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Member # 173  Query

Carol Ritchie

E-Mail:  callie@rogers.com

for 2006

Searching for parents and/or siblings of JOHN RITCHIE JR (1767-1828) and his wife JANET LUKE (1773-1856) of Scotland. They were married at East Kilbride, Lanark Co Scotland in 1792. They later located to Fintry, Stirling Co where John worked as a smith in charge of machinery, likely in the large cotton mill that was built in 1796. With their family of 9 children, they emigrated to Perth, Ontario, Canada in 1815 aboard the ship "Atlas". Their children's ages ranged from 3 months to 21 years at that time. Old family papers mention John RITCHIE apprenticed in 1784 to Henry HANNAH , smith of Lennie Park for the term of 4 years, his brother James "taking burden upon himself as cautioner" (which likely meant that their father was already deceased at that time). John's father reportedly had resided in "Delry Mills", or possibly "Dalry Mills". Another possibility is that the Ritchie family originated near Edinburgh, as Lennie Park is situated between Edinburgh and the Airport.

WHITE - RITCHIE:

       Searching for marriage record for Joseph WHITE and Jane RITCHIE, about 1853, as well as birth/baptismal records for their 3 children. Joseph apparently was born in Ireland on November 6, 1825, son of James WHITE and Nancy/Ann SCOTT. Some of his family resided at or near Westport. Jane was born circa 1828-1830, daughter of John RITCHIE and Mary Blair WILSON  of Lot 10 Con 1 Bathurst Twp. Jane died of tuberculosis in March of 1859, leaving 3 small children behind. She is believed to be buried in the Craig Street Cemetery in Perth. Joseph died in 1912, Jaffa, Malahide Twp., Elgin County, Ontario where he had raised a 2nd family after Jane's death. The eldest son John WHITE (1854-1892) was raised by his father in Malahide Twp. Elgin Co., but the two youngest were raised by their maternal relatives, in Bathurst Twp. Mary WHITE (1856-1941) was married in 1880 at Perth, to George BYERS of Bromley Twp., Renfrew County. The youngest child, James Ritchie WHITE, was born in 1858. According to his marriage record to Isabella WILSON in 1885, he reported that he was born in Hastings County. His surname was recorded as "WHYTE".