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James Forsythe 1773 – 1844 – Genealogical Records

Birth Date: APR 1773

Birth Location: Roxburghshire, Scotland

Death Date: 16 MAR 1844

Death Location: Jedburgh, Roxburghshire, Scotland

Father: John Forsythe

Mother: Christian Lawrie

Spouse(s): Helen Robson

Children(s): Andrew Forsythe, Christiana Forsythe, Elizabeth Forsythe, Helen Forsythe, Charles Forsythe, George Forsythe

In 1773, James Forsythe entered the world in Roxburghshire, Scotland, born to John Forsythe and Christian Lawrie. In 1841, James Forsythe resided in Jedburgh, Roxburghshire, Scotland. James Forsythe married Helen Robson, and had children including Andrew Forsythe, Christiana Forsythe, Elizabeth Forsythe, Helen Forsythe, Charles Forsythe, George Forsythe. James Forsythe passed away in 1844 in Jedburgh, Roxburghshire, Scotland.

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Biography

  • In 1773, James Forsythe entered the world in Roxburghshire, Scotland, born to John Forsythe and Christian Lawrie.
  • In 1841, James Forsythe resided in Jedburgh, Roxburghshire, Scotland.
  • James Forsythe married Helen Robson, and had children including Andrew Forsythe, Christiana Forsythe, Elizabeth Forsythe, Helen Forsythe, Charles Forsythe, George Forsythe.
  • James Forsythe passed away in 1844 in Jedburgh, Roxburghshire, Scotland.

Immediate Family

Parents

John Forsythe
Birth Location: –
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Christian Lawrie
1749 –
Birth Location: Linlithgow, West Lothian, Scotland
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Spouses(s)

Helen Robson
1772 – 1844
Birth Location: –
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Children(s)

Andrew Forsythe
1794 – 1868
Birth Location: Birningrigy, Oxnam, Roxburghshire, Scotland
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Christiana Forsythe
1796 – 1881
Birth Location: Oxnam, Roxburghshire, Scotland
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Elizabeth Forsythe
1799 – 1872
Birth Location: Wick, Caithness, Scotland
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Helen Forsythe
1801 – 1868
Birth Location: Oxnam, Roxburghshire, Scotland
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Charles Forsythe
1807 – 1844
Birth Location: Oxnam, Roxburghshire, Scotland
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George Forsythe
1810 – 1879
Birth Location: Roxburghshire, Scotland
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James Forsythe's Ancestors

Self
James Forsythe
1773 – 1844
Birth Place: Roxburghshire, Scotland
Parents
John Forsythe
Christian Lawrie
1749 –
Linlithgow, West Lothian, Scotland
Grandparents
Great-Grandparents
2nd-Great-Grandparents

