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Mini Biographies of Scots and Scots Descendants (B)
Begg


Country: Canada
Name: Colette Hamilton

EMail: colettehamilton@home.com
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I am researching my family tree and would be thrilled to hear from anyone that has any connections with the same line.

John BEGG born about.1760 married Katherine BROCK in 13 July 1780 in Canisbay, Caithness, Scotland. They had the following children:
*Isabelle b. 1782
*Mary b.1784
*Alexander b.1786
*Margaret b.1788
*John b.1791
*George b.1793
*Robert b. 1795.

Their son Alexander BEGG married Katherine MANSON (b.15 Apr.1784 daughter of John Manson and Katherine BUDGE) on 24 June 1809 in Canisbay, Caithness, Scotland.

They had the following children:
*Katherine b.1811
*Margaret b. 1813 (Married Thomas Bain and had a daughter named Katherine b.1844)
*John b.1815
*Alexander b.1818 (Married Isabella Bremner daughter of William Bremner and Rosie Sinclair, in 1846 They had the following children:Katherine,Isabella,Willamina,Alexander,Jane, Margaret,Helen & William)
*Elizabeth b.1820
*Allan b.1822,(Allan married Mary ? and they had the following children:Catherine b.1848 and Allan b.1851)
*William b.1825
*Robert b.1826
*James b.1829

Alexander and Katherine's son James Begg b.1829 married Helen MANSON ( daughter of William MANSON and Katherine GUNN) on 27 Jan 1860 in Canisbay, Caithness, Scotland.
They had the following children:
*Alexander b.1860
*William b.1861
*James b.1862
*Catherine b.1863
*Margaret b.1865
*Helen b.1866
*Elizabeth b.1868
*Janet b.1869
*Isabella b.1870
*Cecilia b.1872

Alexander BEGG b.1860 married Elizabeth DOULL (b.1865 daughter of Elizabeth DAVIDSON and George DOULL) in 1890 in Keiss, Caithness, Scotland.
They had the following children:
*Elizabeth b.1891 (married William Henderson MANSON)
*George b.1895
*Alexander
*James


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