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Duncan MacGregor

Baptised
6 Nov 1789 Inverlochlarigmore, Balquhidder, Perthshire, Scotland
Died
before 1851

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Timeline

  1. 1789
    6 Nov 1789 Inverlochlarigmore, Balquhidder, Perthshire, Scotland
  2. 1813age 24
    to Catharine McFarlane (1786-1841)
    30 May 1813 Balquhidder, Perthshire, Scotland

    Contracted: Duncan McGregor in this parish and Katrine McFarlane in the parish of Kincardine.

  3. 1817age 28
    1 Apr 1817 Tullich, Balquhidder, Perthshire, Scotland
  4. 1817age 28
    1 Apr 1817 Tullich, Balquhidder, Perthshire, Scotland

    Tullich, at the baptism of their son Duncan.

  5. 1818age 29
    12 Aug 1818 Cuilearn, Balquhidder, Perthshire, Scotland

    Duncan McGregor and spouse Catharine McFarlane, Culearn.

  6. 1820age 31
    7 Aug 1820 Cuilearn, Balquhidder, Perthshire, Scotland

    Duncan McGregor and spouse Catharine McFarlane, Culearn; entered in both 331/10 and the fair copy 331/30.

  7. 1823age 34
    from 16 Feb 1823 to 6 May 1827 Cuilearn, Balquhidder, Perthshire, Scotland

    Culearn, at the baptisms of their children; “late in Tulloch” in 1823.

  8. 1823age 34
    16 Feb 1823 Cuilearn, Balquhidder, Perthshire, Scotland

    Culearn, late in Tulloch; the register leaves the child’s name blank.

  9. 1825age 36
    17 Jan 1825 Cuilearn, Balquhidder, Perthshire, Scotland

    Culearn; the register leaves both the mother’s name and the child’s name blank.

  10. 1827age 38
    6 May 1827 Cuilearn, Balquhidder, Perthshire, Scotland

    Culearn; the register names the child Alexander only, with no Murray.

  11. 1841age 52
    before 1841

    Date from Lawrie’s genealogy; no record of the death has been found.

  12. 1851age 62
    before 1851

    Date from Lawrie’s genealogy; no record of the death has been found.

Sources

  1. Church of Scotland
    Baptisms 1789, Balquhidder, 331/10 303, entry for Duncan, child of Duncan McGrigor and Janet McGrigor in Innerlochlarichmore (register image read)
    Very high confidence Cited for baptism, parentage
    Transcript and reading notes

    Old Parish Registers of Balquhidder, births and baptisms, volume 10, page 303 (331/10 303; the clerk’s page number is 144). ScotlandsPeople: MCGRIGOR, DUNCAN, 1789. Transcribed from the register image.

    [1789] Novr 6th. Duncan McGrigor and Janet McGrigor in Innerlochlarichmore had a Child baptized and Called Duncan.

    The entry is squeezed in between the lines of the entry of 15 November for David Stewart and Janet McGrigor in Wester Auchtow, with 6th in the margin and the name Duncan written above the end of the line. The place name is cramped and is read as a form of Inverlochlarigmore, the farm named in the couple’s baptisms of 1771 and 1776.

  2. Church of Scotland
    Proclamations 1813, Balquhidder, 331/20 388, Duncan McGregor in this parish and Katrine McFarlane in the parish of Kincardine (register image read)
    Very high confidence Cited for marriage banns, partnership
    Transcript and reading notes

    Old Parish Registers of Balquhidder, banns and marriages, volume 20, page 388 (331/20 388). Transcribed from the register image.

    1813. May 30th. Contracted Duncan McLaren in the Parish of Comrie and Margaret McIntyre in this Parish. Dues 8/6.

    Eo die. Contracted Duncan McGregor in this Parish and Katrine McFarlane in the Parish of Kincardine. Dues 2/.

    Eo die means on the same day, 30 May 1813. The entry records the contract for proclamation of banns, not the marriage itself.

