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Fife / Re: Buddo Family History
« on: Monday 23 April 12 07:21 BST (UK)  »
Thanks FIFE.  Any help would be appreciated.  It is a puzzle that David Buddo snr was credited with building Kinburn House but John Buddo owned it at a later date.  I wonder if John Buddo financed the house and David was just given the task of organising its construction.  I guess the title to the house might answer that question.  Are land/building titles in the public domain in Scotland?

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Fife / Re: Buddo Family History
« on: Sunday 22 April 12 10:14 BST (UK)  »
It's great the way an inquiry starts to take on a life of its own.  Nothing like a good mystery to get others interested. 

If the NZ David Buddo did explain his background to Janet Rollo on their honeymoon, I suspect it may have ended there.  With his rise to fortune and a cabinet minister position in the NZ government, it is likely he did not stress his illegitimacy.  The current generation have certainly made no mention of it.  That said, in his obituary, it did imply that Euphemia was not David Buddo snr's wife:
David Buddo was born on 23 August 1853 in Edinburgh, Scotland, the son of Euphemia Stevenson Dorward and David Buddo, a surgeon in the Indian civil service. A rural childhood gave him a lifelong love of farming and country life. He was educated in Kincardineshire, and at a private grammar school in Perth, Scotland. He also served in the Kincardineshire Volunteers.

FIFE, you mention John Buddo's will.  I'd be interested in getting hold of a copy as it might give a few leads about the others in David Buddo snr's family.  Are you able to assist?

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Cambridgeshire Lookup Requests / Re: PEARSON/POWELL
« on: Sunday 05 September 10 09:52 BST (UK)  »
An addendum to my last note, the register of marriages in Walsoken does show a Sarah Powell marrying William Pearson in 1801.  Carr is her maiden name and Powell her married name as a widow.

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Cambridgeshire Lookup Requests / Re: PEARSON/POWELL
« on: Sunday 05 September 10 09:49 BST (UK)  »
I may have been in touch with Malmsbury in the past but have lost my old emails.  Our records suggest that William Pearson married Sarah Carr in 1801, his second of three wives.  Their children were Mary (1802-) and William (1805-1890).  My family line is through the son who died in Australia.  We have extensive records of this line.
Grant Pearson
Christchurch, New Zealand

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Fife / Re: Buddo Family History
« on: Tuesday 13 April 10 09:11 BST (UK)  »
There will be a link to my wifes Buddo line, but back in the 17th C. where records are pretty limited. 

I don't have anything on the Jean Buddo who married William Henderson so would be interested in more information.  With regard to Elizabeth and Isabella, what I have is partly from Chrighton family tree records plus some verification from official records. I've got James and Margaret having 8 or 9 children with Robert probable and Thomas possible.  Hopefully fills some gaps.  Any errors, let me know.

1   James Buddo
Birth:   c1696
Death   c 1766, Dundee
Spouse:   Christian (Barbara?) Baillie 
Birth:   1707
Death:   c 1785, Dundee
Married:   18 Feb 1725, Dundee 
Children   John (9/12/1725 - )  Dundee
   Margt (9/7/1727 - )  Dundee
   James (18/4/1731 - )  Dundee
   Christian (29/3/1733 - )  Dundee
   Christian (23/3/1735 - )  Dundee
   Robert (5/3/1737 - )  Dundee
   Margaret (1739 - )
   Isobel (17/5/1741 - )  Dundee
   James (1/5/1743 - )  Dundee
   Janet (14/4/1745 - )  Dundee
   James (23/8/1748 - )  Dundee

1.10   James Buddo
Birth:   1748
Spouse:   Elisabeth Walls
Married:   22 Sep 1770, Dundee
Children:   James (1771 - )
   Janet (1773 - )
   Elisabeth (1777 - )
   Robert (1784 - )
   Jean (1790 – 15 Mar 1865, Dundee)

1.10.1   James Buddo
Birth:   1771
Spouse:   Margaret Brown
Married:   10 Jan 1792, Dundee
Children:   Isabella (25/10/1792 - )
   Elisabeth (8/12/1795 – 1861)
   John (2/12/1798 - )
   William (3/9/1800 - )
   Margaret Morres (1/7/1804 – 26 Jan 1876, Dundee, m James Tasker)
   Robert (13/7/1806 - )
                Andrew (4/9/1808 - )
                Jean (4/9/1808 - )
                Thomas (22/7/1810 - ) maybe.  Born St Andrews cf Dundee for the others and mother recorded as Margaret Brew

Interesting legal snippet: BUDDO JEAN, res North Street, St Andrews, v James Trail, Tailor, St Andrews; male, b 1 Feb 1851; 4/27; P 450 (186)  [action against the father of an illegitimate child for expenses claim].

