Still Researching*

Don’t merge yet with James Selkirk, Merchant in Edinburgh ⚠️

Notes

James Cleland, I.

• Position: ‘ Dean of Guild of Edinburgh’

Spouse/(s):

• “married a Miss Bruce “Miss Bruce”.
• Husband of Helen Selkirk.

Children:

• (proposed) James Cleland

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“(I) James (2) Cleland, the founder of his family in America, was the son of James (I) Cleland, a man of wealth and education, who married Miss Bruce, and at the time of the birth of his son, James (2), was living in Edinburgh, Scotland. James (2) Cleland left his native land in 1750 and came to New England, settling in Boston, where he later married Thankful Wilder.”

• Reference: Ancestry.com. History of Chautauqua County, New York, and its people [database on-line] Slide #1397-of-1537.Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005.

Original data: History of Chautauqua County, New York, and its people; Vol. III; page 572. Boston|||New York: American Historical Society, 1921]

• Marriage record of a Helen Cleland” (daughter of a “James C Cleland”), to a “Charles Bruce”; 30 Jul 1727, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland. —(still unsure of &/or if* there are any ties/connections).

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There is no record of marriage at Edinburgh for James Cleland and a Miss Bruce.
Edinburgh Marriage Register 1595-1700: p. 131
https://archive.org/details/scottishrecordso16scotuoft/page/131/mod...

There is a marriage record dated 16 August 1724 for John Cleland and Rachel Bruce.
Edinburgh Marriage Register 1701-1750: pp. 105-6
https://archive.org/details/registerofmarria35edin/page/105/mode/1up