GEDDES (O'GRADY)

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More THOMAS O'GRADY (GEDDES)

by 1872 he had changed the family name to GEDDES
m. 30 Jan 1865
Slamannan
MARGARET FLEMING JOHNSTON

b. 1839, Stirling

d. 1907, Slamannan

b. 3 Jan 1846 Slamannan

d. 29 Dec 1920, Whitburn.

Parents THOMAS O'GRADY

MARY TAYLOR (nee BALFOUR)

Father

Mother

GAVIN JOHNSTON

MARGARET DUNN

Parents

The O'Grady family changed their name to Geddes. I have yet to find any reason for this or any reason why they chose the name Geddes. I suspect they were bought off by the O'Grady family - Viscount O'Grady - and backing this up is the fact that by 1885 Thomas Geddes was the owner of Moss-side cottage in Limerigg which was highly unusual for a coal miner. The property passed on to his widow Margaret then their son Alexander.


Child Marriage Spouse Spouse's Parents
1 Margaret Dunn m. 3 Jul 1885
Longriggend
William Goodwin David Goodwin
Elizabeth Buckie
b. 1 Oct 1865, Slamannan
d. 30 Oct 1906 Longriggend
Children:
Margaret Johnston b. 24 Apr 1886, Drumbow, by Airdrie( note 2)
m. Arthur Gardiner (family details)
David b. 4 May 1888, West Longriggend, Airdrie
Elizabeth Buckie b. 4 Jul 1900, Drumbow, By Airdrie
2 Alexander, Colliery Manager m. 26 Jan 1894
Airdrie
Jessie Ritchie
b. 12 Sep 1867, Salterhill, Slamannan
d. 14 Jun 1939 Longriggend
in 1901, living at Moss Cottage

Family bible:
Alex Geddes (formerly O'Grady ) married Jessie Richie at Clarkstone in the 1894 year of our Lord. He died at hospital in Glasgow on 14 Jun 1939 aged 72. Jessie died at Moss-Side cottage Limerigg on 13 Dec 1944 aged 75 both interred in Slamannan cemetery

b. 1870, Kinrossach?, Kinross
Children:
Margaret (Meg)Ritchie, b. 1897 m. 19 Nov 1928 David Main Gardner, his second wife. Divorced his first wife, Janet Kerr, 27 Oct 1928
Tom ,b 1898 d. 1983, Waikato, New Zealand m. Roberta Brodie
Alexander Ritchie b. 1900, d. 4 Aug 1914
Charlotte(Lottie)Balfour b. 1905, mar. James Flucker, 25 Dec 1929,
Gavin b.
James Ritchie b. 1906, d. 1 Jul 1907
John
3 MARY m. 28 Nov 1892
Luib Hotel,
Killin
DUNCAN MACGREGOR Parents
b. 14 May 1870, Salterhill, Slamannan Children b. 1 Feb 1860, Tirfuir, Lismore, Argyll
d. 5 Mar 1929, Snabhead Farm, Muiravonside
4 Gavin, Master Grocer 3 Aug 1897
Crowhill Cottage
Bishopriggs
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Farquarson John Farquarson
Margaret Wingate
b. 5 Aug 1872, Slamannan
m. 1897, age 24, living at 44 Cambridge Street, Glasgow d.18 Jan 1940, Royal Infirmary, Glasgow

b. abt. 1873, Bishopriggs, Lanarkshire
d. 25 Apr1918, Skelmorlie, Ayrshire, Scotland

Children:
Margaret W. b. 1899
Thomas b. 1905
Betty b.1910


5 Thomas Balfour m. Jul 1902
Whitney, Oxford
Blanche Watts James Charles Watts
Sarah Ann Wright
b. 2 Aug 1874, Slamannan b. 10 Aug 1874, Freeland, Whitney, Oxford
d. 1970 Oxford

Children:
Charles m. Sybil
Phillip m. Isobel, d 1954
Graham
Margaret, m. Reg Binning

6 John m. Grace Martin
b. 30 Mar 1876, Slamannan
d. 1958
7 Helen (Nellie, Ellen) m. 30 Jan 1899
8 East-St John St.
Glasgow
Thomas Horne James Horne
Margaret Robertson
b. 7th Mar 1878, Limerigg, Slamannan
m. 1899, age 26, living at Lochside Slamannan
witnesses James Robertson, Mining Engineer and Jessie Horne
d. 27 Aug 1923, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada,
buried in Edmonton Municipal Cemetery
b. 15 Feb 1875, England
m. 1899, coalminer, age 22, living at Lochside Slamannan
d. 21 Feb 1961, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Children:
James b. 1896, illegitimate
Margaret b. 1899
Helen (Nellie) Geddes (1902-1988) m. John Donald Murie
Jeanie (1903-1955)m. Selwyn C. Dickout, parents of DNA match Barb McColl
Thomas (1905-1929)
Robert b. 1909
Jessie b. 1919

8 Charlotte m. 19 Apr 1907
Limerigg
Peter Muir Thomas Muir
Jane Mills
b. 27 Feb 1881, Slamannan
d. Brightons, Polmont
b. 1884, Shotts, Lanarkshire
Children:
Tom Muir b 1911
9 William, farmer m. 7 mar 1912
Bluff, New Zealand
Sarah Henrietta (Queenie) Kingsland Harman Kingsland
Isabella Forbes
b.4 Mar 1882, Slamannan
d. 19 Oct 1965, age 83, Dunedin, New Zealand
b. abt 1884
d.29 Sep 1964, age 80, Dunedin, New Zealand

Children:
Isabella Margarette b.25 Dec 1912 Queenie,b. 26 May 1915, m. W. Bulling , children John, Graham, Margaret m. Arthur Shaw
Jack
John Lewis (1917-2010)

10 Catherine (Kate) m. 6 Dec 1907, Glasgow John Youngson John Youngson
Mary Watson
b. 15 Feb 1884, Slamannan B. 1878, Shotts, Lanarkshire

Children:
Thomas Balfour Geddes b. 29 Nov 1910, Shotts, Lanarkshire, Scotland; d. 10 Jun 1982 Edendale, Southland, Southland, New Zealand. father of DNA match Philip Youngson Mary
Peggy

11 David Balfour m. 1920
Ryde, New South Wales
Muriel Thwaites
b. 1 Jul 1887, Limerigg, Slamannan (bible says 13th)
d. 19 Jun 1978
Children:
Thomas David m. Amelia Lane
John William m. Sylvia Flimson(?)
Gloria Muriel

1) Alex and family as provided by Jenny Marsh
Far left Gavin, 2nd left Grandmother (Jessie Ritche), 3rd left Tom, Centre Lottie, 3rd right Meg, 2nd right Grandfather (Alex), far right Sandy - deceased 14 years


2) Margaret's grandaughter is:

Name: Dolina Barker  
E-mail: barker.d@xtra.co.nz
Location: French Farm, Akaroa, N.Z.
Web site: http://www.bantrylodge.co.nz
Comment: Mother was Margaret Dunn Gardiner, daughter of Margaret Goodwin, grandaughter of Margaret Geddes, and cousin of Tom Macgregor.

3) Thomas O'Grady and Margaret Fleming Johnston - Marriage 1865. Statutory Marriages 489/00 0002 , Slamannan, Stirling

4) Thomas Horne and Helene Geddes gravestone in Edmonton Municipal Cemetery, Edmonton, Alberta



Tom Paterson (last updated 6 Sep 2019)