The Old Family
and how we got here
John Lowrie was a weaver, the son of James Lourie, also a weaver, and the father of Walter Lawrie, a weaver. This shows the family name changing more than the occupations. He married Alison Flockhart who survived him into the age of the censuses and apart from knowing that he had died somewhere between 1828, the birth of his last child, and 1841, the census he didn't appear in, and that his mother was Janet Clerk we really don't know much about him.