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Hugh Marwick                 Scockness       F.  Magnus Marwick
b. 1766 in Rousay M. NK
d. 1820 (age 56) in Rousay
m. Betsy Sinclair in Rousay
 
Issue Magnus Marwick    Rousay
  Thomas Marwick b. 1796  Rousay
  James Marwick b. 1798  Rousay
  William Marwick b. 13.12.1800  Rousay
  John Marwick b. 31.1.1803  Rousay
  Hugh Marwick b. 8.7.1805  Rousay                Died young
  Robert Marwick b. 29.7.1806  Rousay
  Hugh Marwick b. 28.2.1810  Rousay                Died young
  Isaac Marwick b. 26.7.1812  Rousay
  Craigie Marwick b. 13.1.1815  Rousay
 
Hugh Marwick, when only 17 years old, took over the joint tenancy of Scockness in 1783 along with his father, Magnus. 
In her old age Betsy was asked how many children she had had.  “Ten Devils,” she replied.  Thereafter, her sons were known as the ‘Ten Devils’.
The Marwicks were evicted from Scockness after a dispute with the Laird over kelp-making.  The Stevensons  then moved to Scockness from Stronsay.

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Betsy Sinclair F.  George Sinclair
  M. NK
m. 1)  Hugh Marwick of  Scockness
 
Issue              See entry for Hugh Marwick
 
m. 2)  David Gibson of Langskail on 9.3.1828         No issue
 

Betsy was a sister of Archibald Sinclair and of Christian Sinclair, who married Hugh Corsie.

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Magnus Marwick           Queenamuckle, Rendall  F.  Hugh Marwick
b. c1794 in Rousay M. Betsy Sinclair
d. 18.9.1864 (age 70) in Evie
m. Catherine Craigie of Cotafea on 24.12.1819
     b. c1794 in Rousay
     d. 28.10.1867 (age 73) in Evie
 
Issue William Craigie Marwick b. 10.9.1820 Rousay
  James Marwick b. 20.6.1822 Rousay
  Hugh Marwick b. 7.6.1824 Rousay
  Magnus Marwick b. 26.1.1827 Rousay            unmarried
Betsy Marwick b. 9.1.1829 Rousay            unmarried 
  David Marwick b. 1832 Rousay

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Thomas Marwick                    Woo          F.  Hugh Marwick
aka Tammy o' Woo       M. Betsy Sinclair
b 1796 in NZ   
d. NZ
m. Ann Gibson of Broland on 28.1.1820 in Rousay        
     b. 1801 in Rousay
     d. 1861 (age 60) in Rousay 
Issue Hugh Marwick b. 16.9.1821 Rousay
Elizabeth Marwick b. 29.10.1823 Rousay
John Marwick b. 5.7.1826 Rousay
Thomas Marwick b. 18.3.1829 Rousay          
William Marwick b. 7.8.1831 Rousay           
Isaac Marwick b. 16.12.1839 Rousay
Margaret Marwick b. 13.3.1837 Rousay
Mary Marwick b. 21.8.1834 Rousay
Isabella Marwick b. 2.4.1842 Rousay
Ann Marwick b. 2.10.1845 Rousay
All of this family, except John and Margaret, emigrated to New Zealand. Most of them went in the 1850s.  The others, along with their father, went in 1862 after their mother's death.  Hugh and Elizabeth had both married before leaving Orkney.  A son of Elizabeth married a daughter of Hugh, and a grand-daughter of that marriage supplied most of the information on this family.  She is Mrs Hughna Conner who lived at Molesworth, Victoria, Australia.
RCM wrote an article in 1992 entitled An Emigrant Family, A Devil and His Bairns for the Orkney View magazine (now defunct) about Tammy o' Woo's family and descendants in NZ.   To read it click here.

