DESCENDANTS OF JAMES PEDDIE
[thanks to PJ for this]
please note, this is a very long document and published pretty much as received. I
have not gone through it with a fine tooth comb. If there are spelling or grammatical
mistakes I don’t need to be told. Thanks, Dave
INCLUDES THE LINEAGE OF JOHN DICK MORE PEDDIE - ARCHITECT
And another reference to him HERE
Generation No. 1
1. JAMES2 PEDDIE (? DAVID1) was born in migrated to Manchester. He
married ANN RATTRAY Bef. 1758.
Notes for JAMES PEDDIE: Occupation: was A Brewer
married 1. Helen Comb, 2. Ann Rattray
Children of JAMES PEDDIE and ANN RATTRAY are:
2.
i.
JAMES [REV]3 PEDDIE, b. 1758, Perth; d. 1845, Scotland,
Warriston
cemetery (opened in 1843) in Edinburgh. .
ii.
ANN PEDDIE, m. UNKNOWN GRIEG.
Notes for UNKNOWN GRIEG: Genealogy Index (Grouped by Family) for surnames
beginning . . . . . 21 OCT 1976) Lugton, Alexander Peddie Greig (b. 6 MAY . . .
Not Shown--) Lugton, Derek James (b. --Not Shown--) Lugton . . . 1825)
Lugton, George Lockhart Rev(b. --Not Shown . . .
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John Rev. Birth : 1878 - Death : 1955 . . Married to Greig, Alexander
Peddie Birth : 1841 - Death : UNKNOWN . . . Greig, James. Birth : 22 MAR . . .
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iii.
iv.
v.
vi.
LAWRENCE PEDDIE.
JOHN PEDDIE.
DAVID PEDDIE.
CHRISTIAN PEDDIE.
Generation No. 2
2. JAMES [REV]3 PEDDIE (JAMES2, ? DAVID1) was born 1758 in Perth, and
died 1845 in Scotland, Warriston cemetery (opened in 1843) in Edinburgh. .
He married (1) MARGARET COVENTRY, daughter of REV COVENTRY and
SPOUSE
UNKNOWN. She died 1792. He married (2) BARBARA SMITH 01 Sep 1787 in ST
Cuthberts, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, daughter of DONALD SMITH.
Notes for JAMES [REV] PEDDIE: *'''James Peddie''' ([[1758]]-[[1845]]),
Presbyterian divine; An able and judicious divine. Born at Perth. . . of
Edinburgh University; minister of the Bristo Street secession church in
Edinburgh, 1782-1845; twice moderator; took a leading part in the old and
new light controversy as a new light went in 1775 to Edinburgh University
. . licensed to preach in 1782. . at first he preached to fill a pulpit then he
was assigned to Bristo church and stayed til his death in 1818 marshal
College deferred him the degree of DD . . wrote many sermons
Rev Dr James Peddie of Bristo Church, Edinburgh was Moderator of the
Burgher Synod from 1789. He presided over the split between the Rev Dr
John Brown's 'Old Light Burghers and his own 'New Light Burghers in 1799.
The Rev Dr James Peddie married twice, his first marriage being to
Margaret Coventry, which brought a link by marriage with the civil and
railway engineers Benjamin Hall Blyth and Edward Lawrence Blyth which was
to be important later. His second marriage to Barbara Smith, daughter of
Lord Provost Donald Smith of the private bank Donald Smith & Company,
brought a significant range of business connections Ordained Apr 3 1783
to associate congregation Brist/Rose st
married 1. Barbara Smith, 2. Margaret Coventry
Notes for MARGARET COVENTRY: Oldest daughter
Notes for BARBARA SMITH:
second daughter Of Donald Smith . . . 1806-1807 Lord Provost of Edinburgh
Sheriff, Coroner Admiral with in city limits At Edinburgh, Age 75, Donald
Smith Esq, banker Lord Provost of Edinburgh [The Gentleman Magazine, Book
of Dignitaries ] Had 9 kids
Children of JAMES PEDDIE and BARBARA SMITH are:
3.
i.
WILLIAM [REV]4 PEDDIE, b. 1805, Christening: 25 OCT 1805 St
Cuthberts, Edinburgh; d. 23 Feb 1893. 4. ii.
ALEXANDER PEDDIE, b. 1810.
iii.
CHRISTIAN PEDDIE, b. Christening: 16 OCT 1803 St
Cuthberts, Edinburgh; d. (died). iv. DONALD SMITH PEDDIE, b. . . accountant
Edin, factor & tutor to James COLSTON.
Notes for DONALD SMITH PEDDIE:
LKS] MLN Testaments 1830-35 part 18
. . Foot d Montreal, Canada Aug 1834. Mrs . . . 1835. Donald Smith PEDDIE
accountant Edin . . . in the family of Sir . . . 1835. John CAMPBELL nephew of
. . . & West of Scotland FHS: Unit . . .
www. mail-archive. com/lanark-l@rootsweb. com/msg04440. html
v.
MARYANNE PEDDIE.
vi.
BARBARA PEDDIE, m. ? HARPER.
vii.
MARGARET PEDDIE, m. ? WATSON.
5.
viii.
JAMES PEDDIE, b. Abt. May 1798, ST
Cuthberts, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland.
ix.
JOHN SMITH PEDDIE, b. Christening: 3 JUN 1808 St Cuthberts,
Edinburgh.
Generation No. 3
3. WILLIAM [REV]4 PEDDIE (JAMES [REV]3, JAMES2, ? DAVID1) was born
1805
in Christening: 25 OCT 1805 St Cuthberts, Edinburgh, and died 23 Feb 1893.
He married (1) UNKNOWN
Notes for WILLIAM [REV] PEDDIE:
Dictionary of National Biography. . . By LESLIE. STEPHEN Life Notes] P. 387
Attended High School and university in Edinburgh In 1827 licensed to
preach the year later successor of his fathers church . . 1843 the degree
D. D. was given to him from the Jefferson College Penn. . Editor of the
United Presbyterian Magazine for years . . interested Mission in France
wrote a memoir to his father discourses in 1840 . . . Jubilee 1878
Child of WILLIAM PEDDIE and UNKNOWN is:
6.
i.
?5 PEDDIE.
4. ALEXANDER4 PEDDIE (JAMES [REV]3, JAMES2, ? DAVID1) was born 1810.
He
married CLARA ELIZABETH SIBBOLO ANDERSON, daughter of THOMAS
ANDERSON and
MARGARET SCOTT. She was born Abt. 1821 in c: 7 NOV 1821 in Selkirk.
Notes for ALEXANDER PEDDIE:
President Royal College of Physicians. . 1877. . . Graduated in 1835
EDINBURGH MEDICAL JOURNAL 1907 . . . EDITORIAL - DR. ALEXANDER
PEDDIE
It is not vouchsafed to many of the sons of men to cross
the hundred arches of the bridge of Mirza. A few escape the
“ Gates of Death” until they have passed the seventy
unbroken spans, but the numbers crossing the ruined arches
steadily lessen as they, like the subject of the present
notice, near the end of the visionary bridge. On high
authority it has been asserted that the later years of such
men are “but labour and sorrow”, yet the career of the
doyen of the Scottish medical profession shows that such a
statement is not of universal application. The retrospect
of a life remarkable for its usefulness and rich in its
fulfilment, instinct with broad sympathies and devoted to
wide interests, distinguished by generosity of thought and
magnanimity of mind, could not fail to furnish peace and
happiness, and this feeling was undoubtedly enhanced by the
assurance, on all hands, of the universal love and respect
of his fellow-countrymen.
Alexander Peddie belonged to the “Brahmin caste, ” as the Autocrat puts it,
and was the son of an eminent minister in Edinburgh. Born in 1810, his
earliest memories centred in the stirring scenes marking the decline and
fall of the great Napoleon.
