In addition to other historic resources, the Heritage Centre provides a rich source of family history information and detailed family trees have been made for many people.

Many families emigrated to Australia, Canada and the U.S.A. in the early part of the nineteenth century.

Family names which were common here in the early nineteenth century were:

Ballentine Bell Brown
Campbell Dempster Ferguson
Gilchirst Hastings Hunter
McCormick McCrae McCulloch
McCutcheon McKay McLellan
McTurk Milligan Mitchell
Murdoch Murray Weir Wilson

Detailed family histories are available for the following names :

Affleck Barbour Bell
Campbell Clement Currie
Dalgleish Gilchrist Good
Guffie Hope Hyslop
Jamieson McAdam McCall
McCormick McCrae McCulloch
McFadzean McKay McMillan
McMorran McTurk Martin
Milroy Murray Park
Paterson Seaton Weir