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James Marwick               Eastaquoy F.  Hugh Marwick
b. 1798 in Rousay M. Betsy Sinclair
d. 1867 (age 68) in Rousay
m. 1) Jean Marwick on 19.12.1826 in Rousay
Issue William Marwick b. 1.10.1827 Rousay
Robina Marwick b. 9.1.1832 Rousay
James Marwick b. 3.11.1829 Rousay
Ann Marwick b. 18.6.1834 Rousay       Died young
Ann Marwick b. 14.4.1836 Rousay
m. 2)  Janet Craigie on 5.8.1836 in Rousay
Issue John Marwick b. 31.3.1838 Rousay
  Eleanor Traill Marwick b. 27.8.1839 Rousay
  Hugh Marwick b. 21.1.1842 Rousay
  Craigie Marwick b. 16.7.1845 Rousay
  Mary Marwick b. 1849 Rousay
David Marwick b. 11.7.1853 Rousay

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William Marwick            Breck  F.  Hugh Marwick
b. 13.12.1800 in Rousay M. Betsy Sinclair
d. 1880 (age 79) in Rousay
m. 1)  Barbara Reid of Pow on 14.3.1820 in Rousay
m. 2)  Anne Shearer on 2.2.1827 in Kirkwall.  
          b. 1804 in Rousay
         d. 1881 (age 77) in Rousay     
         P: Williamm Shearer & Isabella Rendall
No issue from either marriage

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John Marwick             Ervadale F.  Hugh Marwick
b. 31.1.1803 in Rousay M. Betsy Sinclair
d.1872 (age 69) in Rousay
m. Betsy Mainland of Cotafea on 2.2.1829 in Rousay
 
Issue – None, but they adopted their nephew, James Marwick, son of John’s brother, Robert.  Robert’s wife, Bell, was Betsy’s sister.

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Robert Marwick            Essaquoy F.  Hugh Marwick
b. 29.7.1806 in Rousay M. Betsy Sinclair
d. 1892 (age 86) in Rousay
m. Isabel (Bell) Mainland of Cotafea on 6.2.1829 in Rousay
Issue Lydia Marwick b. 9.2.1830 Rousay
James Marwick b. 24.9.1831 Rousay
Betty Marwick b. 2.9.1833 Rousay
Mary Marwick b. 20.6.1835 Rousay
Ann Marwick b. 1838 Rousay
Margaret Marwick b. 18.4.1840 Rousay
John Marwick b. 17.6.1842 Rousay
Robert Marwick b. 4.9.1845 Rousay
William Marwick b. 22.2.1847 Rousay
Isabella Marwick b. 13.7.1849 Rousay
David Marwick b. 16.4.1852 Rousay
Isaac Marwick b. 28.10.1857 Rousay

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Isaac Marwick               Guidal   F.  Hugh Marwick
b. 26.7.1812 in Rousay M. Betsy Sinclair
d. 1906 (age 94) in Rousay
m. Betsy Yorston of Oldman, Sourin on 15.1.1836 in Rousay                   
 
Issue Hugh Marwick b. 14.5.1840 Rousay
Isaac Marwick b. 27.6.1844 Rousay
Janet Marwick b. 27.9.1848 Rousay

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Craigie Marwick    F.  Hugh Marwick
b. 13.1.1815 in Rousay M. Betsy Sinclair
d. 17.8.1856 (age 41) in West Boughton, Cheshire
Craigie Marwick is said to have been a sailor on the route from Liverpool to the west coast of America, and that after a fight on the dockside with a shipmate, whom he left for dead, he joined the police force. 
That is possibly true, because according to the 1841 and 1851 censuses for England, Craigie Marwick was a Police Officer in Tattenhall, Cheshire.
It is also said that Craigie Marwick met his death in a Chartist riot, but this cannot be true as these riots ended in the late 1840s, whereas Craigie was alive until August 1856.
m. 1)  Isabella Elrick at Kirkwall on 12.10.1837
         d. 1840 in West Derby 
Issue Janet Balfour Marwick b. 10.2.1839 Liverpool
d. 1840 (age 1) West Derby
Robert Elrick Marwick b. 23.2.1840 Liverpool
According to the 1861 census for England, Robert Elrick Marwick was an academic – a teacher of Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Modern Languages.  Then he simply disappeared from all known records.  Puzzling!
A contact Gillian got in touch with me (JSM) through Rousay Roots to say that in doing family research she had also been puzzled by the "disappearance" of Robert Elrick Marwick from all records after the 1861 Census.  However, she had found the grave of a Robert Marwick who was buried in Ta’Braxia Cemetery, Malta on 30.8.1867.  According to his gravestone, he was about age 30, born in England and a Merchant Seaman.  And according to census records in England, there was only one Robert Marwick born in England who was a “match” for the man in the grave – and that was Robert Elrick Marwick.
It does initially seem unlikely that a man who was a scholar in 1861 could become a Merchant Seaman a few years later.  But Robert’s father Craigie Marwick was said to have been a Merchant Seaman before becoming a policeman, which probably brought him to Liverpool from Orkney.  So maybe it was in the genes, or Robert was possibly working his passage to Australia or NZ and died on the voyage.
On the whole, it does seem likely that the man in the Malta grave is Robert Elrick Marwick, but ................ 
m. 2)  Catherine Brereton on 18.6.1845 at Harthill, Cheshire.
Issue John Marwick b. c. 1847 Tattenhall, Cheshire
Elizabeth Marwick b. 1.6.1849 Wrexham, Wales
d. 19.2.1852 Tattenhall, Cheshire
Richard Marwick b. 31.5.1851 Tattenhall, Cheshire
d. 10.2.1852 Tattenhall, Cheshire
Sarah Catherine Marwick b. 16.5.1853 Tattenhall, Cheshire
Hugh Marwick b. 20.4.1855 Tattenhall, Cheshire
Catherine and her three surviving children are listed in the records of the British Mission of the Mormon Church as having arrived in New York in May 1863 on board the ship Cynosure.

