Daoine Pharaig
Peter's People
Family Group Sheet
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Husband Hugh SMITH [AN014] |
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16 April 1857, Lynrich, Daviot & Dunlichity parish, Inverness-shire (at 1.00 a.m.) (B/1857/095-00/6 Daviot & Dunlichity) |
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Married |
27 July 1883, Parish church of Moy, Inverness-shire; bachelor, aged 26 yrs, shepherd; residing Garbole, Dalarossie; witnesses John McBean and David Reid (no addresses given); Church of Scotland Banns. (M/1883/105-00/2 Moy & Dalarossie) |
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Died |
17 October 1907, Battan Cottage, Kincraig, Alvie parish, Inverness-shire, at 2.10 p.m., aged 50 yrs (c.o.d.: apoplexy, 2 months; med. attendant E.R. Orchard M.B. & C.M., Kingussie; informant John Smith, son, 34 Crown Street, Inverness (1907/1090-B/4 Alvie) |
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Buried |
Alvie churchyard, Inverness-shire. Memorial stone. |
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Husband’s Father John SMITH [AN028], shepherd |
Husband’s Mother Ann McBEAN ("Annie") [AN029] |
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Other wives |
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Notes: living with parents and younger brother John in 2-room shepherd's house at Leanraich farm, Glen Arnie, Strathnairn, parish of Daviot & Dunlichity, aged 3 yrs, 1861; shepherd, unmarried, 23 yrs, boarding in farmer John Nicolson's household, Tomnabrilack, Inveravon parish, Banff-shire, 1881; after marriage moved to Kincraig, Alvie parish where stayed for rest of life. Family tradition is that he died of cancer and was already gravely ill at time of birth of youngest daur, giving only the instruction "Ca' her Maggie". Marital home from marriage until death in 1907, "Baden Cottage, Kincraig" (NGR NH 8251 0614), was surveyed in 1985 by RCAHMS (index no. INR/32; description & drawings) as a derelict rare surviving traditional cruck-framed ("couples") domestic building.
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Wife Margaret REID ("Maggie") [AN15] |
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Born |
12 November 1865, Linnmore, parish of Moy & Dalarossie, Inverness-shire, at 10h. Named "Margret REID". (B/1865/105-00/17 Moy & Dalarossie) |
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21 May 1949, Meadowside cottage, Alvie parish, Inverness-shire, aged 83 yrs. (says 84 yrs on death cert.) (at 4.30 a.m.; informant James O. Smith, son (present); c.o.d.: arterio sclerosis; myocarditis; cert. by E.G.L. Orchard, MB ChB, Kingussie) (D/1949/090-B/2 Alvie) |
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Buried |
Alvie churchyard, Inverness-shire. Memorial stone. |
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Wife’s Father David REID, gamekeeper [AN0030] |
Wife’s Mother Catherine McKENZIE [AN031] |
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Other husbands |
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Notes: Named as "Margaret Reid" on marriage certificate, 1883; spinster, aged 18 yrs, Domestic
Servant. In later life, she had an operation to remove part or all of the thyroid gland.
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Children |
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1 M John SMITH
Father's father's name |
25 August 1886 Kincraig, Alvie parish, Inverness-shire B/1886/090-B/13 Alvie)
Attended Alvie primary school then Kingussie High School. |
17 July 1912, Queensgate Hotel, Inverness, after Free Church of Scotland Banns: bachelor, 26 yrs, mechanical engineer, residing 97 Paisley Road West, Glasgow; Johan ("Joey") McDonald GRANT, spinster, daur of Donald GRANT, journeyman mason, Dingwall, Ross-shire, and Mary McDONALD, his spouse. 1 son (John Hugh SMITH), 1 daur (Mary "Molly" SMITH, died young). (M/098-A/1912/102/Inverness)
John Smith occupation described as "Ironworker" on son John Hugh Smith's birth certificate, 1913; "Mechanical engineer" on own death certificate, 1965. |
18 July 1965, Stirling Royal Infirmary, usual res. 2 Muirside Avenue, Glasgow, aged 78 yrs (informant: John H. Smith, son, residing at above address; c.o.d.: coronary thrombosis) (D/1965/490-/361 Stirling) |
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2 F Catherine ("Katie") SMITH
Mother's mother's name
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12 December 1889, Kincraig, Alvie parish, Inverness-shire (B/1889/090-B/13 Alvie) |
Not known. Emigrated to United States of America. May have married OPPENHEIMER, United States of America, with whom 1 daur Margaret and 1 son Milton, 2 grandchildren Diane & Robert.
Last known address believed to be Oppenheimer, 841 Clarence Ave, Bronx, 65 New York, USA.
