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if your Quentin Sr had a son Gilbert, a father Gilbert might make sense


https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XTK2-GCM

Name: Quintine Blain
Gender: Male
Christening Date: 29 May 1776
Christening Place: , STRAITON, AYR, SCOTLAND
Father's Name: Gilbert Blain
Mother's Name: Elisabeth Ramsay
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C11617-4 , System Origin: Scotland-VR , GS Film number: 1041471


trees at familysearch have the parents as

Lady Annie Gordon 1791 Perthshire
Quinten McBlain 1787

absolutely no sources

and they would not have been eloping in 1801/2!



did your Quinten Jr live and die in Ontario Canada? ... matches some records at familysearch

emigrants were sometimes especially fond of ancestral tall tales :-)

the Duke of Gordon at the relevant times

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Gordon,_4th_Duke_of_Gordon

b 1743 died 1827

daughters were Charlotte 1768, Madeleine 1772, Susan 1774, Louisa 1776, Georgiana 1781

The only one who sounds like an Annie is the last one and she married the 6th Duke of Bedford in 1803 and had issue


don't we all have these tales in our trees? :-)

According to family legend Lady Annie GORDON eloped with her coachman, Quinten/Quentin/Quintin McBLAIN/McBLANE presumably in 1801/1802. They lived in Perthshire, Scotland and their dates of birth would be somewhere at the end of the 18th century. Their first child was John McBLAIN/McBLANE (there do some to be variations on the spelling) born about 1802, followed by Catherine McBLAIN b about 1804, Elizabeth born about 1806, Gilbert, birth date unknown and my ancestor, Quentin McBLAIN born about 1817 in Kilmarnock, Ayshire.

Quentin Jnr married Mary STRATHDEE on 11 Dec 1840 in Ayrshire.

I have most of the info. from Quentin Jnr down to the present day.

My problem is - I cannot seem to find anyone called Lady Annie Gordon, supposed daughter of the Duke of Gordon in that time frame.

I would love to know: (a) her birth date, date of marriage and date of death and also the birth and death dates of her spouse Quentin McBlain senior.

Any assistance would be gratefully appreciated.

Regards,
Sue from NZ