As far as possible living persons have been excluded from these charts, not everyone likes the birth date displayed. Insufficient information has been included to allow any person to identify living people, so if you do not want your details known just do not tell anyone you are here.
Both versions use exactly the same information. Difference is mainly in Presentation, the Old style has some Photos for individuals that do not appear in the New Charts. The Old Style chart will eventually vanish as it requires a program that only runs on a older machine. The New style charts are only on the Freepages edition.
The Ritchie Family can be traced back to the Lasswade area of Midlothian in the 1700 era. This appears to be the root origin of the
Ritchie's, several families of Ritchie's lived in the area surrounding Lasswade.
See The Ritchie Story.
The Sage family has been traced back to the Nairn Area at Auldearn and Ardclach, just South of Nairn. William Sage seems to have been a Preacher. It is recorded in the Statistical Account for Scotland 1790 that a Minister left Nairn and traveled to Perth, this was the first entry found in the History Book for any family member. They were the first Sage family to be recorded in Perth as all the others found seem to be descendants. Sage's are not common anyplace, most numerous about Inverness area. See Sage Story.
Peebles line is found in Perth in 1564 and after, see Peebles Story.
The story of The McKintosh and Sloan families is short as not much is known. McKintosh Sloan Tale
The Stewart line starts in Highland Mist, they come from Aberlour in Banffshire from there William Stewart makes his way to Perth. Stewart Story.
The other half of the Stewart line is the Lorimers who started in Collessie, Fife. They married into the Wightons of Moneydie. Since this was the first gravestone that was found on the trail it makes them a important step. Lorimer and Wighton Story.
Photographs relating to the Major Families have been collected and can be seen here, Sets of Photographs.
Information may become available for more of the Sages, this will be a very slow process as many trips to the North will be required..
Since christian names run in families it is required to be able to tell them apart. For this purpose the date of birth has been added onto the name. So William Ritchie 1782 was born in 1782, this can sometimes be a trifle confusing. Female names always are shown as unmarried version so do not change. However some names repeat so they get a Date added, some have a number enclosed in brackets, this is the way the program identifies them, generally only Wifes or outside husbands have this.
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10/12/2002 First Public release.
Updated 9/1/03 Sage Story Started.
Update 10/1/03 Sage Story Updated.
Update 12 Feb 2003 Major Update.
Update 18 Sept 2004 Major Updates to Stewart Tale.
Update 14 July 2006 Stewart origins corrected.