Janet Low Beveridge - 6th great grandmother of my children

Two hundred and fifty one years ago today in 1759, Abraham LOW and his wife Jean WILKIE baptised their daughter Janet LOW, in Newburgh, Fife. Newburgh is on the south of the Firth of Tay.

Janet's father's family were from Tannadice, Angus. Her maternal ancestors were all from the Abdie and Newburgh area, well into the mid 1600s. (Wilkie, Bickerton, Lyall)

14 Dec 1781 Janet married David BEVERIDGE of Abdie, Fife. Their sixth child Jean BEVERIDGE was baptised at Newburgh in 1791. She married John ALISON of  Balmalcolm.  Janet and David Beveridge seem to have moved frequently; the seven children we have found were baptized over a twenty year period in Abdie, Kettle and in Newburgh. Both Janet and David Beveridge were living at the time of their grandson Alexander Alison's baptism in 1821.

1775 map has a 1775 map showing the location of the Abdie Kirk and Manse, near Lindores Loch and the village of Newburgh, with the ruins of the Lindores Abbey.

History of Newburgh

Abdie Church    History of Abdie church

Here is a geocache that we could have done when we were there in 2004 - if we had thought to bring our GPS! Next time. A Tale of Two Churches visits both the old and new churches close to the Grange of Lindores. Coordinates for the final cache are built by visiting the 'new church' (est. 1827) as we did, before proceeding to visit the pictish "Lindores Stone" in the Mort House, and finally wandering the graveyard and the ruins of the old church, which dates back to 1242 or possibly 1178. We spent a lovely afternoon wandering around looking for signs of our Beveridges.