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Greaves Mudie

Greaves Mudie

Male 1802 - Yes, date unknown

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Generation: 1

  1. 1.  Greaves Mudie was born in May 1802 in Glasgow, Scotland (son of Captain David Mudie, RN and Antoinette Douglas); and died.

    Notes:

    Merchant in New Lanark, N. America

    Family/Spouse: Isabella Hall. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


Generation: 2

  1. 2.  Captain David Mudie, RN (son of James (of Cocklaw) Mudie); died in Mar 1831.

    Notes:

    a natural son

    David + Antoinette Douglas. Antoinette (daughter of Colonel, Ensign David Douglas and Margaret Bryden) was born about 1756 in Breda, Noord Brabant, Netherlands; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 3.  Antoinette Douglas was born about 1756 in Breda, Noord Brabant, Netherlands (daughter of Colonel, Ensign David Douglas and Margaret Bryden); and died.
    Children:
    1. James Mudie
    2. 1. Greaves Mudie was born in May 1802 in Glasgow, Scotland; and died.
    3. Douglas Mudie was born in Burnbank, Nr Hamilton.
    4. Margaret Mudie
    5. Jean Mudie was born in Aug 1795 in Ormiston; and died.
    6. Euphemia Mudie was born in Burnbank, Nr Hamilton.


Generation: 3

  1. 4.  James (of Cocklaw) Mudie and died.
    Children:
    1. 2. Captain David Mudie, RN died in Mar 1831.

  2. 6.  Colonel, Ensign David Douglas was born on 25 Dec 1725 in Scotland (son of Archibald Douglas and Jean Dickson); died in Dec 1821 in Bothwell Bank, Near Hamilton.

    Notes:

    Place of birth given as : Lockerbie, Moffat, Dunbarton, Scotland, which cannot be correct, given Lockerbie, Moffat, Dumbarton are three differnt places! Dunbarton is a county.

    Equally, he could have been both a Colonel and an Ensign - but not both at the same time.

    Some records have marriage listed as 8 Oct, others, 28th

    Served in Holland and in the British Scotch Brigade with his two sons, Lieutenant James Douglas and Ensign Queensberry Douglas.

    David married Margaret Bryden on 28 Oct 1750 in Edinburgh, Scotland. Margaret (daughter of Thomas Bryden) was born about 1728 in Craufordmuir, Peebles, Lanark, Scotland; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  3. 7.  Margaret Bryden was born about 1728 in Craufordmuir, Peebles, Lanark, Scotland (daughter of Thomas Bryden); and died.

    Notes:

    Sometimes spelt Brydon

    Notes:

    Married:
    Midlothian Records: Marriage 28 Oct 1750. David Douglas, ensign in the Earl of Drum Lanerks regiment, now indw in S W P; Margaret Bryden, dau of Thomas B farmer in parish of Crawford, now indw in SSWp.

    Children:
    1. Major James Douglas was born on 25 Sep 1751 in Craufordmuir, Lanark, Scotland; died on 18 Jul 1820 in Balgowrie; was buried in Markinch Churchyard.
    2. John Douglas was born in 1755 in Breda, Noord Brabant, Netherlands; died on as a boy.
    3. 3. Antoinette Douglas was born about 1756 in Breda, Noord Brabant, Netherlands; and died.
    4. Margaret Douglas was born about 1760 in Breda, Noord Brabant, Netherlands; and died.
    5. Captain Queensbury Douglas was born about 1766 in Breda, Noord Brabant, Netherlands; died in 1803 in Glasgow.
    6. Major Stewart Home Douglas was born on 20 Nov 1771 in Breda, Noord Brabant, Netherlands; died in 1817 in Boxtel, Holland.


Generation: 4

  1. 12.  Archibald Douglas was born on 2 Jun 1703 in Cannongate, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland (son of Brigadier James Douglas and Jean Maxwell); died on 19 Oct 1786 in Morton, Dumfriesshire, Scotland.

    Notes:

    A surgeon in Moffat

    It should be stated that Archibald ancestory seems to be at doubt as he, in 1762, paid ?20 in legal expences in an attempt to prove his rights to certain lands in Morton and Lochrinnie.

    He claimed to be descended from William Douglas of Whittinghame, son of Sir James Douglas, 2nd Lord of Dalkeith.

    This claim was later taken up by Major Andrew Douglas, Lanarkshire Militia, of Hawtree House.

    The is in The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh a letter from Kenneth Douglas to Dr Struthers identifying a pocket case of instruments as having belonged to his great-great-great grandfather, Archibald Douglas (1703-1786), who practiced in Moffat and Lockerbie and suggesting the stethoscope dates at least from the 1840s when his father, Dr G Halliday Douglas, later President of the RCPE, was a physician to the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh.

    Struthers was Conservator of the Museum 1939-1947

    Archibald married Jean Dickson on 13 Aug 1723 in Hartree, Peebles, Scotland. Jean (daughter of David Dickson and Helen Wedderburn) was born in 1705 in Hartree, Peebles, Scotland; died on 6 Jun 1756 in Morton Church, Dumfriesshire, Scotland; was buried on 9 Jun 1756 in Morton Church, Dumfriesshire, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 13.  Jean Dickson was born in 1705 in Hartree, Peebles, Scotland (daughter of David Dickson and Helen Wedderburn); died on 6 Jun 1756 in Morton Church, Dumfriesshire, Scotland; was buried on 9 Jun 1756 in Morton Church, Dumfriesshire, Scotland.
    Children:
    1. James Douglas was born on 4 Dec 1724 in Moffat, Dumfriesshire, Scotland; was christened on 6 Dec 1724 in Dryfesdale, Dumfriesshire, Scotland; died in 1769.
    2. 6. Colonel, Ensign David Douglas was born on 25 Dec 1725 in Scotland; died in Dec 1821 in Bothwell Bank, Near Hamilton.
    3. William Douglas was born on 9 Jun 1727 in Moffat, Dumfriesshire, Scotland; died on 12 Jun 1727.
    4. Elizabeth Douglas was born on 9 Aug 1728 in Moffat, Dumfriesshire, Scotland; and died.
    5. Jean Douglas was born on 15 Nov 1731 in Scotland; and died.
    6. Philadelphia Douglas was born on 17 Nov 1732 in Scotland; died on 16 Jun 1741.
    7. Henrietta Douglas was born on 3 Nov 1739 in Lockerbie, Dumfriesshire, Scotland; was christened on 8 Nov 1739; and died.

  3. 14.  Thomas Bryden

    Notes:

    farmer in parish of Crawford

    Children:
    1. 7. Margaret Bryden was born about 1728 in Craufordmuir, Peebles, Lanark, Scotland; and died.



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