Margaret (Scott) Reid (1840 - 1905)

Born 27 Aug 1840 in Cupar, Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom

Ancestors

Wife of Andrew Fernie Reid — married 31 Dec 1863 in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom

Descendants

Died 30 Mar 1905 at age 64 in Elmira, New York, United States

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Biography

Shortly after they were married, James and Helen moved to Cupar, where four of their children were born, David Brunton Scott was born on the 26th July 1832, followed by Catherine, Margaret and Adam. Cupar was then a busy market centre, the administrative centre of Fife. Like Strathmiglo, Cupar is also built on the River Eden and surrounded by rolling hills. Much of Cupar’s prosperity came from wool trade and the town’s central location as a market serving much of eastern Fife. In the 1830s, Cupar was "a decidedly prosperous town". Cupar was financial centre, a new county headquarters was built in 1817, and the local newspaper, the Fife Herald, was founded in 1822 and by 1825 Cupar was home of four well-established breweries, spinning mills, flourmills and various other industrial enterprises. We can suppose that James was taking advantage of Cupar’s prosperity to further his trade of boot making.

About 10 years later James and Helen’s fifth child William was born in Leslie, another weaving town not far from Strathmiglo. James died in Leslie on the 2nd January, 1884. Helen died four years later, in Leven on the coast near Elie, on the 14th February 1888.

Margaret and Andrew Reid's descendants live in the U.S.

1880 census - Margaret and family living in Elmira, Chemung, New York.

In addition to the children listed in Wikitree, there were twins Alexander and Nellie Reid who were born and died in 1874 in New York.

Sources

• MARRIAGE - "Scotland, Marriages, 1561-1910," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XYMJ-MZN : accessed 17 May 2015), Andrew Reid and Margaret Scott, 31 Dec 1863; citing Edinburgh Parish,Edinburgh,Midlothian,Scotland, reference ; FHL microfilm 6,035,516.

• 1880 census - "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MZZZ-5M7 : 13 November 2020), Margret Reed in household of Andrew Reed, Elmira, Chemung, New York, United States; citing enumeration district ED 70, sheet 275A, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm 1,254,817.

• "New York State Census, 1892," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MQ39-THV : 10 December 2020), William H Reid, 1892; citing Elmira City, Ward 02, E.D. 01, county offices, New York; FHL microfilm 850,934.

• Genealogy Annat, Boog and Murdoch Ross families held by Dornoch History Links Archive