PURPOSE AND LIMITATIONS TO THIS WEBSITE

The purpose of this website is to:

Acknowledge John Black’s (JB) work one hundred years on and prove the accuracy of his saga.
Follow the descendants of each of the six males and flesh out the names JB provided along with dates and places to put his document in context.
Provide a forum for descendants of William Black and Mary Todd to contribute and receive accurate information about the family.
Correct errors that have been perpetuated by JB and others.
Add to the knowledge base about the Blacks of the Breich Water. There are a number of branches where we have drawn a blank and we need your help to ensure the family is complete.

Format followed:

This website is intended to prove only the accuracy of those people mentioned or alluded to by JB.
There is one section for each of the six Black sons, however Son-2, John Black married to Helen Steel, was so prolific his narrative has been split into five to manage the sheer quantity of individuals.
Each Black son has their own narrative and their own tree. Both are in a downloadable pdf format so they can be updated easily. The trees often contain much more information than is given in the narrative.
In the children’s tables, a child marked with an * indicates that the line stops with this person as we have reached the scope of this project.
In the children’s tables, a child marked with an ^ indicates that the line will continue for at least one more generation.
The place of death is assumed to be Scotland unless otherwise mentioned.
Spouses in RED in the narrative are also descendants of William Black and Mary Tod.

Current limits to this website:

Data has been extracted from parish records, BDM certificates and online family trees. The later source is intended to be a starting point only for discussion and we realise that there will be errors and gaps until we source the originals for each individual.
As many dates have been extracted from the indexes of Scotland's People, we are not privy to knowing if the dates indicate a birth or baptism, or a death or burial. Hopefully these will be corrected over time.
For privacy reasons we have not attempted to put any living people on any family trees.