The Haddow Family of Douglas & Hamilton, Lanarkshire
The Strachan bloodline can be traced back via John Strachan's maternal side to Hamilton, Lanarkshire in 1662 when James Haddow married Christian Frame.
James was born in St Cuthbert's, Midlothian, Scotland on the 22nd of May 1625. Christian was born in Cannongate, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland on the 7th of May 1626. The couple began married life living in Hamilton, Lanarkshire but then moved to Douglas, Lanarkshire.
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They had one known son, John Haddow (my ancestor), who was born in the village of Douglas, Lanarkshire in 1675. He spent most of his life in Douglas, however the family never abandoned their ties to Hamilton, often visiting on occasions for summer holidays.
John Haddow married Isobelle Muir in Douglas, Lanarkshire circa 1700.
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They had 7 Children:
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1. John Haddow born on 14 March 1701 in Douglas, Lanarkshire. He died as an infant.
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2. John Haddow II born on 19 April 1702 in Douglas, Lanarkshire. He married Jean Thomson in Douglas in June 1718. He was 16 years old at the time and she was 17 years old. From the early middle ages, girls could get married from the age of just 12 - and boys could be 14. That became important when the law changed in England in the 18th century. Under the 1753 Marriage Act, anyone under 21 needed their parental permission to wed. This didn't apply in Scotland though - and that meant young couples came over the border to places like Gretna and Coldstream to get married.
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John and Jean Haddow had three known children:
- James Haddow born in Douglas, Lanarkshire in 1719.
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He married Grissell Telford in Lesmahagow, Lanarkshire on the 12th of November 1743. The marriage was a short one as John died in May 1747. Grissell then married John Gold in Lesmahagow in 1748.
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- Mary Haddow born in Douglas, Lanarkshire on the 5th of March 1726
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- John Haddow born in Douglas, Lanarkshire on the 7th of January 1730.
He married Margaret Inglis in Lanark, Lanarkshire on the 8th of August 1762. They had three daughters:
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- Marion Haddow born on the 18th of September 1767 in Lanark, Lanarkshire. She married James Dale on the 2nd of June 1793 in Lanark. James was from Stewarton, Ayrshire, the son of William Dale and Martha Dale (nee Dunlop).
Marion and James had two known children:
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- David Dale born in Lanark, Lanarkshire on the 29th of November 1795
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- Margaret Inglis Dale born in Lanark, Lanarkshire on the 2nd of August 1797. She married John Greenshields on 19 Aug 1817 in Glasgow, Lanarkshire.
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- Janet Haddow born in Lanark, Lanarkshire on the 17th of January 1775
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- Isabell/Isobel Haddow born in Lanark, Lanarkshire on the 21st of November 1776. She married William Gall in Muirkirk, Ayrshire on the 3rd of July 1792.
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They had six children together:
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- James Gall born in Sorn, Ayrshire on the 6th of July 1793
- Adam Gall born in Galston, Ayrshire on the 29th of May 1797
- Isobel Gall born in Galston, Ayrshire on the 16th of August 1801
- William Gall born in Galston, Ayrshire on the 2nd of December 1803
- Agnes Gall born in Galston, Ayrshire on the 13th of December 1804
- Jean Gall born in Galston, Ayrshire on the 11th of November 1807
3. Alexander Haddow (my ancestor) born on the 2nd June 1704 in Douglas, Lanarkshire. He married Anne Brown (born in Hamilton, Lanarkshire in 1709) circa 1733 and they had several children:
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- John Haddow born 11th March 1735 in Douglas, Lanarkshire. He died as an infant.
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- Robert Haddow born 1736 in Douglas, Lanarkshire. he was Christened on the 22nd of December 1736 in Douglas.
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- Margaret Haddow born on the 1st of October 1738 in Douglas, Lanarkshire
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- John Haddow (my ancestor) born 1741 in Douglas, Lanarkshire. Married Jane Greenshields in Douglas, Lanarkshire.
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They had five children:
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Thomas Haddow born 16th January 1763 in Douglas, Lanarkshire. He married Jane/Jean Symington in Douglas, Lanarkshire. Thomas worked as a shoemaker before taking over as keeper of the local church. He met Sir Walter Scott when he visited Douglas in 1831 to collect background material for his final novel ' Castle Dangerous'. Haddow cannot have been flattered to find he had inspired the character of the old sexton Lazarus Powheid. In honour of his services to the village a Memorial Stone was erected marking his death in 1849. He lies in the old churchyard buried with his wife and many of his children. They all lived long lives.