James Forsythe's Descendants

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James Forsythe (APR 1773 – 16 MAR 1844) m. Helen Robson (29 NOV 1772 – 1844)
  1. 1. Andrew Forsythe (19 APR 1794 – 20 APR 1868) m. Catherine McKay (13 AUG 1801 – 13 DEC 1886)
    1. 1. Margaret Forsythe (15 FEB 1826 – 10 JUL 1868) m. Anthony Marshall (19 NOV 1820 – 19 FEB 1896)
      1. 1. William Marshall (14 DEC 1849 – 23 APR 1919) m. Georgina (Isabella Douglas) Drysdale (1854 – 19 FEB 1881) m. Ellen Drysdale (1864 – 1 JAN 1938)
        1. 1. William (Turnbull) Marshall (1876 – 14 APR 1927) m. Ida (Jane) Unknown
        2. 2. Andrew (Anthony James) Marshall (22 JUN 1878 – 14 JUN 1934) m. Mary Hewitt
        3. 3. Georgina (Drysdale) Marshall (1881 – ) m. Unknown Agnew
        4. 4. David (Drysdale) Marshall (1885 – )
        5. 5. Elizabeth (Agnes) Marshall (1889 – )
        6. 6. Margaret (Jane) Marshall (1886 – 1937) m. Marmaduke (Charles) Wilson (1876 – 1951)
        7. 7. Mary (Jamesina) Marshall (1888 – )
        8. 8. Charles (William) Marshall (16 OCT 1900 – 22 JUL 1975) m. Margaret (Mary Ann) Matheson
        9. 9. Ellen Marshall (17 AUG 1891 – 16 APR 1944) m. William Pine
      2. 2. Catherine Marshall (1 OCT 1851 – 17 MAY 1935) m. William (Henry) Key (1840 – 30 OCT 1910)
        1. 1. John (Andrew) Key (6 DEC 1877 – 11 DEC 1942) m. Jemima (Elizabeth) Favel (1885 – 27 APR 1960)
        2. 2. William (James) Key (1879 – ) m. Isabella (Nelson) Cleland
        3. 3. Margaret (Elizabeth) Key (1881 – 29 JUN 1966) m. Thomas Price (1873 – 20 OCT 1932)
        4. 4. Catherine (Robina) Key (1883 – 1 MAR 1953)
      3. 3. Jessie Marshall (1854 – 15 OCT 1934) m. James Clague
        1. 1. Robert (Norman) Clague (20 MAY 1880 – )
      4. 4. Andrew Marshall (19 NOV 1856 – 4 SEP 1927) m. Naomi Timblick ( – 17 JUN 1949)
        1. 1. George (Thomas) Marshall (1889 – )
        2. 2. Louisa (Eliza) Marshall (1891 – )
        3. 3. Anthony Marshall (11 MAR 1893 – 1978) m. Emily (Vera) Taylor (10 DEC 1901 – 1983)
        4. 4. James Marshall (5 JUN 1894 – ) m. Margaret (Hannah) Morgan
        5. 5. Thomas Marshall (1895 – 5 OCT 1916)
        6. 6. Naomi (Elizabeth) Marshall (1896 – )
        7. 7. William (Andrew) Marshall (1898 – )
        8. 8. Albert (John) Marshall (1899 – )
        9. 9. Henry (Edgar) Marshall (1900 – )
        10. 10. Ethel (Rose) Marshall (1903 – )
        11. 11. Andrew (Victor Douglas) Marshall (1906 – )
        12. 12. Douglas (Oliver) Marshall (1907 – )
        13. 13. Raymond Marshall (11 MAY 1909 – 6 JAN 1973)
        14. 14. Daisy (Juanita) Marshall (1913 – )
      5. 5. Robina Marshall (7 JAN 1859 – 6 JAN 1935) m. James (Robson) Forsythe (7 AUG 1848 – 29 MAR 1920)
      6. 6. Anthony Marshall (12 JAN 1862 – 25 AUG 1949) m. Eleanor (Elizabeth Douglas) Munro (16 DEC 1868 – 20 APR 1950)
        1. 1. Margaret (Isabella (Greta)) Marshall (12 OCT 1897 – 10 NOV 1985) m. Robert (Andrew) Dickie (20 DEC 1887 – 26 AUG 1970)
        2. 2. Eleanor (Elizabeth) Marshall (28 NOV 1898 – 20 JUL 1995) m. George (Glanville) Moore (18 JUL 1890 – 18 NOV 1979)
        3. 3. John (William Alexander) Marshall (5 SEP 1900 – 13 JAN 1973)
        4. 4. Ivy Marshall (7 JUN 1902 – 31 JAN 1967) m. John (William Gordon) McDonald (5 SEP 1901 – 22 JUL 1983)
        5. 5. Douglas (James) Marshall (11 OCT 1904 – 31 DEC 1956) m. Agnes Bragg (6 JUL 1907 – 21 NOV 1997)
        6. 6. Donald (Munro) Marshall (14 APR 1906 – 14 MAY 1979) m. Winifred (Maud) Lloyd (4 DEC 1908 – 7 OCT 1999)
        7. 7. Ina Marshall (10 SEP 1909 – 19 OCT 2004) m. Alexander (Gray) Clement (5 JUN 1907 – 20 SEP 1976)
      7. 7. Angus (James) Marshall (1 AUG 1865 – 23 DEC 1903) m. Martha (Agnes) Couperthwaite (1870 – 6 JAN 1904)
        1. 1. Jeannie Marshall (1890 – ) m. Horace (Hugh) Horrell
        2. 2. Margaret Marshall (1891 – )
        3. 3. Anthony Marshall (28 APR 1893 – 7 MAY 1957) m. Rose (May) Rendall (1894 – 16 NOV 1980)
