Bessey Bain (bef. 1816)

Born before 9 Apr 1816 in Watten, Caithness, Scotland, United Kingdom

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Biography

Bessey Bain is a member of Clan MacKay.

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

As Bessey was baptised at Watten on 9th April 1816, she must have been born on or before that date. She is the daughter of John Bain and Isabella Waters.^[1]

Name: Bessy Bain. Given Name: Bessy. Surname: Bain. ^[2]

Baptism: 9 Apr 1816. Watten, Caithness, Scotland. ^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ "Scotland Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XBM2-GYH : 12 February 2020), Bessey Bain, 1816.
2. ↑ Source: #S620 Certainty: 0 7
3. ↑ Source: #S620 Certainty: 0 18

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
• Source: S620 Scotland, Select Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950 Ancestry.com Publication: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.