WADDEL, John ^{2 3 4}

   Another name for John was WADDELL, John.^{1 2 5}

  General Notes:

Old Parish Registers
Airdrie or New Monkland parish, Lanarkshire
Baptisms

"1747
Dec^r 20
William Waddel
Isabel Watson John Holland Glen"


In the 1769 death certificate of his son William, John Waddell was recorded as a "Stane Quarrier (Deceased)". ^{4 5}

  Research Notes:

KIPBURN

In the Old Parish Baptisms Registers for 1793 for Airdrie or New Monkland parish Lanarkshire there is a record of baptisms of the children of John waddel and Mary Thomason:

"1793 (at top of page)

4^th Sept^r. 1784 John Waddel & Mary Thomson Elisabeth in Kipburn (initialled) D.N.P
12^th June 1786 John Waddel & Mary Thomson William in Kipburn (initialled) D.N.P
18^th April 1788 John Waddel & Mary Thomson Isobel in Kipburn (initialled) D.N.P
10^th Feb^y 1790 John Waddel & Mary Thomson Ann in Kipburn (initialled) D.N.P
6^th Dec^r. 1791 John Waddel & Mary Thomson Mary in Kipburn (initialled) D.N.P"

'Kipburn' is signalled as the residence of the family.

The website Canmore identifies a 'Kipps Farm':

"County: Lanarkshire
Council: North Lanarkshire
Parish:
Map Sheet: NS76NW
NGR: NS 73770 66474
Easting/Northing: 273770, 666474
Latitude/Longitude: 55° 52' 29? N 4° 01' 09? W"

and a 'Kippsbyre Burn':

"COATBRIDGE, KIPPSBYRE BURN
Classification : Chapel (Period Unassigned)
Canmore Id : 45772
Details (opens a new window)
NGR: NS 73790 66777
Easting/Northing: 273790, 666777"

It further notes:

"Archaeology Notes

NS76NW 5 7378 6679.
(NS 7378 6679) Chapel (NR) (Site of)
OS 6" map (1935/38)
A small chapel with burial ground attached. David Thomson, farmer of Kippspark, whilst ploughing up the burial ground c.1827, thew up several bones. The name of the place is also good proof of a chapel being here (Refers to name of house formerly here - 'Kiltongue' -kil or cil signifying a church or burial ground).
Name Book 1857; G Chalmers 1890; Orig Paroch Scot
The monks of Newbattle had a court-house or chapel in New Monkland parish, situated at the site of the Kipps Burn; erected about the middle of the 14th century, partially demolished at the Reformation. There is evidence of it existing until the middle of the 18th century when its site was erased by the plough. This chapel was used more for civil than religious purposes in which the monks held their annual baron courts.
J Macarthur 1890; F Groome 1885; Statistical Account (OSA) 1793
Site now covered by the edge of a large slag-heap. No traces of the building exist.
Visited by OS (JLD) 11 October 1952"

Both are south and east of the North Burn, and on the north-west side of the Coatbridge Road running between Sunnyside and Glenmavis, south of Braidenhill farm.

Another site, focussing on the old roads of Scotland, also mentions Kipps in "The Road from Newbattle Abbey to the Monklands":

"Rankin also notes that Drumpellier was called the Grange in a charter of Alexander II (1240) and that there were mills at Gartlea, Kipsbyre, Gartmillar and Haggs on the Calder Water. There was courthouse or a chapel on Kips Burn by the mid 1300's where three courts were held each year and rents collected.......

The monks are said to have engaged in the raising of grain and the keeping of livestock, particularly of sheep. They also mined for coal. Undoubtedly there was an extensive network of tracks or even roads within the Monklands connecting these locations, particularly to the courthouse at Kips and to the grange at Drumpelier. Details of these possible roads are given on the Monklands Online website, including the approach taken by the road coming from Newbattle itself. There must also have been a road or track over to Carmyle."

The site goes on to detail more information about the road in question and its likely route. After some discussion, it concludes:

"From the Military Survey and other maps we can see that it continued past Westfield running north of Hillend reservoir to Eastfield and Caldercruix where it has the line of the modern road. There was a crossing of the North Calder at Ford Bridge near Plains.
It is thought to have run north of Airdrie town centre towards Kipps and Drumpellier (see Monklands Online for details).
As said, so far as the rest of the Monklands goes, it is reasonable enough to assume that they would have had tracks or even roads within the territory from the outlying farms to the grange at Drumpelier, to Kipps and to the mills, and possibly over to Carmyle." ^{6 7}

John married Mary THOMSON in February 1782 in Airdrie or New Monkland parish, Lanarkshire, Scotland.¹ (Mary THOMSON was born about 1755.)

  Marriage Notes:

This entry in the Scottish records may be this John Waddell, as the place and date are likely, but no partner is noted. There is a female name 'Marrion Yeats' that follows John's name but they are entered separately and not as a couple:

Old Parish Registers
Airdrie or New Monkland parish, Lanarkshire
Marriages

"1782
Febr: Collection
4th Sabb 7 - 11
John Waddell pro 2 - 6
Marrion Yeats pro 2 - 6" ¹