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John Marwick      F.  Craigie Marwick
b.  16.8.1846 in Tattershall, Cheshire M. Catherine Brereton
d. 1913 (age 66) in Provo, UT, USA
m. 1)  Augusta Camilla Lewis (ms Taylor) in 1876  in Elko, NV, USA
 
Issue Nora Marwick b. 13.1.1877 Elko, NV, USA
 
m. 2)  Anna Burlin in 1890 in Provo, UT, USA            No issue
 
John was involved in mining, ranching, and banking.  In his will, dated 1908, John bequeathed $100 each to his brother, Hugh Sinclair Marwick, then at Belis, Blair County, Idaho, and his sister, Sarah Catherine Little, of Littleton, Morgan County, Idaho.

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Nora Marwick F.  John Marwick
b. 13.1.1877 in Elko, NV, USA M. Augusta Camilla Lewis
m. Guy L Flint, Railway engineer, on 26.7.1899 in Provo, UT, USA 
Issue Leverett M Flint (boy)            Twins  born in 1910
Lillian E Flint                
The twins are known to have been resident in Portland, Oregon in 1925

Lillian married Frank Manty Penepacker in 1929. Issue – Nancy

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William Craigie Marwick  F.  Magnus Marwick
b. 10.9.1820 in Rousay M. Katherine Craigie
d. 1894 (age 75) in Edinburgh
Said to have had a shoe shop in Edinburgh. 
m. Agnes Purves on 30.6.1847 in Edinburgh
Issue William Marwick b. 2.2.1848       Edinburgh
Magnus Marwick b. 7.1.1851       Edinburgh
Thomas Purves Marwick b. 25.3.1854     Edinburgh
James Marwick b. 3.12.1862 Edinburgh
d. 1890 (age 28) NZ                  Unmarried
Reputed to have been a minister in NZ
Joseph Purves Marwick b. 6.10.1863     Edinburgh
Catherine Craigie Marwick b. 13.6.1867    Edinburgh
d. 1917 (age 50) Edinburgh

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James Marwick   F.  Magnus Marwick
b. 20.6.1822 in Rousay M. Katherine Craigie
d. 1873 (age 51) in Kirkwall
Solicitor in the firm of Marwick & Hourston in Kirkwall
m. Hectorina Moncrieff in 1862 in Orphir
 
Issue Robert Marwick b. 2.1.1863 Kirkwall
Agnes Marwick b. 19.3.1866 Kirkwall
  Alice Marwick b. 26.5.1864 Kirkwall
  Harriet Marwick b. 2.8.1868 Kirkwall
Edwin Marwick b. 8.5.1870 Kirkwall
Agnes and Alice are thought to have run a private school in Edinburgh.

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Hugh Marwick       F.  Magnus Marwick
b. 7.6.1824 in Rousay  M. Katherine Craigie
d. 1910 (age 86) in Eday
m. Jane Heddle on 8.8.1850 in Eday 
 
Issue Margaret Marwick b. 14.9.1851 Eday        Unmarried
  John Marwick b. 10.4.1854 Eday        Unmarried
  Caroline Hebden Marwick b. 11.6.1857 Eday        Unmarried

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Hugh Marwick       F.  Thomas Marwick
b. 16.9.1821 in Rousay M. Ann Gibson
d. 3.1.1894 (age 72) in North Fitzroy, VIC, Australia
m. Margaret Sinclair of Swandale on 9.3.1849 in Rousay  
     b. 17.8.1820 in Rousay
     d. 1889 (age 78) in VIC, Australia. 
This family emigrated to NZ in the 1850s and shortly afterwards moved to Australia.
 
