Given Names K thru O
Guthrie DNA Project · Family Directory
Ungrouped Guthrie Families · K–O
Explore the families, compare the evidence, and help document the next connection.
Sixteen family entries await a supported connection to an established Guthrie Family Group. The current entries fall under M and N.
Reading this directory: Approximate dates, proposed parents, and disputed connections remain research leads. Participant pedigrees are submitted paths; their inclusion does not prove every relationship.
DNA evidence: The participants listed here have autosomal representation. No new Y-DNA results or group placements have been reported for these entries. Matches to descendants of a group provide clues, but do not by themselves assign an ancestor to that group. Investigating a female Guthrie ancestor’s paternal line requires a suitable documented male-line relative of her birth family.
Abbreviations: GP = grandparents; GGP = great-grandparents; GGF = great-grandfather; P = parents; MNU = maiden name unknown. Research-tree links may require an Ancestry sign-in.
Margaret
Margaret Guthrie, Lady Kinnaird
of Lunan
Parents: Unidentified; associated with the Guthries of Lunan
Born about 1508–1515 in Scotland (estimate)
Died in April 1575; testament made at Kinnaird on 22 April 1575
Spouse: Sir Robert Carnegie · married before 12 June 1527
Children: 16
John (1527), Robert (1528), Jean (1530), James (1532), Helen (1533), Elizabeth (1534), Hercules (1535), George (1536), John (1538), David (1540), William (1542), Isobel (1544), Mary (1548), Christian (1548), Margaret (1550), Katherine (1552) – Children’s birth years are estimates.
Open for family notes & participant lineages
Evidence & Research Notes
Margaret’s parents remain unidentified. Her association with Lunan does not establish a connection to the Hiltoun or Guthrie of that Ilk pedigrees. The marriage to Sir Robert Carnegie took place before 12 June 1527.
The revised Lunan research follows Margaret’s contemporary testament, made at Kinnaird on 22 April 1575, which records her death later that month. This supersedes the 1571 chronology still appearing in the Family Focus article. The place where a testament was made does not by itself establish the place of death or burial.
The sixteen children are retained with estimated birth years; Mary’s former 1648 entry is corrected to 1548. William Fraser’s 1867 History of the Carnegies, Earls of Southesk, and of Their Kindred includes the family pedigree. The estimated years should not be read as documented birth dates.
The listed participants report descent through Margaret. At this distance, an autosomal match cannot reliably identify her as the source of the shared DNA. Her Guthrie ancestry remains primarily a documentary research question. The additional Helen Guthrie / Robert Makemie paths reported by two participants remain unproved.
Guthrie of Lunan — revised research →
Family Focus: Margaret of Lunan →
Fraser’s History of the Carnegies (1867) →
Family Finder / Autosomal DNA Kits
Kit 296149
Lady Margaret Guthrie of Lunan/Sir Robert Carnegie → No Further Lineage Info Provided
Kit 297452
Lady Margaret Guthrie of Lunan/Sir Robert Carnegie → No Further Lineage Info Provided // ALSO: Helen Guthrie/Robert Mackemie
Kit 395768
Lady Margaret Guthrie of Lunan/Sir Robert Carnegie → No Further Lineage Info Provided // ALSO: Helen Guthrie/Robert Mackemie
Kit 440632
Lady Margaret Guthrie of Lunan/Sir Robert Carnegie → No Further Lineage Info Provided
Kit B1103
Lady Margaret Guthrie of Lunan/Sir Robert Carnegie → No Further Lineage Info Provided
Margaret Guthrie
of Londonderry, Ireland / Pennsylvania
Born 1716 Londonderry, Ireland – Died 1787 Pennsylvania, USA
Spouse: Abraham Fulton (1712–1820 reported; see conflicting death year below) m. 1745 County Derry, Ireland
Children: 7
James (1747), Mary (1750), Abraham (1750), Robert (1751), Margaret Guthrie (1755), Henry (1757), Joseph (1759)
Open for family notes & participant lineages
Evidence & Research Notes
A church recommendation certified at Articlave on 26 May 1772 identifies Abraham Fulton, his wife, and family as preparing to leave for America. It states that they were born and had lived in the parish until that date. The record is associated with First Dunboe Presbyterian Church and supports the family’s Dunboe origin. It supplies a departure context, not a recorded arrival date.
The accompanying transcription names Wm Knox and elders L. Caldwell and Robert Guthry. Robert’s signature is a useful local Guthrie association, but the letter does not state his relationship to Abraham’s wife. The Exorna/Dunboe designation is retained from the project’s research.
