JOHN HEDDLE, Writer in Kirkwall, Town Clerk 1788-1801

was married at Cletts South Ronaldsay, on

23rd April, 1772, by the Revd. James Weir

to Elizabeth, daughter of John Flett Merchant of Cletts.

He died 3 August, 1701; She died in May 1837;

their children were:

!. BARBARA, born at Cletts 4 February, 1773; married at St. Cuthbert's Church Edinburgh on 9th May 1793 Patrick Fotheringhame, Writer. They returned to Orkney where he practiced as a writer and Notary Public, succeeding John Heddle for a few years as Town Clerk, and becoming Collector of Customs at Kirkwall. Their only surviving son, William Henry Fotheringhame, was born in 1796 and trained as a writer in Edinburgh from 1817. In 1830 he was appointed Sheriff Clerk and Clerk to the to the Justices of the Peace for the shire and stewartry of Orkney, where he died, unmarried in 1868. Of his six sisters, one died in infancy, Ann Traill Fotheringhame married William Traill of Westove, by whom she had two sons, Walter, Asst. Surgeon in the Royal Navy, who d. unm. and John Heddle, who was later to elope with Eliza Dunbar Heddle. The third sister, Elizabeth, married (1) David Drever, farmer and (2) Patrick Gorie; Robina married William Traill, 3rd of Frotoft, by whom she had a son who d.. in infancy and a daughter, Anne Traill Fotheringhame Traill who d.. in London unmarried.. Barbara, and the youngest sister, Mary Baikie, became governesses, on the Continent, and later kept a school. in Edinburgh; both died unmarried.

2 ELIZABETH, born at Kirkwall 31 December, 1773; went to Falmouth, New England, as companion to her mother's aunt Elizabeth Flett, who had married Capt. Alexander Ross, sometime Commander of the frigate of Boston. Here she married, c. 1799, the Revd. Hilliard, Episcopal clergyman at Gorhambury. They had several children and she died in 1837 From Falmouth she sent home to Orkney a copy of the inscription on the tombstone of John Flett of Gruthay who had perished there in an accident on March, 1760, in the 26th year at of his life.

MARGARET, born at Kirkwall 7 April, 1773: married Francis Dind, druggist and surgeon of London who died in 1836. to have had three sons; John, who was drowned in the Bay of Biscay; William, who went to the Gambia and is believed then to have gone to Australia where he married and had a family; Francis, probably the eldest, took his medical degree and became surgeon and schoolmaster at Cape Coast Castle. He died at Annamaboe 23 October, 1839.

4 .JOHN born at Kirkwall, 22 May 1776, qualified M.D. at Edinburgh University in1796. Being disappointed in his efforts to find better position, he enlisted as asst. surgeon in 2nd Dragoon Guards 16 August, 1797. The Regiment a few years later was absorbed into the new Royal African Corps, under Colonel John Fraser, and went to Goree off the coast of Senegal. In addition to his medical duties, he became aide-de-camp to Col. Fraser and took an active part in various battles with the French, being several times highly commended in dispatches. He rose to principal Inspector of the Forces on the West Coast of Africa, was appointed Colonial Secretary of Senegal in 1709 and, in 1811, became Colonial Secretary and Member of the Council at Sierra Leone. Here he died by his own hand on 19 July 1812 and a tombstone was erected over his grave in what became to be known as the Old Burial Ground..

Before leaving Orkney, John Heddle had a son, James, born to Ann Shearer in Cletts, in 1797. James became a clerk in Leith and later a merchant nt Cape Coast Castle, and owner of the CALEDONIA. As a member of the Royal Cape Coast Militia, he lost his life with Sir Charles MacCarthy in the battle with the Ashantis near Naamanke in 1824. He was married but had a natural daughter Jemima, born in Orkney c. 1820, who later married one of the family of Elder of the Kirkwall Excise, and died in London, without children, in 1890.