Issue Annie Marwick b. 1853 Rousay
  Elizabeth Marwick b. 1854 Rousay    
d. 1855 (age 1) On voyage to NZ
  Thomas Marwick b. 1856 NZ           
d. 1904 (age 48) NZ           Unmarried
  Robert Marwick b. 1858 NZ           
d. in infancy NZ
  Hugh Marwick b. 1859 NZ           
d. 1885 (age 26) NZ           Unmarried
  Margaret Marwick b. 1861 NZ           Unmarried
 
Many letters written to this couple and their children by their relatives in Rousay and  New Zealand are in the possession of descendants in Melbiurne, Australia. One of them, Hughna Conner, provided me with photocopies of the surviving letters. They provide interesting insights into the lives of the writers and the customs of the times, not only in Rousay but also amongst the early settlers in Australia and NZ.    (RCM)
John Marwick, nephew of RCM, now has these photocopies and has transcribed them.  If you would like a copy of the original letters and/or the transcriptions, please email John at 600jsm@gmail.com 

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Elizabeth Marwick         F.  Thomas Marwick
b. 29.10.1823 in Rousay M. Ann Gibson
d. 1909 (age 85) in NZ
m. Hugh Yorston of Oldman on 7.4.1842 in Rousay.              .
Went to NZ in 1859
Issue Julia Yorston b. 22.12.1843 Rousay
Betsy Yorston b. 13.12.1847 Rousay
Hugh Yorston b. 8.8.1845 Rousay                Unmarried.
James Yorston b. 2.3.1850 Rousay
William Yorston b. 27.7.1852 Rousay
Janet Yorston b. 2.12.1855 Rousay
Richard Yorston b. 17.10.1859 Born on voyage to NZ
Thomas Yorston b. 24.8.1861 NZ                       Unmarried.
Alexander Yorston b. 14.2.1864 NZ 
Isaac Yorston b. 14.2.1866 NZ 

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John Marwick            Woo   F.  Thomas Marwick
b. 5.7.1826 in Rousay M. Ann Gibson
d. 1915 (age 89) in Evie
m. Margaret Gibson on 21.2.1860 in Rousay
Issue Robert Marwick b. 8.7.1861 Rousay
Thomas William Marwick b. 9.1.1863 Rousay         
Margaret Ann Marwick b. 23.2.1865 Rousay
John Marwick b. 14.9.1867 Rousay          
d. 1922 (age 54) Evie
Mary Gibson Marwick b. 21.7.1870 Rousay
Samuel Gibson Marwick b. 20.3.1873 Rousay          
d. 4.9.1950 (age 77) Williams Lake, BC, Canada
Isabella Marwick b. 21.6.1876 Rousay
Elizabeth Marwick b. 7.9.1879 Rousay

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William Gibson Marwick    F.  Thomas Marwick
b. 7.8.1831 in Rousay M. Ann Gibson
d. 1887 (age 56) in Oakley, VIC, Australia
Went to NZ in early 1850s, later to VIC, Austrialia.
m. Isabella Begg in 1855 in VIC, Australia
     b. 3.3.1837 in Eday
     d. 1931 (age 93) in Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Issue John Irvine Marwick b. 1856 Collingwood, VIC, Australia
d. 1874 (age 18) Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Ann Marwick b. 1858 Melbourne, VIC, Australia
d. 1860 (age 2) Melbourne, VIC, Australia
William Thomas Marwick b. 1860 Collingwood, VIC, Australia
Mary Jane Marwick b. 1863 Melbourne, VIC, Australia
d. 1955 (age 92) Oakley, VIC, Australia
Annabella Marwick b. 1865 Melbourne, VIC, Australia
d. 1868 (age 3) Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Elizabeth Marwick b. 1867 Oakley, VIC, Australia
Thomas Gibson Marwick b. 1870 Praham, VIC, Australia
d. 1949 (age 79) Oakley, VIC, Australia
James Marwick b. 1872 Oakley, VIC, Australia
d. 1873 (age 1) Mulgrave, VIC, Australia
Isabella Marwick b. 1874 Oakley, VIC, Australia
Andrew Marwick b. 1876 Collingwood, VIC, Australia
d. 1957 (age 81) Springvale, VIC, Australia
Samuel James Marwick b. 1878 Oakley, VIC, Australia
Walter Marwick b. 1880 Oakley, VIC, Australia
d.  WW1