Abraham’s dates are reported as 1712–1820; Find a Grave instead gives 1787 for his death. The conflicting death years remain noted rather than treated as reconciled.
Kit B177665’s submitted path is disputed at Phineas Boyd: a Clan Boyd Historical Committee member advised that he was not a son of John Boyd and Mary “Polly” Fulton. No resolution is known. The path is preserved below as submitted, but descent through Mary is not established. Guthrie matches could reflect another ancestral route or unrelated ancestors bearing the surname.
GFG2A and GFG6 remain hypotheses for this family. The project has no Y-DNA representation from the Exorna/Dunboe area establishing this connection. Reported autosomal clues and geographic association do not assign Margaret to a group.
Family Finder / Autosomal DNA Kits
Kit 541487
Guthries of Exorna/Dunboe → Margaret Guthrie/Abraham Fulton → Abraham Fulton/Jane Coe → Henry ‘Harry’ Fulton/Rebecca Jack → Abram Fulton/Rachel Newlon → Clara Belle Fulton/William Harrison Neal → Nellie Violet Newlon Neal/Harold Clay Briceland (GGP)
Kit B177665
Guthries of Exorna/Dunboe → Margaret Guthrie/Abraham Fulton → Mary ‘Polly’ Fulton/John Boyd → Phineas Boyd/Mary Vanhoy → William Johnson Boyd/Delilah Malone → Elizabeth Boyd/William L Lamb → Asa Green Lamb/Georgia Anne Roberts (GGP)
Margaret Guthrie
of Aberdeen, Scotland
Born about 1760 in Scotland
Died after 1784 in Scotland
Partner: Robert Murray (Unmarried)
Children: 1
John (1783)
Open for family notes & participant lineages
Family Finder / Autosomal DNA Kits
Kit 531730
Margaret Guthrie/Robert Murray → John Murray/Margaret Brackenridge → Margaret Murray/Andrew West (GGP)
Margaret Guthrie / Guthery
of England & Iowa, USA
Born about 1800 in England
Reported death: 27 July 1838 in Palestine, Story County, Iowa, USA (participant data; unverified)
Spouse: William Stafford (1800-1872) m. before 1838 in Pennsylvania
Children: 1 Known
Otis Socrates (1838)
Open for family notes & participant lineages
Evidence & Research Notes
Otis Stafford’s death certificate names his mother as Margaret Guthrie, with England as her birthplace, and his wife as Mary Stafford. This supports correcting the mother’s name in both participant paths from Mary to Margaret. Guthery and Gutherie remain useful surname variants.
The certificate’s father entry appears to read W. P. Stafford, born in Canada; the accompanying index renders it W. S. Stafford. The directory’s identification as William Stafford is retained while the initials discrepancy is noted.
The reported 27 July 1838 death and Palestine, Story County, Iowa location come from participant data and have not been independently verified here. No cause of death is established.
The existing KL-Ancestry analysis records 217 Guthrie matches, of which 113 were assigned to established groups: 42 of those 113 (about 37%) were to GFG2A descendants, with an additional nine to the participant’s own line. At the time of that analysis, matches appeared across ten of thirteen GFG2A branches. These are match counts, not percentages of inherited ancestry. No recent update is available; the GFG2A connection remains a research hypothesis.
Family Finder / Autosomal DNA Kits
Kit (KL-Ancestry)
Margaret Guthrie/William Stafford → Otis Socrates Stafford/Mary Ann Hornsby (GGF)
Kit (TS-Ancestry)
Margaret Guthrie/William Stafford → Otis Socrates Stafford/Mary Ann Hornsby (GGF)
Margaret Guthrie
of Ireland & Ontario, Canada
Born about 1826 in Ireland
Died on 25 January 1904 in Simcoe North, Ontario, Canada
Spouse: Thomas Ovens (1824-1887) m. about 1847
Children: 8
William John (1848), Eliza Jean (1850), Thomas (1851), Mary Ann (1853), Margret Maria (1856), Henry Edward (1859), Charlotte Amelia (1863), George Alfred (1865)
Open for family notes & participant lineages
Evidence & Research Notes
The death locality is Simcoe North, Ontario. No Irish parish has been identified. An Ulster birthplace, migration date, or reason for migration should not be inferred from the surname.
