James Cathie Scarth of Scar

JAMES CATHIE SCARTH OF SCAR

is the son of Robert Scarth of Binscarth and his wife Agnes Cathie. He was born in 1838. He had a sister, Jane Jessie, who later married the Reverend Robert Robertson Rannie. Robert Scarth's Will (dated 1879) mentioned James being in Melbourne, Australia but I have lost him entirely. What I do know is that he was a Land Agent, a Justice of the Peace and a Captain in the 2nd Orkney Volunteers, and married Margaret Harriet Lochore, the daughter of the Rev Gavin Lochore and his wife Sarah Wilkin. The censuses show him at Papdale House in 1841; visiting his uncle Pillans Scarth in Leith in 1851; as Land Agent at Scar House on Sanday in 1861; at Birstan House, Kirkwall in 1871 http://www.robertwhitton.eu/person.php?id=11453&fam=1&pat=Scarth

He attended Edinburgh Academy http://www24.us.archive.org/stream/cu31924030620672#page/n235/mode/2up