William Laurie

William Laurie was a tailor in Greenock. He was born in Kirkmahoe, Dumfries, in Scotland in 1755, the son of John Laurie and Janet Jardine. William married Mary Steele from Dalry in Ayrshire, at Greenock, in 1776. They had three sons and four daughters. The youngest, Magdalen, married William Alston, whose grandson RA Alston later married Lizzie Steel, a great granddaughter of eldest daughter Janet.