John Buchanan Of The Offrans

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Name John Buchanan [3] Born 10 Mar 1680 Offerans, Callander, Perthshire, Scotland Name John Buchanan Name John Buchanan [6, 7, 8] Residence Trean Of Leny, Callander, Perthshire, Scotland Buried 1770 Buchanan of Leny Burial Ground, Callander, Perthshire, Scotland Died 27 Mar 1770 Callander, Perthshire, Scotland

Father Robert "Rob Roy" Buchanan, b. Abt 1650, Trean, Callander, Perthshire, Scotland , d. Abt 1680 (Age ~ 30 years) Mother Catherine MacRob Buchanan, b. Abt 1655, Trean, Callander, Perthshire, Scotland , d. Aft 1680 (Age ~ 26 years) Married Bef 1680 Trean, Callander, Perthshire, Scotland

Family Janet Buchanan, b. 1692, Tarandoun, Callander, Perthshire, Scotland , d. 18 Mar 1759, Callander, Perthshire, Scotland Married 6 Jun 1708 Callander, Perthshire, Scotland

Children

	1. John Buchanan,   b. Oct 1709, Farmstoun, Callander, Perthshire, Scotland ,   d. 1775, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland  +	2. Mary Buchanan,   b. 28 Feb 1712, Offerans, Callander, Perthshire, Scotland 

	3. Catharine Buchanan,   b. 13 May 1714, Anie, Callander, Perthshire, Scotland,   d. Bef Jan 1725, +	4. Robert Buchanan,   b. 7 May 1717, Anie, Callander, Perthshire, Scotland ,   d. 10 Aug 1802, Leny, Callander Parish, Perthshire, Scotland  +	5. Janet Buchanan,   b. 18 Aug 1719, Coilantogle Farm, Trossach's Rd., Callander, Perthshire, Scotland  +	6. Jean Buchanan,   b. 27 Nov 1722, Callander, Perthshire, Scotland +	7. Katherine Buchanan,   b. 13 Jan 1725, Offerans, Callander, Perthshire, Scotland 

	8. dau. Buchanan,   b. 26 Apr 1727,   d. Yes, date unknown +	9. Margaret Buchanan,   b. 21 Nov 1731, Offerans, Callander, Perthshire, Scotland 

	10. Patrick (Peter) Buchanan,   b. 31 Dec 1734, Offerans, Callander, Perthshire, Scotland ,   d. 1757  (Age 22 years)

Notes

   1 - Robert's oldest son was John he married Janet BUCHANAN daughter of Patrick BUCHANAN in TARANDUIN [20] a man of much sense and virtue. The Laird of LENNY took a medical gentleman who was on a visit at LENNY house to see this Patrick when he was on his death bed – that gentleman said that he never conversed with any country husbandman of more sense and solid judgment. His daughter possessed so much of her Father's virtues that few men could excel her for sense & penetrating judgment joined with meekness and modesty. They had to struggle hard on their first outset in the world having removed from ANIE [21], their first residence, to TOMBEA [22] & from thence to CUILANTOGLE [23] & afterwards to OFFERANCE [23] where they remained during the wifes life time as subtenant to ANNET who prevailed with John to give him up the farm to possess it himself. ANNET [24] could not lawfully claim the farms as the occupiers of farms were declared to be the lawful tenants of farms by the commissioners for forfeited Estates [25] & the farmers of COIS & DUNCRAGGAN [26] kept their farms by law from ANNET'S grasp who claimed them equally. And besides John paid the land lord's rent and a similar sum in kind or money to ANNET so he had no claim on gratitude from his subtenant but ANNET got the most part of the gentlemen in the neighbourhood to favour him & John did not like to disoblige some of them but had he stuck to his farm as his neighbours did who had much less ability or friends he would have done his son a real benefit and his family never got any more kindness from ANNET or friends than other strangers. After John gave up the Farm of OFFERANCE he divested himself as it were of worldly cares and spent the remainder of his days among his children being about eighty years for he had the pleasure of seeing them all settled in prosperous conditions as well as examples of virtue & piety he kept a hundred pounds the interest of which he bestowed in the families where he resided & that sum was divided among his family according to his testament at his death.

   Few men lived more happy in his family than John being married to one of the best wives & blessed with amiable & virtuous children whom he saw all settled comfortably in the world joined to respectable partners & most of them bring up thriving families. John died at the age of ninety years having seen or might easily have seen sixty of his own progeny between children, grand-children & great – grand-children all living in harmony and affluence without any stain on the character of any of them as far as I have heard. John officiated as an elder in the Church of Callander the last transaction of his life was the settling with Lady LENNY to bring Robert his son to the farm of TREAN where he expected to breathe his last: but he died a few months before his son removed to TREAN from DRUNKIE [26] where he lived at that time. John spent the most part of the last years alternately between his sons family in Drunkie & his son in law John MACKINLAY in ANIE'S family. He generally stayed in Drunkie during the summer season & in ANIE during the winter that he might be nearer the Church of which he was an elder. He died of a few days illness taking its source perhaps in stone or gravel with which he had been much troubled during the last six years of his life. He was a brisk, tight well looking man about five feet six inches high fair complexioned, something hasty in his disposition but cheery and friendly always a man to his word & would be much astonished when he would find that a man appearing apparently sensible would utter a falsehood or not fulfil a promise.

