Adam CORRIE ¹

  Notes:

Adam was probably a shoemaker and farmer who lived at Terreglestown. He was an elder in the Terregles Kirk between 1743 and 1753, and was prominent in opposing the appointment of a new Minister. The case was lost in 1752, and shortly afterwards he moved to Mallaby in Irongray Parish, 2½ miles to the west of Terregles.

He had at least eight children with his wife Margaret Harbertson (qv), and another four who died in infancy. Their eldest son Andrew had three children with his wife Jean, including Adam who moved to Wellingborough in Northamptonshire, where he was a lace dealer. Their eldest daughter Mary (probably) married William Thomson in Dumfries, who was from the Parish of Kirkmahoe. Their next son William established the family fortunes as a lace and general "Scots Trade" merchant in Wellingbourgh, employing carriers to take cotton textiles to Glasgow and return with manufactured goods including whiskey and salt. He was a magistrate in Dumfries, and in 1779 he purchased the extensive Senwick estates in the Parish of Borgue. In 1758 he married Margaret Harberson, the daughter of a linen draper in Preston in Lancashire, and their only surviving daugher Jane was his main beneficiary when he died in 1811. William's younger brothers were John (qv), and Adam, who first farmed at Mallaby, and was later placed by his brother William at Cairniehill in the Senwick Estate. There were also two younger married daughters: Margaret (Gunzeon) and Jane (Anderson).

Additional source:
Dumfries Presbytery Minutes, Scotlands People ref CH2/1284/

Adam married Margaret HARBERTSON. (Margaret HARBERTSON was born in 1705,² died on 5 Jan 1774 ² and was buried in Terregles Kirkyard, Kirkcudbrightshire ³.)