When James Comrie was born on 19 August 1746, in Cranston, Midlothian, Scotland, his father, Alexander Comrie, was 23 and his mother, Janet Ferguson, was 22. He married Christian Leckie on 1 January 1771, in Muthill, Perthshire, Scotland. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 4 daughters.
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Scottish (Perthshire and Stirlingshire): habitational name from any of various places called Comrie, of which there are examples in Fife and Perthshire. All are named with Gaelic comarach, from comar ‘confluence, river-fork’ + the locative suffix -ach.
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