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RIDDELLS OF BEESBOROUGH, SCOTLAND.
Henrietta Riddell (1), third daughter of James (1), I have no par-
ticulars of; her name stands in the family pedigree.
Henry-James Riddell (4), eldest son of Robert (1), was born July
8, 1838, and died in 1847, aged nine years.
Robert Riddell (2), second son of Robert (1), was born March 23,
1840; was educated at Edinburgh, Scotland, and is now (1878) a civil
engineer at Lanowlee, Bombay, India.
William-Law Riddell (2), third son of Robert (1), was born Oct.
16, 1843; married in 1877 Mary-Ann Frazer, and is now (1878) of River-
side, Otago, New Zealand. One daughter.
Jane-Anne Riddell (2), eldest daughter of Robert (1), was born
Oct. 4, 1835; was married in 1860 to James Constable, Esq., of Cally,
Perthshire, and has four sons and six daughters.
Susan-Mary Riddell (1), youngest daughter of Robert (1), was born
Sept. 23, 1841, and resides in Edinburgh, Scotland.
SEVENTH GENERATION.
Henry-James Riddell' (5), eldest son of James (2), was born Oct.
21, 1870. In India.
William-John Riddell' (3), second son of James (2), was born May
19, 1872. In India.
Walter Riddell (2), third son of James (2), was born (probably in
India) Oct. 29, 1874. A daughter was born Feb. 20, 1879.
Mary-Hepburn Riddell (2), a daughter of William (2), was born
(probably in New Zealand) in December, 1877.
RIDDELLS OF BEESBOROUGH, SCOTLAND.
Capt. Thomas Riddell' (1), was the fifth son of Walter (10), the
fifth Baronet of Riddell (whose pedigree see). He married Elizabeth,
daughter of Laughlan MacLauchlan, Esq., of an ancient Highland family,
and had issue several children, of whom hereafter. He was an officer in
the East India Company's naval service, and made successful voyages to
India and China. A journal of one of his voyages to East India is in
the British Museum, a copy of which the author of this work secured and
has deposited in the archives of the New England Historical Society, in
Boston, Mass. Captain Riddell made money by his adventures, and return-
ing to Scotland, purchased a property in Berwickshire called "Kames,"
which he named "Beesborough," after the ship he commanded, and made
it his residence. There is a fine oil-painting of Mrs. Riddell and one of her
children, made when she was a young and very beautiful woman, and a
photographic copy is now in the author's possession. Captain Riddell
died in 1805, and was succeeded by his son.
SECOND GENERATION.
Capt. Thomas Riddell (2), eldest son of Thomas' (1), was styled
"the second of Beesborough." He was an officer in the Fourteenth Regi-