St Brides Churchyard, Douglas, Lanarkshire 1849
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'In grateful memory of Thomas Haddow, keeper of St Brides who died 13th Apr 1849 aged 86 years; Jean Symington his wife who died 18th Mar 1844 aged 84 years; John their son died 28th Jan 1859 aged 74 years; Grace their daughter died 2nd Apr 1874 aged 65 years; Thomas their son died 17th Aug 1879 aged 72 years'
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The children of Thomas Haddow and Jane/Jean Symington were
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Margaret Haddow born 19th April 1789 in Douglas, Lanarkshire
John Haddow born 25 December 1791 in Douglas, Lanarkshire
Andrew Haddow born 27th June 1796 in Douglas, Lanarkshire
William Haddow born 26th September 1797 in Douglas Lanarkshire, He died as an infant.
Jean Haddow born 16th January 1799 in Douglas, Lanarkshire
William Haddow born 1800 in Douglas, Lanarkshire
Mary Haddow born 28th February 1802 in Douglas, Lanarkshire
James Haddow born the 8th February 1804 in Douglas, Lanarkshire
Catherine Haddow born 12th April 1806 in Douglas, Lanarkshire
Helen Haddow born 28th July 1807 in Douglas, Lanarkshire
Thomas Haddow born 20th November 1808 in Douglas, Lanarkshire
George Inglis Haddow born on 13th February 1819 in Douglas, Lanarkshire
Grace Haddow born 15th January 1815 in Douglas Lanarkshire
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William Haddow born 28th July 1765 in Douglas, Lanarkshire He married Jean Begg and they had four daughters:
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Agnes Haddow born 30th January 1783 in Douglas, Lanarkshire
Mary Haddow born 23rd November 1784 in Douglas, Lanarkshire
Jean Haddow born 25th March 1786 in Douglas, Lanarkshire
Elizabeth Haddow born 1st June 1788 in Douglas, Lanarkshire
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John Haddow (my ancestor) born 13th December 1767 in Douglas, Lanarkshire. He married Jane Semple on the 19th September 1802 at the Old Parish Church in Hamilton , Lanarkshire. Her surname recorded as 'Semplee'. Like most of the Haddows the couple spent as much time in Hamilton as they did in Douglas.
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Their children:
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Catherine Haddow (my ancestor) born 1811 in Douglas, Lanarkshire, She married Alexander Waterston on 15th October 1836 at Hamilton, Lanarkshire. Click HERE to follow their story.
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Jane/Jean Haddow born 1816. She married Thomas Mair on the 12th November 1843 in Hamilton, Lanarkshire.
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They had one daughter Jane Haddow Mair born in Kirkton Village, East Kilbride in 1846.
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Thomas Mair died on the 1st of January 1865 from Fever at Kirkton Village, East Kilbride. He was 67 years old. The old village in East Kilbride was remote so Jane then made the move back to Hamilton to be closer to friends and family members. She lived at 38 High Patrick Street, Hamilton and can be found there on the 1881 census. She died at this address on the 14th of April 1890. Cause of death - Dropsy.
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- Jane Haddow Mair married Alexander Hamilton Wilson at 16 John Street, Hamilton, Lanarkshire on the 29th of December 1865. The had eight children together, only one of whom was born in Scotland. The family immigrated to Pennsylvania, USA in 1869. Their children were:
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- Jane Wilson born in the village of Rumblingsykes, Dalziel on the 21st of May 1866.
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- Elizabeth Wilson born in Pennsylvania in 1873. She died aged 21 in 1894 and is buried at West Newton, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Grace Wilson born in Pennsylvania in 1876
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- Marion Wilson born in Pennsylvania in 1880
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- Alexander Hamilton Wilson born in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania on the 19th of May 1883. He married Nettie Louise Small in Pennsylvania .
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- David Wilson born on the 8th of February 1886. He married Mary Piper and had a daughter Donna.
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- Donna Burd Wilson was born in 1934.
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She married Kenneth Roy Durling and they had four children
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- Lisa Durling
- Lori Durling
- Rosemary During
- Kenneth Durling
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- William Hamilton Wilson was born in Sutersville, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania on the 24th of March 1888. He married Alice Houston and they had two sons:
- Alexander (Alex) Hamilton Wilson born in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, USA on the 1st of September 1913
- William Hamilton Wilson born in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, USA on the 11th of July 1917
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- Thomas Mair Wilson born in Pennsylvania on the 13th of January 1896. He married Jane R Potts in Greensburg on the 28th of August 1926.
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Their children:
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- Patricia (Patty) Wilson born in Altoona, Blair County, Pennsylvania in 1928. She married Donald Seidel
- Thomas Wilson
- Douglas Wilson
- Alex Wilson
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- Margaret Wilson born in Pennsylvania
- Robert Wilson born in Pennsylvania
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James Haddow born 1825 in Hamilton, Lanarkshire. On the 1841 Census he's living at 6 Union Street with his father and brother David. James married Twice. Firstly to Jane Buchan Cameron and secondly to Mary McNoy.
