JOPP, Andrew Advocate ^{1 3 4 5 6}

   User ID: V317.

  General Notes:

"JOPP
ANDREW
ALEXANDER JOPP/
M
12/12/1769
203/
10 251
Insch"

from Births and Baptisms


Old Parish Registers
Insch parish Aberdeenshire
Baptisms

"(1769) Dec^r. 12th.
Jopp
Alexander Jopp in Muirieheedless had a Child baptised named Andrew before witnesses Adam Maitland and James Jardin in Insch" ^{3 6}

Andrew married Margaret ABERCROMBIE, daughter of John ABERCROMBIE Provost of Aberdeen and Katharine FORBES, on 29 November 1802 in Saint Nicholas parish, Aberdeen, Scotland.^{1 2} (Margaret ABERCROMBIE was baptised on 20 September 1779 in Saint Nicholas parish, Aberdeen, Scotland ⁶ and died on 7 June 1865 ².)

  Marriage Notes:

"JOPP
ANDREW
MARGARET ABERCROMBIE/FR4784 (FR4784)
29/11/1802
168/A 140 596
Aberdeen"

from Index of Marriages




"Jopp, Andrew (see Editor's Note below). 7th March, 1796.

Son of Andrew Jopp ¹, house proprietor, Insch, and Mary Jardine, his wife. App. to John Innes [afterwards John Ramsay]. Sometime in partnership with his son Alexander (1825), firm being Andrew & Alexander Jopp. Director, Aberdeen Savings' Bank. Fiars Juror, twenty-five times, 1798- 1827. Proprietor of Elmhill. J. P. for Aberdeenshire. Treasurer of the Society of Advocates, 1810-12. President, 1822-24.

Married Margaret (died at Aberdeen, 7th June, 1865, aged 85), dau. of John Abercrombie, stocking merchant, and sometime Lord Provost of Aberdeen, with issue :- 1. Alexander, advocate (1825). 2. John, M.A., Mar. Coll., 1821; W.S., admitted 31st May, 1827; married, at Edinburgh, 7th September, 1841, Margery, eldest dau. of John Smith of Drongan, Ayrshire; died 31st October, 1857. 3. Andrew, died in London, 8th April, 1845. 4. Robert, farmer, New Zealand, died at Melbourne, 6th December, 1878. 5. James, M.D., Edinb., 1837 ; Deputy Inspector General of Army Hospitals; died 3rd February, 1882. 6. William, wine merchant, Aberdeen, Col., 1st Vol. Batt. Gordon Highlanders, married, in 1857, Louisa, dau. of Rev. Mr. Richards; died 18th June, 1891. 7. David, died in Manchester parish, Jamaica, in 1842, aged 28. 8. Keith, M.D., Edinb., 1841 ; AssistantSurgeon, H.E.I.C.S. (Madras), 1843-55; afterwards in partnership with his brother William. Married, at Aberdeen, 11th November, 1851, Rachel, eldest dau. of William Chambers Hunter of Tillery, and died 31st December, 1898. 9. Charles, engineer, Edinburgh. 10. Archibald, died 21st February, 1825, in infancy. 1. Katherine, married, at Elmhill, 22nd December, 1836, John Taylor, merchant; died 12th January, 1839, in her 27th year. Died at Aberdeen, 9th June, 1829, aged 60.²

Soc of Adv Note ¹: On 18th July, 1792, Andrew Jopp in Muiryheadless, Mary Jardine, his spouse, and Andrew Jopp, their son, in liferent and fee, had disposition to tenement property in Insch. - Aberdeen Sasine Register.

Soc of Adv Note ²: Jopp's Court, 31 Gallowgate, where Mr. Jopp had his office, was named after him."

from Society of Advocates

Editoor's Note:

As far as parish baptismal records show this Andrew Jopp's father was not Andrew but Alexander. ^{1 2}