Catharine was born in July 1705 eldest daughter to John Pirie farmer at Mill of Kincardine, Fordoun and his wife Ann Jack. Catharine was baptised on 31 Jul 1705 witnessed by her grandfather John Pirie and John Muchart in Ballachy. [1]
When Catharine was about ten years of age, her father left the Mill of Kincardine and moved the family to the parish of Bervie when he took the tenancy of the farm, Peatie.
On 19 November 1732 David Burn tenant in Mains of Pittarrow contracted to marry Catharine Pirie daughter to John Pirie in Peattie in the parish of Bervie. [2]
David and Catherine had three sons :
Their older sons were born at Mains of Pitarrow but about 1742 David moved to the parish of Kinnell and Catterline to farm Little Barras where James was born in 1744. [3] A child was born in 1750 but the entry in the Kinneff and atterline OPR is incomplete.
It is not discovered when Catharine died.
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