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Margaret Marwick             F.  Thomas Marwick
b. 13.3.1837 in Rousay   M.  Ann Gibson
d. 1922 (age 86) in Kirkwall
m. Robert Stevenson of Kirbist, Egilsay on 3.1.1860 in Rousay
Issue Margaret Stevenson b. 25.12.1860 Egilsay   
d. 15.12.1935 (age 74) Tutarau, Southland, NZ
m.  Alexander Grieve in 1884 in Egilsay
Rebecca Stevenson b. 22.1.1863 Egilsay
Isabella Stevenson b. 12.2.1867 Egilsay
Robina Stevenson b. 16.11.1868 Egilsay
Robert Stevenson b. 1.4.1872 Egilsay
James Stevenson b. 1874 Egilsay
William Neil Stevenson b. 1876 Egilsay
Mary Stevenson b. 1878 Egilsay

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Mary Mainland Marwick       F.  Thomas Marwick
b. 21.8.1834 in Rousay M. Ann Gibson
d. 27.2.1862 (age 27) in Taieri River, Otago, NZ
m. Richard Harrold Craigie on 15.4.1859 in NZ        His first marriage.
 
Issue Hugh Craigie b. 27.1.1860 NZ          
d. 20.4.1860 (age 3 mths) NZ
  Richard Craigie b. 20.9.1861 NZ   

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Isabella Ritchie Marwick   F.  Thomas Marwick
b. 2.4.1842 in Rousay M. Ann Gibson
d. 2.3.1887 (age 44)  in NZ
m. Richard Harrold Craigie on 1.10.1863 in NZ after the death of her sister Mary Mainland Marwick
Issue James Craigie b. 4.2. 1864 NZ
Thomas Craigie b. 23.7.1865 NZ
Elizabeth Craigie b. 22.6.1867 NZ
Mary Ann Craigie b. 8.8.1869 NZ
Joseph Craigie b. 20.10.1871 NZ
Margaret Craigie b. 15.2.1874 NZ           
d. Nov 1893 (age 19) Taieri River (drowned)
William Craigie b. 27.3.1876 NZ
Isabella Craigie b. 11.9.1879 NZ
Hughina Craigie b. 4.4.1882 NZ       
d. 24.1.1953 (age 70) NZ            Unmarried
Maud Craigie b. 4.9.1884 NZ
d. 16.10.1920 (age 36) NZ            Unmarried
At first this union between Richard and his deceased wife’s sister would have been frowned on as it was outwith the limits of acceptability at that time.  Very soon, the NZ Parliament passed legislation to make such unions legal.

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Ann Marwick       F.  Thomas Marwick
b. 2.20.1845 in Rousay.                     M. Ann Gibson
d. 1873 (age 37) in NZ, shortly after daughter Mary Ann was born
Went to NZ in 1862
 
m. James Knarston in 1871 in NZ
 
Issue Mary Ann Knarston b. 1873 Taieri Mouth, NZ
 

James Knarston, who was born in Stromness, ran away to sea at the age of fifteen.  After leaving the sea, he settled in New Zealand in 1864, where he obtained work in a kauri forest in the North Island.  After a spell in the goldfields he was appointed a warder in the first Dunedin prison.  Later he became a merchant at Taieri Mouth.

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Mary Ann Knarston          F.  James Knarston
b. 1873 in Taieri Mouth, NZ M. Ann Marwick
m. Robert Joseph in NZ
 
Issue Kathleen Joseph b. Jan 1906 Taieri Mouth, NZ
  Ralph Joseph b. 1908 NZ                    
d. 1931 (age 23) NZ
  James Robert Joseph b. 1911 NZ
  George Marwick Joseph b. 3.6.1913 NZ
  Frances Joseph b. 1915 NZ                    
d. 1910 (age 75) NZ
  Richard Joseph b. 1918 Milton, NZ

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Kathleen Joseph    F.  Robert Joseph
b. 15.1.1906 in Taieri  Mouth, NZ M. Mary Ann Knarston
d. 1996 (age 90) in NZ
m. Walter Hislop in 1929 in at Milton, NZ         See
Issue Margaret Hislop b. 1930                                NZ     
Hugh Hislop b. 1932                                NZ     

