Lowrie & Thomson Family
I am
researching my Scottish family and my trees radiate backwards and forwards from
my maternal grandparents, William Marshall Gilchrist and Elizabeth Girvan
Lowrie. Sadly they are both long gone, but
definitely not forgotten (Granny’s toast was …Here’s tae us…wha’s like us…damn
few…and they’re a’ deid!!). Here is
hoping they are NOT all dead, as I would like to locate and contact a few more.
Lowrie is one of the main names I am
researching. This site is part of the
story of a large Edinburgh family with nine children. Seven of those survived
to adulthood, both of the brothers and five of the seven sisters. My timeline overlapped the five sisters’ but
I missed out on the two brothers’ as they died prematurely. The five sisters were very close but like
many families, economics split them up and two of the sisters had to relocate
with their husbands to England. The
sisters still met up regularly but not as often as they would have liked.
If you want to know more about
our Lowrie family tree then link follow this link.
Granny’s
father, John Dalgleish Lowrie, also came from a large family and I would dearly
love to know what happened to all of his siblings and their families. Their descendants may be scattered around
the globe. I know that, like most Scots, we have family in Australia, Canada
and the U.S. but where are they now and do they want to talk?
I am also tracking my
grandmother’s maternal line, which was Thomson. This potentially could bury me with queries, as Thomson must be
one of the most common names in Scotland.
We have a saying in Scotland that we are “ALL Jock Thamson’s bairns” but
the twist to our Thomson tale is the combination with the name Earsman. There are not that many “Scottish” Earsmans
out there. Are you linked to them? Curiously, my mother has just enlightened me
recently re the source of that phrase – an Edinburgh Minister, called Thomson,
had that as his catchphrase in historic times and he regularly started his
sermon “How are my bairns today?”
Obviously, he was not from the fire and brimstone division.
To look at
our Thomson/Earsman tree follow this link
