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Until recent years we thought that John Allison listed in the next paragrath, was the father of James Allison, born 1810 as his third to last child. That was wrong and the correct information is given on this page. John Allison was born at Erskine, Renfrewshire, Scotland about 1767 and died at Paisley, Renfrewshire in April 1841. He was a weaver and married Janet White at the Low Church, Paisley, on 10th August 1792. Their children were born at or near to Paisley:
William Allison, born 1793, married with six children. We knew that our ancestor, James Allison, was the son of John Allison and Janet White and was married at Paisley. That fitted with the family above. We could not find a baptism for James but he said that he was born at Fulton, near Johnstone, which is near Paisley. At first we thought that James Allison, born to the family in 1803 had died young which would explain why our James, born seven years later, was also named James. However when a descendant of the James (1803) contacted us, we knew that our assumption was wrong. This Allison descendant (David Allison) has researched the family and he discovered that our James Allison was the son of John Allison and Janet White but they where not the same John and Janet that we had assumed. They lived at Fulton, not Paisley.
Our ancestor, James Allison (1810-1878) married Margaret Faulds (1810-1883) at Paisley on 3 June 1831. They had three surviving children before emigrating in 1842. Four more children were born in New Zealand.
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