(See below) |
November 1983, 07410 Fair Lawn, Bergen, New Jersey, United States of America, aged 93 yrs (unverified SSDI death index search result) |
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3 M David SMITH
Mother's father's name |
31 January 1892, Kincraig, Alvie parish, Inverness-shire (B/1892/090-B/3 Alvie) |
Never married, no issue. Serviceman, killed in action, World War 1.
Private, 5th (Service) Bn, Cameron Highlanders (formed Inverness, August 1914, as part of K1 "Kitchener's Army: The first hundred thousand"; attached to 26th Brigade, 9th (Scott) Div.; V Corps, Fifth Army), service no. S/27530. Division moved to France in May 1915. |
23 September 1917, near Ieper, France or Belgium, aged 25 yrs. Killed in action. Tyne Cot Memorial, Panel 136 to 138. Also Kincraig War Memorial and Scottish National War Memorial, Edinburgh Castle. |
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4 M Hugh SMITH
Father's name |
28 September 1893, Kincraig, Alvie parish, Inverness-shire (B/1893/090-B/11 Alvie) |
Never married, no issue. Serviceman, killed in action, World War 1.
Private, 6th (Service) Bn, Cameron Highlanders (formed Inverness, September 1914, as part of K2; attached to 45th Brigade, 15th (Scott) Div; XIX Corps, Fifth Army), service no. S/40962. Division landed in France 7th to 13th July 1915. |
24 August 1917, near Ieper, France or Belgium, aged 23 yrs. Killed in action. Tyne Cot Memorial, Panel 136 to 138. Also Kincraig War Memorial and Scottish National War Memorial, Edinburgh Castle. |
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5 M William SMITH
Father's father's father's name |
20 June 1895, Kincraig, Alvie parish, Inverness-shire (B/1895/090-B/9 Alvie) |
Died in childhood of infection to wound of foot. Described as "scholar" at time of death. Cut his foot and died of septicemia at his grandmother's house. |
11 March 1907, Lynmore, parish of Moy & Dalarossie, Inverness-shire, aged 11 yrs (septicemia, 10 days; medical attendant: W. England, Inverness; informant; High Smith, father) (D/1907/105 /xx Moy & Dalarossie) |
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6 F Annie SMITH
Father's mother's name |
4 March 1897, Kincraig, Alvie parish, Inverness-shire |
Never married. One daughter, Annie ("Nancy") SMITH, born 29 September 1929, Meadowside cottage, Alvie parish, Inverness-shire. |
16 April 1988, Kingussie, Inverness-shire. Buried Alvie churchyard (memorial stone). |
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7M James Orchard SMITH ("Jimmie")
The local family medical doctor's name |
17 August 1901, Kincraig, Alvie parish, Inverness-shire (B/1901/090-B/5 Alvie) |
Never married, no issue.
County Road Foreman.
Holidays in Blackpool. Owned a car. Travelled around Speyside as film projectionist.
Had heart attack and died while clearing snow with a shovel at Meadowside.
Short obituary/death notice in local newspaper. |
7 January 1982, Meadowside, Alvie parish, Inverness-shire, 12.00 hrs; aged 80 yrs (c.o.d.: myocardial infarction; medical attendant Graeme Sutherland; informant John R Lyall, "friend", The Manse, Kincraig) (D/1982/234/2 Kingussie). Buried Alvie churchyard (memorial stone). |
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8F Maggie SMITH ("Meg") [AN007]
Mother's name |
7 July 1907, Kincraig, Alvie parish, Inverness-shire (B/090-B0/1907/5 Alvie)
Attended Alvie primary school then Kingussie High School. |
15 July 1935, Lynwilg Hotel, Alvie parish, Inverness-shire, William SWANNEY [AN006]. (M/090-B0/1935/1 Alvie) 2 daurs [inc. AN003] and 2 sons.
School teacher. M.A. 1928 Edinburgh University. Broadford school, Skye. Schoolmaster's wife, Boat of Garten. Teacher, Errol primary and junior secondary schools; after retired (took coach trip with Wallace Arnold to Interlaken, Switzerland, accompanied by friend Mrs Henderson) taught Northern District school and Perth Academy. |
28 June 1998, Ochil Nursing Home, Perth, PH1 1SB, aged 90 yrs (usual res: Servite House, 17 Viewlands Place, Errol, PH2 7TP) (c.o.d.:. (D/390/1998/435 Perth) Cremated Perth crematorium, ashes scattered in Garden of Remembrance. No memorial. |
References: compiled 29 December 2014.
https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Inverness-shire,_Scotland
https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Moy_%26_Dalarossie,_Inverness,_Scotland_Church_Records
https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Alvie,_Inverness-shire,_Scotland
Memorial at grave of Hugh and Margaret Smith, their son James "Jimmy" Smith and daughter Annie Smith, Alvie churchyard, near Aviemore, Inverness-shire. Memorial erected in 1983 by Margaret
Smith or Swanney, daughter of Hugh and Margaret Smith and sister of Jimmy and Annie Smith.
