Guthrie Family Group 3A – Branch B
David Guthrie 1813SCT – 1887SCT and Elizabeth Kerr Lowrie / Mary McDowall
of Dundonald, Ayrshire and Stranraer, Wigtownshire, Scotland

DAVID GUTHRIE, ESQ.  (Photo)
Parents: William Guthrie c1771SCT-1844SCT and Jacobina McClure 1770SCT-1835SCT
Birth:  20 May 1813
Birth Location: Harperland, Dundonald, Ayrshire, Scotland
Baptism: 2 June 1813 at Harperland, Dundonald, Ayrshire, Scotland
Occupation: Banker, Writer, Factor, Provost of Stranraer (1858-70)
Marriage 1st: Mary McDowall – bet. 1851-61.
Marriage 2nd: Elizabeth Ker Lowrie on 16 Dec 1886 at St Martin-in-the-Fields, London, Westminster, England
Death: 28 July 1887
Death Location: Stranraer, Wigtownshire, Scotland
Burial: Sheuchan Cemetery, Stranraer, Wigtownshire, Scotland, Grave Number: 873

MARY MCDOWALL
Parents: Alexander McDowall, banker, and Margaret Gillespie
Birth: 1 February 1821
Birth Location: Stranraer, Wigtownshire, Scotland
Baptism: 21 February 1885 in Stranraer, Wigtownshire, Scotland
Guthrie Children: None
Death: 28 November 1885
Death Location: Stranraer, Wigtownshire, Scotland
Burial: 2 December 1885 at Sheuchan Cemetery, Strandraer, Wigtownshire, Scotland

ELIZA KER LAURIE
Parents: Anthony Laurie (merchant) 1798SCT-1868SCT and Margaret Ker 1804BWI – 1887ENG
Birth: 10 January 1828
Birth Location: Liverpool, Lancashire, England
Baptism: Oldham Street Presbyterian in Liverpool, Lancashire, England
Guthrie Children: None
Death: 8 October 1899
Death Location: 12 October 1899 at St Mary, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England
Burial: Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England

GUTHRIE CHILDREN: None
Y-DNA PRoject Participants: N/A – No Descendants
Autosomal DNA Participants: N/A – No Descendants

READING and RESOURCES

BIRTH RECORD: DAVID GUTHRIE
Dundonald Baptismal Register – 1813
David son to William Guthrie and Jacobina McClure spouses in Harperland was born the twentieth May and baptized the second June eighteen hundred and thirteen. (OPR Births 590/ Dundonald, page 265 of 306)

BIRTH RECORD:: MARY MCDOWALL
Stranraer Birth and Baptism Register – 1821
Mary McDowall, lawful daughter of Alexander McDowell Esqr. and Margaret Gillespie born 1st February and baptized on the 21st day of the same month one thousand eight hundred and twenty one.
(OPR Births 899/ Stranraer, page 7 of 198 – Scotlands People

BIRTH/BAPTISMAL RECORD: ELIZA LAURIE
England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 (Ancestry.com) FHL film 304665
Eliza Laurie, female, DOB 10 Jan 1828, Baptism Place: Oldham Street Presbyterian, Liverpool, Lancashire, England; Father: Anthony Laurie, Mother: Margaret.

DEATH RECORD: MARY MCDOWALL GUTHRIE
1885 DEATHS in the District of Stranraer in the County of Wigtown
Mary Guthrie, wife of David Guthrie, banker and factor, Died 28 November 1885 at 4:45AM at Union Bank, Church street, Stranraer; female, aged 63 years, Parents: Alexander McDowall, banker, deceased, and Margaret McDowall m.s. Gillespie, deceased, COD: Paralysis Left Hemiplegia, third attack in 9 days, Two lesser attacks of right hemiplegia 18 months; Informant: David Guthrie, widower, Registered 30 November 1885 at Stranraer.
(Statutory Registers Deaths 899/ 138 – Scotlands People)

MARRIAGE RECORD: David Guthrie and Eliza Ker Laurie
Church of England Marriages – St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Westminster, England (Ancestry.com)

PROBATE: DAVID GUTHRIE
Scotland, National Probate Index (Calendar of Confirmations and Inventories), 1876-1936 (Ancestry.com)
1887. Guthrie, David. Value of Estate £4,599, 1s. 7d.
2 November– Confirmation of David Guthrie, Bank Agent, Stranraer, who died 28 July 1887, at Stranraer, testate, granted at Wigtown, to David Frederick of Gass, residing at Dumbreddan, Stoneykirk, William Guthrie Sheriff-substitute of Lanarkshire, residing in Glasgow, john Hunter, Bank Agent, Stranraer, and Alexander Aitken, solicitor there, Executors, nominated in will or Deed, dated 13 December 1886, and recorded in Court Books of commissariat of Wigtown, 25 October 187. Additional Inventory give up 28 September 1888.

PROBATE: DAVID GUTHRIE
Scotland, National Probate Index (Calendar of Confirmations and Inventories), 1876-1936 (Ancestry.com)
1888. Guthrie, David. Value of Additional Estate £592, 12s. 8d.
28 September.– Additional Inventory of David Guthrie, Bank Agent Stranraer, who died 28 July 1887, at Stranraer, testate, given up at Wigtown, by John Hunter, bank Agent, Stranraer, Executor nominated in Will or Deed, dated 13 December 1886, and recorded in court Books of Commissariat of Wigtown, 25 October 1887. Original Confirmation granted 2 November 1887.

BURIAL RECORD: ELIZA KER GUTHRIE
Burials in the Parish of Cheltenham at the Cemetery, in the County of Gloucester, in the Year 1899
Name: Eliza Kerr Guthrie (No. 310); Abode: 3 Bayshill Terrace; When Buried: 12 October; Age: 68 years; By whom was the ceremony performed: L L Roddy.
(Ancestry.com)

PROBATE: ELIZA KER GUTHRIE
England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1995 (Ancestry.com)
Guthrie, Eliza Ker of 3 Bayshill Terrace Cheltenham widow died 8 October 1899 Administration Gloucester 28 October to the reverend Anthony Laurie clerk Effects £496. 14s. 3d

The British Newspaper Archives: Search for “David Guthrie” and “Stranraer:

• GALLOWAY NEWS and KIRKCUDBRIGHTSHIRE ADVERTISER – Friday 24 December 1886
  MARRIAGES. GUTHRIE-LAWRIE.—On the 16th Instant, at St. George’s Church, Hanover Square, London, by the Rev. A. Lawrie, M.A., Rector of Halford, and brother of the bride, David Guthrie, Stranraer, Wigtownshire, to Eliza Kee, second daughter of the late Anthony Lawrie, and grandaughter of the late Patrick Lawrie of Urrall, Wigtownshire.

• GLOUCESTERSHIRE ECHO (England) – Monday 9 October 1899
  DEATHS. Guthrie– October 8, at 3 Bayshill-terrace, suddenly, Eliza Ker, widow of David guthrie, of Straraer, N.B., and daughter of the late Anthony Laurie, of Liverpool.

REPORT: Harvey, T., Sellar, A. C. (1867). Report by Her Majesty’s Commissioners Appointed to Inquire Into the Schools in Scotland: appendix. answers to heads of examination, and corresondence. United Kingdom: H.M. Stationery Office.
Includes: David Guthrie, Provost of Stranraer / Education Commission

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