Mary Steele

Mary Steele came from Dalry in Ayrshire. She married William Laurie, a tailor in Greenock in 1776. they had 3 sons and 4 daughters.

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.

Janet Laurie

Janet Laurie was the eldest daughter of William Laurie and Mary Steele of Greenock. She was born in 1779 and had three brothers and three sisters that we know of. Janet married John Heron, a watchmaker in Greenock, in 1795 and they had eleven or twelve children. Her husband died at Greenock in 1837 and Janet died in Glasgow in 1844. [Greenock Advertiser 3.12.1844]