QUIGLEY, Letitia ⁴

   Cause of her death was natural causes, probably heart failure.

   Other names for Letitia were CAMPBELL, Betsy,⁵ CAMPBELL, Letitia,⁶ QUIGLEY, Laetitia, QUIGLEY, Letitia, QUIGLEY, Lititia, TURGLEY, Latitia, TWEEDLAY, Letitia, TWEEDLEY, Letitia, TWEEDLY, Letitia and TWIGLEY, Letitia.

  General Notes:

The 1841 census for Broomknoll in Airdrie recorded Letitia as a cotton handloom weaver. Her birthplace was Ireland and she was 12 years old. She was living with James and Isablla Quigley, both aged 50-54 years, and Jane And Margaret Quigley, aged 20 and 15 years respectively.

The 1871 census for Airdrie, Lanarkshire, recorded "Betsy Campbell" living with her husband Hugh, and their children James, Jane, Hugh, David and Agnes, at 76 Black Street, Rawyards. She was 45 years old and had been born in "Londonderry". The children named all had been born in Airdrie, and ranged in age from 2 to 21 years.

It was she who gave notice of her father's death in 1875. The death certificate recorded her as his daughter. She was then Letitia Campbell. She made her X mark before the registrar at Airdrie. Letitia's address was given as Buttery (unclear) Square, Rawyards, Airdrie.

In 1881 the census for 6 Buttery's Square New Monkland parish recorded a widow, Lettia (sic) Campbell. She was head of her household and housekeeper. Her birthplace was Ireland and her age given as 53 years. In her household were two daughters, two sons, and a grandson, Hugh C. Taylor, and a granddaughter, Jane C. Laird.

In the census of 1891 Letitia Campbell, aged 64 years and born in Ireland, was living at 6 Buttery Square in Airdrie with her son Hugh Campbell, aged 27 years, her grandson Hugh Taylor, aged 14 years, and her granddaughter Jane Laird, aged 10 years. Both Hughs were coal miners.

By the 1901 census Letitia Campbell was still living at 6 Buttery Square in Airdrie with her son Hugh. She was recorded as 67 years, he as 36 years.

In her death certificate Letitia was recorded as the widow of Hugh Campbell coal miner. She was found dead on 9 March 1907 about 5 pm. She was recorded as 75 years of age. Both of her parents were deceased. Her parents were named in the death certificate as "John Tweedley Shoemaker (Deceased)" and "Margaret Tweedley MS Gillespie". ^{5 7 8 9 10}

  Research Notes:

PARENTS

An anomaly exist regarding Letitia's parents, which can be speculated about but is not yet resolved.

In the 1841 census a Letitia Quigley, born in Ireland, aged 12 years, was living with James and Isabella Quigley at Broomknoll Airdrie in the parish of New Monkland, Lanarkshire. In 1846 a Letitia Tweedlay, her surname being a variant of Quigley, married Hugh Campbell in New Monkland. Their first son was named James. At her death in 1907, Letitia's son David as informant gave her parents' names as John Quigley, shoemaker, and Margaret Gillespie. Yet at the death of James Quigley, a shoemaker, whose first wife was Isabella Mclean, probably the James and Isabella Quigley referred to above in the 1841 census, the informant was his daughter Letitia Campbell, widow.

The likelihood is that Letitia's son David, who was born in December 1865, was not clear about the names of his grandparents, not an uncommon phenomenon at the time. There may be a possibility, even a probability, that James Quigley or Tweedley (mistakenly named John by informant David), was Letitia's father, and that it was not his wife who was her biological mother but a woman named Margaret Gillespie.

POSSIBLE BAPTISM?

