Waldie Coal Merchants

[MonicaL]

Hi Helen

Welcome to RootsChat 

You have a much better chance of getting some responses if you create a new post on the Lanarkshire board with a specific heading for Frederick. This Waldie post is for the Midlothian Waldies and relates to number of families from that area.

Regards.

Monica

Added: The family is in Govan, Lanarkshire for the 1891/1901 censuses. In 1901, Frederick Snr. looks to have remarried. I'll wait for you do add the post to the Lanarkshire board and then add the census entries there to help you keep responses all together 

[maahvin]

HI Mrs Magoo,

I have a David Waldie and Janet Waldie (nee Cook) GGG aunts Marriage certificate of Oct 3 1884 in Woodend NZ, near Christchurch.

It says on the certificate that David was a carter.

Could we be distantly related?
Derrick

[mrs magoo]

really ! derrick, must be a rellie somewhere down the line, my janet cook did marry my ggreat grandfather david waldie but in 1847 in edinburgh scotland.
janet came to port chalmers nz and lived in akatore, otago.
i wonder if they are related, don't know what happend to david as he never came to nz but on daughter elizabeth waldies marriage in papers past she is daughter of late david waldie 8th november 1894 and step daughter of david gardyne,akatore,nz
karen

[mrs magoo]

my david waldie was also a carter/distillery
karen

[mrs magoo]

i also meant to ask what is your gggaunts name, and was david origionally from water of leith,edinburgh,
my janet cook was daughter of james cook and maybe elizabeth erskine, of auschterderran,scotland.
love to hear more
karen

[maahvin]

Than you for the reply Karen,
A brief history;

Me ->
  P McPhie (nee Gillies) (Mum) ->
    Cecil Gillies (G) b 1902 ->
      Henry McFarlane Gillies (GG) b 1868 ->
      Jane Thomson Gillies (GGA) b 1861  m 3 Oct 1884 Woodend NZ John Waldie b 1854
      + 7 other siblings
        Alexander McBride Gillies (GGG) b 1835. m 1860 Mary McFarlane
          Alexander Gillies (GGGG) b circa 1801 m Mary Duncan
            Daniel Gillies (GGGGG) b circa 1790s

So far I have been unable to find Janes birth certificate, but I will keep looking.

Interestingly, the marriage certificate says John Waldie was born in Scotland, but the cemetary printout has him as a native of Timaru dying in 1942 with last address as Timaru Sth Cantebury at the age of 93yo.
Jane died in 1936  last address of Wakari, where she was married.

So a little bit of a puzzle.

Cheers for now Derrick

[mrs magoo]

that could be my janet cooks son john waldie, she came to nz with 2 sons and one daughter,
john i have him born 1852 and james my great grandfather in 1855, james would have been 3 years old and john 6years and elizabeth 10.
i hope it's him fancy living to 93, my great grandfather disappeared early 1900 so will probably never know when he passed.
I know james son allso james waldie lived in timaru
karen

[mrs magoo]

derrick i have found cemetery printouts to not be very acurate, as james waldie my ggreat grandfather married naomi gilbert, it has on her printout she had been in nz since age 14 but she hadn't at all as in the shipping list for nz she came at 3 years old with the gilbert family.
karen

[worldlywanderer]

Abeit a tad late I cannot resist a response because I remember waldies the Coal merchants in Edinburgh - even remember them delivering to my family home about half a century ago. This link may be of interest: http://www.edinphoto.org.uk/0_my_p_edwk/0_my_photographs_edinburgh_at_work_-_bruce_lindsay_waldie.htm.

The Berwickshire connection mentioned above may appear to have some credibility because of the Berwickshire servant employed by the family but I would suggest  looking in Liberton and Newton parishes where there were Wladies connected to coal in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.