Family of James Brebner and Margaret Johnston, New Deer, ABD 28Th September 2015
Family of James Brebner and Margaret Johnston, New Deer, ABD 28th September 2015 Generation One 1. James Brebner #1152, b. 1720-25 in Black Isle, ROC, SCT. 1771: Lived at Auchmaliddie, died shortly after 1780-85. Aberdeen Journal, Wednesday 21st March 1906 "... The progenitor of this (Brebner) family was James Brebner, a native of the Black Isle, who, as a young man, took part in the '45 Rebellion. On the collapse of the movement, and dreading capture by the authorities, he forsook his Highland home and settled in New Deer, taking care to conceal his identity. Subsequently coming under the general pardon, he settled in Auchmaliddie Farm, and married Margaret Johnston, of the Loanhead branch of the "clan." On 24th April, 1778 they had a son, baptised William, besides whom they had two other children. The parents dying when the children were in infancy, William Johnston, merchant, Savoch, adopted them, and William Brebner succeeded Mr. Johnston in both shop and farm. He married Margaret Garden, Ardlethen, Ellon, and they had a family of twelve, of whom was James Brebner....." " A son of the latter is James Brebner, the present tenant of Green of Savoch, whose deceased wife Elsie Fiddes Walker, was a daughter of John Walker, Blackpots, Old Deer and his wife, Margaret Low." He married Margaret Johnston #1153, 22 December 1768 in New Deer, ABD, SCT,1 b. c 1747 in Loanhead, New Deer, ABD, SCT.2 Children: 2. i. Alexander Brebner #1154 b. 1769. 3. ii. George Brebner #1157 b. 1771. 4. iii. James Brebner #1158 b. 1773.
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