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William Marwick,      F.  James Marwick
b. 1.10.1827 in Rousay M. Jean Marwick
d. 1894 (age 66) in Holm
m. Janet Cooper in 1845 in Rousay  
Issue Alexander Marwick b. 15.7.1858 Egilsay     
d. 1861 (age 2) Holm
  Margaret Marwick b. 6.2.1860 Egilsay     d. age 7 months.
d. 1860 (age 7 mths) Holm
  David Pottinger Marwick b. 20.19.1861 Holm    
  Margaret Marwick b. 16.12.1863 Holm
d. 1942 (age 78) Sandwick
  Jessie Marwick b. 25.6.1866 Holm
  Barbara Marwick b. 7.4.1868 Holm
d. 15.5.1954 (age 86) Lambton, ON, Canada
  Peterina Marwick b. 1.1.1871 Holm

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James Marwick,       F.  James Marwick
b. 3.11.1829 in Rousay M. Jean Marwick
d. 16.1.1994 (age 65) in Kirkwall
m. Jean Craigie on 6.3.1862 in Rousay
Issue James Marwick b. 30.12.1863 Egilsay
d. Rousay (age 0) Rousay
Helen Marwick b. 1.2.1865 Egilsay
    d. 25.6.1939 (age 74) Kirkwall
       
  James Craigie Marwick b. 22.11.1867 Egilsay
  David Marwick b. 1868 Egilsay

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John Marwick               F.  James Marwick
b. 31.3.1838 in Rousay M. Janet Craigie
d. 1910 (age 71) in Bendigo, VIC, Australia
Went to Victoria, Australia in 1860
   
m. Williamina Burns in 1863 in Australia.  
     P: James Burns & Margaret Nichol of Westness.
 
Issue Isabella Lindsay Marwick b. 1864        Australia
  Annie Williamina Marwick b. 1866  Australia
  John Harold Marwick b. 1868          Australia
  William Craigie Marwick b. 1870            Australia
  James Burns Marwick b. 1872         Australia
  Edith Ellen Marwick b. 1874        Australia
Leonard Hugh Marwick b. 1876       Australia
Alice Margaret Marwick b. 1877          Australia

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Eleanor Traill Marwick F.  James Marwick
b. 27.8.1839 in Rousay M. Janet Craigie
d. 20.7.1921 (age 81) in 19 St Catherine Place, Kirkwall
m. James MacGillivray on 21.12.1866 in Rousay
Issue Mary Marwick MacGillivray b. 3.11.1868 Kirkwall
d. 5.7.1951 (age 83) Kirkwall
Ellen MacGillivray b. 1869 Kirkwall         
d. 1872 (age 3) Kirkwall
James MacGillivray b. 22.12.1871 Kirkwall
John Mainland MacGillivray b. 14.1.1874 Kirkwall
Jemima MacGillivray b. 1878 Kirkwall
Ellen MacGillivray b. 1881 Kirkwall
Eleanor Traill Marwick and Hugh Marwick (below) were siblings whose spouses James MacGillivray and Jemima MacGillivray were also siblings.

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Hugh Marwick      F.  James Marwick
b. 21.1.1842 in Rousay M. Janet Craigie
d. 13.12.1887 (age 45) in Hoversta, Bressay, Shetland
m. Jemima MacGillivray on 8.11.1867 in Cornquoy, Egilsay
Issue Alexander Marwick b. 21.8.1868 Rousay
d. 1890 (age 21) Kirkwall
Elizabeth Burroughs Marwick b. 12.9.1870 Rousay
Ann Mowat Marwick b. 26.11.1872 Rousay
d. 1889 9age 16) Kirkwall
Helen Marwick b. 1875 Kirkwall
d. 20.3.1942 (age 66) Kirkwall
John Marwick b. 1877 Eday
Hugh Marwick b. 1880 Eday
James Bews Marwick b. 1882 Kirkwall
Harry Marwick b. 1886 Bressay, Shetland
d. 9.12.1943 (age 57) Kirkwall

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Craigie Marwick            Breck F.  James Marwick
b. 16.7.1845 in Rousay M. Janet Craigie
d. 1926 (age 81) in Rousay
m. Ann Mowat of Evie on 6.2.1869 in Evie                  No issue.
 
Craigie was said to have been a well-liked and much respected man in Sourin.

