Alexander, William, Neil and Rachel PirieOur Pirie Family Website

Our Pirie Family Website




Welcome to the website of Neil, Rachel, Alexander and William Pirie.

We live in of the county of Hampshire in England, close to the borders with Surrey and West Sussex, and about 25 miles (40 km) from the south coast.

On our site you can:

  • find out about us and what we like to do;
  • see photographs from our holidays and other activities;
  • learn about our family history, which we have traced back to the 17th century in Scotland and England;
  • visit the official homepage of Rachel Gregory: musician, performer, adjudicator and tutor.

Visiting the island of Staffa in the inner Hebrides
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Piries at the Kennedy Space Centre, Florida
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We hope you find something of interest on our site, which we intend to update regularly.

We welcome any comments or suggestions you might have.

You can use the 'Contact us' link at the foot of this and other pages, or the 'Neil Pirie' link at the foot of the Family History pages.


What's new

5 July 2009

Family History database updates, including more details of the crew of the seine-net motor fishing boat 'Sickle'.

28 June 2009

Family History database updates, including the addition of the seine-net motor fishing boat 'Sickle' to the Boat Index.

14 June 2009

Family History database updates, including the family of James Pirie "Coull" and Margaret McKay.

10 June 2009

Family History database updates, including more details for Margaret Donaldson (b.1884) and William Pirie (b.1879).

7 June 2009

Family History database updates, including descendants of John Bruce Slater (b.1851) and Ann Mair (b.1849).

7 June 2009

Family History database updates, including more descendants of William Mair (b.1835) and Ann Falconer (b.1835) kindly supplied by Bob Mair.

24 May 2009

Family History database updates, including more details of descendants of George Anderson (b.c1790) and Jean Mair (b.c1801) kindly supplied by Bob Mair.

26 April 2009

Family History database updates, including family of George Anderson and Jean Mair, and the article 'ST Beathwood and the Fate of her Crew'.

19 April 2009

Family History database updates, including family of George Sclater (b.c1807) and Jane Donaldson (b.c1817).

18 April 2009

Family History database updates, including family of Margaret Pirie "Buxer" (b.c1834) and George Topp (b.c1834).

13 April 2009

Family History database updates, including family of shoemaker George Pirie "Buxer" (b.1859) and Helen Anderson Legg (b.1857).

12 April 2009

HAPPY EASTER!
Family History database updates, including Alexander Gardiner Mair (b.1920), and the family of Mary Mair (b.1866) and George Findlay (b.1863), kindly provided by Edward Kemp.

11 April 2009

Family History database updates, including more details of descendants of Alexander Mair "Shavie" (b.1807) and Janet Ewing (b.c1818) kindly supplied by Bob Mair.

9 April 2009

Family History database updates, including corrections for Helen Mair (b.c1849) & William Gardiner (b.1844), and Helen Mair (b.1851) & Francis Mair (b.1854).

6 April 2009

Family History database updates, including the family of James Mair (b.1889) and Catherine Mowat Findlay (b.1892).

4 April 2009

Family History database updates, including the family of James Mair and Ann Falconer.

24 March 2009

Family History database updates, including the family of George Sclater and Margaret Brodie, and the family of Catherine Mair "Slater" (b.1864) and (1) William Alexander Mair "Pim" (b.1864) / (2) Alexander Mair "Shavie" (b.1865).

21 March 2009

Family History database updates, including updated details of the family of Donald Harper and Elizabeth Gray of Wick.

19 March 2009

Family History database updates, including additional details for Isabella Harper (b.1799), George Wood "King" (b.1811) and Jane Pirie "Buxer" (b.1856).

11 March 2009

Family History database updates, including more descendants of Robert Ironside (b.1788) and Isabella Ferguson (b.c1799), and descendants of James Wood "King" (b.1766) and Margaret Donaldson (b.1771).

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