At the High School he was a member of one of
the large classes characteristic of the time: that to which he belonged
included many men who afterwards attained distinction, all of whom passed
away before him. On leaving school, he spent a few years in a bank, but,
on the advice of Dr. Abercromby, he decided to study medicine, and became
in 1830 an apprentice to Mr. Syme at Minto House, where he was associated
with his lifelong friend, John Brown. Graduating at the University five
years later, he repaired to the Continent, and devoted himself more
particularly to study in Paris, whose medical school was then at the
zenith of one of its most famous epochs. It is of interest to note that on
his return to engage in practice, he was the first to introduce the stethoscope to
Edinburgh. In addition to engaging in
private practice, Dr. Peddie, in combination with Dr. Brown and Dr.
Cornwall, accepted the charge of the hospital at Minto House. From this
time onwards until his retirement, a few years ago, Dr. Peddie spent an
active life and enjoyed a large practice in his native city. He did not
restrict his energies, by any means, to medicine, but allowed his wide
sympathies free scope in many directions; his professional duties,
however, were ever first in his thoughts. At all times possessed of an
open mind, he was quick to detect any possibility of advances in
knowledge. As a proof of this, it may be mentioned that he was the
earliest to demonstrate in Edinburgh the animal parasites of skin
diseases. In two other directions, at least, he was far in advance of his
compeers.
At a comparatively early period of his career he recognized the
infectious nature of puerperal fever, and strove with all his energies to
o btain wide recognition of the fact. His name thus deserves to be
placed along with those of Oliver Wendell Holmes and Semmelweiss as one of the
pioneers in a great advance. Some years ago Professor Osler wrote to ask
Dr. Wendell Holmes whether he looked back with greater pleasure to his
paper on “ Puerperal Infectivity, ” or to the composition of the “
Chambered Nautilus, ” and received, as might be expected, a reply in favour
of the scientific advance rather than of the literary triumph. If a
similar query had been addressed to Dr. Peddie – if he had been asked
whether he would rather have his name associated in the future with a
practical achievement, bringing in its train the saving of countless
precious lives, or would the biography of his friend, which has delighted
a large circle of readers, there can be no question as to what his answer
would have been.
In another branch of medicine Dr. Peddie initiated
beneficial changes. Impressed by the failure attendant upon attempts to
deal with inebriates, he suggested views in regard to pathology a
nd treatment far in advance of those at the time in vogue. Earnest
consideration of the questions involved led him to the conclusion that
inebriety is to be regarded as the outcome of cerebral disease, and he,
therefore proposed that the management of such cases should be based upon
modern scientific conceptions. The practical outcome of his work in this
direction has certainly been of the highest value. Led by the results of
wide observation to recognise the want of it, he was amongst the
enlightened men who initiated the movement in favour of the institution
of a hospital for children, and to his advocacy of the cause the
foundation of the Royal Hospital for Sick Children is in great part
due. Dr. Peddie contributed numerous papers and articles upon these and
many other subjects to medical literature, the largest number of which
appeared in the pages of this Journal. These contributions are marked by
breadth of view and originality of thought, while characterised by
lucidity of style and purity of diction. During his professional care
er many
honours were bestowed upon him: he became President of the Royal College
of Physicians in 1877 and of the Harveian Society in 1890. In this latter
capacity he performed a pious duty by devoting the Annual Oration to a
delightful sketch of the life of “ Rab. ” This charming biography was
afterwards extended, and will remain one of the most graceful tributes to
friendship afforded by our profession. In his personal character Dr. Peddie
was one of the most lovable of mankind. This did not arise from weakness,
for he was equally strong in defence of what he deemed right and in
denunciation of what he considered wrong; it arose from his generous
instincts and kindly ways. These traits were ever in evidence on his
aristocratic features and in his steadfast eye; his expression was
singularly winning as it reflected his changing moods from grave to gay;
his bearing was a charming survival of a courteous past. Always fond of
music, he possessed an excellent voice, and with Professors
Christison, Bennett, and Maclagan, formed the quartet so popular in the
rendering of glees. During his later years he showed a love for the
brush, and produced water-colour sketches of much beauty.
*CHECKLIST OF MANUSCRIPTS IN THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF .
..
. . See: CULLEN, William, 11. PATERSON, George Andrew [1811 - 1893]. See:
ROYAL COLLEGE OF . . . Presented by RI Bunting, 1947. PEDDIE, Alexander
[1810 - 1907]. 1. Printed . . . www. rcpe. ac. uk/library/manuscript/p. html 14k - Cached - Similar pages
*Dr. Alexander Peddie, Doctor of Medicine, was President of the Royal
College of Physicians, Queen Street, Edinburgh, 1877 - 1879. He died in
1907. Some of his decendents settled in Iowa and California in the late
1800's. His grandson, Alexander, b. 1885 was one of the early casualties
in the opening battle of World War 1. [Thanks to George Peddie of Scotland
for this]. . . . Peddie reasearch
*And here is some more information from Christopher Peddie in the
USA. . . Peddie research I am a direct descendent of Dr. Alexander Peddie of
Edinburgh, Scotland. He was the first Scottish physician to use the
anesthetic Chloriform. The "Alexander" name has passed down to all male
members of my family. My son's name is Lucas Alexander Peddie. He is 24.
I'm the doctor's Great, Great, Great Grandson. Our family crest, displayed
above is on the far left. I have it in my home, along with hundreds of
pictures and documented items. Nice to know the site is here. [Christopher
Alexander Peddie, Pensacola, FL. , USA]
Children of ALEXANDER PEDDIE and CLARA ANDERSON are:
7.
i.
ALEXANDER5 PEDDIE, b. 21 Nov 1853, b: 21 NOV 1853 in St
Cuthberts, Edinburgh. . emigrated to America and eventually settled in Iowa.
ii.
JAMES PEDDIE.
iii.
MARY ANN PEDDIE.
iv.
THOMAS ANDERSON PEDDIE.
v.
HENRY ANDERSON PEDDIE.
vi.
MARGARET SCOTT PEDDIE.
vii.
BARBARA SMITH PEDDIE.
viii.
CLARA PEDDIE.
5. JAMES4 PEDDIE (JAMES [REV]3, JAMES2, ? DAVID1) was born Abt. May
1798
in ST Cuthberts, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland. He married MARGARET DICK
16 Aug 1821 in 16 AUG 1821 in Edinburgh & Glasgow, daughter of JOHN [REV]
DICK.
Notes for JAMES PEDDIE:
Christening: 14 MAY 1798 Saint Cuthberts, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
migrated to Manchester apprenter to James Grieg fact from A History of the
Society of Writers to Her Majesty's
Notes for MARGARET DICK:
dau of The Reverend John Dick-of Glasglow . . . received his license as a
preacher from the Associate presbytery of Perth and Dunfermline . . . the
first year of his ministry he lived with Dr Peddie of Edinburgh
. . . www. electricscotland. com/history/other/dick_john. htm
Children of JAMES PEDDIE and MARGARET DICK are:
i.
JAMES5 PEDDIE, b. 16 Oct 1822, in Saint
Cuthberts, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland.
Notes for JAMES PEDDIE:
# Title: -civil engineer
# Birth: 16 OCT 1822 in Saint Cuthberts, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
8.
ii.
JOHN DICK PEDDIE, b. 24 Feb 1824, St
Cuthberts, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland.
Twin of William Peddie
iii.
WILLIAM PEDDIE, b. 24 Feb 1824, St
Cuthberts, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland.
Notes for WILLIAM PEDDIE:
Twin of John Dick Peddie
Generation No. 4
7. ALEXANDER5 PEDDIE (ALEXANDER4, JAMES [REV]3, JAMES2, ? DAVID1)
was
born 21 Nov 1853 in b: 21 NOV 1853 in St Cuthberts, Edinburgh. . emigrated to
America and eventually settled in Iowa. He married (1) LETA GERTRUDE
HOLMAN. He married (2) CARRIE JOSEPHINE ROPER 21 Oct 1875 in Iowa,
daughter of FRANKLIN ROPER and CLARISSA BEERS.
