Thomas Chalmers was born 2nd September 1815 in Mains and Strathmartin, Angus. His father was Thomas Chalmers and his mother was Elspeth Coupar. He was baptised 1st October 1815. In 1841 on the census he is listed as living at Little Mill in Mains and Strathmartin and his occupation is bleacher. On 2nd December 1849 …
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William Chalmers – 3rd Great Grandfather
William Chalmers was born around 1851 in Angus. I have been unable to find a record of his birth. His Father was Thomas Chalmers, a police carter and his mother was Jean Hood Smith. On the 1861 census he is listed as living at Lower Blackscroft with his mother, father and siblings Nancy (Ann) aged …
David Stewart Chalmers – 2nd Great Grandfather
David Stewart Chalmers was born 12th April 1898 at 16 Lyon street, Dundee to William Chalmers, a jute factory overseer and Mary Douglas. On the 1901 census he is listed as still living at 16 Lyon Street, Dundee with his Father William and Mother Mary and siblings William, Jane, Thomas and Ann. On 16th August …
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Jane Douglas Chalmers – Great Grandmother
Jane Douglas Chalmers was born 9th December 1922 in Dundee to David Stewart Chalmers and Mary Jane Moir Douglas. On 10th December 1940, when she was 18 years old, she had a daughter, named Margaret (my grandmother), born in Dundee. There is no father named on the birth certificate. On 5th November 1943 Jane married …
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Margaret Chalmers – Maternal Grandmother
Margaret Chalmers was born 10th December 1940 in Dundee to Jane Douglas Chalmers. There is no father listed on her birth certificate. On 10th March 1959, at 19 years old, she married Stewart Ogilvie in Dundee. On 5th December 1959 they had their first child, a son, named Stewart. Followed by a daughter on 5th …
Henry Bogue (Boag) – 3rd Great Grandfather
Henry Boag was born in Fermanagh, Ireland in around 1823 to Thomas Bogue, a cooper journeyman and Helen Cree. On 3rd March 1848 Henry appeared in the court reports in the Dundee, Perth and Cupar Advertiser. On 8th January 1849 Henry married Margaret Kelly in Dundee. On 16th March 1849 Henry and Margaret had a …
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John Bogue (Boag) – 2nd Great Grandfather
John Boag was born 9th July 1855 in Dundee. His father was Henry Boag, a weaver born in Fermanagh, Ireland and his mother was Margaret Kelly born in Derry, Ireland. John is listed on the 1861 census, when he is 6 years old, living at 205 Hilltown, Dundee with his Mother, Father and Brother George, …
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Henry Boag (Bogue) – Great Grandfather
Henry Boag was born 4th March 1884, in Hilltown, Dundee. His father was John Boag, a dyer and his mother was Jane Fearn. In 1891 when he was 7 years old, he is listed on the census with his mother, Jane and father, John and paternal Grandmother, Margaret and siblings – Robert (9), Richard (2), …
James Boag – Paternal Grandfather
James Boag was born 23rd December 1911 in Dundee, Scotland. Son of Henry Boag and Caroline Inglis. In 1914 when he was 3 years old, he is listed on his father’s Military History sheet. On 26th October 1929, 17 year old James set sail from London, England on the ship ‘Orontes’ destined for Sydney, Australia. …
William Ogilvie – 5th Great Grandfather
William Ogilvie was born 27th December 1770 in the parish of Liff and Benvie, Angus. His parent were David Ogilvie and Jean Chalmers. Only His father is listed on the birth record. On 28th June 1794 William met and married my 5th Great Grandmother Agnes Philp. They were married in the parish of Mains and …
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