Robert Sherrat (1771-1818)

Genealogy

 * Sex: Male
 * Born: circa 1770, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
 * Died: 14 June 1818, Birse, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
 * Buried: unknown

Pedigree
Isobel Spring was the daughter of Robert Spring, gardener in Banchory-Ternan and later Udny. Her mother may have been Margaret Marns.

Siblings

 * unknown

Spouses

 * Isobel Spring, m. 8 Dec 1796 in Old Machar. (The same marriage was later recorded 24 Dec 1797 in Nigg.)

Offspring

 * 1) Christian (b. 1797, Birse; married James Cattanach; emigrated to Canada; d. aft 1881)
 * 2) Mary (b. 1799, Birse; married Robert Cromar and James Shaw; lived in Lumphanan; d. 1871, Glenmuick)
 * 3) Archibald Farquharson (b. 1802, Birse; emigrated to Canada; married Mary Morgan there; d. aft 1881)
 * 4) Isabel (b. 1805, Birse; not known aft 1819)

Biography
Facts about Robert Sherrat prior to his marriage have not been determined. (See Disambiguation below.) In 1796, Robert Sherrat married Isobel Spring. He was at that time a gardener in Nigg. About this same time, his new wife's sister Christian, who had married an aging laird, became a widow with a very young child. The newly married Robert and Isobel joined Christian on the Finzean estate in Birse, where Robert became the overseer. They had four children while living at Finzean. Sometime between 1808 and 1812, the family moved to nearby Tillyfruskie where they remained until Robert died in 1818.

Disambiguation
An online search of Church of Scotland records (which are comprehensively extracted in the IGI) shows several Robert Sherrats in Aberdeenshire and Kincardineshire born at approximately the right time. Any one of these may be this Robert Sherrat: The one in Fetteresso is closest to Nigg (while Arbuthnott and St. Cyrus are toward the southern end of Kincardineshire). But there are also a few scattered records of Sherrats in Banchory-Ternan that appear to be incomplete.
 * 2 Jun 1771 Alexander Sherat christened a son Robert in Fetteresso, Kincardineshire
 * 17 Jan 1765 James Sheeret christened a son Robert in St. Cyrus, Kincardineshire
 * 23 Oct 1761 Robert Sherret christened a son Robert in Arbuthnott, Kincardineshire
 * 6 Feb 1763 Alexander Sherret christened a son Robert in Arbuthnott, Kincardineshire
 * 8 Apr 1767 Robert Shirret and Margaret Tweedale christened a son Robert in Montrose, Angus

Contributors
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