James Christie (1833 - 1914)

Born 12 Dec 1833 in Keith, Banffshire, Scotland, United Kingdom

Ancestors

Husband of Margaret (Merson) Christie — married 4 Jul 1861 in Wester Windy Hills, Grange, Banffshire, Scotland, United Kingdom

Descendants

Died 13 May 1914 at age 80 in Myreton Croft, Grange, Perthshire, Scotland, United Kingdom

Biography

James Christie was born in Scotland.

James Christie, born 12 Dec 1833, the son of blacksmith Adam Christie (1795-1872) & Jean Grant (1811-1900), was Christened 26 Dec 1833 at Keith, Banffshire, Scotland.

He was listed, age 17 and unmarried, as an apprentice blacksmith in the 1851 Census, living as a Lodger with Walter and Elspet Duncan at Moss Street, Keith, Banffshire.^[1]

However, the 1861 census has him as a ploughman residing at Glengerroch, Keith, Banffshire age 27, and unmarried.^[2]

On 4 Jul 1861 in Wester Windy Hills, Grange, Banffshire, 27-year-old farm servant James Christie of Glengerroch, Keith, was wed to domestic servant Margaret Merson (1840-1925) of Wester Windy Hills.^[3] The couple had at least eleven children. They resided in Keith, first at Whitestone & later at Oldmore, before moving to Whitestripe in Rathven between 1881-1891.^[4][5][6]

1871 Scotland Census at Whitestone, Keith, Banffshire:

• Head: James Christie, 36, b. Keith, Farm Servant;
• Wife: Margaret, 30, b. Grange, Banffshire;
• Daughter: Jane, 8, b. Keith;
• Daughter: Isabella, 6, b. Keith;
• Daughter: Margaret, 5, b. Keith;
• Daughter: Helen, 3, b. Keith;
• Son: James, <1, b. Keith.

1881 Scotland Census at Oldmore, Keith, Banffshire:

• Head: James Christie, 47, b. Keith, General Labourer;
• Wife: Margaret, 41, b. Grange, Banffshire;
• Daughter: Maggie, 15, b. Keith;
• Daughter: Helen, 13, b. Keith, Scholar;
• Son: James, 10, b. Keith, Scholar;
• Son: William, 7, b. Keith, Scholar;
• Son: Alexander, 5, b. Keith, Scholar;
• Son: George, 3, b. Keith;
• Son: John, 5 months, b. Keith.

1891 Scotland Census at Whitestripe, Rathven, Banffshire:

• Head: James Christie, 57, b. Keith, Farmer;
• Wife: Margaret, 50, b. Grange, Banffshire;
• Daughter: Maggie, 15, b. Keith;
• Daughter: Nellie, 23, b. Keith, Single;
• Son: George, 13, b. Keith;
• Son: John, 10, b. Keith, Scholar;
• Son: Adam, 7, b. Keith, Scholar;
• Son: Charles, 4, b. Keith.

1891 Scotland Census at Whitestripe, Rathven, Banffshire:

• Head: James Christie, 67, b. Keith, Farmer;
• Wife: Margaret, 60, b. Grange, Banffshire;
• Son: Charles, 14, b. Keith.

James Christie, a retired crofter, died at Myreton Croft in Grange, Banffshire at the age of 79 from “morbus cordis” (heart disease) on 13 May 1914 at 9:15 PM.^[7] He was buried in his parents’ plot at the Keith Graveyard.^[8]

Children

• Jean Ann "Jane" Christie b. 25 May 1862
• Isobella (aka Isabella Christie b. 10 Apr 1864
• Margaret "Maggie" Christie b. 31 Jan 1866
• Helen "Nellie" Christie b. 3 Apr 1868
• James Christie b. 4 Sep 1870
• William Christie b. 13 Apr 1873
• Alexander Christie b. circa 1876
• George Christie b. circa 1878
• John Christie b. circa 1881
• Adam Christie b. circa 1884
• Charles Christie b. circa 1887

Sources

1. ↑ Ancestry.com. 1851 Scotland Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006. Parish: Keith; ED: 3; Page: 11; Line: 20; Roll: CSSCT1851_35; Year: 1851 Accessed on ancestry.co.uk, October 2021.
   • View Ancestry uk Record 1076 #577041 (requires subscription).
2. ↑ Ancestry.com. 1861 Scotland Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006. Parish: Keith; ED: 13; Page: 3; Line: 16; Roll: CSSCT1861_22 Accessed on ancestry.co.uk, October 2021.
   • View Ancestry uk Record 1080 #2091348 (requires subscription).
3. ↑ "Scotland Marriages, 1561-1910", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XT2Y-2P5 : 11 February 2020), James Christie, 1861.
4. ↑ Ancestry.com. 1871 Scotland Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007. Parish: Keith; ED: 11; Page: 3; Line: 13; Roll: CSSCT1871_29 Accessed on ancestry.co.uk, October 2021.
   • View Ancestry uk Record 1104 #1107213 (requires subscription).
5. ↑ Ancestry.com. 1881 Scotland Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007. Parish: Keith; ED: 12; Page: 5; Line: 2; Roll: cssct1881_46 Accessed on ancestry.co.uk, October 2021.
   • View Ancestry uk Record 1119 #2905250 (requires subscription).
6. ↑ Ancestry.com. 1891 Scotland Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007. Parish: Rathven; ED: 13; Page: 2; Line: 10; Roll: CSSCT1891_47 Accessed on ancestry.co.uk, October 2021.
   • • View Ancestry uk Record 1108 #1177096 (requires subscription).
7. ↑ Ancestry.com. Web: UK, Burial and Cremation Index, 1576-2014 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2016. Deceased Online; United Kingdom; Deceased Online Burial Indexes Accessed on ancestry.co.uk, October 2021.
   • View Ancestry uk Record 70845 #3834116 (requires subscription).
8. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/222607477/adam-christie : accessed 11 November 2021), memorial page for Adam Christie (22 Sep 1795–28 Feb 1872), Find a Grave Memorial ID 222607477, citing Keith Graveyard, Keith, Moray, Scotland ; Maintained by GariochGraver (contributor 47469430) .

• http://libindx.moray.gov.uk/people/people_report_view.asp?REF_ID=NM284076
• 1871 Scotland Census
• 1881 Scotland Census
• 1891 Scotland Census
• 1901 Scotland Census