1.10.1.1   (Isa)Bell Buddo
Birth:   25/10/1792
Spouse:   James Henderson     
Married:   24/9/1815, St Andrew & St Leonards 
Children:   James Henderson (1818)

1.10.1.2   Elizabeth Buddo (Betsy)
Birth:   1795
Death:   16 Aug 1861, St Andrews
Spouse:   David Chrichton 
Married:   5/4/1814, St Andrews & St Leonards 
Birth:   5 Aug 1791 St Andrews
Death:   12 Jan 1863, North Castle St, St Andrews
Occupation   Sailor
Married:   5 Apr 1814, St Andrews
Children:   Margaret (23 Mar 1817, St Andrews - )
   Elizabeth (1827 - )
   James (1830 - 1868)
   John (11 Feb 1831 St Andrews – 31 May 1907)

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Fife / Re: Buddo Family History
« on: Sunday 11 April 10 09:22 BST (UK)  »
Wow, that's really going back.  I don't have much on the early Thomas Buddo other than what is in the golfing history.  There was a Thomas Buddo resident in St Andrews in 1590 who is probably the same man.  There were a few other Buddos around that time that I don't know the relationships:
Effam Buddo d 1599, m James Lowrie
Johnne Buddo d 1603, occupation tailor

About the time of your Christian, there a few Buddos who could have been siblings:
- Andro Buddo m Margrat Williamsone, children Christian (1641 - )
- Andro Buddo m Margret Crombie/Crummie, children Andro (1650 - ), Isobel (1653 - ), Margret (1656 - )
Note that this could be the same Andro who remarried.

- Thomas Buddo m Marget Kynninnmonth, children William (29/5/1653 - ), Andro (30/3/1656 - ), Jenat (26/10/1658 - ), Eupram (26/10/1658 - ), Jenat (4/2/1664 - )

- John Buddo m Margret Balfour 22/11/1653, children Andro (11/5/1658 - ), Elspeth (26/10/1661 - ), Robert (22/9/1664 - ).

Coincidently, my great great grandfather (John Pearson) came out from Cambridgeshire to the Bendigo diggings in 1858 and then followed the gold rush across to Lawrence, New Zealand.  My great grandfather, also John Pearson was born in Eagle Hawk, Sandhurst Vic in 1862.

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Fife / Re: Buddo Family History
« on: Sunday 11 April 10 06:01 BST (UK)  »
That's interesting.  We hadn't come across any Buddo descendents in Australia until now.  Which Thomas Buddo was that?

The most likely looks to be the one born 8/5/1709 (Buntisland), died 9/6/1780, married Margaret Gourlay/Gourley June 1740 St Andrews & St Leonard, weaver, 2nd child Christian born 26/2/1744.  7th child also Thomas b 2/11/1755, d 24/4/1815?, weaver, m Margaret Thomson, no child named Christian but oldest child Thomas b 16/8/1778 m Agnes Wiseman, child Thomas b 4/2/1816, m Isabella Budell?, child Julia b ~1849.

If this line, I don't have any information on Christian other than a birth date, so anything you can contribute would be welcolme.

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Fife / Re: Buddo Family History
« on: Tuesday 08 July 08 09:27 BST (UK)  »
Thankyou for all this.  It's great to have colour in the family history!  I missed David snr and Euphemia in the 1851 census because David's age is shown as 40 when he was actually 50, so I didn't look at the copy of the census paper on ScotlandsPeople.  A couple of photos from the house attached, with the one of the poster taken by our son who visited St Andrews last week.

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Fife / Re: Buddo Family History
« on: Wednesday 26 March 08 06:42 GMT (UK)  »
David Buddo snr gets more and more interesting.  I had a reply from the Curator of the St Andrews Museum.  She advised that David Buddo spent a short time in Cupar gaol about 1856 for shooting at and wounding a young man who had been courting one of the housemaids!  Maybe that was the start of his decline in fortune.

Kinburn House was bought by John Paterson (later Provost of St Andrews) in 1872.  It passed to the Town Council in 1920.  The extensive garden grounds were turned over to public amenities eg tennis and a bowling green.  The house itself became home to the Hay Fleming Reference Library for many years.  During the Second World War it provided a telephone exchange/air raid warning system for the town.  It became St Andrews Museum in 1991.

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