"Church Baptism Record

Name:Letita Quigley
Date of Birth:04-Feb-1827
Date of Baptism:15-Feb-1826
Address:
Parish/District:DONAGHMORE
Gender:Female
County:Co. Donegal
Denomination:Church Of Ireland
Father:James Quigley
Mother:Isabella Quigley
Occupation:
Sponsor 1 /Informant 1:Ng
Sponsor 2 /Informant 2:Ng
Notes:
© Copyright Donegal Ancestry"

from www.rootsireland.ie

Note: The location should not be confused with Donaghmore in County Tyrone. This one is in the barony of Raphoe, about 20 miles south of Derry City, near Strabane. It is not unusual in the census for people to name, or have attributed to them, a larger town or well known location to identify where they have come from if not in Scotland. ¹¹

  Medical Notes:

James Kirkland, physician and surgeon, who saw the body, certified the cause of death.

David Campbell, son of the deceased, of Dunrobbin, gave notice of her death before the registrar, George Andrew, at Airdrie on 11 March 1907.

Letitia married Hugh CAMPBELL in Jul 1846 in New Monkland, Lanarkshire, Scotland. (Hugh CAMPBELL was born about 1823 in Ballymena, County Antrim, Northern Ireland ⁵.)

Letitia next married John SEMPLE, son of James SEMPLE and Jane KERR.¹ (John SEMPLE was born about 1889 in Old Monkland Parish, Lanarkshire, Scotland ¹² and died in 1967 in Old Monkland Parish, Lanarkshire, Scotland ¹³.)

  Marriage Notes:

"He (Gilbert de Umfraville) was not her first husband, who was John Comyn, said to be Richard, the son of a Comyn...He also had the title of Earl of Angus when he died in France in 1242, but nothing else is recorded regarding him, save that he is said to
have had by the Countess a son Bertold, who died an infant."

from Scots Peerage

Note: It is not at all clear what Scots Peerage means by the phrase

"who was John Comyn, said to be Richard, the son of a Comyn".

There was a John Comyn, son of Richard Comyn and Hextilda, but he is likely to have been born in the middle third of the 12th century and was, according to the poms website "Buried at Kelso Abbey before 1160". Richard and Hextilda had at least two other sons apart from John and William: Simon and Odinel. One of these may have been the father of the man who died in France in 1242. ^{1 14 15}

Letitia next married Walter GUTHRIE, son of Hercules GUTHRIE Chirurgane, Burgess of Aberdeen and Mariorie CHALMER, in 1243.^{1 2} (Walter GUTHRIE was christened on 29 Sep 1612 in Saint Nicholas Parish, Aberdeen, Scotland.)

  Marriage Notes:

"MATILDA, Countess of Angus in her own right, married in 1243 Sir Gilbert Umfraville, a powerful Northumbrian baron, who through her became Earl of Angus. He was not her first husband ....
Her second husband has been handed down to posterity as the 'famous baron' and 'the guardian and matchless ornament of the North of England'. He is named in 1244 as one of the principal of the Scottish magnates, but he died before 13 March of the following year. The Countess received her terce as a widow from each of his manors, and as a capital messuage 'Gilbert's houses in Otterburn.' During one or other of her widowhoods, the Countess Matilda confirmed the grants formerly made to the Abbey of Arbroath and the priests of Kirriemuir. She has not been found on record after 1246."

from Scots Peerage



"She (Theophania) died before 1243, in which year he married Maud/Mathilda, daughter of Malcolm, earl of Angus and widow of John Comyn. This marriage gave the Umfravilles the earldom of Angus and castle of Redcastle, which passed to the only son of the marriage, Gilbert (III) (d.1307)"

from poms website ^{1 2}

Letitia next married Jeane GUTHRIE, daughter of Hercules GUTHRIE Chirurgane, Burgess of Aberdeen and Mariorie CHALMER.³ (Jeane GUTHRIE was christened on 23 Oct 1608 in Saint Nicholas Parish, Aberdeen, Scotland.)

  Marriage Notes:

"Her (Matilda's) third marriage is confirmed by letters close dated 2 Dec 1247 under which Henry III King of England granted four bucks from Eleham Park to 'the countess of Angus, the wife of Richard of Dover'[58]."


"[58] [58] Turner, G. J. 'Richard Fitzroy', Forsyth Harwood, H. W. (ed.) (1906) The Genealogist (New Series), Vol. XXII (London), p. 109, citing Close Roll, No. 60, 31 Henry III, m. 11."

from Family Search and website cited ³