20 December 1720
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The Miller of Drumoak
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1720
John Coutts was
born on 20 December 1720 (Scotland Births and Baptisms).
1748
John Coutts married
Majory Gellinders, probably
at Drumoak in or about 1748. He seems to have been a
miller. It seems to be to here that we can trace this family’s association with
Drumoak.
Drumoak is Druim M'Aodhaig
or “the ridge of St Aodhag” in Gaelic, a village
situated between Peterculter and Banchory in North Deeside, Aberdeenshire. The
original name of this place was Dalmaik, by
which it is still generally called by the inhabitants, though the denomination
of Drumoak has also been used for more than 300 years.
An alternative interpretation is that its derivation is from the Gaelic word drum,
signifying the ridge of a hill, and the term Moloch, corrupted into Moak,
the name of a celebrated saint to whose honour a monastery was erected in St. Servanus' isle, on the Water of Leven.
It
lies beside the River Dee, with Park Bridge, named for the local Park Estate,
being a local crossing. Park Estate was formerly owned by the railway engineer
Sir Robert Williams and Sir Robert is interred at Drumoak.
Drum
Castle is run by the National Trust for Scotland. Relics and portraits of the
Irvine family are kept here, and it was conferred by Robert the Bruce onto
William de Irvine.
Drumoak Manse in 1638 was the
birthplace of James Gregory, discoverer of diffraction gratings a year after
Newton's prism experiments, and inventor of the Gregorian telescope design in
1663.
A
history of Drumoak was commissioned by the Kirk
Session of Drumoak Parish Church in 2000 in order to
commemorate the second millennium. It was entitled The Parish of Drumoak and was written by Robin Jackson.
1750
James Coutts (COU00018), the son of John Coutts and Marjory (nee
Gellinders) Coutts, was born on 25 September 1750 (Scotland Births and baptisms). He was baptised on
12 April 1851 (Drumoak PR). His father was a miller.
