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GLEANINGS AND NOTES.
MRS. CHARLOTTE RIDDELL, youngest child of James Cowan, of Car-
rickfergus, County Antrim, Ireland, is wife of J. H. Riddell, Esq., a
civil-engineer, and is known as the author of many popular novels, in-
cluding "Too Much Alone," "City and Suburbs," "George Geith," "A
Life's Assize," "Mortomley's Estate" (1874), "Above Suspicion" (1875),
and "Her Mother's Darling" (1877).
WILLIAM RIDDELL lived in the parish of Dromara, townland of Grass-
quare, County Down, Ireland; married a Barr, and had seven or more
children; died before 1873, and left a widow and six children in Ireland.
A son, James Riddle, was at Malden Bridge, N. Y., in 1873; had many
relatives in America, but could not find them; he emigrated in 1863.
Presbyterian.
A RIDDELL bore the chief part in the arrest of the Earl of Argyle,
who was a Campbell. On this account the whole race of Riddells was,
during more than a century, held in abhorrence by the great tribe of
Campbell, and within living memory, when a Riddell visited a fair in
Argyleshire, he found it necessary to assume another name. The arrest
was in 1685.
JOSIAH RIDDLE came from London, Eng., to Canada in 1846, with his
wife and several children. He had married previously and had issue.
His eldest son by first wife, William-Josiah Riddle, was living at St.
Andrews, Can., in 1873; the widow and other children were in Montreal.
William J. was born in London, Jan. 31, 1830.
JOHN RIDDELL and his wife Mary were born in Birmingham, Eng., and
settled at Wallsworth. Henry Riddell, son of the preceding, married in
England, and had five children, when, in 1853, they came to America.
He died at Trenton, N. J., April 6, 1863, leaving a widow, E. M. Riddell,
at Providence, in 1873. He had brothers.
SAMUEL RIDDLE was sergeant in Capt. William Mitchell's Independent
Blues, Pennsylvania Militia, in 1813. In March, on the second night of
his arrival at Fort Mifflin, on the Delaware, while on guard, it being icy,
slipped and fell twenty feet from ramparts, and was taken up insensible;
conveyed to his own dwelling next day.
JESSE RIDDLE was a resident of Edgefield District, S. C., and had two
daughters. Annie-Cox Riddle, born Dec. 29, 1810, was married to James-
Alexander Bradford, of Georgia, and died Jan. 17, 1843, leaving issue.
Pamelia Riddle, second daughter, was the wife of Nelson Baird, of
Mobile in Alabama, but has deceased.
JOHN RIDDELL (or Riddle) resided at Princeton, and kept a store of
goods there; married a woman of good estate, real and personal, and had
sundry negroes and other personal property. Built a house there. Had
good reputation and respect of community, and was recommended for
appointment as sheriff. No date.
JAMES-WILSON RIDDLE enlisted under Captain Pugh, in Company F,
Fourth Regiment Ohio Volunteers, Colonel Brough, May 5, 1847, during
the war with Mexico. While at Matamoras was ordered to discharge boxes
of arms from a steam-ship, by which he was injured and discharged Oct.
6, 1847. Occupation, laborer.
