Guyan family in Nigg

[Phil Crabbe]

Hi

I am interested in researching Guyan families living in Nigg during the 18th century. My GGGG Grandfather George Guyan married Isabel Brydie on 7 June 1772 at Nigg. Their daughter Ann married John Allan in 1804 and another of their daughters, Agnes, married John Caie in 1805.

Is anyone else researching this name?

Phil Crabbe

[gfindlay]

Hi

I am interested in researching Guyan families living in Nigg during the 18th century. My GGGG Grandfather George Guyan married Isabel Brydie on 7 June 1772 at Nigg. Their daughter Ann married John Allan in 1804 and another of their daughters, Agnes, married John Caie in 1805.

Is anyone else researching this name?

Phil Crabbe

Hello Phil,
I have both Guyan's & Caies from Old Torry (Nigg) on my mothers side of the family. "your" George Guyan is my 4th great grand uncle. I am descended from his younger brother John b. 25 January 1756 who married Anne Donald at Nigg in 1788. How can I help?

George Findlay

[Cameron]

Hi George,

I am also researching Guyans and Caies in Nigg. I too have John Guyan and Anne Donald, but I have John as being born 1763 died 1845, son of Alexander Guyan and Anna Donald. I would be interested in comparing notes. I have John and Anne as having 12 children.

Best wishes
Robert Cameron

[SANDYW]

Hi Phil,

Like yourself, George, and Robert, I have been researching the Guyan's (Gayan's) and Caie"s for some time. My 2G grandfather was Alexander Caie, son of William Caie and Jean Morice, and his wife was a Jean Guyan. She was interred on 10 Oct 1849 aged 56 i.e born about 1793. In the period 1770 to 1810 there are only three records of christenings of Jean Guyan's and they were between 23 Jan 1803 and 27 Sep 1810. The Death Certificates of all three indicate that none of them were married to Alexander Caie. I suspect from studying the witnesses at the christenings of her nine children that her father was a George Guyan a whitefisher in Torry, who is probably the one who was interred 12th May 1835 aged 79 years i.e born about 1756, but I have not yet established his parentage or whether he had a partner.
Like Robert I would be very interested to compare notes.

Sandy Watt

[Merrie]

I am also researching the Caie family.

William Caie and Jeannie Morrice were my 4g grandparents.
Their eldest (?) daughter Elisabeth married William Davidson - my 3g grandparents.

I haven't got any further back than William.

I have also been following Alexander Caie and his children through scotlandspeople etc and am very happy to swap info / certificates etc.


Julie

[torrygirl]

I am descended from John Allan & Anne Guyan, married in Nigg 1804
John Allan is my GGGgrandfather - their first born child, George 1805 is the one I descend from on my mother's side - she was an Allan. Torrygirl

[Phil Crabbe]

John Allan is also my GGGgrandfather. I am descended from his 6th child Robert, bapt 1818, and who married Elspet (Else) Robertson in 1845 Nigg. They had 7 children. Margaret, bapt 1849, the eldest?, married George Morrice 1876 Cove, Nigg and they had eight children. John, their third child, was my mother's father.

Most of my mother's ancestors seem to have been fisherfolk, all whitefishers as far as I can find out. But I don't have an occupation for John Allan. Does anyone know what he did for a living?

Phil

[torrygirl]

John Allan was also a whitefisher, born July 27, 1777.

It seems that a few of the Allans married Robertsons.
Andrew Allan 1748 married Jean Robertson in 1772
George Allan 1805, married Anne Robertson in 1831 in Nigg
Robert Allan 1850 (descended from George Allan) married Christina Robertson
in 1874 in Nigg. Robert and Christina are the grandparents of my mother, Mary Allan.


Torrygirl

[torrygirl]

I am also researching the Caie family.

William Caie and Jeannie Morrice were my 4g grandparents.
Their eldest (?) daughter Elisabeth married William Davidson - my 3g grandparents.

I haven't got any further back than William.

I have also been following Alexander Caie and his children through scotlandspeople etc and am very happy to swap info / certificates etc.


Julie

Hello Julie
Just for interest my GGGGrandfather David Robertson married Agnes Caie,daughter of William Caie and Jean Morrice on Sept. 11 1819 in Nigg. I descend from their son, James Robertson born Feb. 15, 1823. Agnes must
have been Alexander Caie's sister. Torrygirl

[motherk]

Hi
I am also researching the Guyan and Caie families, my husbands GGGG Grandfather is George Guyan whose daughter Agnes married John Caie in 1805. Can anyone shed some light on these people.
Debbie

[Gloria]

Apologies Robert - for referring to you as Cameron in my recent message regarding this couple. I'm a 5xGt.Grandaugher of Alexander GUYAN and Anna DONALD through their son John who married Margaret GRANT and settled in the Footdee area of Aberdeen.