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Mary Marwick     F.  James Marwick
b. 1849 in Rousay M. Janet Craigie
d. 1896 (age 46) in Rousay
m. John Mowat of Evie on 7.4.1874 in Rousay
Issue Mary Yorston Mowat b. 24.8.1874 Rousay
d. 1940 (age 66) Kirkwall
John Mowat b. 25.3.1877 Rousay
d. 16.4.1951 (age 71) Kirkwall
Jessie Ann Mowat b. 1879 Rousay
d. 2.8.1951 (age 72) Papa Westray
James Sinclair Mowat b 11.5.1891 Rousay

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David Marwick       F.  James Marwick
b. 11.7.1853 in Rousay M. Janet Craigie
d. 1930 (age 76) in Rousay
 
m. Ann Hercus of Eday in 1877 in Kirkwall
 
Issue David Logie Marwick b. 29.11.1878 Rousay
  Jessie Craigie Marwick b. 2.6.1880 Rousay
  Wm Hercus Marwick b. 8.5.1882 Rousay
  James Marwick b. 25.10.1883 Rousay
  John Marwick b. 22.10.1885 Rousay        Unmarried
  Annie Marwick   Rousay
  Maggie Marwick   Rousay

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David Logie  Marwick,           . F.  David Marwick
b. 29.11.1878 in Rousay  M. Ann Hercus
d. SK, Canada
m. Christina Peace of Sanday in 1912 in SK, Canada
Issue Catherine Marwick b. 22.8.1913 Wadena, SK, Canada
Thomas David Marwick b. 15.1.1915 Wadena, SK, Canada
Christina Marwick b. 1917 Wadena, SK, Canada
James William Marwick b. 1919 Wadena, SK, Canada
Margaret Marwick b. 25.12.1921 Wadena, SK, Canada
Eileen Marwick b. 1924   Wadena, SK, Canada
Iris Lilian Marwick    Wadena, SK, Canada
All the information on the above family was sent by Tom Marwick, a son of Thomas David Marwick.  (RCM)

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Lydia Marwick      F.  Robert Marwick
b. 9.2.1830 in Rousay M. Isabel Mainland
d. 1887 (age 57) in Stromness
m. 1)  David Logie of Danequoy, Westray on 26.11.1858 in Westray
         b. 1837 in Westray
         d. 1860 (age 22) in Westray
Issue Mary Logie b. 24.9.1859 Westray
m. 2)  Stewart Paterson of South Hammer, Westray on 5.12.1862 in Westray
Issue Isabella Paterson b. 1863 Westray
Charles Paterson b. 1865 Westray
Jessie Paterson b. 1868 Westray             Unmarried.
John David Paterson b. 1869 Westray             Went to USA
Annie Paterson b. 1871 Westray             Went to Canada
Robert Paterson b. 1875 Westray
Stewart Paterson b. 1877 Westray
d. 1957 (age 80) Kirkwall

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James Marwick     F.  Robert Marwick
b. 24.9.1831 in Rousay M. Isabel Mainland
d. 1.6.1893 (age 61) in Bankburn, South Ronaldsay
Brought up by his uncle and aunt at Ervadale
m. Mary Baikie on 4.3.856 in Kirkwall.  
     b. 14.12.1828 in Evie
     d. 16.2.1920 (age 91) in Bankburn, South Ronaldsay
     P: Peter Baikie & Helen Moar
Issue James Marwick b. 28.1.1857 Rousay         Went to Canada       
John Marwick b. 11.4.1858 Rousay
Robert Marwick b. 24.10.1862 Rousay         Went to Canada     
George Ritchie Marwick b. 28.2.1860 Rousay
Named after the Rev. George Ritchie, at whose manse in Rousay his mother Mary Baikie had worked prior to her marriage.
David Baikie Marwick b. 1.11.1865 Rousay          Went to Canada    

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Ann Mainland Marwick         F.  Robert Marwick
b. 15.4.1838 in Rousay   M. Isabel Mainland
m. John Watson McBeath in 1861 in Rousay
 Issue John McBeath    
Ellen McBeath

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Mary Marwick          F.  Robert Marwick
b. 20.6.1835 in Rousay M. Isabel Mainland
d. 2.4.1909 (age 73) in Evie
 
m. Robert Craigie of Knapper on 9.5.1861 in Rousay      
This couple had no issue but they adopted Mary’s niece, Lizzie Robertson after the death of her parents.  