Notes for ALEXANDER PEDDIE:
# Name: Alexander PEDDIE
# Birth: 21 NOV 1853 in St Cuthberts, Edinburgh
ALEXANDER PEDDIE Occupation Farmer
Age 28
Sex M
Literacy U
Arrived 1880-05-04
Origin Scotland
Port Glasgow
Last Residence
Destination UNITED STATES
Plan Unknown
Ship Anchoria
Passage Unknown
* Note Dennis King stated . . . I really think the Alexander Peddie than came
to the United States arrived 31 Oct. 1871. The 1900 and 1930 United Stated
Federal Census indicate that and also the New York passenger ship list
record. [rootsweb]
*note Patti McRae stated Alex Peddie lived in Emmetsburg and had a
daughter, Clara, who married great-uncle on my mothers's side, Albert
Schirmer. I can provide more information about this family if you are
interested. . [rootsweb]
*his father Doctor Alexander Peddie (President Royal College of Physicians
1877)He emigrated to America and eventually settled in Iowa (was
something in the Masonic Lodge). One of his descendants called Price
(forgothis first name) was a USN Commander who died in California very
recently , Cupercino I think.
Palo Alto County Directories. . . Michael, meat market SCOTT, James, sorghum
mill. Scottish American . . . Co. (limited) Alexander PEDDIE comnr. , Norman
J . . . A. , jeweler SMITH, Rev. JJ (Catholic) SOPER
. . . www. celticcousins. net/paloalto/1883dir. htm - Alexander Peddie & Carrie
Josephine Roperhttp: //www. e-familytree. net/f6626. htm
Dar Members
. . Born in Emmetsburg, Iowa. Wife of Francis Edward Allen. Descendant of
Daniel Roper, as follows: 1. Alexander Peddie (b. 1853) m. 1875 Josephine
Roper (1857 . . . http: //www. celticcousins. net/paloalto/dar. htm
www. celticcousins
Notes for LETA GERTRUDE HOLMAN:
Leta Gertrude Holman
Notes for CARRIE JOSEPHINE ROPER:
Carrie Josephine Roper 5
Husband Alexander Peddie
Wife Carrie Josephine Roper 5
Married: 21 Oct 1875 - Emmetsburg, , IA
Born: 16 Sep 1857 - Horicon, Dodge, WI
Christened:
Died: 22 Feb 1896
Carrie Josephine Roper 5
Father: Franklin Horatio Roper (1824-1910) 5
Mother: Clarissa Ann Beers (1827-1887) 5
Children of ALEXANDER PEDDIE and CARRIE ROPER are:
i.
CLARA ANDERSON6 PEDDIE, b. 1877, Born: 22 Aug 1877 Emmetsburg, , IA.
ii.
MARGARET JOSEPHINE PEDDIE, b. 1878, Born: 10 Sep 1878 Emmetsburg, ,
IA. iii. FRANKLIN ALEXANDER PEDDIE, b. 1881, Born: 15 May 1881 Emmetsburg, , IA. iv.
BARBARA ISABELLE PEDDIE, b. 1883, Born: 10
Feb 1883
- Emmetsburg, , IA. v.
JESSIE MARY ROPER PEDDIE, b. 1887, Born: 7
Sep
1887 - Emmetsburg, , IA. vi.
HENRY SCOTT CRAWFORD PEDDIE, b.
1890, Born:
1 Nov 1890 - Edinburgh, , , Scotland. vii. WILLIAM JOSEPH PEDDIE, b.
1892, Born: 10 May 1892 - Emmetsburg, , IA.
8. JOHN DICK5 PEDDIE (JAMES4, JAMES [REV]3, JAMES2, ? DAVID1) was
born 24
Feb 1824 in St Cuthberts, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland. He married
EUPHEMIA LOCKHART MORE 1851, daughter of JAMES STEPHEN MORE.
Notes for JOHN DICK PEDDIE:
# Title: -architect
# Sex: M
# Birth: 24 FEB 1824 in Edinburgh
# Note:
John Dick Peddie
Designation: Architect
Born: 24 February 1824
Died: 12 March 1891
Bio Notes from the Dictionary of Scottish Architects
http: //www. codexgeo. co. uk/dsa/ John Dick Peddie and his twin brother
William were born in Edinburgh on 24 February 1824, the second and
third sons of James Peddie WS and his wife Margaret Dick. Both the
Peddies and the Dicks were prominent families within the United
Associate Synod which became the United Presbyterian Church in 1848,
Peddie's grandfather the Rev Dr James Peddie of Bristo Church,
Edinburgh having been Moderator of the Burgher Synod from 1789. He
presided over the split between the Rev Dr John Brown's 'Old Light'
Burghers and his own 'New Light' Burghers in 1799.
The Rev Dr James
Peddie married twice, his first marriage being to Margaret Coventry,
which brought a link by marriage with the civil and railway engineers
Benjamin Hall Blyth and Edward Lawrence Blyth which was to be
important later. His second marriage to Barbara Smith, daughter of
Lord Provost Donald Smith of the private bank Donald Smith & Company,
brought a significant range of business connections. Like his twin
brother William, John Dick Peddie was originally intended for a legal
career, their eldest brother James having become a civil engineer.
John and William attended Edinburgh University from 1839 but in 1842
their careers diverged when John was allowed to become an architect
and was articled to David Rhind. While there he entered the
competition for the National Bank buildings in Queen Street, Glasgow,
in 1844 and, although he probably did not know it at the time, his
design reached the final selection, that ultimately chosen being by
Charles Barry's assistant John Gibson.
In 1845 he established his own
independent practice at his father's house at 36 Albany Street and was
successful at once, deservedly winning the competition for the Synod
Hall (although the influence of his father and his uncle by marriage
Professor the Rev Dr James Harper must have helped) and that for the
proposed Gilmorehill Cemetery in Glasgow which was not built.
In 1848 Peddie moved his practice to 1 George Street, the office of his uncle,
Donald Smith Peddie, a chartered accountant, and from there he won the first of
several poorhouse competitions, that for South Leith, and was involved in
the design of the Caledonian Station through his Blyth cousins, then
senior assistants with Grainger & Miller, probably following the
railway's dispute with Sir William Tite over non-payment of fees.
In 1849 the Peddie family bought Lauriston Park, commencing Peddie's
long-running involvement with Chalmers Street and Chalmers Hospital, and
in the same year he made a feuing plan for Laverock Bank, where his
grandmother and his uncle Donald Smith Peddie had their house, an area he
was to develop speculatively for villas. He then seems to have taken a
short career break, leaving an assistant, David Jamieson, in charge of
the office: in the autumn of 1850, or just possibly rather earlier,
c. 1844-45, he made an extensive continental tour which embraced
Constantinopl e, Prague, Munich and Regensburg. His visits there were
mentio ned in h
is lecture 'On the Architectural Features of Edinburgh' given on 12
February 1851 to the Architectural Institute of Scotland of which he had
been one of the founder members in 1850.
This tour brought about a lifelong interest in contemporary German architecture and
theology which was to lead to his sons being educated at Elberfeld. On 21 July
1851 Peddie married Euphemia Lockhart More, the daughter of James Stephen
More
and a descendant of the Rev George More of South Shields, co-founder with
the Rev Dr James Peddie of the Friendly Society of Dissenting Ministers, a
pension fund which helped finance some of Peddie's early property
investments. They set up house and office at 10 Nelson Street, which was
rented. Through his father-in-law Peddie secured the business of the Royal
Bank of Scotland which established a branch network between 1854 and 1857,
nearly all of the buildings being designed by Peddie. All were built in a
stylish eye-catching palazzo form, and monogrammed, bringing the practice a
nationwide reputation.
