James Waddell (1802-1882) and Jane Carswell (1802-1860) were married in New Monkland in 1824 and had eleven of a family, including two named James:
1 James Waddell son of James Waddell Labr in Ballochnie and Jane Carswell was born the 4th Novr and baptised 14th Decr 1824.
2 James Waddell lawful son of James Waddell carter in Standridge and Jane Carswell was born 20th September and baptised 4th November 1838.
No 2 married Mary Smart Jeffrey, had a son (inevitably named James) in New Monkland in 1869, a daughter in Queensland in 1874, and died in Queensland in 1907.
I had always assumed that No 1 had died young. He was not with his parents at Stanrigg/Standridge in the 1841 census.
Enter No 3. He is in the 1841 census at Stanrigg, aged 16, in the household of Alexander Waddell of Stanrigg and his sister Jean, uncle and aunt to No 1 and No 2. Alexander later married Euphemia Waddell, daughter of (you've guessed it) James Waddell of Stonefield, and had two sons, the inevitable James and an Alexander, and a daughter.
Then comes a marriage in 1848, reported in the Glasgow Herald, "At Causeyend Cottage, on the 28th ultimo, by the Rev Dr Bell of Linlithgow, James Waddell Esq, coalmaster, Stanrigg, Airdrie, to Anne, only daughter of John Craig Esq."
In the 1851 census, at Ballochnie House, New Monkland, are James Waddell, coalmaster, aged 27, and his wife Anne, aged 25. I can find no trace of either of them after the 1851 census.
It is very tempting to assume that No 1 and No 3 are the same James Waddell. But if so
- there were two brothers, both named James, living at the same place but in different households in 1841
- if No 3 is No 1, how did the son of a labourer and carter who was a landless youngest son (of yet another James Waddell, just to confuse things further) become a coalmaster?
- what happened to No 3 and his wife after 1851?
I have combed the wills and testaments and the registers of sasines, but none has shed any light so far.
Thoughts, anyone?