    ScotlandsPeople index, Old Parish Registers marriages, surname McGregor, forename Duncan, spouse’s name McFarlane, 6 results: Margaret McFarlane, 30/01/1790, 362 Kilmadock, 30 / 542. Margaret McFarlane (FR497), 02/02/1790, 336 Callander, 20 / 123. Helen McFarlane, 30/11/1827, 325 Aberfoyle, 20 / 94. Katrine McFarlane, 30/05/1813, 331 Balquhidder, 20 / 388. Catherine McFarlane (FR519), 11/12/1824, 325 Aberfoyle, 20 / 90. Katharine McFarlane (FR964), 24/05/1767, 490 Stirling, 40 / 142.

  3. Church of Scotland
    Banns 1813, Kincardine-in-Menteith, 364/10 248, entry for Duncan McGrigor in the parish of Balquhidder and Cathrine McFarlane in this parish (register image read)
    Very high confidence Cited for marriage banns, partnership
    Transcript and reading notes

    Old Parish Registers of Kincardine-in-Menteith, banns and marriages, volume 10, page 248 (364/10 248; the clerk’s page number is 123). ScotlandsPeople: MCGRIGOR, DUNCAN, 29/04/1813. Transcribed from the register image, read 12 September 2026.

    [1813] April 29. Duncan McGrigor in the Parish of Balquhidder & Cathrine McFarlane in this Parish.

    This is the bride’s parish entry for the couple contracted at Balquhidder on 30 May 1813 (331/20 388). It gives the groom’s parish only, with no farm, designation or witnesses, so it does not help to identify which Duncan McGregor of Balquhidder he was.

  4. Church of Scotland
    Baptisms 1817, Balquhidder, 331/10 366, entry for Duncan, son of Duncan McGregor and Catharine McFarlane, Tullich (register image read)
    Very high confidence Cited for baptism of son duncan mcgregor, residence, partnership, parentage
    Transcript and reading notes

    Old Parish Registers of Balquhidder, births and baptisms, 1817, volume 10, page 366 (331/10/366). Transcribed from the register image.

    April 1. Duncan McGregor & spouse Catharine McFarlane, Tullich, had a child baptized named Duncan.

    ScotlandsPeople index: MCGREGOR, DUNCAN, parents DUNCAN MCGREGOR/CATHARINE MCFARLANE, M, 01/04/1817, parish 331, ref 10 / 366, BALQUHIDDER.

    Findmypast transcript, Scotland Parish Births and Baptisms: Duncan McGregor, baptised 01 Apr 1817, residence Tulloch, Balquhidder, Perthshire; father Duncan McGregor; mother Catharine McFarlane; archive reference OPR 331/1, page 175. That reference is in a different form from ScotlandsPeople’s, but the entry is the same.

  5. Church of Scotland
    Baptisms 1818, Balquhidder, 331/10 367, entry of 12 August 1818: Duncan McGregor and spouse Catharine McFarlane, Culearn, had a child baptized named Peter (register image read)
    Very high confidence Cited for baptism of son peter mcgregor, partnership
  6. Church of Scotland
    Baptisms 1820, Balquhidder, 331/10 370, entry of 7 August 1820: Duncan McGregor and spouse Catharine McFarlane, Culearn, had a child baptized named Janet; entered a second time, in the same words, in the fair-copy volume 331/30 3 (both register images read)
    Very high confidence Cited for baptism of daughter janet mcgregor, partnership
  7. Church of Scotland
    Baptisms 1823, Balquhidder, 331/30 8, entry for a child, not named, of Duncan McGregor and Catharine McFarlane, Culearn, late in Tulloch (register image read)
    Very high confidence Cited for residence, baptism of a child, not named, partnership
    Transcript and reading notes

    Old Parish Registers of Balquhidder, births and baptisms, 1823, volume 30, page 8 (331/30/8). Transcribed from the register image.

