Garvie Genealogy

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Comment by Colin George Garvie on August 19, 2009 at 8:44am

Anyone researching or connected to any of the following Garvies...

Ann Garvie b: 02 Jan 1734/35 in Perth
Ann Garvie b: 05 Sep 1788 in Perth
David Garvie b: 10 Nov 1757 in Scone
David Garvie b: 21 May 1732 in Perth
Elspeth Garvie b: 14 Jan 1707/08 in Perth
Elspeth Garvie b: 15 Mar 1693/94 in Perth
Helen Garvie b: 12 Oct 1777 in Kinnoul
Isabell Garvie b: 03 May 1741 in Perth
James Garvie
+ Janet Hutton b: 10 Apr 1775 in Trinity Gask
James Garvie b: 02 Nov 1701 in Perth
James Garvie b: 14 May 1819 in Aberdalgie
James Garvie b: 15 Oct 1753 in Scone
+ Janet Glass b: 09 Dec 1749
James Garvie b: Abt. 1675
+ Elspit McAllam Abt. 1675
Janet Garvie b: 19 Nov 1728 in Perth
Janit Garvie b: 23 Feb 1698/99 in Perth
John Garvie b: 03 Dec 1703 in Perthd
+ Elizabeth Barges b: Abt. 1712
John Garvie b: 12 Dec 1816 in Aberdalgie
+ Janet Luke b: Abt. 07 Jul 1818 in Tibbermuir
John Garvie b: 20 Sep 1743 in Perth
John Garvie b: 25 Dec 1758 in Scone
Kathrine Garvie b: 07 Sep 1696 in Perth
Laurence Garvie b: 18 Jan 1776 in Kinnoul
+ Helen Meldrum b: 06 Sep 1777 in Aberdalgie
Marey Garvie b: 05 Aug 1755 in Scone
Margaret Garvie b: 17 Jul 1813 in Aberdalgie
+ William Bowes m: 1857 in Aberdalgie
Patrick Garvie b: 04 Sep 1726 in Perth

I am interested in exchanging information.

Colin G Garvie
South Africa

Comment by Colin George Garvie on August 3, 2009 at 3:27am

According to a letter from J C Garvie Macleod to the editor of the Oban Times, Spenthorn, West Park, Leeds (date unknown) it is said that the Garvies of Perthshire "are descended from John Garbh, seventh Maclean of Coll, through one of his sons, probably John of Totaronald." According to him, John Garbh was wounded at the Battle of Inverkeithing, Fifeshire (1651) and did not return to Coll. His three sons (or grandsons) rented Upper Balgarvie, Lower Balgarvie and the Mill of Balgarvie in the Perthshire, Parish of Scone from the Earl of Mansfield. Their descendants were tenants of Muirton, Haggis Hall and other farms near Perth.

Alfred Ernest Garvie, in his auto-biography, Memories and Meanings of My Life wrote...

"After the defeat at Killiecrankie, the [Maclean] clansmen were scattered. Some of the Macleans settled in Perthshire, and assumed the name Garvie, which is found in a parish register in 1690; and is said to be derived from a Gaelic word garbh, meaning strong or rough. The Garvies in Perthshire claimed descent from Lachlan Maclean of Coll, and the Garvies in Ross-shire had a McLeod for ancestor. Three Garvies (John, James, and Patrick) settled at Balgarvie, which had already long borne that name.... (p.15).