Margaret Runsyman (1755)

Born 12 Oct 1755 in Crail, , Fife, Scotland

Ancestors

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Biography

This biography was partly auto-generated by a GEDCOM import supplemented by additional research by Alan Runciman a 3rd grand-nephew.

Name

Name: Margaret /Runsyman/ ^[1][2]

Birth

Birth:

Date: 12 OCT 1755

Place: Crail, , Fife, Scotland

Note: which fits with age of 10 when father died^[3][4][5][6]

Orphaned at a young age

When she was aged about 7 Margaret lost her mother Elizabeth shortly after giving birth to her young brother John followed by her father in a drowning accident when she was 9. On the same day as her father’s drowning her paternal grandfather collected the children & took them home to Castleton farm & cottages about 4 miles from North Berwick beside Tantallon Castle, from which it derives its name.

Childhood post-Crail

It’s known that her grandfather Richard was still alive in 1768 when the last surviving minute of the Widows & Orphans Fund is dated. Thereafter nothing is known of what lives the children had other than her siblings all lived to adulthood in the area & married locally.

Marriage

Whether Margaret married is the subject of unresolved research. She is one of two possible ‘candidates’ to have married Richard Whitecross. Refer to Richard wife’s profile for further detail.

Death

As it’s not known whether Margaret married it’s possible she died in early adulthood. She is last known of in 1768 when she was 12.

Runciman histories in associated profiles:

A comprehensive list of links to the profiles of Runciman family people, events & places on the Crail lineage is available here. Among several others, this includes the link to the Crail Fishing Disaster, the event by which Margaret was directly affected.

Sources

• Source: S1045 Title: RUNCIMAN Correspondence H.D.W. Address: Edinburgh, Scotland Recipient: L Henderson (1)
• Source: S1596 Title: IGI: Online searches, Subject: Online search: assorted surnames Repository: #R149
• Repository: R149 Name: Family Search (LDS) Address: State: Utah Country: USA Note: http://familysearch.org
• Source: S1597 Title: FamilySearch Labs Record Search (LDS), Url: http://search.labs.familysearch.org/recordsearch/
• Source: S2562 Title: RUNCIMAN Corres., Address: NSW, AUS
• Source: S3221 Title: EM RUNCIMAN/WISHART/JAMIESON ex Phyllis R. (SCT)
• Source: S3222 Title: "Scotland and Beyond" (2004) Authors: Diane Middleton Jen Jelley - plus subsequent research by Alan RUNCIMAN, Ros RUNCIMAN, Lawrence FLETCHER, Lorna HENDERSON & many, many others, Compiler Address: UK, Australia and New Zealand Publication: Jul 2013 Note: imported on 2013/07/24 at 15:44:27.
• Source: S3226 Title: RootsWeb: Elizabeth Archer's Tree with all its Branches Entries: 247729 Updated: 2010-10-30 01:24:01 UTC (Sat) Contact: Elizabeth Archer I201154 Name: Christina Murray Crawford Birth: 1855 Death: 1931 Reference Number: 201157 Marriage 1 Alexander Molison Runciman b: 26 JAN 1854 in Leith, Scotland Married: 2 MAY 1883 in Edinburgh, Scotland Children 1. John Runciman b: 1884 in Scotland 2. Christina Murray Runciman b: 1886 in Scotland 3. William Murray Crawford Runciman b: 1890 in Scotland
• Source: S3233 Title: Old Parish Record (OPR)
• Source: S55 Title: Scottish Birth, Marriage, Burial entries (to 1854) http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/index.php

1. ↑ Source: #S1597 Page: Birth 12 Oct Bap. 19 Oct 1755 Margaret d/o William RUNSYMAN & Elizabeth JAMIESON, Crail, FIF, from Scotland, Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950 batch C11417-5 film 1040157, extracted Oct 2012
2. ↑ Source: #S3226 Page: Stirling/Hastings/McEachern/Ford - Roots and Branches of these Families of Ontario CONT Entries: 162962 Updated: 2006-09-14 12:59:59 UTC (Thu) Contact: Elizabeth Name: Margaret RUNCIMAN Birth: 10 DEC 1755 in Crail, Fifeshire, Scotland Reference Number: 198096 Father: William RUNCIMAN b: ABT. 1720 in Isle of May, Crail, Fifeshire, Scotland Mother: Elizabeth JAMIESON b: 1728
3. ↑ Source: #S3221 Page: Pay-outs to the widows and children of the Crail fishermen drowned on 21st January 1765, from GD/26/12/25 held National Archives of Scotland (NAS), transcr. by Phyllis rcvd Nov 2012
4. ↑ Source: #S1045 Page: Pay-outs to the widows and children of the Crail fishermen drowned on 21st January 1765, extracted Feb 2010 from photocopies taken 1980s, from GD/26/12/25 held National Archives of Scotland (NAS), rcvd Feb 2010
5. ↑ Source: #S1597 Page: Birth 12 Oct Bap. 19 Oct 1755 Margaret d/o William RUNSYMAN & Elizabeth JAMIESON, Crail, FIF, from Scotland, Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950 batch C11417-5 film 1040157, extracted Oct 2012
6. ↑ Source: #S3222 Page: Birth 12 Oct 1755 Margaret d/o William & Elizaeth (JAMESON) RUNCIMAN, Crail, Fife, Pg 3

Acknowledgments

The creation of WikiTree profile Runsyman-1 was through the import of RUNCIMANAlansPaternal4WikiTreeAug2013.ged on Aug 29, 2013.

Thank you to Stuart Wilson for mergin WikiTree profile Runciman-811 after the import of Family_2013-10-07.ged on Oct 7, 2013. Click to the Changes page for the details of edits.