Family Finder / Autosomal DNA Kits
Kit 260182
Margaret Guthrie/Thomas Ovens → William John Ovens/Sarah McAllister (GGP)
Margaret Ann Guthrie
of England & Ontario, Canada
Born about 1804 in England
Died on 27 November 1885 in Smith, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
Spouse: Henry Edmison
Children: 5
Alexander (1821), Israel Black (1825), Henry (1836), Sarah (1840), John (1841)
Open for family notes & participant lineages
Family Finder / Autosomal DNA Kits
Kit B5817
Margaret Ann Guthrie/Henry Edmison → Henry Edmison/Rebecca Brown → William Henry Edmison/Susan Jephson → Fredrick Clarence Edmison/Emma Elizabeth Gillespie (GGP)
Mariah & Martha
Mariah Williamson Guthrie
of Indiana & Arkansas
Born about 1814 in Indiana, USA
Died after 1870 in either Kansas or Arkansas
Spouse: George Robinson Reed (1814-1866) m. in Benton County, AR
Children: 7
Thomas H Guthrie/Reed (about 1843–1844), Mary Elizabeth Guthrie/Reed (about 1846–1847), John Wheeler Reed (1853), Amanda J Reed (1855), Ambrose King Reed (1856), Charity E Reed (1859), George W Reed (1861)
Open for family notes & participant lineages
Evidence & Research Notes
The participants identify their ancestor as Mariah Guthrie with Williamson as a middle name. Other trees describe Mariah Williamson as previously married to an unidentified Guthrie. No new evidence resolves these alternatives.
Thomas H.’s census-based birth estimate is about 1843–1844; Mary Elizabeth’s is about 1846–1847. Both appear under Guthrie and later Reed in the family research. They should not be described as twins.
If Williamson was Mariah’s birth surname and Guthrie came from an earlier marriage, the relevant Guthrie connection may run through the father of her eldest two children. That scenario remains unproved and does not establish that Mariah herself had no Guthrie ancestry.
Family Finder / Autosomal DNA Kits
Kit 120270
Mariah Williamson Guthrie → Mary Elizabeth Guthrie or Reed/John L Griffin (GGP)
Kit 205672
Mariah Williamson Guthrie → Mary Elizabeth Guthrie or Reed/John L Griffin (GGP)
Martha ‘Patsy’ Guthrie
of Orange, VA & Lincoln, NC
Born about 1772 in Orange County, Virginia, reportedly
Died after 1860 presumably in Lincoln County, North Carolina, USA
Spouse: Thomas Lowe (1759-1829) m. in North Carolina
Children: 11 reported; Catherine’s placement unresolved
Catherine (1789), Isaac (1798), Elizabeth (1800), Greenbury (1807), Alexander (1809), John Franklin (about 1809 NC–1847 AL), James Washington (1810), Thomas (1812), Caroline (1814), Frances M (1816), Rufus (1822)
Open for family notes & participant lineages
Evidence & Research Notes
The eleven-child list includes John Franklin Lowe, born about 1809 in North Carolina and died in 1847 in Alabama, through whom kit 168695 descends.
Catherine’s placement remains unresolved. Her reported 1789 birth is nine years before Isaac’s in 1798; this gap alone does not establish a previous marriage or an incorrect date. She may have belonged to an earlier relationship, but that is not proved.
Catherine married Nelson Guthrie, associated in the project notes with GFG8A. Their marriage does not establish Patsy’s own Guthrie group or prove a relationship between the two Guthrie lines.
Family Finder / Autosomal DNA Kits
Kit 168695
Martha Patsy Guthrie/Thomas Lowe → John Franklin Lowe → Marcus Wilburn Lowe Sr → Marcus Wilburn Lowe Jr → Wilburn Montrose Lowe Sr → Wilburn Montrose Lowe Jr/Esther Beatrice Childs (P)
Mary & Mary Jane
Mary Guthrie / Guttery
of Virginia
Born 1720s-1730s in VA, presumably – Died after 1760 in NC, presumably
Spouse: Granville Gray Haggard (1728VA-1765NC) m. about 1752
Children: 6
Samuel (1753), John (1754), Elizabeth (1755), Henry C (1759), William (1760), James (1760)
Open for family notes & participant lineages
Evidence & Research Notes
Many online trees make Mary a daughter of William Guthrie and Frances Wilbourn of Middlesex County, Virginia. Their daughter Mary was born on 3 April 1730 and is recorded as dying on 5 May 1730; that child cannot be this adult Mary. No new evidence identifies her parents.
William and James are both listed with a 1760 birth year. This alone does not establish that they were twins.