    [1823] Feby 16. Duncan McGregor & spouse Catharine McFarlane Culearn late in Tulloch had a child bap[tize]d named

    No name follows “named”. A hole in the paper takes out part of “baptized”. The farm at the end of the first line is read as Culearn; its last letters could also be read as m. Tulloch is the Tullich of the baptism of their son Duncan in 1817. The note in the right margin of the page is a different entry (John McLaren and Jacobina Allison, 1823).

    ScotlandsPeople index: MCGREGOR, -----, parents DUNCAN MCGREGOR/CATHARINE MCFARLANE, U, 16/02/1823, parish 331, ref 30 / 8, BALQUHIDDER.

    Image read on ScotlandsPeople on 11 September 2026.

  8. Church of Scotland
    Baptisms 1825, Balquhidder, 331/30 12, entry for a child, not named, of Duncan McGregor, mother’s name left blank, Culearn (register image read)
    Very high confidence Cited for residence, baptism of daughter catherine mcgregor
    Transcript and reading notes

    Old Parish Registers of Balquhidder, births and baptisms, 1825, volume 30, page 12 (331/30/12). Transcribed from the register image.

    [1825 Jany 17] Eodem die. Duncan McGregor & spouse [blank] Culearn had a child baptized named [blank]

    The entry follows one dated 17 January 1825, with “eodem die” (the same day) in the margin. Spaces were left for the mother’s name and the child’s name and never filled. The father and the farm match the baptisms of the children of Duncan McGregor and Catharine McFarlane at Culearn in 1823 and 1827. Lawrie takes this child to be Catherine, born 1825.

    ScotlandsPeople index: MCGREGOR, -----, parents DUNCAN MCGREGOR/, U, 17/01/1825, parish 331, ref 30 / 12, BALQUHIDDER.

    Image read on ScotlandsPeople on 11 September 2026.

  9. Church of Scotland
    Baptisms 1827, Balquhidder, 331/30 14, entry for Alexander, son of Duncan McGregor and Catharine McFarlane, Culearn (register image read)
    Very high confidence Cited for residence, baptism of son alexander mcgregor, partnership
    Transcript and reading notes

    Old Parish Registers of Balquhidder, births and baptisms, 1827, volume 30, page 14 (331/30/14). Transcribed from the register image.

    [1827] May 6. Duncan McGregor and spouse Catharine McFarlane Culearn had a child baptized named Alexander

    The child is entered as Alexander only. The middle name Murray, which Lawrie gives, is not in this entry.

    ScotlandsPeople index: MCGREGOR, ALEXANDER, parents DUNCAN MCGREGOR/CATHARINE MCFARLANE, M, 06/05/1827, parish 331, ref 30 / 14, BALQUHIDDER.

    Image read on ScotlandsPeople on 11 September 2026.

  10. Peter Lawrie. Glen Discovery, glendiscovery.com (online, cited by page)
    Page 106, Descendants of Duncan in Aberfoyle: Duncan born 6 Nov 1789, died before 1851, of Inverlochlarigmore and Cuilearn; Catharine McFarlane born 1786 Heads, Kilmadock, died before 1841, daughter of Peter McFarlane and Kathrine McNaughton; Balquhidder kirk session notes of 1851 and 1852 on Duncan of Cuilearn (page read 11 Sep 2026)
    Low confidence Cited for death of wife catharine mcfarlane, death, partnership, parentage
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  11. General Register Office for Scotland
    Deaths 1902, Aberfoyle, 325/7, entry for Duncan MacGregor (register image read)
    Very high confidence Cited for partnership, parentage
    Transcript and reading notes

    Statutory Registers of Deaths, 1902, Parish of Aberfoyle, County of Perth, 325, entry 7, page 3 (ScotlandsPeople: MACGREGOR, DUNCAN, Statutory registers Deaths 325/ 7). Transcribed from the register image.

    Name, rank or profession, and whether single, married or widowed: Duncan MacGregor, Mason (Married to Margaret MacGregor).

    When and where died: 1902, August Fifth, 3h 20m P.M., Craiguchty, Aberfoyle.

