GERRARD St Monance & Pittenweem

[hdw]

Sid, if you are still around, I am descended from Jean Gerrard, sister of your GGGrandfather Peter. I also have her parents as John Gerrard from St. Monance and Jean Tulloch, possibly from Aberdour. Jean married William Beveridge. I would love to hear if you found anything more on this family, and what relevant documentation you have found.

By the way, here is some dirt on Peter:
http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/SCT-FIFE/2002-12/1038776432

Thanks! Jim

Jim gives a link to an old post of mine about the Gerrards of St. Monans. They started up a boatbuilding business in Arbroath. The following link to some posts on the Auchmithie Roots genealogy forum may be of interest -

http://auchmithieroots.freeforums.org/the-stealing-of-the-girl-jean-t342.html

A Peter Gerrard of St. Monans married an Agnes Tarvet from my home town of Cellardyke, where they were living at the time of the  1881 census. Peter was a fisherman, born in St. Monans in 1847 to David Gerrard and Margaret Innes. I imagine all the Gerrards of St. Monans would have been related. In my day the local pronunciation of the name was something like "Jerrit".

Harry

[sidsmith]

Thanks Harry I had that info

Jim doing more research I see that William Todd BEVERIDGE went to Melbourne Australia and married Sarah DALTON and had 2 sons did any other BEVERRIDGE children go to Australia
Sid

[mcjames]

Hi Sid,

Of the 8 children of James Beveridge and Catherine Matilda Todd, the only two who emigrated were William Todd Beveridge, who went to Australia, and his brother John Christie Beveridge (my ancestor), who emigrated to the United States. The rest remained in Scotland:

James Beveridge, tailor, married Jessie Gerrard 1855 Oct 3, S. Leith, Midlothian and he died in Leven.
Sarah Stoddard Beveridge married Henry Carmichael 1857 Aug 24 in Dysart
Jane Beveridge died at the age of 11 and is buried in Pathhead Feuars Graveyard, Dysart
Charles Jamieson Beveridge married Christina Smith 1862 Jan 6 in Dysart. He died 1928 in Dysart.
Catherine Beveridge died at the age of 3 and is buried in Pathhead Feuars Graveyard, Dysart
Mary Beveridge died at the age of about 2 and is buried in Pathhead Feuars Graveyard, Dysart

Parents James and Catherine are also interred in Pathhead Feuars Graveyard, along with Catherine's father. Sgt. William Tod(d).

Catherine Matilda Todd is listed in the 1851 census as being born “Overseas - British - London Town, America “ and in the 1861 census as being born in "St. John America." Do you or anyone else have a clue where she was born? Her father William was obviously in the military. Maybe he was stationed overseas?

The middle names of the children: Stoddard, Christie, and Jamieson, are all family names found in the Pathhead Feuars Graveyard. I would love to discover the family connections some day.

Jim

[sidsmith]

Hi Jim
I have had no luck finding birth of Catherine Matilda Todd

I see that John Christie BEVERIDGE married Margaret NAIRN and had 3 children that I know of
Catherine Matilda Todd b 1872 died 07 Nov 1891 New Jersey ??
James b 1874 died ??
Andrew Nairn b 1875 died bef 1940 married Isabella N REID b Scotland ?? where died after 1940 and the had 5 children John, Norman, Charles, Donald & Gordon

Sid

[mcjames]

Hi Sid,

John Christie Beveridge and Margaret Nairn had 7 children that I know of:

