Buchans of Borthwick

 Blog Note - Mark is another collaborator in the study as well as descendant of Mary Buchan. All text is his text unchanged. All images were inserted by me. Click here for the story by another of her descendants, Ronnie Aitchison. Mary Buchan   - April 6, 1867 to February 25, 1924   Mary Buchan was my great grandmother and was my father’s grandmother on his maternal side.  She was born on April 5, 1867 in Haddington, Scotland which is a small town located about 27 kilometres east of Edinburgh and about 20 kilometres west of the North Sea.   Mary’s parents were William Buchan (1838 to 1872) and Annie Pearson (1838 – 1917). William was a grocer, baker and spirit merchant in Haddington and Annie Pearson worked along with her husband in running the successful business. William and Annie had 7 children consisting of 4 sons and 3 daughters with Mary Buchan being the 5 th eldest of her siblings. Hadtyntoun on this 1654 map   https://commons.wikimedia.org/w...

Contributed by Ronnie Aitchsion Blog note - Ronnie was the first of my collaborators to offer a story for this blog. The words are unchanged from his text. All images have been inserted by me. Mary Buchan, my grandmother was born in 1867 In Haddington, she was the second daughter of William Buchan and Annie Pearson. William was a grocer living in Haddington by this time, but had started his career as a groom, progressed to being a mason at the time he married Annie and between them they had three children. St Mary's Haddington, the largest parish church in Scotland William was the middle child of a large Borthwick family, his father was George Buchan and his mother Catherine Scougall they had ten children. George was a wright (probably a wheelmaker) a trade learned from his father also George Buchan who is the earliest Buchan in my tree. They were clearly a closely related family as Catherine’s father was also a wright in the same area. Mary Buchan married my grandfather, James Ait...