   He would say that in his first outset in the world he often borrowed but never to his recollection broke his promise one day and he frequently exhorted to be very careful his head & often explained its salutary effect on society & its benefit to all those that made conscience of it John took much delight in horses and was one of the best judges of these precious animals. When his family grew up he went to every market in the country and bought young horses which he got trained at home & he generally kept a couple for sale on his farm so that the most part of his neighbours got their working horses by his means for they could safely depend on his skill & word & after allowing him a moderate profit come of much better than by their chance of the market. His brisk and social temper did not allow him to loiter in old age besides his delight among his numerous friendsto whom he was much attached. He took part in rural labour such as binding after the shearers & lending a hand on hay harvest even to within two or three years of his death for he was quite a healthy & temperate & would say that two thirds of labour & diet was the best regimen to health & this he fairly practiced himself. He filled up the vacancy of his time by reading his bible & other pious books. He enforced his advices to children & servants by some short country proverbs such as

   Gach cun da nead is strew na ghol

   [29] when enforcing care to promote the comfort of the family

   Nat doir dhimeas ar a chegans tis a mhoran na gabh soddan

   [30] when warning young persons not to slight small things nor to be too much delighted with abundance

   sfhear fuinne thana na chi ule folamh

   [31] when directing to be sparing & frugal even in little matters & many such forcible short sentences.

   [20] TARANDUIN = hill Fort at GARTCHONZIE cross roads

   [21] ANIE = ST. BRIDE'S CHAPEL = South End of LOCH LUBNAIG

   [22] TOMBEA = Ùa mile away east

   [23] East end of LOCH VENACHER

   [24] TROSSACHS

   [25] ANNAID = a Nunnery

   [26] 1770 A.D.

   [27] brig o' turk, trossachs

   [28] "INVERTROSSACHS" now – name changed for Queen Victoria's visit

   [29] Every Bird to its nest

   [30] Despise not the little and don't too much espouse the large

   from THE BUCHANANS Of TREAN Compiled by Malcolm S. Gray

   [ http://www.chuckspeed.com/balquhidder/history/THE%20BUCHANANS.htm ]

2 - Of The Offrans (Offerance of Strathgartney in Stirlingshire, on Loch Katrine, just west of Glenfinglas).
3 - John lived in Trean of Leny, Callander, Perth.
4 - The report on the annexed estates in made up in 1755-1756 shows Offrans as being part of the forfieted estates of the Earl of Perth in the Barony of Strathgartney, parish of Callander, then in the pocession of Alexander Stewart of Offrans, Coshamble, Duncraggan, and Portnealan- not resident, who had 12 subtenants and cottars. Maybe John was one of those.
5 - John Buchanan in the Offering of Strathgartney born 10th March 1680 married June 6th 1706 to Janet daughter of Patrick Buchanan Tarndurf. She was born 1692 died March 18th 1759. John died Tuesday March 27th 1770.

   (Old Robert Buchanan of Trean of Leny handwritten tree) [5, 11]

Sources

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[S56] Doig, Kenneth Frank Doig, (http://www.doig.net/Ken.html).
[S7] E-mail, E-mail from Jean Simone rec: 21 Apr 2015 (Reliability: 3).
[S43] Robert Buchanan Of Trean Of Leny, Malcolm Stewart Gray, (http://www.chuckspeed.com/balquhidder/buchanan/index.htm), 2nd Generation (Reliability: 3).
[S460] International Genealogical Index(R), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, (Copyright (c) 1980, 2002), downloaded 3 November 2005 (Reliability: 3).
[S57] Chuckspeed, Chuck Speed, (http://www.chuckspeed.com/), /balquhidder/history/archibald_stewart.htm (Reliability: 3).
[S4] Ryk Brown's Stewarts, Ryk Brown, (http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~rykbrown/index.htm), http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~rykbrown/glenfing l as.htm (Reliability: 3).
[S43] Robert Buchanan Of Trean Of Leny, Malcolm Stewart Gray, (http://www.chuckspeed.com/balquhidder/buchanan/index.htm), 2nd Generation - 2 (Reliability: 3).
[S56] Doig, Kenneth Frank Doig, (http://www.doig.net/Ken.html), http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=doigk&id = I29741&ti=5519 (Reliability: 3).
[S43] Robert Buchanan Of Trean Of Leny, Malcolm Stewart Gray, (http://www.chuckspeed.com/balquhidder/buchanan/index.htm), 1st generation (Reliability: 3).
[S460] International Genealogical Index(R), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, (Copyright (c) 1980, 2002), citing microfilm 456505, downloaded 27 October 2005 (Reliability: 3).