1. Catherine Matilda Todd Beveridge, b. 1872 Aug 17, Abbotshall or Dysart, never married, d. 1891 Nov 7, Kearny, Hudson, NJ
2. James Beveridge, b. 1874 Jan-Feb, i. 1874 Nov 29, Pathhead Feuars Cemetery, Lot 38 (10 mo)
3. Andrew Nairn Beveridge, b. 1875 Sept 21, 4 AM, Linktown, Abbotshall, Kirkaldy, Fife, Scotland
4. Margaret Nairn Beveridge, b. 1878 Aug 17, Dysart, Fife
5. John Christie Beveridge, b. 1883 May 6, Dysart, Fife
6. Sarah Struthers Beveridge, b. 1884 Oct 4, Dysart, Fife
7. David Nairn Beveridge, b. 1886, d. 1888 Nov 21 at 30 Overton Rd., Sinclairtown (2 yrs), i. 1888 Nov 23, Pathhead Feuars Cemetery, Lot 38

Andrew Nairn, b. 1875 Sept 21, Abbotshall, Kirkcaldy, Scotland, e. 1889, d. 1934 Jan 31 New Jersey, USA. Isabella Reid, his wife, was born 1877 Nov 18 at 16 Niddry St., Abbey, Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland as the 13th (and last) child of John Reid and Janet Nicol, she emigrated 1892 Sept 9 on the SS Corean, d. 1946 Kearny, Hudson, NJ. She married Andrew 1901 Jan 29 in Manhattan, New York, New York. You have the correct 5 children. I have details on them if you need them. Charles and Donald were twins. Their first son, John Victor, was my grandfather. We have been discussing the Nicol line on another forum here.

Jim

[bobbeveridge]

Hi Jim

I have only just 'discovered' this site. I can give some details of the Beveridge and Todd families.

The William Tod(d) Beveridge who went to Australia is my paternal great-grandfather. I tried to attach a couple of extensive Word documents to this message on the BEVERIDGE-TODD and BEVERIDGE-DALTON families, but got an 'error' message because they were not in an acceptable format. I am no computer geek, so, short of giving you my e-mail address, I don't know how I can pass them to you. Any thoughts on how I get around this difficulty?

I can confirm that Catherine Matilda Todd's father, William Todd, was indeed in the military: he served almost 29 years (3 Nov 1787 to 30 April 1816) in the 2nd Battalion, Royal Artillery, spending the duration of his service at Halifax in present-day Nova Scotia. I have his two-page discharge certificate if you would like to see it. His 'retirement benefit' was a pension at the rate of 1 shilling and 7 pence per day, which, for the time, was not as bad as it might seem at our remove. "St John, Lower America" (present-day New Brunswick), which his daughter Catherine gave as her place of birth in a Census, is just across the Bay of Fundy from Nova Scotia.

My daughter had the opportunity a few years ago (about 2007) to visit Kirkcaldy. We had prepared beforehand for her to gain access to the Pathhead Feuars Graveyard and also did as much research as possible on the location of the grave. The key-holder who gave her access said she should not be too upset if she did not find the family grave because not many headstones had survived, and many of those which had were illegible. But, after orienting herself, she walked straight to it; she said the fellow's jaw nearly hit the ground!! I have a photo somewhere of her beside the headstone, which is still legible; if I can find the 'safe place' I put it in I will send it - if you are interested.

I am tied up with other things at the moment which are occupying my time, but wanted to get this off to you.

Kindest regards
Bob Beveridge
Caloundra, Qld, Australia

[ev]

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[sidsmith]

I have done more research here in Aust
William Todd BEVERIDGE married Sarah DALTON and had 2 children William Dalton  born and died 1863 Hawthorn Victoria  and  James William Todd born 1865 died 4 Nov 1925 Elwood,Victoria married Rose Anna Eliabeth SMITH born 1864 died 24 Sep 1945 Elwood, Victoria
They had 2 children Frederick Richard  who died 25 Jul 1916 Pozieres,France and William Percy b 15 Jul 1892 Fitzroy North,Victoria married Annie WATSON both died Queensland

Sid

[mcjames]

Welcome to the Forum, Bob! That sounds like wonderful information (and I have PMed you my contact information). Does the family show up on the Canadian censuses, or did British military installations keep their own records? Anyway, I can't wait to see what information you have collected!

Jim