Reid/Reaich Family

[bbart]

Before looking any further, is the marriage record giving Maggie Reaich as the bride definitely the right one?

I ask because the date of the Scotland marriage is one month after the birth of daughter Margaret in Winnipeg.  The obit for that daughter says her birthday was 26 Apr 1915, and the detail view for that birth at the Manitoba archives puts the birth mother as married, and maiden name of Bowman, not Reaich. 

Sorry to burst the bubble, but best we are following the right track!

[*Sandra*]

There is a marriage of William Alexander Reid and a Margaret Bowman in Manitoba 24/10/1914 which fits the birth of Margaret Reid in 1915.

https://vitalstats.gov.mb.ca/Query.php

Sandra

[manawakian]

Starting to think the couple you found in the Winnipeg census that were the right names, ages and Scotland births are not the couple you are seeking.  Did your William Reid have siblings named James and Jean?  Was his middle name Alexander?  I can't find any family in the 1891 or 1901 Banffshire census that fits.

[*Sandra*]

Noticed you have been online recently - need you to come back to us on this one.

Have you got the marriage certificate for Maggie Reaich and William Alexander Reid in 1915 

Noticed another marriage for a Maggie Reaich to Alexander Mcleod but she was the daughter of George Reaich and Margaret Cowie.
 
The surname rang a bell - so presuming your line might be Reaich - we've previously looked at William Reaich who was born on 14th April 1897 at 21 Mid Street, Buckie in Scotland to William Reaich and Jessie Cowie.

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=676609.0

Noticed James Reaich (which you mentioned as the brother of your Maggie)  passed away in Vancouver British Columbia 4 January 1962 -

https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=158244225

https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FLR2-BRM

marriage - 13 February 1912 Vancouver BC - https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JD8Z-ZQJ

Helen Donald wife of James passed away 3 August 1985 - Burnaby British Columbia.

https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FL21-3FR

Would this be your Reaich family in 1891 Hall Street Buckie Banff

William Reich Junar   29
Jane Reich   28
James Reich 4 passed away British Columbia 4 January 1962
Maggie Reich 2
William John Reich 5 months - there is a death 1950 Aberdeen Northern District - 168/1 784 - aged 59 years.

https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KSD8-7MQ

and in 1901 - 11 Hall Street Buckie Banff

John Reaich   35 Mary Reaich   32
Mary Reaich   4
Joseph Reaich   30
William Jappy   21 Bro-in-law

all the above were 9 Hall Street and below 11 Hall Street

Jane Reaich   38
James Reaich   14
Maggie Reaich   12
John Reaich   10
Bella Reaich   8
George Reaich   6
Alex Reaich   2 Months

Isabella Reaich married twice - first to John Cormack Smith and then to Thomas J O Hagan.

Isabella passed away 24 January 1985 - Vancouver British Columbia -

https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FLL9-DDD

Listed on death of her daughter Jean Murray Sanderson - 21 September 1966 - Vancouver BC.

https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FLT1-MLR

Death of Thomas O Hagan - 17 March 1966 Comox British Columbia

https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FLTT-YGH

Sandra

[manawakian]

Of the 185 William Reids born in Scotland between 1888 & 1890 only 3 were named William Alexander.  Two were born in 1888 and 1 born 1889 whose birth was registered in Rathven.  Search in the census shows this William Alexander Reid parents were Alexander & Mary Jane and he had a brother James born about 1900.  Since he was born the same year and same place as your William, I think they were likely cousins with grandfather William Reid.  I also think this William Alexander Reid is the person found in Winnipeg.

[Gregyboy]

Hi,

Sorry for not getting back to you on this one - been working so I've only had a chance to check the account. I think there is a chance we may have found the wrong family. I don't have the marriage certificate to hand but can confirm they were married in Buckie, Scotland in 1915. Maggie had emigrated out a few years previously but for whatever reason was married back in Scotland. I didn't notice until today that the Margaret in question had a middle name Bowman which I think cancels out the chances of this being the same family.

I have looked at the 1916 census of Canada where William and Maggie have a daughter also called Maggie. In the 1921 census there were no entries for Maggie, but one for Margaret. Whether or not this is the same family I couldn't say as Reid is a universally common name. I have been able to find Margaret's brother, James Reaich, in that census. I have also found her sister Isabella Smith in the 1921 census (it's highly likely that it was her given she was a widow (Isabella's husband died in WW1) and she had a son called William). I have been able to look at the death certificates of James (d.1962) and Isabella (d.1985), but I did have a bit of trouble making out the name of the informant on Isabella's death certificate, though it was certainly a son.

Isabella Reaich came out to Canada in 1909 and I believe Maggie went out in 1911.

Greg

[Gregyboy]

They did live at Hall Street in Buckie, that was the family house. It would appear that James, Maggie and Isabella all left for Canada, while the other siblings remained in Scotland.

[*Sandra*]

Attestation Papers for James Reaich show him living 44 Slocan Street Hastings E Vancouver - 26 January 1916

http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/military-heritage/first-world-war/personnel-records/Pages/item.aspx?IdNumber=591000

Father William Reaich passed away 1915 -

William Reaich -  78 years. - 1915 - 164/ 135 - Rathven

Sandra

[bbart]

I found William Alexander Reid! In Scotland!    I guess after marrying, Maggie did not return to Canada.

In the series UK and Ireland, Masters and Mates Certificates, 1850-1927 there are three entries for him, 1913, 1915, and 1917.

He states being born in 1889 in Buckie in all three. In 1913 and 1915 he is on Seaview Rd, Buckie but in 1917 he is at 11 Hull St Buckie!
This is the same address given in the newspaper article given for the death of Maggie's father.

Correction, 11 Hall St, not Hull St.