Family Finder / Autosomal DNA Kits
Kit 181291
Mary Guttery/Granville Haggard → Samuel Haggard/Nancy His → John Samuel Haggard/Anna His → Samuel M Haggard/Catherine Light → Edward B Haggard/Docia Belle Sneed (GGP)
Kit 338176
Mary Guttery/Granville Haggard → No Further Lineage Info Provided
Mary Guthrie
of Scotland & Pennsylvania
Born about 1744 in Scotland – Died about 1782 presumably in Pennsylvania
Spouse: William Wand Slone m. about 1762 possibly in Pennsylvania
Children: 3 Known
William Wand (1763), John (1770), George W (1774)
Open for family notes & participant lineages
Evidence & Research Notes
The research notes identify Chester County, Pennsylvania, as the birthplace of son William.
Family Finder / Autosomal DNA Kits
Kit 110355
Mary Guthrie/William Wand Slone → William Wand Slone/Elizabeth A Prickett → William Wand Slone/Rachel Langworthy Mann → William Wand Slone/Jane Harris Thompson → Felix George Slone/Mary Ellen Badgley → Alpha Theresa Slone/Andrew Nelson Short (GGP)
Kit 134478
Mary Guthrie/William Wand Slone → George W Slone/Mary Story → William Slone/Deborah Stansberry → Maria Eliza Slone/John Beachman → Cora Belle Beachman/Joseph M Simms (GGP)
Kit 397522
Mary Guthrie/William Wand Slone → George W Slone/Mary Elizabeth Story → Maria Slone/James M Laymon → George Laymon/Martha Bryant → Alice Laymon/Calvin True (GGP)
Mary Guthrie
of County Down Ireland / Ontario Canada
Possible Parents: Thomas Guthrie & Jane Henry
Born about 1799 in Ireland; associated with Dromore Parish, County Down
Died: 21 Oct 1875 Cartwright, Northumberland & Durham, Ontario, Canada
Spouse: James Ginn · marriage date unknown
Children: 10
Lancelot (1812), Jane (1815), William (1816), Edward (1822), Susan (1825), John (1829), Leticia (1833), Mary Ann (1834), James (1836), Isabelle (1840)
Open for family notes & participant lineages
Evidence & Research Notes
Death and census records place Mary’s birth about 1799 in Ireland. The supplied Ontario death index lists her death on 21 October 1875, aged 76. No specific marriage date for Mary and James Ginn has been established.
The cited 1850 census places Lancelot’s birth in 1812. That would make Mary approximately twelve or thirteen when he was born. The discrepancy remains unresolved; it should not be repaired by silently changing either date or assuming a different mother.
Thomas Guthrie and Jane Henry remain proposed parents. Elizabeth Jane, Isabella, and Alice remain proposed sisters. The submitted pedigree preserves this theory explicitly.
The family research places the marriage and all ten children’s births in Ireland, followed by immigration to Canada West before 1852 and settlement in Cartwright, Durham.
Earlier research notes describe Mary as Church of England and James, her youngest son, as Wesleyan Methodist. Her death index instead records Methodist Episcopal Church. These source descriptions are retained without assuming that they refer to the same date or proving a conversion. Isabelle, born in 1840, is a younger daughter; James remains the youngest listed son.
Family Finder / Autosomal DNA Kits
Kit B5484
Thomas Guthrie/Jane Henry (Theory) → Mary Guthrie/James Ginn → Mary Ann Ginn/Wright Devitt → Isabella Devitt/George Reynolds (GGP)
Mary Jane Guthrie
of Ontario, Canada & Michigan, USA
Parent possibly John Guthrie b. Ireland d. Detroit, Wayne, Michigan
Born on 9 June 1827 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Died on 17 December 1890 in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan
Spouse: Martin Lamb (1819-1871) m. about 1843, probably in Michigan
Children: 7
John (1844), Henry C (1847), Nathaniel (1850), George Guthrie (1852), Martin (1854), Robert (1856), Benjamin (1859)
Open for family notes & participant lineages
Evidence & Research Notes
John Guthrie, reportedly born in Ireland and died in Detroit, remains a proposed father. No new evidence establishes this relationship; both submitted participant paths retain the theory.
