Kidd / Kydd / Kyd

[Skidd]

Searching for any connections to the Kidd / Kydd family in Scotland.  So far they seem to be centred mainly in Forfar.

Regards,

Andrew Kidd

[Aminta]

Whew!  First time online and goofing it up already
I am looking for the family of John Creswick who married Mary Ann High in Dundee in 1851.  On the 1881 Dundee, Forfar census, he is gone and his wife Mary Ann Cresswick is head of household.  Living with her are her two daughters, Ellen and Mary Ann Creswick KYD, plus two grandchildren - Mary Ann Creswick KYD, age 6 and Lilly C. KYD, age 2.  They are living on Barry Road and daughter Mary Ann KYD is a Linen Weaver.

Mary Ann married David KIDD (not spelled KYD like the censustaker did) 24 Nov 1873 in Dundee.

John and Mary's son, John William Creswick, was born 09 Feb 1851 in Dundee.  He immigrated to the United States in 1879 according to census records.

The family is trying to find out as much as they can, of course.  They think his family raised sheep on the border, but he was definitely Scottish.  Do you know the Kidd connection?

[ajjbc]

My earliest....Kid /Kidd / Kid ....is David Kidd born c 1731 Dundee,Angus,Scotland he married in 1753 and had 10 known Kidd / Kid children ...all Chr. in Dundee between 1754 1770.

[Aminta]

Well my last post was in 2015!  Since then we found (on his death certificate) that John Creswick was NOT a sheepherder, but a ship's captain.  His father was a silversmith in Sheffield, England and he had siblings in America, England and Australia. Nothing new on his daughter who married a Kidd.