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Margaret Marwick,       F.  Robert Marwick
b. 18.4.1840 in Rousay M.  Isabel Mainland
d. 1873 (age 32 ) in St Andrews, Orkney
m. John Laird on 20.5.1858 in Kirkwall
 
Issue Margaret Laird b. 12.10.1858 Kirkwall
Barbara Laird b. 1860 St Ola, Kirkwall
John Laird b. 12.10.1862 St Andrews, Orkney
James Eunson Laird b. 12.7.1864 St Andrews, Orkney
d. 30.6.1921 (age 56) Evie
Isabella Laird b. 1866 St Andrews, Orkney
William Laird b. 8.5.1869 St Andrews, Orkney    Postman in Kirkwall
d. 1957 (age 87) Kirkwall
  Mary Ann Laird b. 12.3. 1871 St Andrews, Orkney

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John Marwick     F.  Robert Marwick
b. 17.6.1842 in Rousay M. Isabel Mainland
d. before 1870 in USA
 
m. Betty Inkster of Innister on 21.12.1866 in Rousay.
 
John's widow Betty returned to Rousay and later married John Inkster on 30.12.1870 in Rousay

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Robert Marwick                     Scockness    F.  Robert Marwick
b. 4.9.1845 in Rousay M. Isabel Mainland
d. 20.8.1930 (age 84) in Rousay
m. Ann Ballick Hourston of Tankerness on 25.10.1866 at Scapa   
     b. 1840 in Tankerness
     d. 1.2.1892 (age 52) in Rousay
Issue Isabella Marwick b. 19.6.1867 Rousay
d. 1883 (age 16) Kirkwall
Mary Ann Marwick b. 5.7.1869 Rousay
Jemima Baikie Marwick b. 4.12.1871 Rousay
Robert William Marwick b. 23.4.1874 Rousay
d. 1899 (age 25) Rousay
Margaret Johan Marwick b. 27.8.1876 Rousay
Elizabeth (Betsy) Marwick b. 15.7.1879 Rousay
Jessie Marwick b. 12.11.1882 Rousay

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William Marwick    F.  Robert Marwick
 b. 22.2.1847 in Rousay M. Isabel Mainland
d. 1900 (age 52) in Kirkwall
 
m. Sarah Leonard of Quoygray on 30.5.1871 in Rousay
 
Issue Bella Marwick b. 18.4.1872 Rousay
       
  Margaret Ann (Maggie) Marwick b. 12.1.1874 Rousay
    d. 1878 (age 4) Rousay
       
  Sarah Marwick b. 30.7.1878 Rousay
    d. 1894 (age 16) Kirkwall
       
  Betsy Ann Marwick b. 3.9.1880 Rousay      
    d. 1899 (age 18) Kirkwall
       
  Williamina (Minnie) Marwick b. 31.7.1882 Rousay      
    d. 1900 (age 17) Kirkwall
       
  John William Marwick b. 1892 Rousay
       

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Isabella Marwick       F.  Robert Marwick
b. 13.7.1849 in Rousay M. Isabel Mainland
d. 1921 (age 72) in Glasgow
m. John Voy of Tankerness on 20.11.1874 in Rousay 
     b. 1851 in Tankerness.   
     d. 1924 (age 73) in Glasgow
     P:  William Voy & Margaret Grieve
 
Issue Margaret Voy b. 1876 St Andrews, Orkney        
Mary Robina Voy b. 26.2.1878  St Andrews, Orkney
Annabella Voy b.1879 St Andrews, Orkney        
Elizabeth (Lily) Voy b. 16.8.1881 St Andrews, Orkney
Married late in life in Detroit.  Died a few months later on 14.1.1945 in Wayne, MI, USA from suspected poisoning  
Robina ( Ruby) Voy b. 1884 St Andrews, Orkney
d. 1933 (age 48) Glasgow
  Barbara Voy b. 1885 St Andrews, Orkney
d. 1908 (age 23) Glasgow
Johanna (Joanne) Voy b. 1887 St Andrews,Orkney
d. 1973 (age 86) Kingussie
William Voy b. 2.2.1891 St Andrews, Orkney
Alice Voy b. 1893 St Andews, Orkney
    
A grand-daughter of Mary Robina Voy is Mrs Isabel Napier of Girvan.  Her daughter is Mrs Voy Rawson of Wolverhampton who supplied the above information on this family.  

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