Whilst in Goree, John Heddle had at least two daughters and two sons, by Sophy Boucher, who was mentioned in his will. All that is known of the daughters is that they became Mrs. Nanette Dupuis and Mrs. Valentin. The eldest son, John Fraser Heddle, born in 1806, came home to be educated and studied for his medical degree at Edinburgh Universiry and in France. He joined the Bombay Medical Service, became Deputy Assay Master at the Bombay Mint and Secretary of the Geographical Society of Bombay and of the Agro-Horticultural Society of Western India. His lengthy Report art on the River Indus was printed for Government and a copy is with the State Papers in the British Museum. He fell ill, and died at Poona on 6 March , 1842 unmarried. An obelisk was erected to his memory near Poona by his friends and a memorial placed in Bombay Cathedral by the members of the two Societies of which he was Secretary. Amongst the several eulogies received by his family from those who knew him in India was one from Dr. Drever.

John Heddle's youngest son, Charles William Maxwell Heddle, was born in 1812* after the death of at his father He was educated in Kirkwall and at Dollar Academy, and in the early 1830's went out to the west coast of Africa, under the auspices of the firm of Forster & Smith. Mathew Forster, in London, was a close friend and business associate of Charles' uncle, Robert Heddle of Melsetter, and a brother, William Forster, was a merchant in the Gambia where, by 1834, Charles was established as a merchant. He had moved on to Sierra Leone by 1838 and here he amassed a vast fortune, estimated at 1½ million pounds, initiating the trade in the groundnut and taking a keen interest in the emancipation of the native workers. At his house in Freetown in 1864, his old friend Dr. W. B. Baikie died after returning from his last trip up the Niger. In 1844 Charles had a son by a Senegalese lady, Madame Emily Caille, who was named John Francis caille Heddle and was later adopted. There was another son, C. W. Heddle of whom we only know that he arrived back in Freetown in 1863, highly accomplished, after 14 years education in Europe; it is most probable that he died not long after-wards. J. F. C. Heddle worked in his father's business, acting as his agent after his father had retired and gone to live in France. Then he, too, returned to England and married Adaline Sefi, who die in childbirth 17 months later, in October 1883. Subsequently he married a Fannie Greenwood but the marriage was not a success and he died at Broughty Ferry on 18 October, 1920, without issue. Meanwhile, his father, Charles Heddle, had retired and had purchased the Chateau de Méréville, Seine-et-Oise; on 4^th September, 1888, at the age of 76, he married for the first time his wife being a young French-Canadian divorcée, Marie Léocadie Hortense Prume, neé Leduc. It is curious to note that, two months later, on 27 November, 1888, Charles Heddle executed the Will under which the bulk of his fortune was divided amongst his son, his own relations and friends, with a large residuary bequest to the town of Kirkwall, for charitable purposes. A résumé of the events which led up to this being superceded by a Will made in February 1889 will be appended.

It must have been about 1887 that Charles Heddle invited his cousins W. H. (Harry) Traill of the Westove branch, who was home on a visit from Australia, to visit him at the Chateau de Méréville with his eldest daughter Millie, who was at school in Switzerland. In her notes about this visit, she recalls Charles as lame and as so nearly blind that he could not stand bright lights and had the chateau lit only by candles. Soon after, he bought the Chateau Leader, near cannes, and it was here that he died on 29 April, 1889. His widow survived a serious motoring accident but die in London on 25 November, 1898. With the death of John Francis Caille Heddle, the “African” Heddles die out in this male line.

5 The fifth child of John Heddle, Town Clerk of Kirwall, and Elizabeth Flett was WILLIAM FLETT, born at Cletts on the 19^th of may 1777, who died at the age of seventeen.

12. ALEXANDER was born at Kirkwall on 11 April, 1786 and died unmarried.

13. SOPHIA was born at Kirkwall on 28 October, 1777. In later years she and her sister Euphan kept a school in Kirkwall. She died unmarried in 1839.