It became UK-wide when he added a new telling room to the head office in 1857, a
project reported and illustrated in 'The Builder' on 21 May 1859. Concurrently
with these developments at the Royal Bank Peddie and his civil engineer
brother James promoted the Edinburgh High Street and Railway Access
Company's proposals for the formation of Cockburn Street, first mooted in
1851, and made more feasible by the Limited Liability Act of 1855. For
this the Improvement Act of 1827 had set the precedent of 'Old Scots or
Flemish' for Old Town developments. That and over-commitment on Royal
Bank business induced him to take a partner skilled in 'Old Scots' who
also had some capital to inject into the rapidly expanding practice.
Peddie's choice fell on Charles George Hood Kinnear, born at Kinloch,
Fife on 30 May 1830, the second son of Charles Kinnear of Kinnear and
Kinloch and a member of the banking family Thomas Kinnear & Company.
His mother was Christian Jane Greenshields, only child of the wealthy
Edinburgh advocate John Boyd Greenshields who had married Jane Boyd,
heiress to the small Dunbartonshire estate of Drum and adopted her
name as an additional surname. Charles Kinnear was educated privately
with his elder brother, the London advocate, politician and radical
journalist John Boyd Kinnear whom he followed to Edinburgh University
prior to being articled to David Bryce, than of Burn & Bryce in 1849;
his home address was then his Greenshields grandmother's house at 125
Princes Street. Peddie appears to have recruited him on a part-time
basis late in 1853 or early in 1854 when his handwriting appears on
the detail sheets for the Sir Michael Street Church in Greenock, but
by that date he was already undertaking study tours, sketches still in the
possession of the family showing that he was in Palermo on 9 March 1853 and Pisa
on 13 December 1854. Shortly after returning home from the second tour he set
up his own household at 17 Alva Street and commenced an independent
practice which seems to have consisted only of improvements on the
Kinnear and Kinloch estates.
After less than two years as Peddie's assistant he was made a partner, apparently
on 1 January 1856 although his RIBA nomination form gives 1855, probably the date
of the partnership agreement. Thereafter Kinnear appears to have taken charge of
the drawing office, Burn & Bryce drawing office methods being consistently adopted
with nearly all the drawings signed in Kinnear's handwriting. By the
time the partnership had been formed, Kinnear had become deeply
interested in photography, perhaps through his former master David Bryce,
who was also a pioneer photographer. Together with the architect David
MacGibbon and Sir David Brewster, Bryce and Kinnear co-found ed the P
hotographic Society of Scotland in 1856, Brewster being president and
Kinnear secretary. In the same year Kinnear made a photographic study tour
which embraced Milan; and in the following year, 1857, he invented the
first bellows camera, which was made for him by a Mr Bell of Potterrow. He
took it on a study tour of northern France, followed by another in
Germany.
Kinnear was able to make these study tours through
inheritance. When he came of age in 1852 he fell heir to a large number of
Edinburgh properties from his Greenshields grandfather, and on the death
of his grandmother in 1856 he also came into full possession of 125
Princes Street and the estate of Drum. One of these houses, 12 Howe
Street, provided the larger premises the partnership required. Family
connections were reinforced by volunteer connections from 1859 onwards
when he joined the First Midlothian County (Midlothian Coast) Artillery
Volunteer Brigade. He was commissioned as a lieutenant in July 1860 and
quickly rose to become captain of the Portobello battery, then second
major, and as senior major one of the three officers who financed the
building of the regimental headquarters in Grindlay Street in 1866.
From the very beginning the partnership was hugely successful as
commissions for major public buildings and churches flowed in: Dublin
Street Baptist Church in Edinburgh in 1856; the Scottish Provident
Institute in Edinburgh, where Donald Smith Peddie was on the board, in
1858; Morrison's Academy in Crieff in 1859; and Morgan's Hospital in
Dundee in 1860. They also had considerable success in competitions,
winning that for Sydney Place UP Church in Glasgow in 1857 and coming
second for the Wallace Monument and St Mary's Free Church, Edinburgh in
1858, the design for the latter being realised at Pilrig Free Church in
the same city in 1860. In the following year, 1861, they won that for
Aberdeen Sheriff Court, which grew into the much larger municipal
buildings project in the following year. The single major disappointment was t he
reconstruction and enlargement of the Bank of Scotland Head Office in
Edinburgh, commissioned by the Treasurer Alexander Blair in the autumn of
1859 but retrieved by David Bryce from his successors after Kinnear was
instructed to seek his opinion on their designs.
Peddie & Kinnear were, however, given all of the bank's provincial branch business,
and after initially building some relatively simple Italianate structures, Kinnear
followed David MacGibbon's lead in adopting a Scots vernacular idiom as
the bank's house style for new construction. This greatly increased volume
of business required a larger office, 3 South Charlotte Street being
bought for the purpose in 1866. It also led to a marked increase in
Peddie's social standing, expressed first in a large terrace house at 21
Claremont Crescent, built in 1860 and then in a much grander one at 33
Buckingham Terrace, built along with number 34 in 1866. Not long
thereafter he also rented from the Countess of Seafield the estate of
Muckrach in Inverness-shire, primarily for the fishing. Election as ARSA
followed in 1868, and full academician and treasurer only two years
later. The Academy was to become a showcase for his ambitious proposals
for Princes Street, an interest which seems to have stemmed from his
North British Station and Waverley Market competition designs of 1866
and the unbuilt Caledonian Hotel scheme of 1868, the biggest
disappointment of Peddie's career.
To keep their office continuously employed, Peddie & Kinnear began building
speculatively in Edinburgh from the mid-1860s, taking over the Grosvenor Crescent
section of Robert Matheson's West Coates development and extending it into
Palmerston Place. This sold well and with a relative dearth of commissions for
public buildings, now increasingly determined by open competition, the
partners set about creating new business through property, hydropathic
and hotel companies in which they and a select circle of business
associates were the major shareholders, a tactic made less hazardous by the Li
mited Liability Act of 1855 and the Companies Act of 1862.
The first of these were the Heritable Securities Association and the Scottish Lands
and Buildings Company, founded in 1862 and 1864 respectively, followed by the
Craiglockhart Estates Company in 1873 and a number of smaller companies.
Nearly all of these were managed by the Edinburgh chartered accountant
Alexander Thomas Niven. Their authorised capital was not fully paid up,
the balance being met by advertising for funds on deposit at interest
rates of 3 to 4 %. Initially these companies were primarily concerned with
housing developments, but when the Caledonian Railway moved the site of
its proposed Central Station to the eastern side of Hope Street, the
Blythswoodholm Building Company, backed by the Scottish Lands and
Buildings Company, took over the original site on the west side for a
major hotel and shopping arcade development. In this project Peddie
realised some of the ideas in the unbuilt schemes for St Enoch Station
in Glasgow and the North British and Caledonian Hotels in Edinburgh, but
with Alexander Thomson-based elevations.
By 1877 the Scottish Lands and Buildings Company had become overstretched as
costs escalated and
disposed of its interest to the Scottish Heritable Securities Company.
Further capital was raised but in 1878 the City of Glasgow Bank crashed.
This provoked a prolonged recession and in 1879 the Caledonian Railway
decided to convert its offices into an hotel, bringing about the
liquidation of the Blythswood Building Company and of the Scottish
Heritable Securities Company in 1882 when a £70, 000 bond was called in.
Kinnear's Scottish Lands and Buildings Company also went into
liquidation, but it was a voluntary one and it somehow managed to remain
solvent. Peddie & Kinnear's other property companies fared no better as
a result of the recession and the withdrawal of loan capital: calls for
capital from companies which no longer had a value were to plague both
partners to the end of their lives.
