Naysmith Births, Deaths and Marriages Dates for your Family Tree (Part 1 - Scotland )

There are quite a few inaccuracies on many family trees, including "Family Search Family Tree" records (Latter-Day Saints online records). This can easily happen when  the same combinations of names are used for many generations and across many different branches of the family. Incorrect information gets copied and perpetuated as fact. 

It is difficult to find any accurate information about our branch of the Naysmiths in Scotland, either through primary evidence (church and other records) or through DNA. I'm sure it will turn up eventually.  Meanwhile, we don't seem to fit into any other  Naysmith family trees or have DNA matches with other  Naysmiths outside the New Zealand descendants of Henry and Mary.  

The following are known facts with all dates and locations verified unless otherwise stated.  There are many variants of some of the surnames, and some of the names registered at birth may have been the only time the individuals were even known as such. All information comes from Scottish parish records for births, deaths and marriages and from censuses (from My Heritage or Ancestry.com). 

Please use this information to update, correct or confirm details on your family tree. Note: some of this may appear in fuller form in other posts in this blog. 

As always, I'm happy to be corrected or challenged on any information.  

Abbreviations: Note: The links are to Ancestry.com  and may be useful for account holders, so you can add any sources directly to your tree.They will not open otherwise. 

 - (SSBB) Scotland, Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013.
 - (SSM) Scotland, Select Marriages, 1561 - 1910

James Naismith married Isabel Still  (also known as Steel) February 4, 1808, Canongate, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland.  (SSM, FHL film number 1067744) See blog post about James Naysmith and Isabell Still.

Their children:

 - James Naismith, born February 23, 1810, Canongate, Edinburgh, Scotland (SSBB).  He died on January 18, 1872 at 481 Duke Street, Dennistoun, Glasgow. 

 

 - David Neasmith born July 21, 1812; baptised August 1, 1812, Canongate, Edinburgh, Scotland. (SSBB).  

 - Isobella Nesmith born December 19, 1814; baptised February 12, 1815, Barony. Lanark, Scotland. (SSBB)

 - Henry Naysmith  born Glasgow, Scotland c.1818 (information taken from details and age given on his death certificate) There is no record of Henry's birth in any known parish or civil records. In fact there is no record of Henry at all apart from his marriage record. His year of birth is calculated from his age on his death certificate (62), making him the youngest of his family; however, his age on the Duchess of Argyle shipping records gives him a birth year of 1808 - making him the oldest child of the family.  The only evidence of his parents is from his death certificate.    See blog post about Henry Naysmith. 

Henry Naysmith married Mary McLean on April 12, 1840, at Barony, Lanark, Scotland. (SSM.) 

Note that some family trees have several more children attributed to our James and Isabella, but I can find no credible evidence to validate these. 

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