14. ALEXANDER (second of the name) was born at Kirkwall on 5^th July, 1789. He enlisted as an Ensign in the Royal York Rangers (later absorbed into the African Corps) on 4 May 1809 and served in Goree and Guernsey. When Goree was ceded back to france in 1817 some of the Royal African Corps were transferred to Cape Town and Alexander, a Lieutenant since 1813, went to Grahamstown, on of the military stations near the cape. Here he settled, married and had a large family, and became a close friend of Donald Moodie, a brother of his sister-in-law, Henrietta Moodie, who became Colonial Secretary for Natal and Speaker of the Legislative Assembly.

15. GRIZEL was born at Kirkwall on 3 October, 1790 and died young.

16. A still-born son.

Upon the death in 1801 of John Heddle, Town Clerk of Kirkwall, his eldest son James Heddle, Surgeon, was served heir to his father in various properties in South Ronaldshay including Cletts. Upon his death in 1812, he was succeeded by his brother Robert, who became Robert Heddle of Cletts.

ROBERT HEDDLE of Cletts and Melsetter

Merchant in Kirkwall

Born on 15 April, 1780, Robert was trained as a Writer in the Kirkwall office of his brother-in-law, Patrick Fotheringhame, Comptroller of Customes. He practiced as a Writer for a few years before enlisting as Paymaster in the Royal African Corps on 26^th October, 1804. He followed his brother, John to the West Coast of Africa and began trading in Goree and Senegal being appointed Deputy Assistant Commissary General at Senegal on 23 May, 1840. When his brother John died in 1812 without legitimate issue, Robert Heddle succeeded to the family properties in South Ronaldshay. His career as a merchant was extremely successful and, when Senegal was ceded back to France in 1817, Robert retired and came home with a fortune estimated at £90,000. By that time, if not sooner, he had begun to purchase other Orkney properties through the agency of his brother-in-law, Patrick Fotheringhame. Patrick's son William Fotheringhame, having gone to Edinburgh to be apprenticed as a writer, late in may, 1817, soon began to play a part, on his father's behalf, in the acquisition of Robert's properties and in that year and until the summer of 1818, writes home to Orkney reporting the position regarding the sale of the Melsetter estates by the Trustee of Major James Moodie. Both sides held out on the price but Robert Heddle finally purchased the estate for £20,000 at Public Roup (i.e. auction - JPM) in July 1818. On 28 November in that year he married Major Moodie's daughter, Henrietta, who had previously been engaged to the son of Mr. James Bremner, the minister of Walls and Flotta.

In the year 1802, before leaving Orkney, Robert Heddle had a daughter Amelia by Janet Henderson. On his return from Senegal he set her up in business as a dressmaker and milliner at 66 George Street, Edinburgh, where she prospered for many years and where many of her younger Heddle relations stayed, and died at Morningside, unmarried, in 1878.

In Senegal, between c. 1810 and 1815, Robert Heddle had four daughters whose mother was named Adelaide, but whose surname is not known. The girls came home to boarding school in Hackney where, in 1826, Eliza Adelaide, aged 15, and Mary Isabella, aged 11, died, their mother having died in October 1818. The two remaining girls, Emily (who seems to have been the 3^rd daughter) and Rosalie Harriet were then brought to Edinburgh where Rose died at the age of 18 on 14^th January 1831. Emily, who inherited her mother's fortune, remained unmarried and a close friend of the young Heddles of Melsetter, and died in Surrey on 8^th November, 1894, aged 80.

Henrietta Heddle died at Queen Street, Edinburgh, on 2 July 1833, and was buries in the Canongate Churchyard beside her father, Major James Moodie, and in 1835, Robert Heddle married Elizabeth, daughter of Mr. Nicholas Sutherland of Guelph, Ontario and formerly of Jedburgh and of the Forfarshire Regiment of Militia. She survived her husband and died, without issue, in Edinburgh (here a note in JH's hand “must verify Edinburgh”). Robert Heddle died in Kirkwall on 28^th January, 1842, and was buried in St. Magnus' cathedral. His children by Henrietta Moodie were:-

