John
Ewing
Born in Dysart, Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom
Ancestors 
Son of James (Ewan) Ewing
and Margaret Todd
Brother of
James Ewing, Margaret Ewing, Robert Ewing, Peter Ewing, Alexander Nicolson Ewing, Mary Nicolson Ewing, Helen Clark Ewing, Thomas Clark Ewing, Jane Lin Ewing and Peter Henderson Ewing
Husband of
Helen Duff
— married
11 Nov 1850 in Dysart, Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom
Descendants 
Father of
Margaret Young (Ewing) Taylor and James Ewing
Died
at age 83
in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Profile last modified
| Created 3 Nov 2018
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Biography
John was born in Dysart in 1826, the second child of James Ewan and Margaret Todd. After working as a handloom weaver in his youth, he trained as a sailor in the Merchant Service and spent some time at sea, though he also worked for a while as a grocer back in his home town. He married Helen Duff in 1850 and they had nine children together. Later on he worked as a pilot out of Dysart harbour before retiring to Edinburgh. Five years after his wife died, John passed away in 1909, aged 83.
Sources
- OPR Births (1826, Dysart, 426/60 47, scotlandspeople)
- OPR Marriages (1850, Dysart, 426/70 267, scotlandspeople)
- Death certificate (1909, St George, Edinburgh, 685/01 0426, scotlandspeople)
- Census returns - 1841 (Dysart), 1861 (Dysart), 1871 (Dysart), 1881 (Dysart), 1891 (Dysart), 1901 (Edinburgh)
- Masters & Mates Certificates 1850-1927 (1857, ancestry.co.uk)
- Dunfermline Saturday Press (28 May 1864)
- Fife Free Press (1 Jan 1938)
- The Ewing Family - Dysart Grocers and Dundee Lemonade (by Garen C. Ewing; https://www.garenewing.co.uk/family/ewing.html)
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with John by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. Y-chromosome DNA test-takers in his direct paternal line on WikiTree:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with John by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. Y-chromosome DNA test-takers in his direct paternal line on WikiTree:
- Garen Ewing
:
Family Tree DNA Y-DNA Test 838 markers, haplogroup R-FT173826, FTDNA kit #IN36114
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~6.25%
~12.50%
Joan (Kennedy) Rickert :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member joanrickert
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~1.56%
Garen Ewing :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A965663 [compare], Ancestry member garenewing
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