For Posterity's Sake Genealogy 

The Descendants of John Wier and Elizabeth Rankin

  2nd Generation

 

2.    William WIER #3902, b. 01-Mar-1784, Mauchline, Ayrshire, Scotland.[1] .

 

                                      Children:

 

                4.          i        John WEIR #5326 b. 25-Dec-1814.

 

3.   Allan WIER #1, also known as Allan Weir, b. 19-Apr-1790, Mauchline, Ayrshire, Scotland,1  bapt. 25-Apr-1790, Mauchline, Ayrshire, Scotland.1   He married Elizabeth FERGUSON #2, 17-Aug-1812, in Muirkirk, Ayrshire, Scotland,[2] b. 1794, Muirkirk, Ayrshire, Scotland,2  (daughter of James FERGUSON #3835 and Elizabeth McAUSLANE #3836) bapt. 28-Jul-1794, Muirkirk, Ayrshire, Scotland,1  d. 1842, Pictou County, NS,[3] buried: McGregor Cemetery, New Glasgow, NS.3 Allan died Aug-1880, Pine Tree Gut, Pictou Co., NS,3  buried: McGregor Cemetery, New Glasgow, NS.3   According to notes of Harold McLellan, Allan Wier came to Pictou Co. in the early 1920s, however, this does not match with information that has his son Jonathan born in Scotland in 1824, nor family stories that have Allan settling in Pictou Co., in the early 1830s.

 

                                      Children:

 

                5.          i        Duncan WEIR #5 b. 21-Mar-1813.

                6.          ii       John WIER #6 b. 07-May-1815.

                7.          iii      Andrew WEIR #4 b. 1817.

                8.          iv      James WEIR #7 b. 1821.

                9.          v       Jonathan WEIR #3 b. 11-Oct-1824.

                             vi      Matthew WEIR #834, b. Jul-1826, Scotland,3  d. Jul-1843,3  buried: McGregor Cemetery, New Glasgow, NS.3

                             vii     Anne WEIR #833, b. 11-Oct-1835, Nova Scotia,3  d. Jun-1851,3  buried: McGregor Cemetery, New Glasgow, NS.3

 

[1]  Scottish statuary records of births, marriages and deaths and Old Parish Records. Register House, Edinburgh, Scotland - Researched by Mr. Grant Donald 134 Balgreen Road, Edinburgh, Scotland.

[2]  LDS FHC International Genealogical Index - 1993 Edition Film #: 453884, Ord. #: 30762 - Printout #: 6900540 Library Call No. for Source Document: M116074 1041400.

[3]  Headstone in McGregor Cemetery, New Glasgow, NS. 

 

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