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RIDDELLS OF TIVIOTDALE, SCOTLAND.
died in Rockton, Canada, Nov. 16, 1867; his widow in 1874, aged 77
years; she was born in Canoby.
Alexander-Hay Riddell (1), fifth son of Robert¹ (1), was born in
Tiviotdale, Roxburghshire; married, and had issue five children, three sons
and two daughters, of whom hereafter. He carried on farming in Cum-
berland, near Carlisle.
Walter Riddell (1), sixth and youngest son of Robert¹ (1), was born
in Tiviotdale, Roxburghshire, and died in the year 1834, unmarried.
Mary Riddell (1), a daughter of Robert¹ (1), was born in Tiviotdale,
Roxburghshire; married to Jones, and had a family of ten, four
sons and six daughters.
THIRD GENERATION.
Margaret-Mill Riddell (1), eldest daughter of William (1), was
born at Blackburn, Lauderdale, July 6, 1831; she was married.
Robert-Borthwick Riddell (3), eldest son of William² (1), was born
at Ramcleuchburn, in the parish of Hawick, Feb. 21, 1833, and died
March 29, 1862; unmarried.
William-Mill Riddell (2), second son of William² (1), was born at
Ramcleuchburn, parish of Hawick, July 23, 1835, and is now (1878)
carrying on a farm of 1,600 acres at Ramcleuchburn, Tiviothead, Hawick;
is a shepherd and unmarried.
James-Scott Riddell (1), third son of William² (1), was born at
Ramcleuchburn, parish of Hawick, Sept. 27, 1837; was married at St.
Boswell, Bowden, Scotland, Feb. 26, 1862, to Isabella Telper, and is now
living on a farm at Grassgarth, near Carlisle, Cumberland, Eng. He has
issue seven children, of whom hereafter.
Jessie Riddell (1), second daughter of William² (1), was born at
Ramcleuchburn, parish of Hawick, Sept. 2, 1839; was married at the
same place Jan. 16, 1868, to William Easton, and has three children.
Agnes-Scott Riddell (1), third daughter of William2 (1), was born
at Ramcleuchburn, May 24, 1842; was married Dec. 5, 1861, to Thomas
Irving, of Langholm; he died there April 6, 1870, aged 34 years, leaving
issue, and his widow married secondly, Jan. 9, 1873, to James Lunn, watch-
maker, of Langholm, now resident at Edinburgh, Scotland.
Elizabeth Řiddell (1), youngest daughter of William² (1), was born
at Ramcleuchburn, Dec. 30, 1844; died there Sept. 2, 1852.
Walter-Scott Riddell (2), eldest son of Henry2 (1), was born at
Tiviothead, parish of Hawick, in 1835; married a daughter of the Rev.
Dr. Arnot, of the High Church, Edinburgh, and held an office in the Hong
Kong and Shanghai Bank, in China. He died in London in 1876, leaving
a widow and six children, of whom hereafter.
. William-Brown-Clark Riddell (3), second son of Henry2 (1), was
born at Flexhouse, near Hawick, Roxburghshire, Dec. 16, 1835. In his
seventh year he was admitted a pupil in John Watson's Institution, Edin-
burgh, where he remained till 1850, when he entered the university.
During three sessions he prosecuted his studies with extraordinary ardor
and success.
On the commencement of a fourth session he was seized
with an illness which completely prostrated his physical, and occasionally
enfeebled his mental, energies. After a period of suffering, patiently
borne, he died in his father's cottage at Tiviothead, July 20, 1856, in his
twenty-first year. Of an intellect singularly precocious, at the early age
