Walter
Biggar
Blaikie
Born in St. Cuthbert's Parish, Edinburgh, Scotland
Ancestors 
Brother of
James Andrew Blaikie, William Francis Garden Blaikie, Anna Louise Catherine (Blaikie) Murdoch, Jane Helen Blaikie, John Adrian Blaikie, Robert Henry Blaikie, Alfred Edward Blaikie, Alice Margaret (Blaikie) Mackenzie, Charles Louis Blaikie and Alan Keith Blaikie
Husband of
Janet Marshall (Macfie) Blaikie
— married
31 Jul 1873 in 14 Hope Terrace, Edinburgh, Scotland
Descendants 
Father of
Lillian (Blaikie) Kilpatrick, Margaret Blaikie, Louisa Gibson (Blaikie) Barnes, Janet Macfie (Blaikie) Duff and Isobel Alice Blaikie
Died
at age 80
in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom
Profile last modified
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Biographicak notes
Printer and Polymath
He was baptised by the Reverend Dr. Robert Smith Candlish, considered by admirers a leading evangelical of his generatioh, on "Sabbath, the Ninth January" seven weeks after his birth.
He started a career as an engineer in the Department of Public Works in India. This was not an ideal basis for family life, however, and in 1879 he started, with a former college chum, the printing firm which became T & A Constable of Edinburgh.
Married, 31st July 1873, Janet Marshall Macfie (born 18th June 1852; died 30th June 1942).
He is also recognized as a leading historian of the Jacobite Rebellions, especially by those who believe that the wrong side won. He himself found that the more he knew of 'Bonnie Prince Charlie' the less he liked the fellow. Nevertheless, that did not undermine his respect for the legitimacy of the Stuart cause in the war with the English.
In infancy he had the same nurse as his distant cousin, the writer Robert Louis Stevenson.
Walter Blaikie is Notable.
Walter was the son of William Garden Blaikie and Margaret Catherine Biggar. He married Janet Marshall Macfie.
Walter died on 3 May 1928.[1]
Sources
- ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #145065571
- Wikipedia: Walter Biggar Blaikie
- Wikidata: Item Q7964305, en:Wikipedia
- The source of most of this data is Kittybrewster.com - Blaikie Genealogy. — This is not a primary source and you are invited to improve upon it.
- The Peerage: Walter Blaikie
- Extract from a Register of Births and Baptisms ("Extract of entries in an Old Parochial Register") for the Parish of St. Cuthbert's, Edinburgh in the County of Midlothian dated 9 January 1848. Certfieid copy given "under the Seal of the General Register Office, Edinburgh" on 22 March 2000
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Walter by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Walter:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Walter by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Walter:
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~12.50%
~25.00%
James (Arbuthnot) Baron Arbuthnot of Edrom, of Edrom in the County of Berwick 
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