The partners similarly incurred heavy losses in their two large
hydropathic developments: Dunblane, where the company was formed in
1874, and Craiglockhart, a by-product of the Craiglockhart Estates
Company, formed in 1877. At Callander, where they acted as consultants
to the Stirling architect and civil engineer Francis Mackison in
1878-80, they were careful to avoid subscribing any capital. All three
hydropathics failed in 1884 and were sold to hoteliers: the only one
to survive was Shandon where the capital cost had been kept low by
buying the existing mansion by John Thomas Rochead for a fraction of
its original cost. In 1878 the Peddie & Kinnear practice briefly
became Peddie, Kinnear & Peddie with the return to the office of John
More Dick Peddie. Born in Edinburgh on 21 August 1853 and educated at
the Edinburgh Academy from 1864 to 1868 followed by two years at the
Real Schule Elberfeld, he entered the science faculty at Edinburgh
University in 1870 while on a short articled apprenticeship with his father. He then
obtained a place in the office of George Gilbert Scott, returning to the office in 1875
as an assistant after a grand tour which took him as far south as Sicily.
After his return the practice's church work took on an English Gothic
rather than the continental Romanesque which had characterised his
father's.
When John More Dick Peddie became a partner the practice was
also joined by Peddie's fifth son Walter Lockhart Dick Peddie, born in
Edinburgh on 7 November 1865 and educated at Fettes College. He may have
been less academically minded than Peddie's other sons: he did not go to
Elberfeld and of all Peddie's sons he was the only one not to go to
university, signing drawings at the early age of fourteen.
In 1879 Peddie withdrew from the practice at the age of fifty-five. He did not
become a retired Academician, thereby blocking the election of both
Kinnear and his son, and retained his membership by exhibiting old pr
ojects. Although it has been stated that he retired to enter p olitics,
it was at least as much to repair the family fortunes and provide for his
unmarried sisters and daughters by becoming a fund manager. His sisters
were a particular problem to him as his unmarried brother James had never
had a particularly successful business and his father had somehow lost
his money, probably through acting as a 'cautioner'. He had had to sell
the house his son built for him in Lansdowne Crescent in 1867 and become
his son's tenant and pensioner in Chalmers Street.
Preparations for Peddie's change of career appear to have been made for more than
a decade
as he had been building up directorships since at least the mid-1860s,
and in May 1875 he bought Veitch's Hotel at 122 George Street, Edinburgh
in partnership with the solicitor William John Menzies, converting it
into shops and offices to provide a steady income stream from rents. To
achieve this they borrowed £12, 000 from the Earl of Moray and £5, 000 from
the vendors, but after a very few years these bond s became a problem
and after some re-mortgaging Peddie bought out Menzies's interest in
1884. Although several architectural practices took chambers in this
building it is doubtful if it ever produced much of a net income after
servicing the bonds. Peddie secured the Liberal nomination for
Kilmarnock burghs in 1878 and won the seat on the Disestablishment issue
on 8 April 1880 despite the splitting of the vote by an unofficial
pro-Establishment Liberal candidate.
At Westminster he represented the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings'
interests as well as the Disestablishment interest. On the first day of each
parliamentary session he gave notice of his intention to introduce a resolution to
implement disestablishment. Although initially unsuccessful he hired halls in every
sizeable town in Scotland to whip up interest and on 23 June 1884 he
eventually won a place in the ballot and exchanged his resolution for a
private members' bill introduced on 24 October 18 84. The bill never
came to a vote. Peddie's business interests had taken him on a voyage round the
world. It must have been a welcome absence.
The reputation and financial circumstances of the entire Peddie
family had been compromised by Peddie's chartered accountant uncle Donald
Smith Peddie and making money had become even more important than it had
been. As a result of the divorce action by one of his clients his uncle
had fled to the USA in November 1882 and was found to have liabilities of
£75, 000 and realisable assets of £4, 565, chiefly represented by the house
Peddie had built for him in Trinity. Peddie's £800 bond on that property
was amongst those 'left out of view' and the Peddie family had to
subscribe heavily towards the £25, 940 missing from the accounts of the
Friendly Society of Dissenting Ministers which he had been raiding since
at least 1845.
Peddie's interest in overseas investment dated back to
at least 1873. Together with Sir George Warrender, Edward Blyth, Thomas
Nelson and others he was a founder of the Scottish Ame
rican Trust of which James A Roosevelt was one of the American directors.
Peddie's remit was to advise on property investment and Blyth's on
railroads, and following the Trust's decision not to hold property
directly, the Peddies formed the Scottish American Land Company in 1880,
Peddie's third son William, born 27 March 1859, being sent out to
Emmetsburg in 1883 to assist Alexander Peddie, who was an uncle already
resident in Iowa. Peddie's other American interests included the United
States Mortgage Company of Scotland and after he became an MP he bought a
large shareholding in James L Lombard's American and General Mortgage and
Investment Corporation Ltd, of which he became a director. Along with
other members of the family he subscribed to the formation of the
Scottish and New Zealand Company in 1877 and to the Colonial and
Investment Company of New Zealand: he was a director of both of these and
for a time chairman of one of them.
Peddie and his wife set off for Aus tralia and New Zealand in the autumn of 1885 to
inspect these operations, but a crisis of confidence amongst the American and
Canadian shareholders led him to cut short his visit to Australasia and sail for
the United States. Somewhere on the voyage Euphemia died and her body was
brought home for burial in Dean Cemetery on 31 December. Early in the New
Year he returned to Australia, in March he met Lombard to look at the
operations in Kansas, and in April he returned home to report to his
several boards.
Peddie's parliamentary seat was lost in his absence because of the split Liberal vote
in November 1885. The Conservatives won by 293 votes and despite a request from
Gladstone to stand again in July 1886 he declined: in his son Coventry's words, he
had 'not the wherewithal' as a result of heavy borrowing to finance his New Worlds
investments. The zenith of his business career came in July 1887 when he
became first chairman of the hugely successful Scottish Investment Trust
formed by his solicitor brother's firm Peddie & Ivory. But two years
later he took one final gamble by investing in Pollok Patents and two
related companies, the Grass Valley Gold Company in the USA and the
Australian Gold Extracting Company, all three of which were linked to
Peddie & Ivory's Scottish Investment Trust and Second Scottish
Investment Trust. These briefly brought him a very large income in
director's fees but the processes on which these companies were based
proved uneconomic. He did not live to see their collapse in 1892-94 as
he had become seriously ill in 1890 and had to resign all his
directorships. An operation was carried out early in 1891 but he died on
12 March, leaving moveable assets of £26, 432 2s 10d, liabilities of
£10, 002 13s 0d, his houses in Buckingham Terrace and Chalmers Street and
the heavily mortgaged office building at 122 George Street. His net
moveable estate was calculated at £16, 429 9s 10d but because of bonds
the net worth of his property interests is difficult to guess. (See
separate entry on Kinnear & Peddie for the continued history of the practice after Pe
ddie's withdrawal. )
Private and Business Addresses
The following private or business addresses are associated with this
architect: Address Type Date from Date to Notes 36, Albany Street,
Edinburgh, Scotland Business 1845 1848 1, George Street, Edinburgh,
Scotland Business 1848 1856(?) 12, Howe Street, Edinburgh, Scotland
Business 1856 1866 21, Claremont Crescent, Edinburgh, Scotland Private
1860 33, Buckingham Terrace, Edinburgh, Scotland Private 1866 3, South
Charlotte Street, Edinburgh, Scotland Business 1866 1879
Employment and Training
Employers
The following individuals or organisations employed or trained this
architect (click on an item to view details): Name Date from Date to
Position Notes Peddie & Kinnear 1 January 1856 1878 Partner Peddie,
Kinnear & Peddie 1878 1879 Partner David Rhind 1842 1845 Apprentice
In 1881 John was visiting London, staying at Pall Mall.