    Sex: M. Age: 85 yrs.

    Father: Duncan MacGregor, Mason (deceased). Mother: Catherine MacGregor M.S. MacFarlane (deceased).

    Cause of death: (a) Carcinoma of Bladder, as certified by Thomas MacGregor, M.B., C.M., Aberfoyle.

    Informant: Mary McLaren, Grand Daughter.

    When and where registered: 1902, August 7th, at Aberfoyle. Wm Moncrieff Taylor, Assist. Regr. John McIntyre, Registrar.

    ScotlandsPeople index: MACGREGOR, DUNCAN, age at death 85, mother’s maiden name MACFARLANE, M, 1902, ref 325 / 7, ABERFOYLE.

    He died on the fifth; the seventh is the date of registration.

  12. General Register Office for Scotland
    Deaths 1904, Killin, 361/7, entry 7: Catherine McLaren, widow of Duncan McLaren, coachman, died 26 July 1904 at Croftchose, parish of Killin, aged 80, daughter of Duncan McGregor, master mason, deceased, and Catherine McGregor m.s. McFarlane, deceased; informant John McLaren, son-in-law, present (register image read)
    Very high confidence Cited for partnership
  13. General Register Office for Scotland
    Deaths 1889, St Andrew (Dundee), 282/4 323, entry for Alexander Murray MacGregor, son of Duncan MacGregor and Catherine MacFarlane (register image read)
    Very high confidence Cited for partnership
    Transcript and reading notes

    Statutory Registers of Deaths, 1889, District of St Andrew, Burgh of Dundee, 282/4, entry 323, page 108 (ScotlandsPeople: MACGREGOR, ALEXANDER M, Statutory registers Deaths 282/ 4/ 323). Transcribed from the register image, read 12 September 2026. The hand is poor and readings marked uncertain should be checked against the image.

    Name, rank or profession, and whether single, married or widowed: Alexander Murray MacGregor, Retired Schoolmaster [or Shoemaker; reading uncertain], Married to Susannah McKinnon [reading uncertain].

    When and where died: 1889, April Fourteenth [reading uncertain], 7h 6m P.M., 38 Cowgate [reading uncertain], Dundee.

    Sex: M. Age: 61 years.

    Father: Duncan MacGregor, Crofter (Deceased). Mother: Catherine MacGregor M.S. MacFarlane (Deceased).

    Cause of death: Chronic Pneumonia, as cert. by D. Steele Moon [reading uncertain] L.R.C.P.

    Informant: Ewen M. MacGregor, Son, Present.

    Registered 1889, April 15th, at Dundee.

    What it shows. The Alexander baptised at Cuilearn, Balquhidder, on 6 May 1827 to Duncan McGregor and Catharine McFarlane used the name Alexander Murray MacGregor in life, and passed the initial M to his son Ewen. This is the first record that carries the Murray which Lawrie attaches to his name; the baptism has Alexander only. The father is called a crofter here and a mason on the 1902 death entry of his brother Duncan. The entry names the parents but not the grandparents, so it does not tie the father to the baptism of 1789.

  14. Church of Scotland
    Baptisms 1771, Balquhidder, 331/10 206, entry for Mary, child of Duncan McGrigor and Janet McGrigor in Innerlochlarichvoir (register image read)
    Very high confidence Cited for parentage
    Transcript and reading notes

    Old Parish Registers of Balquhidder, births and baptisms, volume 10, page 206 (331/10 206). ScotlandsPeople: MCGRIGOR, MARY, 1771. Transcribed from the register image.

    [1771] Novr 6th. Duncan McGrigor and Janet McGrigor in Innerlochlarichvoir had a Child baptized and called Mary.

  15. Church of Scotland
    Baptisms 1776, Balquhidder, 331/10 234, entry for Catharine, child of Duncan McGrigor and Janet McGrigor in Innerlochlarigmore (register image read)
    Very high confidence Cited for parentage
    Transcript and reading notes

    Old Parish Registers of Balquhidder, births and baptisms, volume 10, page 234 (331/10 234). ScotlandsPeople: MCGRIGOR, CATHARINE, 1776. Transcribed from the register image.

