: Diane Middleton Jen Jelley Alan Runciman Ros Runciman Laurie Fletcher Lorna Henderson and many others Publication: Jul 2013 Note: imported on 2013/07/24 at 15:44:27.
• Source: S3225 Title: Death Registration Abbreviation: Death Registration
• Source: S56 Title: Scottish Birth, Marriage, Death entries (from 1855), Record Type: Scottish BMDB entries (from 1855), File Number: http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/index.php Abbreviation: BDM: Scotlands People certs from 1855

1. ↑ Source: #S3222
2. ↑ Source: #S3222
3. ↑ Source: #S3225 Page: St Cuthbert's - 685/02 0500/0027 CONT 1830
4. ↑ Source: #S3222

Acknowledgments

Thank you to Alan Runciman for creating WikiTree profile Runciman-692 through the import of RUNCIMANAlansPaternal4WikiTreeAug2013.ged on Aug 29, 2013. Click to the Changes page for the details of edits by Alan and others.