Jno. D. PEDDIE Household
Male
Birth Year <1824>
Birthplace Edinburgh, Scotland
Age 57
Occupation Architect
Marital Status M <Married>
Head of Household Jno. BENNETT
Relation Lodger
Dwelling 12 Pall Mall
Census Place London, Middlesex, England
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Public Records Office Reference RG11
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Page Number 4
Household: Name Relation Marital Status Gender Age Birthplace
Occupation Disability Jno. BENNETT Head M Male 74 Soberton, Hampshire,
England Lodging House Keeper Jane BENNETT Wife M Female 54 Bridgetown,
Devon, England (DEAN OF DURHAM) Lodger U Male 64 St Georges Hanover
Sq, Middlesex, England Clergyman Jno. D. PEDDIE Lodger M Male 57
Edinburgh, Scotland Architect Alf. ILLINGWORTH Lodger M Male 54
Bradford, York, England Worsted Spinner (Lord) CARNEGIE Other U Male
26 Scotland Retired Capt In Army
------------------------------------------------------------------------------Marriage 1 Euphemia Lockhart MORE * Married: 21 JUL 1851 in Edinburgh
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------magnificent banking hall. . Further internal changes were made to Dundas
House by William Burn in 1836. His plans necessitated the removal of the
original staircase from the vestibule, along with the floor between the
vestibule and the room above, in order to create a new, high entrance
hall with twin stairs ascending to an east landing. By the mid-nineteenth
century, the growth of the Bank’s business at 36 St Andrew Square was so
marked as to demand the creation of further accommodation. In 1857 John
Dick Peddie, of the Edinburgh architectural firm of Peddie & Kinnear, was
commissioned by the Bank to redesign the head office entirely. Peddie’s
plans were approved by the board in March 1858. His design respected
Chambers’ exterior, but Burn’s stair hall was made into the present
vestibule, with a first floor landing and superimposed Greek, Ionic and
Corinthian screens of coupled columns. The original stairwell was once
again opened up to create a square, two-storey hall with fish-scale
coving. A new stair with a Rococo ceiling was built to the north of the
hall together with a library and rooms for book and plate safes. On the
east side of Dundas House Peddie removed Chambers’ bow, rebuilt the
north-east wing and added the banking hall on the main axis. The hall
took three years to complete and was sixty feet square, with fifteen by
thirty feet recesses to the west and east ends. Each recess was crowed by
a semi-circular arch. Corresponding arches were formed in the side walls.
The room was surmounted by a large dome, which sprang from the same level
as the arches of the recesses. The spandrils, formed by the intersection
of the dome and side walls, had, in the centre, large circular
compartments occupied by figures representing Commerce, Agriculture,
Navigation and the Arts. The spandrils and the rest of the dome were
separated by an ornamental band or golosche. The dome was made up of five
concentric tiers of glazed stars, twenty-four in each tier. The new
banking hall was opened in 1861. http: //www. roya lbanksco
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Peddie and Charles G. H. Kinnear Pilkington was not the only Edinburgh
architect to cater for those with robust tastes. John Dick Peddie and
Charles G. H. Kinnear, better known as classical and baronial designers
respectively, were responsible for Pilrig Free Church, Edinburgh, with its
tall spire, double transepts with aggressive mincer plate tracery in the
Samuel Sanders Tuelon manner, built in 1861-63. Of the same family, but
plainer, is their Hope Park United Presbyterian Church, St. Andrews of
1864. In the following decade, Peddie and Kinnear were responsible for a
number of Germanic Romanesque churches of which Bonnygate Unite
Presbyterian at Cupar ( 1876 ) and East Linton Free ( 1879 ) survive.
Whether or not these churches reflect the fact that both architects were
indefatigable continental travellers, or the completion of the
architectural education of the younger Peddie, John More Dick Peddie, in
Germany is difficult to say.
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Children of JOHN PEDDIE and EUPHEMIA MORE are:
i.
JOHN MORE DICK PEDDIE, b. 1853, c: 9 OCT 1853 in Bristo Associate
Congregation, Edinburgh.
Notes for JOHN MORE DICK PEDDIE: In 1878 the Peddie & Kinnear practice
briefly became Peddie, Kinnear & Peddie with the return to the office of
John More Dick Peddie. Born in Edinburgh on 21 August 1853 and educated at
the Edinburgh Academy from 1864 to 1868 followed by two years at the Real
Schule Elberfeld, he entered the science faculty at Edinburgh University
in 1870 while on a short articled apprenticeship with his father. He then
obtained a place in the office of George Gilbert Scott, returning to the
office in 1875 as an assistant after a grand tour which took him as far
south as Sicily. After his return the practice's church work took on an
English Gothic rather than the continental Romanesque which had
characterised his father's. When John More Dick Peddie became a partner
the practice was also joined by Peddie's fifth son Walter Lockhart Dick
Peddie, born in Edinburgh on 7 November 1865 and educated at Fettes
College. He may have been less academically minded tha
n Peddie's other sons: he did not go to Elberfeld and of all Peddie's
sons he was the only one not to go to university, signing drawings at the
early age of fourteen.
ii.
CATHERINE HELEN LOCKHART PEDDIE, b. 1856, b: 30 JAN 1856 in
Edinburgh, Scotland. iii.
JAMES PEDDIE, b. b: 25 AUG 1857 in
Edinburgh, Scotland. iv.
WILLIAM DICK-PEDDIE, b. 1859, b: 27 MAR 1859
in
Edinburgh, Scotland; d. 1950, died JUN 1950 in Emmetsburg, Palo Alto, Iowa
USA. ; m. ALICE BARBEE MCGRORTY, 11 Nov 1886, Kansas; b. Abt. 1860,
born 1
DEC 1860 in Kansas, ; d. 1914, died 27 OCT 1914 in Iowa. .
Notes for WILLIAM DICK-PEDDIE:
# Birth: 27 MAR 1859 in Edinburgh, Scotland
# Death: JUN 1950 in Emmetsburg, Palo Alto, Iowa USA
# Note: Christened William Dick Peddie, appears to have adopted the
# Dick-Peddie form in USA.
Palo Alto Pilot Friday, 26 Feb 1892 MATTERS PERSONAL. : Wm.
DICK-PEDDIE and family have moved into the BURLINGAME residence, in
Carl's addition. William (Dick) Peddie was married to Alvin L.
Ormsby's wifes sister, Alice Barbee McGrorty.
From Polk's Iowa State Gazeteer and Business Directory 1922-1923
Ormsby A Scott, Wm Dick-Peddie Mrg, Real Estate and General Insurance,
Tel 57 Ormsby Land & Mortgage Co, A Scott Ormsby pres
William Dick Peddie Nine hours after the death of Mrs. Daisy
VanGorden, Emmetsburg, her 91-year-old father, William Dick Peddie,
also passed away. The elderly man had suffered a stroke a few days
previously and died without knowing that his daughter, who made her
home with him, had preceded him. June 29, 1950 Morning Sun
News-Herald - page 5
More notes. . . . McGrorty. . . James Joseph McGrorty. . . . Iowa First Marriage:
Nov, 11, 1886, William (Dick) Peddie. . . . at 3 o'clock, by the Rector,
Rev. HD Martin, and the interment will be made in
. . . www. ormsby. org/genie/John/McGrorty. html -
Notes for ALICE BARBEE MCGRORTY:
# Birth: 1 DEC 1860 in Kansas
# Death: 27 OCT 1914 in Iowa
# Note: notes of relatives:
Death notice in newspaper: "News has been received here of the death
of Mrs. Eva McGrorty Ormsby, widow of A. L. Ormsby, which occurred
Friday in Boston, Mass. She was a daughter of the late Capt. A. S.
