McMAHON, Bridget ²

Bridget married James Staats FORBES Railway Director, Art Collector, son of Quartermaster James Staats FORBES of Royal Horse Artillery and Ann WALKER.¹ (James Staats FORBES Railway Director, Art Collector was born on 17 Mar 1823 ^{3 4 5 6}, christened on 19 Apr 1823 in Saint Andrew´s United Reformed Church, Greenwich, Middlesex, England,^{3 6 7} died on 5 Apr 1904 in Garden Corner, 13 Chelsea Embankment, Chelsea, England ⁴ and was buried on 10 Apr 1904 in West Wickham Churchyard, Kent, England ⁵.)

  Marriage Notes:

(at Banchory-Ternan in 1567)

"James Reid, a younger son of James R. of Pitfoddels; min. in 1567, with Strachan also in the charge; trans, to Colstone in 1573, but re-trans, from Birse; pres. to the vicarage by James VI. 2nd March 1582; adm. burgess of Aberdeen Oct. 1598; died before 16th July 1602. He 'was a man of a notable head-piece for witte, and most of his children were men of extraordinary qualifications.' He marr. Isabel Meldrum, who died in June 1621, and had issue Robert, his suc cessor; Thomas, M.A. (Marischal College, 1600), M.A. (Oxon, 1620), Latin secretary to James VI., metaphysician and Latin poet, founder of the first public reference library in Scotland, died 1624; Alexander, physician to Charles I., a prolific writer on medical subjects, whose writings were standard works till the end of the seventeenth century, died Oct. 1641; James ; Peter; Adam, min. of Methlick; Catherine (marr. William Burnett, min. of Kinairney); Elspeth (marr. Alexander Youngson, min. of Durris. [Stewart's Life of Reid; Tombst. ; Scots Mag., Ixv. ; Inq. Reg. de Tut., 498, 499 ; Aberdeen Journal Notes and Queries, iii., 329 Scot. Notes and Queries, x., 73, for list of Alexander R.'s Works.]"

from Fasti Ecclesiae ¹

Bridget next married Hugh DAVIDSON in Church of Scotland, Lochee, Dundee, Angus, Scotland.² (Hugh DAVIDSON was born about 1860.)

  Marriage Notes:

Bridget went to Dundee to find work and married Hugh Davidson there. ²