Editing James Williamson (section)

=== Early Years in Scotland  ===

James Williamson was born in 1813 in Ballochney in the Scottish Lowlands to James and Margaret Cummings Williamson. He was the fourth of five children. Little is known of his childhood. In 1838, he married Mary Rae (1818-1889), from Skillhill, Scotland. She was the daughter of Thomas and Mary Thompson Rae. Eventually, they had six children, four of whom survived to adulthood. In the 1840s, they lived in Whiflet, Lanackshire, Scotland, near Glasgow, which was the most populous city in Scotland located in the west central lowlands. In 1843, he received baptism to become a member of the Mormon Church in Scotland.