Laverock from the parish of Wemyss

My 6 times great grandfather was James LAVEROCK. He married Isabel SWINE at Wemyss, Fife, in 1741. Their son Peter LAVEROCK, ploughman and feuar at Buckhaven, married Christian KINNEAR at Wemyss in 1772. Their son David LAVEROCK, shoemaker, married Catherine SOUTER in 1797 and their son Peter LAVEROCK married Elizabeth HUTTON at Kennoway, Fife, in 1821.

Peter & Elizabeth's son, George, LAVEROCK, shoemaker, moved north and married Jessie LITTLEJOHN at Forfar, Angus, in 1866. Their eldest son was Dundee solicitor Thomas LAVEROCK, who married Joan Martin BELL there in 1901. Their daughter, Hilda Jessie LAVEROCK, married Robert Grant BUTTARS.

View the descendants of James LAVEROCK

Contemporary couples

The earlier generations of Laverocks are not quite clear. There were a number of Laverock families in the parish of Wemyss but how they all fit together is still a mystery

The following are possibly all children to Patrick LAVEROCK & Christian BARKER, who also had a daughter Margaret.