McGrorty, of Danville, and a sister of Mrs. W. E. Bryce, formerly of
Shelbyville but now residing in Wooster, Ohio. Mrs. Bryce was with her
sister during her last illness. Mrs. Ormsby was seventy-six years of
age and leaves one son and two daughters. The body was taken to
Emmettsburg, Iowa, her former home, for burial. " . . . . of her son, Mr.
Scott Ormsby in Boston, Mass. , last Friday, took place Tuesday in
Emmettsburg, Iowa, where Mrs. Ormsby's husband was buried many years
ago. Mrs. Ormsby was seventy-six years of age. She was a native of
Danville and had many friends here among the older citizens. She was a
daughter of the late Capt. A. S. McGrorty, who located in Danville
almost a hundred years ago. At his death about ten years ago Capt.
McGrorty was ninety-six years of age. For many, many years he was
engaged in the drug business here. During the great fire of 1860 Capt.
McGrorty's store was burned. McGrorty street was named in his honor,
but changed to the Old Wilderness Road as it marks the trail of the
pioneers who settled Perryville and later Harrodsburg. The McGrorty
addition to Danville was formerly owned by Capt. McGrorty who was
greatly beloved by a host of friends. Danville where she was reared
and most affectionately remembered as Miss Rose Evermonde McGrorty.
Capt. McGrorty
was a native of Northern Ireland but came to the United States in his
youth and settled in Danville when avery young man. He lived here about
eighty years and was responsible for many forward steps in the town of
Danville. Mrs. Ormsby is survived by three children, Scott Ormsby, of
Boston; Mrs. Daisy O. Richards of Seattle, and Mrs. Alice Ormsby Adrian,
of Florence, Italy. Mrs. William E. Bryce, of Wooster, Ohio is a sister.
Capt. McGrotry Pine Grove was the home of Alexander Scott McGrorty corner of Main and McGrorty Ave. , now (1962) Wilderness Road,
Danville, Kentucky. The house was made into apartments which are back
of a corner gas station at Main and Wilderness Rd. A. S. McGrorty
built this home for his bride Rose Yeiser. In this house was born
Clara Lee McGrorty (Bryce) and Abbie Lee Bryce (Mishler), daughter of
Clara Lee. Abbie was born July 17, 1892. at His Home on East Main
Street Generations. yielded to the infirmities indicent to increasing
years and passed peacefully away at his home in this city this morning
at 12: 25 o'clock. 21st day of last May, reached the ninth-sixth
milestone on the journey of life. Coming to this country in 1837, the
following year 1838 he came to Danville to make his home and entered
business here with the firm of Montgomery & Fry, who conducted a drug
store on the south-west corner of Main and Second streets (the old
Hendren corner, as it has sinc
e been known), and in 1840 he bought out this firm and remained in the
drug business in Danville continuously for fifty-seven years, with the
exception of a brief interruption caused by the great fire of 1860 and
the breaking out of the Civil War the year following, only retiring from
active business in 1897.
Mis Rose Bradford Yeiser, daughter of Frederick Yeiser, a native of
Kentucky and a veteran of the War of 1812, which union was blessed
with nine children, two of whom survive him -- Mrs. A. L. Ormsby, of
Florence, Italy, and Mrs. Wm. E. Bryce, of Ashland, Ohio. He is also
survived by one brother, Mr. J. P. McGrorty, of Deming, New Mexico.
city and also one of the brightest Odd Fellows that ever become a
member of the Order. He was the oldest member of Trinity Episcopal
Church, and until recently, when debarred by the infirmities of age,
he was always in attendance at church services and was for many years
the Senior Warden of the Vestry. He was a man noted for his many noble
traits of character, and his passing -- full of years and full of
honors -- will be sincerely regretted by this whole community.
(Thursday) afternoon, at 3 o'clock, by the Rector, Rev. H. D. Martin,
and the interment will be made in Bellevue cemetery. Jackson, B. J.
Durham, Hubert McGoodwin and G.
W. Doneghy.
Kentucky Years Days readers of The Daily Advocate, especially some
of those who are now accustomed to gliding over the splendid turnpikes
of Boyle county in modern touring cars and runabouts, to learn
something of the actual contrast between the roads of Central Kentucky
as they were seventy-five years ago and as they are to-day, and also
to learn something of the earlier history of Danville, her business as
conducted then and the modes by which the people travelled at that
time, a reporter called upon Capt. A. S. McGrorty, at his residence,
corner of East Main and the avenue bearing his honoured name, last
Wednesday afternoon, and found this amiable and venerable gentleman in
the best of health and spirits and with his remarkable mind and
faculties apparently unimpaired by the flight of years, and graciously
willing to impart all the information at this command that was desired
upon the subject.
before he had seen the realization of one of his most oft-expressed
desires---that he might be spared to see the inauguration of another
Democratic President. Together with the photographs of his children
and his grandchildren, he proudly pointed to a large picture of
William Jennings Bryan, sent to him by the Great Commoner himself two
years ago, with his autograph inscribed by his own hand underneath,
and which the Captain treasures very highly indeed. spared, will,
on the 21st day of May, 1913, have reached the ninety-fifth milestone
on the journey of life.
Coming to this country in 1837, the following
year (1838) he came to Danville to make his home, his route to this
place being over the then only completed turnpike in the State--the
one leading from Louisville to Frankfort, Harrodsburg, Danville and
Crab Orchard--the mode of conveyance being the stage coach. In this
same year he entered business here with the firm of Montgomery & Fry,
who conducted a drug store
on the south-west corner of Main and Second streets (the old Hendren
corner, as it has since been known), and in 1840 he bought out this firm
and remained in the drug business in Danville continuously for
fifty-seven years, with the exception of a brief interruption caused by
the great fire of 1869 and the breaking out of the Civil War the year
following, only retiring from active business in 1897.
to Miss Rose Bradford Yeiser, daughter of Frederick Yeiser, a native
of Kentucky and a veteran of the War of 1812, which union was blessed
in the birth of nine children, three of whom are still living--Mrs. A.
L. Ormsby, of Florence, Italy; Mrs. Wm. E. Bryce, of Ashland, Ohio,
and Mrs. Wm. Dick-Peddie, of Emmettsburg, Iowa,
were all dirt roads and the vehicles then in use were mostly
two-wheeled gigs, wagons and carts. The merchants here had blocks and
hitching rails in front of their establishments for the accommodation
of lady customers who came to town on horseback, and that he supposed
that if such an undreamed-of thing as an aeroplane, an electric car,
an automobile or a motorcycle had hove in sight the people no doubt
would have been frightened to death. and south-eastern Kentucky,
and long lines of wagons could sometimes be seen from these districts
standing upon the Main street of town, loaded with tar, apple and
peach brandies, tow linen, rag carpets, etc. , brought to barter for
drugs, dry goods, groceries, implements and other commodities.
Philadelphia for the purchase of goods, the route being on horseback
to Pittsburgh, from thence to Brownsville, Pa. , by boat, thence by
stage over the mountains to Cumberland, Md. , which was the terminus of
a railroad from Baltimore. there was of course no telegraphic mode of
communication--no, not even a telephone The mails were carried by a
few stage lines and on the backs of horses. by the late Gen. Speed
S. Fry, in 1842, and when, in 1846, its captain organized another
company and took it to Mexico, Captain McGrorty was chosen as the
commandant of the former, thus acquiring his military title. The date
of the organization of the first company mentioned was the same as
that in which Boyle county was constituted, and the military company
participated in a grand celebration of that event. his long life a
member of the Episcopal church, and for the past fifty years the
Senior Warden of Trinity Church, this city. visit this coming summer
by his daughter and his grand children in Italy, and it is sincerely
hoped for him by all his warmly-attached friends in the community that
is may be realized and that they find him still enjoying his
remarkable good health.
After a Lingering Illness. to his reward on
Wednesday night, after a protracted illness due to the infirmities of
age. While he had reached the ninety-sixth milestone in life, yet his
health was remarkably good until the past year, when he began to fail.