        4. 4. Robert (Alfred) Marshall (1897 – )
        5. 5. Angus (James) Marshall (1898 – 30 AUG 1959) m. Maggie (Emma) Lamb (1903 – 29 DEC 1948)
      8. 8. Margaret (Elizabeth) Marshall (1 OCT 1867 – 6 JUN 1949) m. Robert (Gordon) Haugh (2 SEP 1861 – 2 JUN 1934)
    2. 2. Helen Forsythe (1828 – 1885) m. Andrew Mowat (1811 – )
      1. 1. James Mowat (1848 – )
      2. 2. Catherine Mowat (1850 – )
    3. 3. Elizabeth Forsythe (1830 – )
    4. 4. James Forsythe (1833 – ) m. Elizabeth Elder (1832 – )
      1. 1. James (Macbeath) Forsythe (23 AUG 1873 – 30 JUL 1957) m. Isabel (Bain) Stobie (1 DEC 1871 – 7 MAY 1951)
    5. 5. Angus Forsythe (1835 – )
    6. 6. Charles Forsythe (1837 – )
    7. 7. Andrew Forsythe (1840 – )
    8. 8. Catherine Forsythe (1843 – )
    9. 9. Christina Forsythe (1846 – )
    10. 10. Ann (Gladstone) Forsythe (15 NOV 1848 – )
  2. 2. Christiana Forsythe (24 APR 1796 – 13 SEP 1881) m. William Rutherford
  3. 3. Elizabeth Forsythe (1799 – 8 JUL 1872) m. Alexander Tait
  4. 4. Helen Forsythe (11 JUN 1801 – 16 JUL 1868) m. James Hutton
  5. 5. Charles Forsythe (6 SEP 1807 – SEP 1844)
  6. 6. George Forsythe (2 MAR 1810 – 15 JUN 1879) m. Oreina (Lough) Hall ( – 13 MAY 1881)
    1. 1. James (Robson) Forsythe (7 AUG 1848 – 29 MAR 1920) m. Robina Marshall (7 JAN 1859 – 6 JAN 1935)
      1. 1. George (Robson) Forsythe (7 MAY 1878 – 1919) m. Mary Pearson (1877 – 1950)
        1. 1. Muriel (Thelma) Forsythe (3 FEB 1911 – 1 OCT 1916)
        2. 2. Robert (M) Forsythe (1907 – )
        3. 3. Frank (L) Forsythe (1914 – )
      2. 2. Marshall (Anthony) Forsythe (28 JUN 1880 – 26 MAY 1973) m. Mary (Jane) Koppenhoefer (1888 – 2 AUG 1971)
        1. 1. Marshall (Anthony) Forsythe (10 JUL 1912 – 8 SEP 2004) m. Marie (Claire) Pigeon
        2. 2. Anne Forsythe (1913 – 23 DEC 2002) m. Harvey Wright
      3. 3. James (Andrew) Forsythe (28 FEB 1883 – 14 OCT 1904)
      4. 4. Charles Forsythe (28 MAY 1885 – 12 NOV 1969) m. Ruby (Adelia) Ross (1884 – )
        1. 1. Ruby (Alice) Forsythe (2 SEP 1910 – 8 DEC 1961) m. Steve (Alphonso) Rubottom (24 FEB 1912 – 20 APR 1990)
      5. 5. Maggie Forsythe (6 APR 1888 – 11 JUL 1888)
      6. 6. Robert Forsythe (31 AUG 1889 – 1978)
      7. 7. Henry (Milne) Forsythe (8 JUL 1892 – 19 OCT 1966) m. Elizabeth (Mary) Birchenall (1892 – 19 JAN 1939)
        1. 1. Arthur (John) Forsythe (17 APR 1921 – 4 JAN 1998)
        2. 2. Gordon (Robert) Forsythe (5 MAY 1928 – 7 AUG 2009) m. Dilys (Lorine) Browatzke (12 NOV 1935 – 12 NOV 2015)
        3. 3. Henry (J) Forsythe (25 DEC 1919 – 15 FEB 2007) m. Mary (Alice) Williams (27 FEB 1922 – 20 JUL 2003)
      8. 8. Nellie Forsythe (10 APR 1895 – )
      9. 9. Sidney Forsythe (6 JAN 1898 – 1975)
      10. 10. Janet (Hall) Forsythe (4 MAY 1902 – 31 AUG 1984) m. Jorgen (George) Gusaas
        1. 1. Irene Gusaas (4 MAY 1922 – 8 MAY 1922)
        2. 2. Muriel (Luella) Gusaas (18 MAR 1929 – 20 FEB 2014) m. Hardy Wutke
        3. 3. Alvin Gusaas m. Phylis Unknown
        4. 4. Inez Gusaas m. Frank Holeska
    2. 2. Agnes (Hall) Forsythe (JUL 1850 – )

James Forsythe's Timeline

3 Records

1773
APR 1773
Birth of James Forsythe in Roxburghshire, Scotland
Roxburghshire, Scotland
1841
1841
Age 68
James Forsythe resided here in Jedburgh, Roxburghshire, Scotland
Jedburgh, Roxburghshire, Scotland
1844
16 MAR 1844
Age 71
Death of James Forsythe in Jedburgh, Roxburghshire, Scotland
Jedburgh, Roxburghshire, Scotland

Sources

    Genealogy Event 1
    Event Type: Birth
    Event Date: APR 1773
    Event Place: Roxburghshire, Scotland

    Genealogy Event 2
    Event Type: Residence
    Event Date: 1841
    Event Place: Jedburgh, Roxburghshire, Scotland

    Genealogy Event 3
    Event Type: Death
    Event Date: 16 MAR 1844
    Event Place: Jedburgh, Roxburghshire, Scotland
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