NameChristian (Christina) Burns 
Birth1797, Largo, Fife
Misc. Notes
Name of Christian Burns from Pamela Booth whose great-great grandparents were Robert Clark Higgie b.1855 and Jane Hearn Rapley.
Name of Christina Burrns and date and place of birth from Jenny Stevenson (nee Spurdle) in email 04 January 2011 who sourced from the Ancestry.Uk website. Jenny’s great-great grandparents were Robert Clark Higgie b.1855 and Jane Hearn Rapley.
In email later that day on 04 January 2011, Jenny Stevenson says, “Since my last email, I have found on Ancestry, on the 1861 Scotland Census, a Christian Higgie born abt 1797 in Lango, Fifeshire. Residence in 1861 was Cupar, Fife. She was aged 64 and living with a grandaughter, Ann Doummond”.
Date of marriage "23 November 1818", entry of, "Thomas Higgie in this Parish & Christian Burns in this Parish of Flisk". This as per an image from the old Parish Register of Marriages, Dunbog, held by the National Records of Scotland and received from Katia and Tim Oliver by email on 1st November 2024.
(Tim Oliver is a x3 great grandson of James and Ruth Oliver, his grandfather being Ivor James Clark Oliver 1907-1989).
Spouses
Birth17 May 1795, Criech, Fife
OccupationFarmer
Marriage23 Nov 1818, Dunbog, Fife, Scotland