    [1776] Novr 17th. Duncan McGrigor and Janet McGrigor in Innerlochlarigmore had a Child baptized and called Catharine.

  16. Church of Scotland
    Proclamations 1770, Balquhidder, 331/20 232, Duncan McAlpin and Janet McGrigor, both in this parish (register image read)
    Very high confidence Cited for parentage
    Transcript and reading notes

    Old Parish Registers of Balquhidder, banns and marriages, volume 20, page 232 (331/20 232; the clerk’s page number is 110). ScotlandsPeople: MCALPIN, DUNCAN, 1770. Transcribed from the register image.

    [1770] 16. Decr 8th Contracted Duncan McAlpin and Janet McGrigor both in this parish.

    No residences, witnesses or dues are given.

    Entry 2 of 1771 on the same page: Janr 18th Contracted Alexr Graeme McGrigor printer in Glasgow and Janet Buchanan McGrigor in this parish.

  17. Peter Lawrie. Glen Discovery, glendiscovery.com (online, cited by page)
    Page 70, Descendants of Duncan in Drumlich, Balquhidder: Duncan McGregor alias McAlpine born 1740 Easter Drumlich, married 1770 Janet McGregor; six children 1771 to 1789; note 12 on three possible Janets, born 1748 Innervullin, 1746 Rhinnacraig and 1747 Wester Drumlich (page read 11 Sep 2026)
    Low confidence Cited for parentage
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  18. Peter Lawrie. Glen Discovery, glendiscovery.com (online, cited by page)
    Page 96, Descendants of Kate daughter of Coll: Kate married about 1748 Duncan, possibly the Duncan McPharrie born 7 Nov 1725; Janet born 28 Nov 1748 Immervoulin, married Duncan (MacAlpin) 1770; notes on Old Cuilt, who married the daughter of Coll, and on Steven Robertson’s DNA proposal (page read 11 Sep 2026)
    Low confidence Cited for parentage
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  19. General Register Office for Scotland
    Census 1841, Balquhidder, 331 ED 3 page 5, Cuilearn, household of Duncan McGregor, mason, with Janet and Alexander McGregor (enumeration book image read)
    Very high confidence Cited for parentage
    Transcript and reading notes

    Census of Scotland, 1841, enumeration book 331 3, page 5. Parish of Balquhidder. Transcribed from the enumeration book image (ScotlandsPeople, 1841 census 331/ 3/ 5). The image shows pages 5 and 6 of the book.

    Cuilearn, 1 house. The surname of Janet and Alexander is written Do.

    Duncan McGregor, 20, Mason, born in the county.

    Janet McGregor, 20, born in the county.

    Alexr McGregor, 14, born in the county.

    No one else is in the household. It is the last entry on page 5.

    The 1841 census rounded adult ages down to a multiple of five and did not record relationships. The three fit Duncan (baptised 1817, so 24 and entered as 20), Janet (born 1820) and Alexander (born 1827), children of Duncan McGregor and Catharine McFarlane. Lawrie places the family’s baptisms at Cuilearn from 1818, and the 1851 census transcription gives the farm as “Cullearn” (Balquhidder, enumeration district 3, page 18).

    Reading note, 11 September 2026. The image agrees with Ancestry’s transcription and with the ScotlandsPeople index in names, ages, occupation and page. The farm is written Cuilearn; Ancestry transcribes it as Cuilcam.