He was a man of broad mind and charitable instincts, and always ready
to do everything in his power for the betterment of Danville, both
morally and in a business way. Coming to this country in 1837, the
following year he came to Danville to make his home, and entered
business here with the firm of Montgomery & Fry, who conducted a drug
store on the southwest corner of Main and Second streets (the old
Hendren corner, as it has since been known), and in 1840 he bought out
t
his firm and remained in the drug business in Danville continuously for
fifty-seven years, with the exception of a brief interruption caused by
the great fire of 1860 and the breaking out of the Civil was the year
following, only retiring from active business in 1897. to Miss Rose
Bradford Yeiser, daughter of Frederick Yeiser, a native of Kentucky and a
veteran of the War of 1812, which union was blessed with nine children,
two of whom survive him--Mrs. A. L. Ormsby, of Florence, Italy, and Mrs.
William E. Bryce, of Ashland, Ohio. He is also survived by one brother,
Mr. J. P. McGroty, of Deming, New Mexico. devoted and tireless worker
therein. He was respected by all who knew him and his upright life is an
example worthy of following. When a young man he was deeply interested in
military affairs, formed a company in Danville, and this organization
attended the burial of Daniel Boone.
His life was filled with good and noble deeds, and those who knew him best will
never forge t his many acts of kindness. Danville, and likewise a devoted member
of the Odd Fellows lodge. These bodies attended the funeral, which was
conducted at Trinity Episcopal church, yesterday afternoon, by Rev. H. D.
Marin, the rector, the burial following at Bellevue cemetery. o'clock
after a short illness. She was in the eighty-first year of her age and had
been a member of the Episcopal church nearly all her life. Her husband,
Capt. A. S. McGrorty, was engaged in the drug business here for more than
forty years, and is well known throughout Central Kentucky. The funeral
will take place this afternoon at three o'clock at Trinity Episcopal
church, and will be conducted by Rev. Frank E. Cooley, rector of St.
Philip's Episcopal church at Harrodsburg Mrs. McGrorty was a daughter of
Mr. Frederick Yeiser, a pioneer settler of Danville, and was born and
spent all her life on the place where she died. She is survived by her
husband and three daughters, as follows: Mrs. A. L. Ormsby and Mrs.
William Dick-Peddie, of Emmettsburg, Iowa, and Mrs. William
E. Bryce, of Shelbyville. Mrs. McGrorty was a good Christian woman and
fully prepared for death. The sympathy of the community is extended her
aged companion in his bereavement.
Alexander Scott McGrorty married Rose Barbee Yeiser Oct. 24, 1842. She
was the daughter of Frederick Yeiser and Lucinda Bradford. He was born
May 21, 1820 in Raphoe, County Donegal, Ireland, died 1915 in
Danville, Kentucky.
SOURCE: (1) Howard Yeiser. "Store & Druggist, Danville. "
(2) Fackler, Calvin Morgan, "Early Days in Danville, " The Standard
Printing Co. , Louisville, KY, 1941, Second Printing Dec. 1966, p. 259.
Extraction: Came to America in 1837 at age seventeen from Ireland. Ran
an apothecary for years and participated in many ways to help
Danville, Boyle, Kentucky thrive. "Captain" McGrorty became a fixture
in our town where he was to live until nearly a centenarian. The
'Captain' is real, as he once organized a local military company. His
own business dates as far back as 1941, his ad appearing in the
Clarion of October 6th, that year. He was a dedicated Episcopalian,
serving as vestryman at Trinity for seventy-fou years.
Rose Barbee Yeiser
Ref: Early Days in Danville by Calvin Morgan Fackler 1941, lists
Rose's marriage and full name of her husband. Marriage was done by
Rev. John Alexander Adams, presbyter of the Episcopal Church, Diocese
of Ky.
SOURCE: (1) Howard Yeiser, Tucson, AZ. Built Home "The Pines" in
Danville. (2) Fackler, Calvin Morgan, "Early Days in Danville, " The
Standard Printing Co. , Louisville, KY, 1941, Second Printing Dec.
1966. , p. 260. Captain McGrorty "married Miss Rose, daughter of
Frederick Yeiser, and in 1843 he built "The Pines, " the roomy old
dwelling which stood at Main and the Wilderness Road. It still stands,
but now so enveloped by the 'McGrorty Apartments' as to be
undistinguishable. The Pines faced Main while the remodeled building
fronts east. "
v.
ELIZA MORE PEDDIE, b. b: 17 APR 1862 in Edinburgh, Scotland.
vi.
COVENTRY DICK PEDDIE, b. 1863, Birth: 2 DEC 1863 in
Edinburgh, Scotland. vii.
WALTER PEDDIE MORE PEDDIE, b. b: 7 NOV 1865
in
Edinburgh, Scotland. viii.
ALEXANDER LOUIS PEDDIE, b. b: 10 SEP 1869 in
Edinburgh, Scotland.
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?5 PEDDIE . came from the Eastern Cape. . They owner the Pig 'n Whistle
Hotel in Bathurst. Established in 1832, the Pig ‘n Whistle was built by
1820s settler Thomas Hartley and today looks pretty much the same as it
did back then. a. It back to 1831, the oldest Pub in South Africa situated
some 16 kms from Port Alfred on the Sunshine Coast the Bathurst Inn , as
a Blacksmith’s forge, in 1831 by Thomas Hartley. The name “Pig ‘n Whistle”
comes from WWII, when South African Air Force pilots were based and
trained at the nearby 43 Air School in Port Alfred. After settling in
Glumber in 1820, Thomas Hartley moved into Bathurst, building a dwelling
on Lot 8 next to his forge in 1825. The Inn was built in 1825. The Inn
was built next to the Forge, in which Thomas Hartley continued to run his
blacksmith business. Bathurst was geographically situated as a stopping
place for wagon travellers. There was a smithy, a farrier, provisions and
someone to extract a troublesome tooth. This was done by the blacksmith
with his pliers The Proprietor had such regard for the quality of hi s
guests that the rooms were described as “Subscription Rooms for
Gentlemen” and guests included Lord Charles Somerset, the Governor of the
Cape, and Sir Benjamin D’Urban. From 1832 surgeon Ambrose Campbell,
riding from Grahamstown, attended consultations on the first Saturday of
the month.
After Thomas Hartley’s death in 1840 his widow, Sarah, took
over the running of the Inn and made its hospitality famous. It was then
known as Widow Hartley’s Inn and visiting dignitaries and Government
officials sought accommodation at the Inn. In 1847 the Governor General,
Sir Henry Pottinger, stayed at the Inn and entertained the Chaplain, the
Magistrate and the Post Commander. In 1848 the Governor General, Sir
Harry Smith, stayed at the Inn. It also featured in a painting by renowned
19th century painter Thomas Baines. Thomas Baines made an oil painting of
the Inn and the Village during his visit in 1849 and this painting is now
in the Rhodesian archives.
Sarah Hartley died later in the year after
making the Inn famous in the colony during her peri od as pr
oprietor. After a brief term under Thomas Hartley junior, Jeremiah
Goldswain, another settler, bought the Inn in 1852. The original building
remains an integral part of the Inn. Part of the kitchen walls include a
portion of Thomas Hartley’s original dwelling. The Inn’s name was changed
to the Pig ‘ Whistle during WW ll when the Air Force was based at 43 Air
School in Port Alfred. After 170 years it has claim to genuine age which
cannot be made by scores of so called ‘Olde Time Inns’ worldwide.
Directions Address: 268 Kowie Road, Bathurst, South Africa
Take N2 to Grahamstown. Then road to Port Alfred. Bathurst is 43km from
Grahamstown. It has seen a number of distinguished historic guests
including Cape Governor Sir Charles Somerset, and Sir Harry Smith.