William Bain (bef. 1809)

Born before 23 Jan 1809 in Watten, Caithness, Scotland, United Kingdom

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This profile is part of the Watten, Caithness One Place Study.

William Bain is a member of Clan MacKay.

Biography

As William was baptised at Watten on 23 Jan 1809, he must have been born on or before that date.^[1] He is the son of John Bain and Isabella Waters.

Sources

1. ↑ "Scotland Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XBML-BX6 : 12 February 2020), William Bain, 1809.

See also:

• Information taken from entries in the Old Parochial Registers in Scotland (1553-1854) for the Counties of Caithness, Sutherland, Ross-shire, Cromarty, Inverness, Nairn and Moray.
• Assorted transcriptions of graveyard and burial records, held by John M Sutherland-Fisher published by the Scottish Genealogy Society, the Highland Family History Society and the Aberdeen and N.E. Scotland Family History Society.
• Registers of Births, Deaths and Marriages (1855-to date) administered by the Registrar General for Scotland and available on the Scotland’s People website.
• Extracts of wills of family members, private papers and family correspondence in the collection of John M Sutherland-Fisher
• Libindex administered by Moray Council
• Memorabilia Domestica by the Rev. Donald Sage, Minister of Resolis, Ross-shire (step-son of Jean Sutherland of Midgarty)
• Caithness Family History by John Henderson first published in 1882
• "Notes of My Family History" written by the Rev. George Sutherland in 1903, revised 1909