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My Bain Family
Historically
it has been identified that the Bain family originated from Invernesshire
with the clan lands located on the hills surrounding Loch Ness (for
more information check out the Bain
Name Meaning). However, the clan were relocated after the Jacobite
uprisings.
Current research
identifies our line of the Bain family as originating in Longniddry
in the Parish of Tranent, East Lothian (the Haddingtonshire) in
the late 1500s. The family has a long line of residence in Tranent,
Gladsmuir and Haddington right thru to the early 1800s, when the
primary lines appear to have dispersed to Glasgow,
Lanark and Dysart, Fife.
The earliest
known member of our Hardie line is George Bain (AKA Bene) who was
born about 1580 in Longniddry. However little is known of the Bain
family before the documentation of a Thomas Brown in the Judicial
Rental and a Tenant List for Seaton in the 1660s. George's great
grandson Thomas
Bain is the first in the family for whom detailed records
exist.
John
Bain Esq. of Glasgow, Thomas's great grandson, married Isabella
Todd, descended of Robert the Bruce and John
Knox thru her maternal line.
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