Family Finder / Autosomal DNA Kits
Kit 176633
John Guthrie (Theory) → Mary Jane Guthrie/Martin Lamb → Henry C Lamb/Martha Orilla Jones → Ella Laura Lamb/Thomas Henry Gehrken (GGP)
Kit 226242
John Guthrie (Theory) → Mary Jane Guthrie/Martin Lamb → Henry C Lamb/Martha Orilla Jones → Ella Laura Lamb/Thomas Henry Gehrken (GGP)
Mary Jane Guthrie
of King and Queen County, Virginia, USA
Born about 1828 in King and Queen County, Virginia, USA
Died before 1857 in King and Queen County, Virginia, USA
Spouse: William A Colley (1818-1869)
Children: 1
James Pendleton (1848)
Open for family notes & participant lineages
Family Finder / Autosomal DNA Kits
Kit 74987
Mary Jane Guthrie/William A Colley → James Pendleton Collie/Mary Jane Carlton → Elizabeth Collie/Thomas Leonard Sykes (GGP)
Michael & Minerva
Michael Guthrie
of Ireland & Wilmington, New Castle, Delaware
Born about 1815 in Ireland
Died between 1850-1860 presumably in Wilmington, New Castle, Delaware
Spouse: Mary (MNU) (1811-1866), marriage date unknown
Children: 3
Bridget (about 1830), Mary (1835), Catherine (1838)
Open for family notes & participant lineages
Evidence & Research Notes
Bridget’s birth is placed about 1830 in the research tree, the 1860 census, and Find a Grave. The 1850 census suggests about 1831. Use about 1830 while retaining the census variation.
No specific marriage record or date is known for Michael and Mary. The children’s birth estimates do not establish the marriage date.
Family Finder / Autosomal DNA Kits
Kit 539043
Michael Guthrie/Mary MNU → Bridget Guthrie/William Doran → Rose Anne Doran/Howard Horatio Hibbard (GGP)
Minerva Guthrie
of Connecticut or Ohio, and Illinois, USA
Born about 1798 in either Connecticut or Ohio
Died after 1833 presumably in Illinois, USA
Spouse: Lehman Castle
Children: 1 Known
Jane Elizabeth (1833)
Open for family notes & participant lineages
Family Finder / Autosomal DNA Kits
Kit 539224
Minerva Guthrie/Lehman Castle → Jane Elizabeth Castle/William Pilcher → Minerva C Pilcher/John Sawins (GGP)
Nathaniel
Nathaniel Guthrie
of Amherst, Virginia & Madison, Kentucky
Born on 23 December 1763 in Amherst, Virginia, USA
Died on 12 January 1846 in Madison County, Kentucky, USA
Spouse: Nancy Johns m. 7 February 1790 in Amherst County, Virginia, USA
Children: 11
Sophia (1792), Permelia (1793), Elizabeth (1795), Cinthia (1795), Polly (1798), Nancy (1799), Judy (1802), Fanny (1803), Minerva (1804), William (1804), Mahala (1807)
Open for family notes & participant lineages
Evidence & Research Notes
The shared birth years for Elizabeth and Cinthia, and for Minerva and William, do not by themselves establish twin births. No new group placement or test update has been reported.
Family Finder / Autosomal DNA Kits
Kit 319166
Nathaniel Guthrie/Nancy Johns → Permelia Guthrie/John Bird → Nathaniel Harrison Bird/Sally Ann Boatright → Martha Elizabeth Bird/Abraham Wilholt → Everitt Wilholt/Jennie Ethel Bishop (GGP)
Help Document the Next Connection
Most Wanted Documents & Comparisons
- Lunan: a contemporary record naming Margaret’s parents, and records that distinguish estimated Carnegie birth years from documented events.
- Dunboe / Fulton: original evidence resolving Abraham’s death year, the disputed Phineas Boyd link, and documented Guthrie paternal lines from the Exorna/Dunboe area.
- Stafford: records confirming Margaret’s death date and location, William’s identity, and the couple’s earlier family connections.
- Mariah and Patsy: evidence identifying the father of Mariah’s eldest children and resolving Catherine Lowe’s relationship to Patsy.
- Ginn: marriage and birth/baptism records clarifying Mary’s age, the earliest children, and her proposed parents and sisters.
- Other unplaced families: records naming parents, original marriage entries, and independently documented descendant lines for comparison.
Share an image or complete source reference, identify the relationship it addresses, and distinguish the record’s wording from your interpretation.
Have a Correction or a Family Record?
Include the ancestor’s name, spouse, dates, places, and supporting evidence. For a participant pedigree, identify the kit and the generation needing attention.
Could Your Family Supply a Tester?
A suitable paternal-line relative may help establish a group connection. Autosomal participants and documentary researchers can contribute through other descendant lines.