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Aberdeenshire / Re: Aberdeenshire families
« on: Monday 09 July 07 09:42 BST (UK) »
The Meldrums are not blood relations of mine but John Meldrum was my father's step father and 'Grandad Meldrum' to me and I have vague memories of him although he died when I was about 4.
I know that he came from Huntly and that his parents were farmers so I believe that he must be the John Meldrum that appears on the 1881 and 1891 census at Dukewell, the son of William and Margeret. I don't know his DOB but c.1878 seems about right.
My 'Grandad Meldrum' became a ships chief engineer, latterly on the 'Levenpool' (I have perhaps the only existing picture of the ship). He married my grandmother Mary Ellen Anderson Scott nee Richardson in (I think but I have yet to send for the suspected marriage certificate) 1911 and they lived in the Tynemouth area. Unfortunately, she made him give up the sea and work in a factory but he was an intelligent man who loved mathematics and mathmatical puzzles. I still have his parallel rulers and a puzzle book.
I believe that he had one brother who became a doctor, his studies partially funded by my grandfather. I believe that he had a sister who may have become a university lecturer but I am not sure.
After his wife died in 1947, he moved to Leigh-on-Sea, Essex to live with my parents but died a couple of years later.
John had no children of his own so it would be nice to fit him into someone's family tree so that he is not completely forgotten. I can't find another John Meldrum in the Huntly area at the right time (apart from the nephew John aged 11 on the 1881 census and also living at Dukewell).
Is this of any interest to you?
I know that he came from Huntly and that his parents were farmers so I believe that he must be the John Meldrum that appears on the 1881 and 1891 census at Dukewell, the son of William and Margeret. I don't know his DOB but c.1878 seems about right.
My 'Grandad Meldrum' became a ships chief engineer, latterly on the 'Levenpool' (I have perhaps the only existing picture of the ship). He married my grandmother Mary Ellen Anderson Scott nee Richardson in (I think but I have yet to send for the suspected marriage certificate) 1911 and they lived in the Tynemouth area. Unfortunately, she made him give up the sea and work in a factory but he was an intelligent man who loved mathematics and mathmatical puzzles. I still have his parallel rulers and a puzzle book.
I believe that he had one brother who became a doctor, his studies partially funded by my grandfather. I believe that he had a sister who may have become a university lecturer but I am not sure.
After his wife died in 1947, he moved to Leigh-on-Sea, Essex to live with my parents but died a couple of years later.
John had no children of his own so it would be nice to fit him into someone's family tree so that he is not completely forgotten. I can't find another John Meldrum in the Huntly area at the right time (apart from the nephew John aged 11 on the 1881 census and also living at Dukewell).
Is this of any interest to you?