I'd love to hear from anybody else researching this line.
Regards
Gloria


Hi George,

I am also researching Guyans and Caies in Nigg. I too have John Guyan and Anne Donald, but I have John as being born 1763 died 1845, son of Alexander Guyan and Anna Donald. I would be interested in comparing notes. I have John and Anne as having 12 children.

Best wishes
Robert Cameron

[Cameron]

Hi Gloria,

Good luck in your research, I am starting to go through my info again as it looks like I might have got the wrong Guyan family at some point. I have a few different lines of Guyans to research but as I'm sure you know it is difficult as it is quite a common name in the parish.

Regards
Robert.

[Alexander Caie]

Hello Julie

just a quick note! Im the third "Alexander Caie" on my dad's side.
if you need any info i will try to help.
Alex Caie

[Charlottie93]

Hi im searching the guyans and if anyone knows anything about james robert guyan who lived in Abeerdeen but moved to Sunderland in the 1920- 30's it would be very appreciated if anyone knew about him

[elaine6611]

Hi,
I have been researching the Caie family and my great grandfather was Alexander Caie born 1877 in Torry,Nigg. His father was also Alexander Caie and his mother was Jane King, they were married on 28th August,1869. This Alexanders parents were George Caie and Margaret forbes. Does this mean anything to you?

[Phil Crabbe]

Hi Elaine

I had a look in my tree and unfortunately can't find a link. I see you are from Bristol too. Maybe we can find some common ground with some of my other names.

You may find my new website of interest. It is still quite small, but as well as my lists of family surnames, I have uploaded my transcription of St Fitticks Marriage index from 1719-1875 (by groom). Although as you probably know, most of this information can be accessed through other websites.

My new site also has a guestbook - all welcome to post, but please be patient with me if I don't answer visitors' questions very quickly. It also has a few links to some really excellent relevant sites, published by people who really know this area well.
Best wishes
Philippa

[elaine6611]

Hi Phil,

I notice you have the surname "FORBES" in you tree. I have checked on my tree and found a Margaret Forbes b.1823c.She was my great great great grandmother who married George Caie b. 1825c. There son,Alexander Caie,was my G G grandfather,(born 1845). His son,Alexander Caie was my great grandfather,b.1877.

I can also recall that I have a "Morrice" in my tree somewhere but I can't find it at the moment.

Does this information mean anything to you?

Elaine

[Phil Crabbe]

Hi Elaine

Sorry, still no match yet. I do have two Forbes lines. One line is related to my fisherfolk communities, the other (Grocers) comes from Tarves, ABD in the early 19th C and they moved, via Old Meldrum, to Aberdeen City by 1851.
Thanks for checking back
best wishes
Phil

[JulieT]

Guyans and Caies, historical origins:
I am interested in any information you may have on the Guyans originating from France in the middle ages. I am also interested in the Caie line. I have found both Guyans and Caies in genealogical records in France dating from the 1500s, but I have not been able to find any information linking them with the Guyans and Caies in Aberdeen/Nigg/Torry. These are very unusual names. It must be possible to trace their origins.

Guyans and Caies in my family:
My third great grandfather was George Caie (b. 1823). His mother Jean Guyan (b. 1803 Nigg), and father Alexander Caie (b. 1799 Nigg) were married in 1822.

William Caie (b. 1764) and Jean Morrice (b. 1763) m. 1785 were the parents of Alexander Caie (Is this the brother of the Elizabeth Caie and Agnes Caie of the earlier posts of Merrie and torrygirl?)

George Caie (b. 1823) married Margaret Philip (b. 1816) in 1840 in Nigg. Their eldest daughter, Mary Caie (b. 1841) moved to Dartmouth, Devon, sometime before 1861, where she lived with her mother's brother's family (George Philip of Philip & Son shipbuilders in Dartmouth). Mary Caie married Robert Widdicombe, shipwright in Dartmouth. They moved with their family to Brisbane, Australia in 1884.

kind regards
Julie

[floramaggie]

Hi All. Tracing the tree for a family friend. He has ancestors from Nigg. Many familiy name including the William Caie & Jean Morrice [daughter of Andrew and anna Guyan]that you mentioned above, Do you have any info on them?
Hes also got a George Forbes Woods [1866]cropping up [son of Margaret Dyce Morrice}
Lots of Caie people from Nigg
Also Morrice
Kennedy
Wood
Brand