William McGilvray and Jessie Duff
Parish of Inverarity, Scotland
Little is known about William McGilvray, who died while working as a stone
mason in Ireland. William married Jessie Duff, a native of
Inverarity, Scotland in 1846. After Williams' death in 1860 Jessie
returned to Scotland with her seven children to live near her parents and
siblings.
Widow Jessie Duff McGilvray and five of her
grown children immigrated to the United States settling in Chicago,
Illinois in 1870, where
her sons worked as stone masons.
The McGilvray family moved from
Chicago to Denver, Colorado in the year 1880. They were
joined by the Edward R. Seerie and wife Margaret McLean Duff, the
youngest sister of Jessie Duff McGilvray.
The McGilvray and Seerie men transitioned from skilled
stone masons to stone contractors forming some of the most
successful companies in Denver, Colorado and San Francisco, California.
Their quarries in Colorado and California provided quality granite, sandstone, and marble for hotels, civic and government
buildings, and dams in Colorado, California and Wyoming.
List of Buildings built by McGilvray &
Seerie partnerships in Denver, Colorado.
Colorado State Capitol
The company of "Geddes & Seerie" formed in 1885 with
co-partners William F. Geddes and David Duff
Seerie, stone contractors, built some of the largest projects in
the West including the Colorado State Capitol. .
Eldest son John Duff McGilvray moved his family to Palo
Alto, California in 1896, where he was hired to build many of the stone
buildings on the campus of Leland Stanford University.
John D. McGilvray and his five sons owned and operated
McGilvray Stone Quarry located east of San
Francisco in Madera County, California.
List of Construction projects in San Francisco
by John Duff McGilvray & Sons
Index of biographies
Robert W. Findlay |
James A. Knox | Edward Seerie Jr. |
| William Edmonston Russell |
Thomas Carroll Hayes
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| William Thompson | David Duff Seerie | Peter Seerie |
| William F. Geddes |
John Duff McGilvray II -Shriners Hospital
James Whitehouse and August
Wirgler
George W. Thompson -
Denver's First Aviator
RIVERSIDE CEMETERY
Adams County, Colorado
Pioneer Cemetery of Denver
Parish of Inverarity
Family names of Birrell, Black, Crichton, Duncan,
Kinnear, Linn, McGilvray, Orrock, & Smith
Introduction: History of the parish of Inverarity &
Methy
Views of the interior of the Inverarity
Church
Views of the
Inverarity Churchyard
Burials in the Inverarity Churchyard:
Duff Orrock
Kinnear McGilvray
Spalding
BOWMAN - BIRRELL - ORROCK - KINNEAR BURIALS
with cemetery histories, photographs, and family burial
details
By Liz Smith, Dundee, Scotland.
EASTERN CEMETERY
History
| Family Burials
LOGIE
CEMETERY
History & Family Burials
BALGAY CEMETERY
History
| Family Burials
INVERARITY & METHY KIRKYARD
| Parish
History | 1754-New Church & Kirkyard
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| Kinnears buried
at Inverarity |
Orrocks buried at Inverarity
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| Photos of Kirkyard |
WESTERN CEMETERY
| History | John
Kinnear-Catherine Taylor Brown |
William Kinnear - Catherine B. Pirie
Other Dundee citizens buried at Western
Funeral Expenses - abstracts
from parish records
Funeral Customs - 19th &
20th Century Scotland
Copyright 2003 B Lewellen & L. Smith
[email protected] Barbara
Lewellen, Colorado
[email protected] Liz Smith, Dundee,
Scotland
Please do not copy photos or material, nor take
credit for our work, for financial gain
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Parish of Monifieth
St. Rule's Parish Church
Chalmers buried at St. Rule's
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1782 Communion Token - Kilmany Parish, Fife,
Scotland
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Shipwreck of the Algoma
near Mott Island, Isle Royale, Lake Superior, Michigan
November 7, 1885
The Algoma, a Clyde steamer built by Aitken & Mansell, of Kelvinhaugh,Scotland, for the Canadian Pacifice Railroad company based in Owen Sound, Ontario, sank in a winter storm near Isle Royale, Michigan, in U. S. waters, resulting in the loss of 35 crewmen and 13 passengers. List of passengers and crewman who both perished and survived.
The Gamekeepers
Daughter
17th Century Scottish Folklore
Three hundred years ago
in the 17th century forest of Angus, Scotland, a
young Lindsay gentleman fell in love with the
gamekeepers daughter. Despite objections from the
Lindsay patriarch, the young man married the
gamekeepers daughter. Eleven generations later
this story has survived to the 21st century. What
branch of the Lindsay clan did this young man
belong to and what Lindsay forest did the
Gamekeeper manage?
INTRODUCTION
Scottish Folklore Story
GAMEKEEPER Occupation
Keeper of the forests and animals
ANCIENT
FORESTS
of
Forfarshire, Scotland
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Charles Bowman & Jane Grant
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John Guthrie Bowman Grocery Store - Dundee, Scotland
FAMILIES: BOWMAN-GUTHRIE-HOGG
Bowman Family Chart
Hogg Family Chart
Balkemback Farm, Tealing
John Bowman &
Helen Guthrie
John Guthrie Bowman and Mary Ann Hogg
John Guthrie Bowman & Margaret Jane Kinnear
FAMILIES: FINDLAY-WINTER-RAMSAY
Walker Findlay & Helen
Smith - Forfar
William Findlay & Agnes Nancy
Winter - Forfar
Elizabeth Findlay & Andrew
Ogilvie-Rutherglen
Margaret Spruce Findlay & John White
Ramsay-NE
John Ramsay & Janet Whitton - Forfar
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Orrock Family Chart
(of those families who immigrated to Denver, Colorado)
ORROCK CARRIAGE COMPANY
families of Orrock, Davidson, Warwick, & Sigi
David Orrock, son of Alexander Orrock and Cecilia Smith
of the Parish of Inverarity immigrated to the United States in 1882.
He settled in Denver, Colorado first working as a
blacksmith for the railroad, then starting his own company
building carriages.
David Orrock employed two blacksmiths, James Izett
and Robert Graham, who were both from Scotland.
After working for David Orrock for several years, James Izett, started a carriage building
specializing in delivery wagons. With the advent of the automobile James
Izett switched to the automotive business, first creating 'covered tops'
for cars, more commonly known as
convertible tops.
Parish of Carmyllie
Family names: Bowman, Crichton, Grant, Guthrie
History of the Parish Carmyllie & Map
Some Early Residents of Carmyllie
Carmyllie Cemetery
Parish of Carmyllie - Marriages
Parish of Tealing
1. Research Notes-Kinnear
families found
in the Parish of
Tealing OPR
DUNDEE
COAT OF ARMS
Queen Victoria
1887 Golden Jubilee
1897 Silver Jubilee
Prince Albert Monument
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