i JOHN GEORGE, born 26^th September, 1819, See John George Heddle of Melsetter

ii JAMES ALEXANDER, born 16 February, 1821. died at hackney, London, in 1830

iii ELIZA DUNBAR, born 8 March, 1825. Eloped with John Heddle Traill, younger son of Thomas Traill (Westove) and his last wife, Anne Traill Fotheringhame, and was married at Sanday by his grandfather, the Revd. Walter Traill of Westove, on 30 March, 1841. They had a daughter Henrietta Anna (Etta) who married Dr. John Skae, yr., of Edinburgh, and a son William Henry (Harry) who migrated to Brisbane to become a pastoralist but soon adopted journalism as a profession. He acquired the SYDNEY BULLETIN, recruited fresh talent, including the cartoonist Phil May, and put the Bulletin on its feet again. In later years he became a Sydney M.P., and died in 1903. His daughter, Millie (Amelia Heddle Traill) by his first wife, married Forster, a younger son of John George Heddle of Melsetter.

Eliza Heddle (Mrs. J. H. Trai8ll) died in Edinburgh on 31 July, 1844, and John Heddle Traill also died there, an officer of the Customs, on 23^rd April, 1847.

4. HENRIETTA MOODIE (Harriet) was born on 18 December, 1824 and married, on 7^th February, 1843, as his second wife, William Traill of Westness and Woodwick, by whom she had eight children.

5. ROBERT, born 4^th October, 1826 was educated first at Edinburgh Academy and then at Marchiston Castkle Academy, afterwards boarding at Mr. Gunn's farm near Ratter in Caithness to learn farming. In 1848 he leased the farm of Hobbister in Orphir from his brother John and, on 11 September 1855, married Jane, daughter of Dr. Duguid. They had two children, Elizabeth Ann who died in infancy on 23 August 1859 and was buried in the Scotch Cemetery at Toronto, and James Alexander, born on 21^st July 1856, who went to Singapore to work for Eastern Extension Telegraph and died there on 25^th September, 1876, aged 20. Robert and Jane Heddle had emigrated to Toronto soon after their marriage and he took up an appointment with a bank there, but he fell ill and they returned to Orkney on 7^th August, 1860 and Robert died at Kirkwall on the 28^th of that month. There is a memorial to Robert and his children in the churchyard behind St. Magnus's Cathedral. He was a gifted botanist and ornithologist and joint author with Dr. W.B. Baikie of Part I of a NATURAL HISTORY OF ORKEY, but Dr. Baikie went to Africa on his exploratory travels and Robert went to Canada so Part II was not completed, and an Antiquarian & and natural History Society which they and Mr. Henry Reid started in Kirkwall came to an early end.

6. (MATTHEW) FORSTER HEDDLE was born on 28 August, 1828, and educated with his brother Robert until commencing his medical training at Edinburgh University. The brothers boarded for some years with Dr. John Brown, author of RAB AND HIS FRIENDS, at his house at 51 Albany Street, Edinburgh, where Dr. Brown supervised Forster's medical studies. Forster graduated M.D. in 1844 and practiced as a doctor in Edinburgh for a short while but gave up this career and, after spending five months in a mineralogical survey of the Faroes, was appointed Assistant to the Professor of Chemistry at St. Andrew's University, succeeding him in 1862. He held this appointment until health caused his retirement but made time for much mineralogical work. He was a founder member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Geological Society of Edinburgh and, later, its President; President of the Geological Society of Edinburgh and, in 1884, its first Associate. His great work, THE MINERALOLOGY OF SCOTLAND, was published posthumously and his collection of minerals is in the National Museum in Chambers Street, Edinburgh.

Forster Heddle married Mary Jane Mackenzie of St. Andrews on 6^th July, 1858. They had three sons and six daughters: the two younger sons died in infancy but Robert Mackenzie Heddle, born 16 June 1861, went to Canada where he died in November 1902. He had married at Islington Register Office on 4^th December, 1890, Katherine Kramer, aged 24 years, daughter of Mitchell Kramer, merchant. Of Forster Heddle's daughters, two seem to have died young; the second, Clementina Christian Sinclair (Clem) married her father's assistant Dr. Alexander Thoms and they had one son, Alec Thoms. Ethel Forster Heddle, who married William Marshall, son of the Edinburgh jeweler of that name and an analytical chemist, was born on 16^th November, 1862. They has a son John, in the Regular Army who lost his life in the Second World War when serving in the Middle East, unmarried; and a daughter Clemency, a talented artist, who married Colonel Bevis Lamb and had a daughter Bevis. Ethel F. Heddle was well-known for her novels based on old St. Andrews; she died in London in 1942. Matilda (Tilly) married T. Evans Johnston, a dental surgeon, and had a son - also killed in the war - and a daughter Ethel (Blossie). Katie, the youngest daughter died unmarried in London.

