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RIDDELLS OF EAST KILBRIDE, SCOTLAND.
RIDDELLS OF EAST KILBRIDE, SCOTLAND.
James Riddell¹ (1), parents' names unknown, was born in 1732; mar-
ried Christiana Lang in 1760 (she was born at Motherwell Farm in
1732, and died in 1818), and had issue six children, four daughters and
two sons, of whom hereafter. Mr. Riddell was a farmer at East Kilbride,
near Glasgow. Died in 1790.
SECOND GENERATION.
Christina Riddell (1), eldest daughter of James' (1), was born at
East Kilbride, June 11, 1763, and was married to a man supposed to have
been a baker by trade, but his surname is not now certainly known.
Margaret Riddell (1), second daughter of James¹ (1), was born at
East Kilbride, Nov. 7, 1765; was married to John Ross. Time of decease
not known.
John Riddell (1), eldest son of James¹ (1), was born at East Kil
bride in 1767; married Elizabeth Branchell, of Dunbarton, Nov. 28,
1796, and had issue four children, three sons and a daughter, of whom
hereafter. He resided at Glasgow; died in 1832; his widow in 1842.
James Riddell (2), second son of James¹ (1), was born at East Kil-
bride (say 1769); no other information.
Agnes Riddell (1), third daughter of James¹ (1), was born at East
Kilbride, March 18, 1773, and was married to William Patterson, black-
smith. No record of her decease.
Jean Riddell (1), youngest daughter of James¹ (1), was born at
East Kilbride, March 29, 1776, and married Patterson, and became
the mother of "long Will Patterson."
THIRD GENERATION.
John Riddell (2), eldest son of John² (1), died in infancy.
James Riddell (3), second son of John (1), was born in Glasgow ;
married Elizabeth Stewart in 1811, and had issue eight children, of whom
hereafter. He died Feb. 7, 1853; his widow April 8, 1853.
Rev. William Riddell (1), third son of John² (1), was born at Glas-
gow, Nov. 10, 1801, and emigrated to America in early life. Never mar-
ried. He studied a while at Lafayette College, in Pennsylvania. Grad-
uated at Princeton College in 1837. After leaving college he immediately
entered the Theological Seminary at Princeton, and after a three years'
course graduated in 1840. Was ordained as an evangelist by the Pres-
bytery of Raritan, N. J., Oct. 5, 1841. He next appears a member of the
Presbytery of Mississippi in 1844, in connection with which he continued
till 1859, when having removed to the Yazoo Valley, he was transferred
to the Presbytery of Central Mississippi. He labored as stated supply to
several churches in the interior counties of the State till 1849, when he
removed to a neighborhood of planters, near Port Gibson, where he taught
the children in a private family and preached to the negroes on several
adjoining plantations. He was engaged in this work till the war of the
Rebellion interrupted it, when he consented reluctantly to abandon it and
return to Scotland. (In 1859, he had removed with the family with whom
he made his home to a plantation on the Yazoo River.) In 1862, in in-
firm health, he left the country, sailing from New Orleans in one of the
last vessels which left that port before the blockade was declared. He
died at the home of Mrs. Dick, Kim, Greenock, Scotland, Dec. 7, 1876.
