The Family at a Glance

No children of Agnes and James have been identified. Nieces and other relatives nevertheless appear in their later records. Williamina Dalziel reported James’s death and was subsequently named in Agnes’s estate. The death transcription for Agnes names her niece Agnes F. Guthrie as informant.

The minister’s surname occurs as Fergusson and Ferguson. The page follows Fergusson while preserving the variants in source references.

Guthrie DNA Project Participation

✓ = participation documented for this line and test; — = none documented in the reviewed project material; N/A = no applicable direct paternal line or no known descendants. A dash does not mean that no descendant has ever tested.

Historical Highlights

Family Timeline

1. 1800

   James born at Soulseat, 3 November; baptized 5 November.

2. 1806

   Agnes baptized at Dundonald, 19 February.

3. 1821–1822

   James received his M.A. and began his ministry at Inch.

4. 1835

   Marriage, 20 January.

5. 1862

   James died at Soulseat, 1 January.

6. 1885

   Agnes died in February; her estate was confirmed on 4 May.

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DNA & the Family Line

No descendant testing line is known. Their collateral relatives may inform the wider family reconstruction, but are not described as their descendants.

Participation summary based on the reviewed branch material, 6 November 2026. Current kit levels and SNP placements require the project’s current results; no new test is inferred from a haplogroup label.

Agnes’s death date and estate

The supplied image of the 1885 confirmation calendar directly gives death on 16 February 1885 at Glenluce. It records confirmation at Wigtown on 4 May to William-Mina Dalziel and identifies Agnes also as Agnes Thomson Guthrie or Fergusson.

The legacy page’s statutory death transcription, Old Luce 894/10, instead says 18 February. The page uses the calendar’s 16 February with the disagreement disclosed. The original statutory entry is the appropriate next comparison; the conflict is not settled by repeating either an index or a tree.

Reading & Sources

The records below distinguish original entries, attributed transcriptions and later accounts. Linked repositories may require an account or subscription. A link is a locator, not a claim that every underlying image has been independently examined.

• Dundonald birth/baptism index: Agnes Thomson Guthrie, baptized 19 February 1806, parents William Guthrie and Jacobina McClure.
• Marriage registers: Inch 886, p. 265/350, names entered 18 January and marriage 20 January 1835; Dundonald 590, p. 46/461.
• Inch statutory death 886/1, James Fergusson, 1 January 1862; legacy transcription.
• Old Luce statutory death 894/10, Agnes Fergusson, February 1885; original image needed to compare the 16/18 February readings.
• 1885 confirmation calendar, p. 217: Agnes Guthrie or Fergusson, confirmation 4 May, death 16 February; supplied calendar image directly reviewed.
• Records of the Clan Fergusson or Ferguson (1899); New Statistical Account, Inch parish, by James Fergusson; Glasgow graduate roll, p. 189; Montrose Standard, 31 January 1862 p. 4.

Research links

• Guthrie Research Tree · Agnes Thomson Guthrie · 1806–1885
• Records of the Clan Fergusson or Ferguson
• Statistical Accounts of Scotland (PDF)
• Agnes Fergusson · 1885 confirmation calendar

Most Wanted Documents

Record to verify	Why it matters
Agnes’s original death entry	Compare Old Luce 894/10 against the confirmation calendar to resolve 16 versus 18 February 1885.
Will and kinship details	The full will may clarify the relationship of Williamina Dalziel and the nieces named in the family records.

The Branch B hub explains the project’s provisionally accepted earlier generations and the wider DNA comparison.