Emeritus Professor Forster Heddle died on 19^th November, 1897.

7. MARY BURY was born on 28 may 1830, and died at Kirkwall on 10 June, 1831.

8. The second MARY BURY was born on 27 May, 1832, and died on 5 February, 1833.

JOHN GEORGE HEDDLE, D.L., J.P., of ME;SETTER AND HOY LODGE

Born on 26 September, 1819, educated at Edinburgh Academy until 1857 when he entered Edinburgh University. Succeeded his father in 1842 as proprietor of one of the largest estates in Orkney, to which he made additions, such as estates in Hoy, including Hoy Lodge. For some time Convenor of the Commissioners of Supply and served with the rank of Captain under Colonel Balfour in the Orkney Volunteers. He married, on 18th October, 1843, Mary, second daughter of William Traill of Woodwick and his first wife Harriet Sarle - William having previously married John's sister Harriet, as his second wife. John G. Heddle had fourteen children before he was fatally wounded in a shooting accident in Hoy, dying on 23 September, 1869 at the early age of 50. His widow brought the younger children with her to London, where she died on 7 June, 1884. J.G. Heddle's children were:

1. JOHN GEORGE MOODIE, born 11 December, 1844. See John George Heddle of Melsetter and Hoy Lodge.

2. HARRIET TRAILL born 23^rd February, 1847; married c. 1879, in London, Henry Sydney Attwood and had a daughter Maud (Ethel Maud Isobel) who married (1) Alan Waugh, and (2), a Mr. Lowres, and died without issue in London c. 1950. Harriet died in London on 26 November, 1877 and her death was notified by her brother Alexander.

3.ROBERT WILLIAM, born on 9^th September 1848, was educated at Edinburgh Academy and St. Andrews University. He emigrated to New Zealand in 1872 died three weeks after his arrival there -unmarried.

4. CHARLES TRAILL, born 23^rd August, 1850, also attended Edinburgh Academy but after his father's death went to London with his mother and younger brothers and sisters. In 1872 he emigrated to Sierra Leone but contracted fever on arrival and died, unmarried, on the voyage home, on 13 August, 1872.

5. MARY was born on 17 October, 1851 and married, as his second wife, her cousin William James Dunbar Moodie from Natal, a nephew of Henrietta Moodie. She survived him and died in London, without issue, on 31^st March, 1927.

6. ALEXANDER DUNBAR, born 6 May, 1853, is said to have died in Australia (See No. 2 above)

7 EMMELINE born 30 July, 1854, attended Mr. Oliphant's School at 33 Charlotte Square, Edinburgh. She died on 11 April, 1862, and was buried in Canongate Churchyard.

8. JAMES MOODIE was born on 2 October, 1857 and died at Kirkwall on 7 April, 1858.

9. ELLEN was born on 17 October 1859 and she also died in Edinburgh of scarlet fever on 13 February 1862, and was buried in the Canongate Churchyard.

10. WILLIAM was born on 13 April, 1864 and died at Melsetter on 26 August that year.

11. A second WILLIAM was born on 26 April, 1862. He emigrated to Canada and became an apple farmer in the Okanagan valley, B.C. he married Kate Frisby and had a son and three daughters.

