First Update for 2024
This section includes all known descendants of Walter Beattie 1679-1752 and Marion Black 1700-1789. It also includes a potential father for Walter as a William Beattie. The only exceptions are that certain details of living people are omitted and the youngest generations of children are not listed at all.This first generation is still unproven but is included so that the Beattie, Glendinning and Thomson trees share the same generation numbers.
- New census information is now available for the 1921 censuses of Scotland, England and Wales, the 1931 census of Canada and the 1950 US census. More will be added later
- More newspaper birth, marrriage and death notices have been transcribed and are included in the source pages
- Further research has been done on the descendants of the Beatties of Davington that first appeared in the previous version of this tree, as mentioned in the next note. The tree now includes, among other lines, a branch with Andrew James Bell Little, who left Moffat, Dumfriesshire for the USA in 1884 with two dogs and $25. By 1935, he had built up a huge flock of 100,000 sheep, and was dubbed "The Idaho Sheep King"
- An article in the Eskdale & Liddesdale Advertiser in Aug 1880, gives more information on the Beattie families, and the connection between the Davington and Watcarrick lines. Helen Beattie 1727-1769 the wife of John Beattie 1713-1805 of Dalbeth, is the daughter of Walter Beattie and Marion Black. Several of their descendants appeared in previous version of this and the Glendinning trees as there were many intermarriages in these families, but this new tree includes all their known descendants. More research will be done on these lines and updates made when available.
- Note that these multiple intermarriages result in some families appearing several times. They are listed in detail only once and links to these details let you follow the multiple strands of the ancestors/descendants.
- During 2019, 2020 and 2021 some additional lines have been added using DNA matches to find them intially, then confirm the lines with records. The most recent of those lines was the descendants of Janet Brown Carrick, daughter of William Carrick and Margaret Glendinning. Previous lines included MacGilvray descendants of Duncan MacGilvray and Annie Jackson, Annie being on the Henry Jackson and Elizabeth Glendinning line.
- The major change since the 2018 update is the inclusion of the family of William Wightman and Jane Jackson who emigrated from Dumfriesshire to Canada in 1882. Jane, b 6 Jul 1832, is the daughter of Henry Jackson and Elizabeth Glendinning
- In the previous update, new sources had become available including General Record Office of England and Wales birth index with mother's maiden surname and full given names of the child prior to 1916. Also ScotlandsPeople now gives free access to indexes which has allowed years of birth marriage and death to be found in Scotland. Finally the Wills and Probate index for Victoria, Australia is available.
- In the third update for 2016 the family of William Giles and Janet (Jennie) Walton has been added. Janet is the daughter of John Walton and Mary Thomson and a granddaughter of David Thomson and Mary Glendinning. Although Janet was shown in previous versions of this tree, only now has sufficient data been forthcoming to include her descendants. Thanks are due to Kimberley Geisler for the details
- The opportunity has also been taken to include information from the 1939 Register in England and Wales. This is similar to a census and includes full dates of birth and occupations of those recorded.
- Arising from the 1939 Register details, it has been possible to expand on the Halliday family who spread out from Hutton and Corrie in Dumfriesshire to become traders in India and also in the military there. This family had links to St Petersburg in Russia and nobility in England.
- In the second update for 2016 published in March, more detail was added about the Glendinning family in Texas and Oklahoma, the descendants of James Archibald Glendinning, with thanks to Virginia Morris for providing this
- The earlier 2016 update added the family and descendants of Andrew Glendinning b 1811 the son of John Glendinning and Janet Little, with thanks to John and Denise Bonn for providing the part of this family in New Zealand
- Previously added in 2015 was more information on the descendants of Archibald Glendinning and Mary Nichol, in particular the McAdam and Hamilton families and additional information on the descendants of Andrew Wemyss Ritchie and Mary Douglas Fairley
- In 2013 a major update was made to the New Brunswick part of the tree of James Girvan and Mary Glendinning's family with great help of one of their descendants Judy Girvan Murchison.
I would like to acknowledge the help of Bronwyn Gorman and Greg Walker for Beattie and Scott families, Chris Scott for Milbourne and Scott families, Ian Walker for Beattie and Jackson families, Alex Vining for Beattie and Vining descendants, Ann Carson for Borthwick families, Barry Brown for Bertram and Brown families, Barb Way for Fairley descendants, Judy Girvan Murchison for Girvan descendants, Jennifer Mason Brown for particular help with Eskdalemuir Glendinning and related families, Sandra McCallum for Scottish Glendinning families, John and Denise Bonn for New Zealand Glendinning families, Virginia Morris for the Texas and Oklahoma Glendinning families, Janice Hamilton and Alison Mossler Wright for Hamilton descendants, Ted and Louraine Doran for Kirkpatrick families, Michael Laidlaw, Bill & Bunty Hart and Hamish Carmichael for Laidlaw descendants, Kris Hulme for Palmer families, Fred Nix for Paterson families, Sharon Taylor for Riddell descendants, Roy Robertson for Robertson families, Frank Sylvester for Sylvester descendants, Annelies Batty and Don Walton for Walton descendants, and Pete Allison, Nolan Baird III, Annette Clark, Myrna Coubrough, Lee Dickson, Debra Dirks, Katharine English, Bob Galbraith, Kimberley Geisler, Bill Glendinning, Scott Glendinning, Doreen Leach, Shelley Love, Donna Miller, Kathryn Robinson, Carolyn Smith, Jane Stewart, Ken Sullivan, Bob Thomson, Don Walton and the late Wayne Thomson for Canadian Glendinning and Thomson descendants, amongst others who have pointed me in the right direction.
While I and the above researchers have verified some of the information from original OPR and SI data from New Register House, in Edinburgh and the equivalent resources in Canada, other data has been gathered from various sources and so it is recommended you obtain verification independently for data that is vital to your research.
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This section last updated by Ian A Glendinning on 15 February 2024 using Personal Ancestral File