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| Alexander Strachan and Helen Laurence started their married life in Banff Parish, Banffshire, Scotland. Sometime between the births of their son William in 1814 and John in 1818 they moved to Peathill Farm, Pitsligo Parish, Aberdeenshire, just down the road from Pitsligo Castle owned by the Forbes family. John Strachan (1881-1908) and his son Alexander Strachan (1842-1920) and grandson Adam Birnie Strachan (1877-1956) continued the farming tradition after Alexander on Peathill Farm. Peathill was home until 1972 to 5 generations of Strachans when Adam Birnie Strachan (1877-1956) son, James Strachan died. John Strachan (1818-1908) also saw two of his sons leave for other countries, I am sure knowing he wouldn't ever see them again. John's third oldest son - John Strachan (1846-1897), his wife Jessie and their 4 children immigrated to Kaiapoi, New Zealand in 1890. Unfortunately their baby - John who had been born 21 Feb 1889, died enroute. John possibly chose this area of New Zealand based on letters his neighbor and cousin William Lorimer who immigrated in 1862 may have sent home to Smiddyhillock. John's descendants continue to live in New Zealand and Australia, though none to our knowledge intermarried with the Lorimer family. Alfred Strachan (1851-1915), on the other hand, left for Canada in 1873 to join family and neighbors who had immigrated to Blanshard Township, Perth County, Ontario. They included members of the Morison family from Stonebriggs and his Lorimer cousins (their mothers were both Birnies) from Smiddyhillock. One of his cousins Annie Lorimer had married James Anderson in 1870. The Morison's soon became relatives when Alfred married Isobel Fowlie Morison in 1875. Alfred Strachan along with these neighbors migrated to RM Hamiota, Manitoba, in 1882. Alfred and Isobel Strachan's daughter - Isabella would marry James and Annie (Lorimer) Anderson in 1899 - intertwining the families yet again. Alfred Strachan, pioneered the area called Scotia, where his descendants still farm on his homestead almost 120 years later. |
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