12. FORSTER was born on 24 August 1863 and educated at Carshalton. He went to Assam to be a tea planter but fell seriously ill with malaria and had to leave the east and return to England. He married his cousin Amelia Heddle Traill (Milly) (a granddaughter of his aunt Eliza Heddle) the eldest daughter of W. H. (Harry) Traill of the Westove branch, in London 7 November, 1899. They had two daughters, Dorothy Forster Traill and Joan Mary Traill (properly Joan Mary HOPE Traill but she, the author of this family history, disliked the Hope and seldom acknowledged it - JPM), born 17 April, 1901 and 20 May, 1904 respectively. Dorothy married Dr. John Edward Cockburn Morton and is now living in Kansas. They have 3 sons and 1 daughter, all married, and 10 grandchildren. Forster Heddle died in London on 7 February 1931 and his widow died at St. Leonard-on-Sea on 3 August, 1957, in her 91^st year.

13. EDWARD ALLEN was born in May 1868 in Edinburgh. He died unmarried in Australia.

14. A still-born child.

JOHN GEORGE MOODIE HEDDLE of MELSETTER & HOY LODGE

The eldest son of John George Heddle and Mary Traill was born on 11 December, 1844 and was educated first at Edinburgh Academy then at Lorette and proceeded to Edinburgh University. He married, on 2 September, 1870, at Edinburgh, Rebecca Aaronson, daughter of the late Louis Aaronson, merchant, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. They had seven children before his wife died and on 24 September, 1903 he married Helen Swanson Sutherland from Tomintoul at the West Parish Church, Inverness; there were no children of this marriage. He was the first to adopt the double surname of Moodie Heddle for all his family.

Both the provisions of the Crofters' Acts and the loss of the kelp trade hit the Orkney Island landed proprietors heavily and in 1898 J. G. Moodie Heddle sold the Melsetter estates to Thomas Middlemore Esq., of Hawksley, and retired to live at the old family home of Cletts in South Ronaldshay. He had taken a very keen and active interest in County affairs and continued to do so in South Ronaldshay. Following a stroke in 1909, he died on 12 September 1910. He and his first wife were buried, it is understood, in the churchyard in South Ronaldshay which stands below the house of Cletts. His children were;

1. Mary Amelia Rebecca Moodie (Tottie), born on 26 march 1871. She took up nursing and served in a military hospital before emigrating to Australia (where two of her brothers had gone). Here she became a hospital matron. During the 1914-18 war she went to Canada to visit her brother Charles and died at his home in Ontario on 22 November, 1918, unmarried.

2. JOHN GEORGE FLETT MOODIE was born on 9 March, 1872, and succeeded (here a note “must rectify this” - JPM) to the last of the family's properties in South Ronaldshay. He was educated at Aberdeen Grammar School from 1887-9 and at King's College, Aberdeen University from 1889-92 but ill heath put an end to his studies. He was author of the ‛Orkney' section of the Orkney and Shetland portion of the Cambridge County Geographies, 1920. A man of scholarly interests and habits he did not marry and died in Edinburgh in 1954.

3. ROBERT COSPATRICK DUNBAR MOODIE was born on 29 August 1875. After attending Aberdeen Grammar School he was apprenticed to sea and became a master mariner, his first command being a Melbourne barque. In Melbourne, on 27 may, 1901, he married Ethel Paterson by whom he had four sons and two daughters. He had a distinguished career with the Commonwealth Line, of which he became senior Master, and brought his ship safely to and from England with her cargoes throughout the 1914-18 war. He died at Melbourne on 18 January, 1923. His children were;

i John Forster Dunbar Moodie (Forster), born 14 April, 1902. Apprenticed to the Commonwealth Line he served as an officer in overseas and Australian coastal vessels and obtained his Master's Certificate. Served as Lieutenant R.N.V.R. (Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve - JPM) throughout the second world war, returning later to the Adelaide Steamship Company as Chief Officer, and later Master. In 1932 he married Hilda Jane Newby and in 1954 became head of the Heddle family upon the death of J. G. F. Moodie Heddle. He died without issue in 1974.

ii Enid Olive Mary Moodie was born 10 March, 1904, and graduated M.A. (First class honours in Philosophy and English) at Melbourne University and obtained the Diploma of Education, Melbourne, etc. Teacher, author and publisher, she was Educational manager in Australia for Longman's Green until her retirement. Unmarried, she has lived for some years at Mt. Dandenong, nr. Melbourne.