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He married Jane Buchan Cameron on the 20th of June 1852 in Hamilton, Lanarkshire. They had two daughters:
- Christina Haddow born at 28 Union Street, Hamilton on the 4th of December 1855. She died as a baby from Inflammation of the bowels at the same address, on the 8th of March 1856.
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- Jane Buchan Haddow was born in Hamilton in 1861. She married Matthew Corbett at 9 Gateside Street, Hamilton on the 11th of June 1880. They had four children:
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- Jane Buchan Corbett born at 9 Gateside Street, Hamilton on the 21st of January 1880. She died as a baby from Heart Disease at 15 Bent Colliery Rows, Hamilton, Lanarkshire on the 1st of January 1882.
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- Mary Conder Corbett born on the 10th of April 1881 at 75 Townhead Street, Hamilton. After both her parents died she went to Burnbank, Hamilton to live with her adopted parents John and Agnes Weir. She married James Scott on the 1st of December 1905 at 7 Low Biggans, Mossend, Bellshill. Their six children were:
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- Jane Buchan Haddow Scott born in 1909 at Main Street, Shettleston. She married Thomas Johnstone in Dalziel, Motherwell in 1944.
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- Matthew Corbett Scott born on the 7th of May 1909 at Main Street, Shettleston. He married Eileen F Cassidy in Birmingham, Warwickshire, England in 1947. He died in August 1975.
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- Rachel Martin Scott was born in Shettleston, Glasgow on the 6th of December 1911. She married George Tudor in Ayr, Ayrshire on the 20th of January 1941. George was originally from Briton Ferry, Glamorganshire, Wales. He was the son of Thomas Tudor and Elizabeth Ann Tudor (nee Thomas) and was an Electric Battery Maker for the Royal Corps of Signals engaged in War Service. After the wedding they returned to Wales to live. Rachel died in West Glamorgan, Glamorganshire, Wales in June 1973.
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- James Scott born at 561 Old Shettleston Road, Glasgow on the 2nd of January 1914
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- Margaret Fyfe Blair Scott born at 561 Old Shettleston Road, Glasgow on the 12th of December 1916. She married John McGovern in Blythswood, Glasgow in 1945
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- Mary Corbett Scott was born at Belvedere Hospital, Glasgow on the 6th of June 1920. She was premature and died on the same day.
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- Jane Cameron Buchan Corbett was born in Hamilton in 1883. She died at Gateside Street, Hamilton, Lanarkshire, aged 2 years, from Measles on the 27th of June 1885.
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- James Haddow Corbett born at 31 Muir Street, Hamilton, Lanarkshire on the 12th of December 1884. He died 5 days later on the 17th of December 1884 at 9 Butterburn Place, Hamilton from convulsions.
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Baby James death was doubly cruel for the family. His mother Jane had suffered from complications during the birth and was unwell. She died the day after the birth, from Laryngitis, at 31 Muir Street, Hamilton on the 13th of December 1884.
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Matthew Corbett was 35 years old when he died on the 27th of June 1894. He was killed when he fell down a mine shaft at a pit in Hamilton, Lanarkshire.
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After Jane Buchan Cameron's death James married his second wife Mary McNoy. Mary had also been previously married. Her first husband, David Lang, was also dead. James and Mary married at 11 Haddow Street, Hamilton on the 21st of October 1881. They lived firstly at 75 Townhead Street, Hamilton and then later at 39 Muir Street, Hamilton. Mary Haddow (nee McNoy) died at the Combination Poor House, Hamilton on the 23rd of September 1893 from senile decay. She was 68 years old. James Haddow was 74 years old when he died at the Combination Poor House, Hamilton on the 17th of July 1899. He suffered a stroke.
David Haddow born 1826 in Hamilton, Lanarkshire. He's listed on the 1841 Census living on Union Street, Hamilton with his brother James and his father. He's 15 and a Cotton Hand Loom Weaver.
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Mary Haddow born 14th May 1770 in Douglas, Lanarkshire
Jean Haddow born 14th May 1770 in Douglas, Lanarkshire
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- James Haddow born 1743 in Douglas, Lanarkshire
- Henry Haddow born 1746 in Douglas, Lanarkshire
- Barbara Haddow born 1748 in Douglas, Lanarkshire
- Thomas Haddow born 1750 in Douglas, Lanarkshire
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4. Isobell Haddow born on 11th July 1705 in Douglas, Lanarkshire
5. Jean Haddow born on 7th July 1796 in Douglas, Lanarkshire
6. Marion Haddow born 1708 in Douglas, Lanarkshire
7. James Haddow born on 27th April 1712 in Douglas, Lanarkshire
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Through time John and Isobell moved back to Hamilton, Lanarkshire - He died there 11th April 1760 he is listed as a Malt man - Worked in a Malthouse where liquor was made such as whiskey and beer.
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