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Title: Randal Currie & Nelly Johnston (Johnson?) Currie

Chart No: rc1

Sources: Mrs. Catherine McNeill of Raeford, NC; Robeson County Courthouse, Lumberton, NC; Cemetery on Louise McLeod farm near Antioch, Hoke County, NC; Father McLean's Diary; obituary abstracts from Fayetteville newspapers; Recollections of Lacy C. Buie; Henry H. Hodgin, Jr.; Antioch Presbyterian Church Records, 1834-1907; "The Curries and Their Kin" by Wm. Angus McLeod, written 1945; Robeson County Deeds; Research notes and original documents from the collection of Jay Edgerton, Dorothy P. Edgerton and the J.F. McKay family.

HUSBAND

Randal Currie

Note: It has been claimed that Randal and his sister Flora had brothers and sisters in North Carolina but no proof has been offered. A 1798 deed in Robeson Co. states Randal was his father's sole heir. Randalsville was so named because Randal Currie was the local postmaster and his post office was on/near his homeplace. He was also Justice of the Peace of Robeson County, until his resignation from that post in 1818.
Birth

4 July 1765

Place

Kintyre, Scotland

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Place

Death

23 Sept 1843

Place

Randalsville, Robeson Co., NC

Burial

Place

Currie Family Cem., Hoke Co., NC

Father

Archibald Currie

Mother

unknown

Marriage

3 Oct 1799, by Rev. John Fort

Place

Robeson County, (Now Hoke), NC

#2 spouse

info

WIFE

Nelly Johnston (or Johnson?)

Notes: Lacy C. Buie claimed Nelly's father was one Soloman Johnston who before the Revolution lived in the Philadelphus area near the headwaters of Bogie branch off Richland Swamp (southwest of the small airstrip there). There was a Soloman Johnston, Jr. and Soloman Johnston, Sr. in Bladen County (now Robeson) at that time. Soloman Jr. moved to Georgia after selling his lands to his son Soloman, Sr. Also see Nelly's will of 1846.
Birth
1774
Place
unknown; probably Bladen County, NC, now Hoke County.
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Place
Death
19 May 1850
Place
Randalsville, Robeson Co., NC
Burial
Place
Currie Family Cem., Hoke Co., NC
Father
Soloman Johnston, Sr.?
Mother
unknown
#2 spouse
info

CHILDREN
Birth
Death
Spouse
Chart #
1. Mary Currie
5 Aug 1800
13 Jan 1864
1st Duncan McMillan; 2nd James Conoly
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2. Flora Currie
14 Dec 1801
Aug 1854
1st Neill B. Johnson, Esq.; 2nd Malcolm Baxter
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3. Nelly Currie
24 Jan 1804
?
Duncan McMillan
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4. Archibald J. Currie
31 Jan 1806
?
Mary Shaw, widow; 9 Sept 1834
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5. John L. Currie
23 Jan 1808
7 Dec 1877
Catherine McLeod
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6. Alexander H. Currie
30 Jun 1810
10 Jun 1889
Sallie Gilchrist; 14 Mar 1833
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7. Daniel Johnson Currie
27 Feb 1813
before June 1842
Susan Johnson; went to Tatnall Co., Georgia. Had one son Daniel Luther Currie.
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8. Adam Currie
7 Apr 1815
10 May 1889
Flora Currie (1st cousin); 28 Nov 1842
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9. Sarah "Sallie" Currie
17 Nov 1818
21 Nov 1891
never married