The Lindsay Family

Catherine Lindsay who married Martin Farndale descended from the Scottish Lindsays and was brought up in Alnwick in Northumberland

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Catherine Lindsay was born at Alnwick, Northumberland on 28 July 1854. Her father was a shoemaker living in Queen's Head Yard, Alnwick.

Catherine was the daughter of Andrew and Alice (nee Matison) Lindsay. Andrew was born in Kelso in the Scottish Borders on 5 February 1823 and baptised there on 6 March 1823. By the 1840s, he had moved to Newcastle where he married Alice Mattison (1826 to 1883) at All Saints in Newcastle upon Tyne on 13 August 1843. Alice’s father was Robert Mattison who came from Alnwick. By 1851, the family had moved to Warkworth in Northumberland, about 5 kilometres south of Alnwick and Andrew was working as a shoemaker. At that time, Andrew and Alice lived with their children Mary who was seven years old, Eleanor who was five, Alexander, Robert who was two and Alice who was 3 months old. They must have moved to Alnwick shortly afterwards as that is where Alice Lindsay was born in 1851, and Catherine was born in 1854. Andrew was then working in the Queen’s Head Yard. Andrew died in Alnwick in 1858 when he was only 35 years old. He was buried in Alnwick on 17 January 1858.

Andrew’s parents were Alexander and Helen, also known as Ellen (nee Tait) Lindsay. Alexander was born at Westruther, about ten kilometres west of Duns, in Berwickshire in 1791. He was a labourer at Kelso in 1841, where he was still living in 1851. He died in Kelso in 1854.

Alexander’s parents were James Lindsay (1759 to 1841) and Clementina (nee Wishart) Lindsay. James was born on 30 August 1759 and baptised at Carriden in West Lothian on 4 September 1759. James married Clementina or Clemmy Wishart (1769 to 1855) who came from Glamis.

There was a Private James Lindsay of Edinburgh who served with the 71^st Highland Regiment of Light Infantry for 11 years and 316 days from 2 January 1805 until 12 November 1816. James Lindsay would have been 46 years old in 1805 and the absence of other records until 1841, by which time he was working as a labourer, fits military service during this time.

In 1806, 1st Battalion, the 73^rd of Foot, was sent to help capture the Cape of Good Hope from the Dutch. Later that year, it took part in the unsuccessful attack on Spanish possessions in South America, including Buenos Aires (1806) where it was captured. Following its repatriation in 1807, 1st Battalion was sent to the Peninsular War from 1808 to 14). It fought at Rolica in 1808, Vimeiro in 1808 and Corunna in 1809 from where it was evacuated.

In 1808, the Regiment was renamed the 71st (Glasgow Highland) Regiment. It was given light infantry status the following year. 1st Battalion joined the Walcheren Expedition in 1809. It returned to the Peninsula in 1810, serving at Fuentes de Onoro, Albuera and Arroyo dos Molinos in 1811, Alamaraz in 1812, and then Vitoria, Sorauren, Nivelle and Nive in 1813.

The Regiment fought at the Battle of Waterloo, as part of the Third Brigade, on 18 June 1815, so presumably Private James Lindsay fought there too before he was discharged.

The 71st Highland Light Infantry fired the last shot of the Battle of Waterloo at 7pm on 18th June 1815 with a captured French cannon. The painting is by Richard Simkin (1840 to 1926)

Private James Lindsay was discharged in consequence of being a bad marcher from a wound in the thigh received in action with the enemy in the Pyrenees on 23th July 1815 and it was record that he has no claim whatsoever on the Corps. His discharge was signed at a camp in France on 12 October 1816.

He must have married his darling Clementine (a song composed in the American Gold Rush of 1849) after his discharge from the army, after 1816. Clementine Wishart was baptised at Glamis on 24 December 1769. She was the daughter of Charles Wishart.

James may have died in about died in 1841 and Clemmy went to live in Fearn in Angus, where she died in 1855.

In a corner of the churchyard,

Where the myrtle boughs entwine,

Grow the roses in their poses,

Fertilized by Clementine

James’ father was James Lindsay Senior (1741 to 1791) who was born in Edinburgh on 8 March 1741. James married Elizabeth Gibson (1740 to 1811). James died in Edinburgh on 24 December 1791.

James Lindsay Senior was in turn the son of another James Farndale (1705 to 1754) who was a servant to Widow Grieve Fewer in Nether Borrow when he married Eupham Bathgate (1707 to 6 August 1780) at St Cuthbert’s in Edinburgh on 23 October 1729. James died in Edinburgh on 2 December 1754.

Eupham was the daughter of John Bathgate who was born in about 1685. John’s father was George Bathgate (1628 to 1699) who was born at Prestonkirk in East Lothian and married Agnis Trotter at Haddington on 9 December 1654. George Bathgate’s father was also called George Bathkit.