Family

Parents

Partner

Catharine McFarlane (1786-1841)

Children with Catharine

  • Duncan MacGregor (1817-1902)
  • Peter MacGregor (b. 1818)
  • Janet MacGregor (1820-1894)
  • Catharine MacGregor (1825-1904)
  • Alexander Murray MacGregor (1827-1889)

Proved Strong Probable Possible

Research notes

His identity

He is the Duncan baptised at Inverlochlarigmore on 6 November 1789, the youngest known child of Duncan McGrigor and Janet McGrigor. The tree takes him to be the Duncan McGregor who was contracted to Katrine McFarlane at Balquhidder in 1813 and whose son Duncan was baptised at Tullich in 1817. That identification comes from Lawrie’s genealogy and is rated Probable on the family with Catharine McFarlane, where the reasons are set out.

What it rests on. No record read so far ties the groom of 1813, or the father of the children from 1817 to 1827, to the baptism of 1789; the baptisms name only the parents and the farm. In favour: the first four named children, Duncan, Peter, Janet and Catherine, carry the names of the four grandparents Lawrie gives, and of the twelve Duncan McGregors baptised at Balquhidder from 1775 to 1800, only the Duncan of 1789 had a father Duncan and a mother Janet. Against certainty: four Duncans were baptised in the parish within thirteen months of November 1789, and while two have been traced to other lives, the sons of Duncan McGregor and Isabel Ferguson (1788) and of Patrick McGregor and a McMillan mother (1788) have not. The link would become Strong if those two were excluded, and Proved if a record named the father’s own parents, such as the Balquhidder kirk session minute of 1813.

His mother

The tree takes his mother to be Janet Drummond, baptised at Immervoulin in 1748, daughter of Duncan Drummond and Kate Col, and so a great-granddaughter of Rob Roy. The link is rated Probable, and it is the least certain step in the line from Rob Roy to this family.

The baptism of 1789 names his mother only as Janet McGrigor, and the marriage contract of 1770 names the bride only as Janet McGrigor, both in the parish. No record says that she was born a Drummond or names her parents. The identification was proposed by the keeper and accepted by Lawrie, so Lawrie’s agreement adds no independent weight. In its favour: the two families lived a few miles apart in Balquhidder, the family tradition of 1880 says one of Kate Col’s daughters was well married in the home district, and small DNA matches through Kate Col’s other children are consistent with it. Against it: four other Janets with MacGregor aliases were baptised at Balquhidder from 1745 to 1749 and their marriages are unknown. The kirk session minutes for December 1770, or a death entry after 1855 for one of his brothers and sisters giving their mother’s maiden name, could settle it.

His life

The Balquhidder baptism index lists the children of Duncan McGregor and Catharine McFarlane as Duncan 1817 (at Tullich), Peter 1818, Janet 1820, a child not named 1823, a child not named 1825 and Alexander 1827. The entries of 1823, 1825 and 1827 were read as images on 11 September 2026. All three give the family at Culearn, and the entry of 1823 adds “late in Tulloch”, which ties the Cuilearn family to the couple at Tullich in 1817. In 1825 the clerk left the mother’s name and the child’s name blank. The child of 1827 is entered as Alexander only; Lawrie calls him Alexander Murray. The evidence report of 7 Sep 2026 says Peter went to Australia in 1852. A testament of 1835 for a Duncan McGregor, tenant in Tulloch, was checked for the evidence report and belongs to another, childless man.

In the 1841 census three of the children, Duncan, Janet and Alexander, were living alone at Cuilearn, and neither parent was with them.

His death

No record of his death has been found. Balquhidder kept no register of deaths. Lawrie gives his death as before 1851, without a source. The two statutory death entries that were open, a Duncan McGregor who died in Kilmadock in 1868 aged 75 and one who died in Port of Menteith in 1877 aged 85, were read on 12 September 2026 and are other men. So if he lived past 1855 he did not die in Perthshire under a McGregor spelling at a plausible age, and a death before 1855 is the likeliest reading. A Duncan McGregor of about his age who lived at Auchtoo in Balquhidder from 1841 to 1861 has since been identified as the son of Dugall McGregor and Janet McKay, baptised in 1790.

The events, sources and notes on this page are from the keeper’s research tree, as exported on 2026-11-06. The family links follow the site’s tree.