Memorial at Alvie church, July 2022, visit of Eleanor and Scot Symon (pictured) and Peter Symon
Battan or Baden cottage in Juy 2022, from roadside near Kincraig war memorial
![Baden [or Battan] cottage in 2008](https://image.jimcdn.com/app/cms/image/transf/dimension=323x10000:format=jpg/path/sb8f32086907479f2/image/ia09ceaa4502ba679/version/1432710201/image.jpg)
"Meadowside" in July 2022
David and Hugh Smith junior
One or both of them may have worked on the railway before they went to war with the British Army. Their names of David and Hugh are inscribed on war memorials in Kincraig, Edinburgh and Belgium. Memorials for David and Hugh are also listed online by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
John Smith
Catherine "Katie" Smith
Catherine Smith is recorded, age 1, in the 1891 Census, living in the shepherds' house on Kincraig farm, Alvie parish, Inverness-shire, with her mother Margaret, father Hugh and elder brother John.
In 1901, she is recorded as Katie Smith, scholar, 11, living in her grandmother's house, Catherine Reid, widow, 75, washer woman, at Lynmore, Moy & Dalarossie parish, Inverness-shire, along with her uncle, David Reid, single, 36, game watcher, and three single men, boarders, two working as railway porters (Donald McKay, 26, born in Inverness, and John Fraser, 21, born in Ardgay parish, Ross-shire) and the other, James Noble, 17, from Invergordon, Ross-shire, a postman.
Katie went into domestic service. By 1911, like her elder brother John, she had moved to Glasgow, where she was working as a general domestic servant, living at 43 Falkland Street, Hyndland, in the household of married couple James Scott, 36, civil engineer in the colonial service, from Glasgow, and his wife Camilla Jessie Scott, 28, from Kilmonivaig parish in Lochaber, and their 10 month old daughter, Camilla Elizabeth Scott.
Sometime around the years of the First World War (1914-1918), possibly in the period immediatly before the start of the War, Katie got a job as a nanny in New York and emigrated to America.
There is a record (unverified) of a Catherine Smith, who arrived in the port of New York on 7 April 1912 on the ship Columbia, from Glasgow. According to the Ellis Island record, that person was born in 1891, age 21 years, single, Scottish, and last residing in Brechin, Scotland ("Statue of Liberty" website, person ID 100877040214, consulted 13 December 2022). Apart from her previous residence in Brechin the other details nearly match, except Katie Smith from Kincraig would have been 22, born on 12 December 1889.
Family tradition has it that she married someone called Oppenheimer and lived in the Bronx. She send food parcels to her mother during the war. She also sent photographs of two children, Margaret and Milton, and, later, two children, Diana and Robert, including one of the latter aged 1 and a half, in May 1948. On a scrap of paper is written the name Oppenheimer and the address, 841 Clarence Avenue, Bronx, 65 N.Y. My grandmother, her youngest sister, appears to have lost contact with Katie, some time after the former moved to St Madoes in 1950, a year after their mother died at Meadowside.
A person named Catherine Oppenheimer, born on 12 December 1889, the same birth date as Catherine Smith, is recorded as dying in November 1983, whose last address was in the borough of Fair Lawn, in Bergen County, New Jersey 07410.
Katie (Catherine) Smith or Oppenheimer is known to have come back to Scotland once after she sailed for New York in the 1910s. My grandmother, Meg Smith, would have been in her teens at the time of her sister's visit, which probably took place in the early years of the 1920s. The sisters seem to have lost touch after the death of their mother.
Annie Smith
After Jimmy died, in January 1982, Annie moved into St. Vincent's home in Kingussie. She said she was happy there and did not want a house any more and gave up Meadowside. The home was run by the local authority. Her old age pension was paid to the Council who gave her an allowance of £5 a week. She stayed in St Vincent's until her death in April 1988 at the age of 91. She was buried in Alvie churchyard after a service in the church.
Annie's daughter, Nancy, moved with her aunt, Meg Smith or Swanney (my grandmother) and Willie Swanney and the family of four children, to St. Madoes, Perthshire, in 1950. She was 20 years old, unmarried, and her job was being Meg and Willie's housekeeper. Shortly after moving to St. Madoes, she met and married Willie McDonald and moved into a house in the new scheme at Druid's Way, St. Madoes. Their two daughters and families live in the Perth area.
Stop press
Meadowside Quarry, owned by Breedon Aggregates, won planning approval to supply the A9 road dualling project, in 2015. There is a press story about it here. Tens of thousands of tonnes of materials will be supplied each year and a new access road has been constructed.
Updated 04 January 2023.