Matthew Forster Heddle^{[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]}

1828 - 1897  (69 years)

• Name	Matthew Forster Heddle  [7]
  Birth	28 Apr 1828	Melsetter, Orkney, Scotland   [7]
  Christening	19 Jun 1828  [7]
  Gender	Male
  Death	19 Nov 1897	St. Andrews, Fifeshire, Scotland   [8]
  Burial	St. Andrews Cathedral burial ground, St. Andrews, Scotland   [9]
  Person ID	I28	Heddle fam tree
  Last Modified	25 May 2018

  
  

  Father	Robert Heddle,   b. 15 Apr 1780, Cletts, South Ronaldsay, Orkney, Scotland d. 28 Jan 1842, Kirkwall, Orkney, Scotland (Age 61 years)
  Mother	Henrietta Moodie,   b. 1794, Melsetter, Orkney, Scotland d. 2 Jul 1833, Edinburgh, Scotland (Age 39 years)
  Marriage	28 Nov 1818	Melsetter, Orkney, Scotland   [6, 7, 10]
  Family ID	F7	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mary Jane Sinclair MacKechnie,   b. Abt 1831, Hythe, Kent, England d. 13 Nov 1891, St. Andrews, Fifeshire, Scotland (Age 60 years)
  Marriage	6 Jul 1858	Playfair Terrace, St. Andrews, Fireshire, Scotland   [6, 11]
  Children	1. Mary Wallace Heddle,   b. 13 Apr 1859, St. Andrews, Fifeshire, Scotland d. 30 Apr 1875, St. Andrews, Fifeshire, Scotland (Age 16 years)   2. Clementina Christian Sinclair Heddle,   b. 22 Apr 1860, St. Andrews, Fifeshire, Scotland d. 21 Apr 1942, St. Andrews, Fifeshire, Scotland (Age 81 years)   3. Robert MacKechnie Heddle,   b. 16 Jun 1861, West Port House, St. Andrews, Fifeshire, Scotland d. 2 Nov 1902, Canada (Age 41 years)   4. Ethel Forster Heddle,   b. 16 Nov 1862, St. Andrews, Fifeshire, Scotland d. 7 May 1942, St. Andrews, Fifeshire, Scotland (Age 79 years)   5. Forster Heddle,   b. 10 May 1864, St. Andrews, Fifeshire, Scotland d. 25 May 1864, St. Andrews, Fifeshire, Scotland (Age 0 years)   6. David Greenhill Heddle,   b. 23 Oct 1865, St. Andrews, Fifeshire, Scotland d. 4 Apr 1866, St. Andrews, Fifeshire, Scotland (Age 0 years)   7. Cecilia Dudgeon Heddle,   b. 5 Jun 1867, St. Andrews, Fifeshire, Scotland d. 21 Mar 1911, St. Andrews, Fifeshire, Scotland (Age 43 years)   8. Matilda Moodie "Tillie" Heddle,   b. 8 Jan 1869, St. Andrews, Fifeshire, Scotland d. 21 May 1942, St. Andrews, Fifeshire, Scotland (Age 73 years)   9. Stuart Sutherland Dunbar Heddle,   b. 23 Sep 1871, St. Andrews, Fifeshire, Scotland d. Abt 1930, California, USA (Age 58 years)   10. Catherine Mudie Lindesay "Katie" Heddle,   b. 20 Aug 1874, St. Andrews, Fifeshire, Scotland d. Abt 1946, London, England (Age 71 years)
  Family ID	F642	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	23 Jun 2008

  
  

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  		photo group - matthew forster heddle family about 1883.jpg From: http://www.edinburghgeolsoc.org/edingeologist/z_39_02.html

  
  

• Notes

  A wonderful description of his life and works was written by Peter Dryburgh, President of the Edinburgh Geological Society, for The Edinburgh Geologist periodical #39, Autumn 2002. Available online here: http://www.edinburghgeolsoc.org/edingeologist/z_39_02.html A description of him can be found in his Obituary in the Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh, Vol XIV, 1897-1901, published 1902. Available online at: http://books.google.com/books?id=oV0tc35DSRgC&pg=PA69&dq=%22matthew+forster+heddle%22&as_brr=1&ei=-nd6R5-KK4XasQPR5rWeBw#PPA69,M1 Matthew has a wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Forster_Heddle

  
  

• Sources

  [S303] Bio of Literary and Philosophical Society of St. Andrews, at National Archives of Scotland, (National Archives of Scotland, indexed online at http://www.nas.gov.uk/onlineCatalogue/ Person code: STA81). [S310] Census - Scotland1871 - Matthew Forster Heddle family in St. Andrews, (Source Citation: Parish: St Andrews; ED: 2; Line: 23; Year: 1871. Roll: CSSCT1871_78 Source Information: Ancestry.com. 1871 Scotland Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2007. Original data: Scotland. 1871 Scotland Census. Reels 1-191. General Register Office for Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland.). [S312] Census - Scotland1891 - Matthew Forster Heddle family in St. Andrews, (Source Citation: Parish: St Andrews; ED: 8; Line: 5; Year: 1891. Roll: CSSCT1891_139. Source Information: Ancestry.com. 1891 Scotland Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2007. Original data: Scotland. 1891 Scotland Census. Reels 1-409. General Register Office for Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland.). [S313] Census - Scotland1851 - Matthew Forster Heddle w/ Emily in Edinburgh, (Source Citation: Parish: Edinburgh St Cuthberts; ED: 7A; Line: 15; Year: 1851. Roll: CSSCT1851_184 Source Information: Ancestry.com. 1851 Scotland Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2006. Original data: Scotland. 1851 Scotland Census. Reels 1-217. General Register Office for Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland.). [S311] Census - Scotland1881 - Matthew Forster Heddle family in St. Andrews, (Source Citation: Parish: St Andrews and St Leonards; ED: 8; Line: 20; Year: 1881. Roll cssct1881_125. Source Information: Ancestry.com. 1881 Scotland Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2007. Original data: Scotland. 1881 Scotland Census. Reels 1-338. General Register Office for Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland.). [S18] Joan Heddle, History - Joan Heddle research on John Heddle, Writer at Kirkwall, (Unpublished. Transcribed by Pat Morton. Full text available online here: http://x.heddle.com/FamilyOfHeddleOfCletts.htm). [S181] John George Heddle, son of Robert Heddle and Henrietta Moodie, Personal - John George Heddle notes, (Unpublished, in the possession of Martin Traill.). [S338] Death record - Matthew Forster Heddle 1897. [S378] Memorial - Heddle memorial stone in St. Andrews cathedral burial ground, (Photos taken by Hamish Johnston.). [S105] Sir Walter Scott, Edinburgh Annual Register 1818, (Published 1822. Online at: http://books.google.com/books?id=jssLAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA384&dq=heddle+orkney&ei=J3xDR6OcE4zitQO44sHbBg#PRA1-PA384,M1), Page 384 (Reliability: 3). [S318] Marriage record - Matthew Forster Heddle + Jane Mackechnie 1858, (General Register Office, Edinburgh, Scotland.).