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Patrick (Peter) Ballingall (1770-1813) Michael T Tracy

He was baptized with the name of Patrick but used the name of Peter and was the second son of George Ballingall (1714-1793), the long-time tenant farmer of Rameldry, Kettle Parish, Fife. Peter, like his father was an agriculturalist and would eventually become a tenant farmer of Collairnie in Dunbog Parish. At the turn of the nineteenth century, Peter married Margaret Lumsdaine and they had five children, four of whom were born at Collairnie in Dunbog Parish and their last child was born at Aytoun in Abdie Parish. Upon the death of his father-in-law, Peter Lumsdaine in 1807 he succeeded him as a tenant farmer of Aytoun, Abdie Parish. This then is the narrative of the life and times of Patrick (Peter) Ballingall, the tenant farmer of Collairnie and Aytoun.