iii Robert Lionel Douglas Moodie (Sandy) was born on 10 March, 1906. He married, on 18 November, 1933, Isla Hooper. They had two daughters and one son, Robert O'Brian (Robin), who was born on 27 March 1940 and married Florence Old. Robin has two daughters and one son, Mark Robert, born on 11 April, 1972. On the death of his father, following that of his uncle Forster, Robin, in 1971 became head of the Heddle family. Sandy was killed in a road accident, after the death of his brother, in 1971.

iv Edward O'Brian Moodie (Brian) was born on 21 April, 1909 and is so far unmarried..

v Harold Eccles Moodie (Hal) was born on 26 June, 1911 and on 19 September, 1969, married Laura Sankaville.

vi Ida Charnette Moodie was born on 27 September 1913 and married, on 4 January, 1957, Cedric Seymour Millington. They have a son and daughter, both married.

4 CHARLES ALEXANDER DUNBAR MOODIE, 3^rd son of J. G. Moodie Heddle and Rebecca Aaronson, was born on 28 September, 1874. He entered Aberdeen Grammar School in 1887, when his home address was given as 50, St. Swithin Street, Aberdeen - no doubt where his family lived during the children's schooldays, returning to Orkney for holidays. In due course he was apprenticed to a firm of tweed manufacturers and about 1901 went to America. He held various posts and then set up on his own account as a wool merchant in Ontario. He married Katherine Parr Strickland Traill, granddaughter of Thomas Traill of Westove and his second wife Catherine Parr Strickland (sister of Agnes Strickland, historian). They had three children. Charlie died at Oakville, Ontario, on 16 April. 1957, shortly after the death of his wife. Their children were;-

i Muriel Moodie, born in Kansas in 1906; m. Eric Duke Scott and living at King, Ontario. (By JPM she d. c. 1997)

ii Dunbar Moodie, born in 1909 at St. Hyacinthe, Quebec; married Flora Mclaren from Hamilton, and has three children;

a. John Alexander Moodie, B.Ph., York University, Toronto; married Judith (Judy) McArthur and has two children, Robert Heddle (Bob) and Catharine Heddle.

b. Margaret Frances

c. Margaret Joan

iii Sheila (Shelagh) Moodie was born in St. Hyacinthe, Quebec, in 1910. She married Thomas Staines Stott, who died in 1971, and has one son Charles Philip Edmund Stott (Teddy).

5. LIONEL EDWARD DACRE MOODIE was born on 6 October, 1875 and entered Aberdeen Grammar School in 1887. Like his brother Rob he went to sea and was in the service of McIlwraith, McEachern & Company and became master of S.S. Katoombe. His wartime experiences were published in the Orcadian in 1936. As senior master in the Australian Merchant Service after the war, he received the O.B.E. He died on 28 February, 1959. “Ned”, as he was called, married his brother's wife, Charlotte Maude Paterson (Charlie) and had one son. Olaf Moodie, was born on 22 February 1911 and in due course entered the legal profession, becoming a judge in Melbourne. He married on 2 March 1939. Nancy Helen Joseph and has a daughter Virginia, born in 1940. In 1954 Virginia married Douglas Stephen Kennedy and has two sons. Charlie Moodie Heddle died on 16 January, 1968.

6. A stillborn daughter.

7. EMMELINE HENRIETTA BARBARA FOTHERINGHAME MOODIE was born on 25 march, 1878. She died in Edinburgh on 27 January, 1988 and was buried in the Canongate churchyard.

By JPM - The children of Dorothy Heddle and Dr. Morton are myself, John Patrick , my brothers Michael Reginald Forster and sister Sylvia Margaret Traill. The first two born in London and the others in Kingston, Jamaica. Now, 2006, we live in Ottawa, Canada, Newton, Kansas, Tasmania and Houston, Texas respectively.

Mild controversy exists about the name Forster. Older records seem to favour that spelling bur both my mother and aunt pronounced and spelled it without the r.

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