Catherine’s genealogy is explored below.

			Alexander Elphinstone, First Lord Elphinstone 1480 to 1513 Married Elizabeth Barlow (died 1518) Elphinstone, Killed at Flodden	Euphemia Elphinstone Mistress of James V of Scotland B 1509 Mother of Robert Stewart, First Earl of Orkney, the ‘Royal Bastard’
			Alexander Elphinstone, Second Lord Elphinstone 1511 to 1547				John Davidson 1585 to 1666 Edinburgh		Edward Bell 1606 to 1661 Edinburgh
Robert Elphinstone, Third Lord of Elphinstone 1530 to 1602	Michael Elphinstone 1544 to 1625 Master of Household to James VI of Scotland	Elizabeth Elphinstone Married David Somerville of Plean Castle	Isobel Elphinstone Married John Hamilton of Haggs	Margaret Elphinstone Married John Livingstone younger of Dunipace	Margery Elphinstone Married Robert Drummond of Carnock
Alexander Elphinstone, 4th Lord Elphinstone 1552 to 1638	James Elphinstone, 1st Lord Balmerino c1553 to 1612 Lord of Session from 4 March 1586	Father George Elphinstone Rector of the Scots College in Rome	Sir John Elphinstone of Selmis and Baberton c1553 to 1614 Gentleman in the household of Anne of Denmark. He attended James VI and Anne of Denmark at the wedding celebrations of Marie Stewart, Countess of Mar at Alloa in December 1592	Janet Elphinstone Married Patrick Barclay of Towie	Margaret Elphinstone Married John Cunningham of Drumquhassell in 1587		Francis Davidsone B 1615 Married Magdalene Powse (b 1625) Edinburgh	Alexander Grahame B 1622	= Jeane Bell
		James Lindsay B 1660	???	George Bathgate = 1628 to 1699 Prestonkirk, Haddington, East Lothian	Agnes Trotter 1631 Haddington		Thomas Davidson B 1650 Edinburgh	= Elspeth E Grahame B 1655 Edinburgh
		John Lindsay = 1680 to 1714 Edinburgh, London	Isobel Elpinstone B 1654	John Bathgate B 1685 Married Katherine Hairshaw	Margaret Bathgate B 1710			Thomas Davidson 1685 to 1785 Edinburgh	Alexander Millar 1679 to 1785 Dunfermline
		James Lindsay = 1705 to 1754 Edinburgh	Eupham Bathgate 1707 to 1780 Edinburgh					George Davidson = 1705 to 1805 Borders	Margaret Millar 1704 to 1805
	Walter Lindsay B 1730 Edinburgh	James Lindsay = 1741 to 1791 Edinburgh	Elizabeth Gibson 1740 to 1811 Angus					Andrew Davidson 1738 to 1840 Kelso
		James Lindsay = 1759 to c1841 Wounded in the Pyrenees in 1815 West Lothian	Clementina (Clemmy) Wishart 1769 to 1855 Glamis, Fearn, Angus	John Tait = B 1776 Dirleton, East Lothian	Catherine Welsh B 1775		John McAthey 1759 to 1859 Northumberland	Jane Davidson 1759 to 1860
	Elizabeth Lindsay	Mary Lindsay B 1803 Fearn, Forfar	Alexander Lindsay = 1785 to 1854 Westruther, Kelso	Helen Tait 1803 to 1883 Kelso		Robert Mattison 1796 to 1864 Rothbury, Northumberland	= Ann McAthey 1800 to 1857 Alnwick
Alexander Lindsay B 1835 Braeface, Stirlingshire	David Lindsay B 1840 Angus	Catherine Lindsay 1820 to 1899 Westruther, Hawick	William Lindsay 1825 to 1876 Kelso	Archibald Lindsay B 1833	Andrew Lindsay 1823 to 1858 Kelso, Alnwick	= Alice Eliza Mattison 1826 to 1883 Alnwick
Mary Ann Lindsay 1844 to 18 September 1917 (buried) Married John Ridsdale at Guisborough Kelso, Alnwick, Rastrick, Yorkshire	Eleanor Lindsay B 1846 Kelso, Warkworth Berwick	Alexander Lindsay 123 September 1847 (baptised) to 1924 Married Isabelle Bland on 3 March 1877 He was probably buried in Cape Town, South Africa on 29 September 1924 Warkworth, Anwick	Robert Lindsay B 1849 Married Mary Bulby Shawin on 11 October 1879 at Great Ayton	Alice Lindsay B 1851	Catherine Lindsay 1854 to 1911 Married Martin Farndale	Andrew Lindsay 1856 to 1882 Alnwick

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