James Laskie: Our Family History

1816 -

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Name	James Laskie
Christening	21 Apr 1816	Dunfermline, Fifeshire, Scotland
Gender	Male
Initiatory (LDS)	10 Nov 2005	PROVO
FamilySearch ID	G8L1-RQN
Person ID	I35391	mytree
Last Modified	25 Feb 2024

Father	William Laskie, b. 10 Feb 1785, Cupar, Fifeshire, Scotland d. 15 Oct 1868, Auchtermuchty, Fifeshire, Scotland (Age 83 years)
Mother	Janet Paterson, b. 16 Dec 1784, Dunfermline, Fifeshire, Scotland d. 1827 (Age 42 years)
Marriage	13 Dec 1805	Canongate, Midlothian, Scotland
Family ID	F13381	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family Jane Gairns, b. Abt 1816

Marriage 13 Mar 1848

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Children

	1. Margaret Laskie, b. 16 Jun 1849, Coupar Angus, Perthshire, Scotland
	2. William Laskie, b. 24 Dec 1850, Coupar Angus, Perthshire, Scotland
	3. John Laskie, b. 17 Oct 1852, Coupar Angus, Perthshire, Scotland
	4. Ann Laskie, b. 23 Nov 1854, Coupar Angus, Perthshire, Scotland
	5. Janet Laskie, b. 6 May 1857, Coupar Angus, Perthshire, Scotland
	6. Jamieson Laskie, b. 8 Apr 1860, Coupar Angus, Perthshire, Scotland
	7. Alexander Gairns Laskie, b. 3 May 1862, Coupar Angus, Perthshire, Scotland

Family ID F15054 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Last Modified 25 Jan 2025

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Birth: Scotland, Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950

SOURCE: Email from Gary & Jill Allison received 18 mar 2015.

James Laskie was a gardener and became head gardener at Keithock Hous e i n Angus. The family then moved to Dundee about 1851. Started a busine ss a s 'Drysalter and Spice Merchant' in Ure Street, Dundee. Later move d to pr emises in Commercial Street Dundee as a 'Wholesale Grocer'. Thi s becam e a Family Business run by successive generations, that was wel l known an d successful, and lasted into the 1950s.