QUIGLEY, William ²

   Other names for William were TWEEDLE, William,⁴ TWEEDLIE, William ⁵ and TWEEDLIE, Wm.⁶

  General Notes:

The 1841 census for (Port of) Liverpool, Lancashire, England recorded William Quigley, aged in the 40-44 years age bracket, named first in a household of Quigleys, who by age would appear to be his children. They were named in descending order of age from 19 years to 3 years as Mary, Robert William, James, John and Henry. The household lived in what may be Moscow Place, Wright Street, Liverpool. All the members listed had been born in Scotland. William was a sawyer by trade.

In the marriage certificate of his son, Robert Quigley, in 1845, William Quigley was recorded as a sawyer. The same trade was noted in the marriage certificate of his son James Tweedley in 1853, and his son John Tweedley in 1856.

In 1851 the census for Liverpool, England recorded William Tweedle as head of a household living at 881/2 Burlington Street. the household consisted of himself, his brother John, both widowers, William's four unmarried sons, his nephew Andrew, his son in law John Johnstone and his daughter in law [sic] Mary Johnstone. William was recorded as 53 years old and born in Scotland. He was a sawyer.
Note: the 'daughter in law', Mary Johnstone, would appear to have been William's daughter Mary who married John Johnstone. ^{2 7 8 9}

  Research Notes:

QUIGLEY and TWEEDLIE and variants

Later family of this man and his brother list them under the surname 'Tweedlie', which is how the family themselves were known in later years. However, documents do show that in this generation more than one spelling, and more than one variant, of the surname were being used. All the variants encountered have been reproduced here, the earliest taking precedence. See Notes of the Quigley surname and its variants <thequigleysurnameandvariants.htm> http://www.patrickspeople.co.uk/
for a detailed review of these surname variants.
Some of the wider family were later named as 'Tweedie'. ¹⁰

William married Margaret SLATER on 9 February 1821 in Kells, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland.¹ (Margaret SLATER was born about 1798 and died between July and September 1840 in Liverpool, England ¹¹.)

  Marriage Notes:

Old Parish Register
Kells Parish Kirkcudbrightshire
Marriages

"1821
Feby 9
John Edgar in parish of Dalton was married at New Galloway by Mr Gillespie to Janet McCaw of that place
Same day & place Wm Tweedlie an Irishman was married to Margt Slater also from the same country"

Note: The above reference cannot necessarily be taken to mean that William was actually born in Ireland, although he may have been. Other sources note his place of birth as Scotland. The form of the reference suggests that he certainly came from an Irish family background. The period of the 1790s when he was born was a time of great displacement of Irish people, many of whom crossed for refuge to Scotland. In this context 'Irishman' would have been a general descriptive term but not necessarily a comment on his actual place of birth, though it would suggest other members of his family were Irish born.

MR GILLESPIE
"GILLESPIE, WILLIAM (1776-1825), poet, was the eldest son of the Rev. John Gillespie (1730-1806), minister of Kells in Galloway. He was baptised 18 Feb. 1776. He attended the parish school, and also received private instruction from the schoolmaster, who lived in the manse. In 1792 he entered Edinburgh University,where he studied theology and also, as a secondary subject, medicine. From early years he had been devoted to painting, poetry, and music...At the end of his university course he was licensed as preacher by the presbytery of Kirkcudbright (1 Aug. 1798), and on 7 Aug. 1800 was ordained assistant and successor to his father. On 29 April 1806 his father died, after having been minister of Kells for forty-two years, and he became sole minister. In 1820 he was chaplain to the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright yeomanry cavalry...On 26 July 1825 he married Charlotte Hoggan; but while on his wedding tour he was attacked by erysipelas, and died on 15 Oct. in the fiftieth year of his age. He was long remembered "in his parish for the refinement of his tastes, his hospitality, and his kindness to students."
from the Dictionary of National Biography



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