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Family Group Sheet
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Husband Farquhar SMITH |
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1834, Croftcroy, Farr, Dunlichity, Inverness-shire (inferred) |
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Married |
5 June 1856, at Broad Street, Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire: Farquhar SMITH, schoolmaster, bachelor, 22 yrs, son of William Smith, farmer, and Marjory Macintosh, living at Broad St, Fraserburgh, married Elizabeth Chalmers CARDNO, spinster, 28 yrs, lliving at Broad Street, Fraserburgh, daur of Alexander Cardno, farmer and Elspet Catto (Scottish Episcopal Church Banns, marriage solemnised by Charles Pressley). (M/1856/196-00/13 Fraserburgh, Aberdeen-shire). (Witnesses: William MacIntosh & John Dunlop) |
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Died |
3 July 1878, aged 43 yrs, widower of Elizabeth CARDNO, clergyman incumbent at St John’s Episcopal Church, Arpafeelie, Parish of Knockbain (Black Isle), Ross-shire, died at parsonage there (grevious paralysis, uncertain sanguineous apoplexy, an hour) (D/1878/073/19 Knockbain, Ross-shire) |
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Buried |
Dunlichity Churchyard (memorial) |
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Husband’s Father William Smith [AN056], farmer |
Husband’s Mother Marjory Mackintosh [AN057] |
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Notes: Attended St Andrew’s Hall, Edinburgh [Episcopal Training Institution]. Teacher at Fraserburgh Episcopal School, 1854-?60. Ordained as Deacon, 27 June 1862 (Diocese of Edinburgh). Priest 1864 (Diocese of Moray, Ross & Caithness). Incumbent of Arpafeelie, 27 June 1862 – 1878 (with Fortrose, 1862-65, and 1866-78; with Highfields, Jan 1871-1878). Diocesan Inspector of Schools, Diocese of Moray, Ross & Caithness, December 1873-. Honorary Canon of Inverness Cathedral.
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Wife Elizabeth Chalmers CARDNO |
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1828 |
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16 June 1866, Knockbain |
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Dunlichity Churchyard (memorial) |
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Wife’s Father Alexander CARDNO, farmer |
Wife’s Mother Elspet CATTO |
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Other husbands |
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1 M William Alexander SMITH (names of fathers of both father and mother) |
7 March 1857 |
? (living at 29 Dover Street, Cleveland Estate, Higher Crumpsall, Manchester, at time of father’s death, July 1878, age 21yrs; went to Australia, was insurance agent, New South Wales, 1913 - ref: Rev. James Smith) |
1921 |
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2 F Elizabeth Chalmers Cardno SMITH (mother’s name) |
29 Mar 1858 (twin sister of Barbara) |
10 Feb 1891, Bread Street, Fraserburgh; E.C.C. SMITH, spinster, 33 yrs; & J. (James) BLACKHALL, son of Adam BLACKHALL, retired clothier, & Margaret MORRICE [?]; Writer [i.e. solicitor] & bank agent, widower, 49 yrs, Union Bank House, Fraserburgh. (Living at Union Bank House, Fraserburgh, 1913 - Rev. James Smith). No children but step-child[ren] from James Blackhall’s previous marriage [step-son J.M. Blackhall informant on death cert]. |
17 Oct 1949, 3 a.m., Ellon, Aberdeen-shire, 91 yrs (arterio sclerosis, cerebral thrombosis). Pre-deceased by husband. |
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3 F Barbara Catherine Catto SMITH |
29 Mar 1858 (twin sister of Elizabeth) |
? may have died before 1913, not listed in genealogy of Rev. James Smith. |
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4 F Elspet Marjory SMITH (names of mothers of both mother and father) |
5 February 1860 |
22 Oct 1885, St
Andrews church [Episcopal], Aberdeen. Elspet Marjory SMITH, spinster, 25, Broad Street, Fraserburgh; & James MACBEAN, jeweller, widower, 37 yrs, [Paisfield?] Road, Inverness
(son of Alexander Macbean, clothier, deceased; & Elizabeth Ross, deceased) (living at Ardross Terrace, Inverness, 1913) (Rev James
Smith) |
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5 Charles Pressley SMITH
(Charles PRESSLEY was the name of the priest who solemnised marriage of Farquhar & Elizabeth according to the Forms of the Episcopal Church of Scotland.) |
18 June 1862 |
(1) 26 Oct 1886, at St Serf’s Church [Episcopal], Culross (Perthshire; now Fife). Charles Pressley SMITH, M.A., Clergyman (single), 24 yrs, 12 Shandon Cres., Edinburgh; & Alice Louise MILLAR, single, 23 yrs, Blaircastle, Culross; daur. of Christian Hoyer MILLAR, landed proprietor (deceased) [see note 8 below] & Marion Marshall WATSON (deceased) (Alice MILLAR SMITH d. 8 Apr 1899, The Rectory, Oban, 35 yrs, wife of Charles Pressley-Smith, Dean of Argyll & The Isles, cerebral haemorrhage, 15 hours). Issue: (i) Maye Alice Pressley SMITH, b. 8 May 1888, 18 Granville Terr, Edinburgh. (Grenfell Mission of Newfoundland and Labrador, mid 1920s-1930s; call for mat-making materials made from here in 1932); (ii) Dorothy Mary Louise Pressley SMITH (11 Jun 1890,18 Granville Terr, Edinburgh; d. 1971, aged approx 81 yrs), m. John Burnett REED; (iii) Veronica Collette PRESSLEY-SMITH, b. 1 Oct. 1893, 22 Torphichen Street, Edinburgh, m. 18 Apr. 1918, Church of St John the Divine, Oban [Episcopal], Edwyn Brace BARTON, Captain, Royal Army Medical Corps (bachelor), 29, usual res. Skelbrooke Vicarage, Doncaster, son of James Francis BARTON. M.A. (Cantab.) (Clerk in Holy Orders), Vicar of Skelbrooke, and Mary Isabel LAING.
(2) Elizabeth Mary BEITH (Oban). Issue: 3 daurs. (Bertie) |
9 September 1930, “Clerk in Holy Orders”, 73 yrs, 14 Ann Street, Edinburgh, 3.45 a.m. (cerebral haemorrhage). Married to Elizabeth Mary BEITH. |
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6 F Jemima Cardno SMITH |
12 July 1864, Charleston Cottage, Knockbain, Ross-shire (12 noon). |
William TEMPERLEY, Captain, RNR. No marriage record found in Scotland 1880-1929 for Jemima SMITH & TEMPERLEY. Jemima Temperley living at Ardross Terr, Inverness, 1913 (Rev James Smith).
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13 Aug 1929, Moungan, Ellon, Aberdeen-shire, 65 yrs (carcinoma of oesophagus). Pre-deceased by husband. |
Updated by Peter Symon, 23 Nov 2010 & 14 Dec 2016.
References: Bertie, D. Scottish Episcopal Clergy, 1689-2000; GROS BMD records; Rev. James Smith, Genealogies of an Aberdeen Family, 1540-1913, Aberdeen University Press (www.archive.org/stream/genealogiesofabe00smituoft/genealogiesofabe00smituoft_djvu.txt, accessed August 2010. There is an entry about Charles Pressley Smith in Who Was Who, 1930-1939 (see note 3 below).
Notes: 1. St John’s Episcopal Church was built in 1816 but its present (1992) appearance is almost all due to Alexander Ross’s reconstruction of 1879 (the year after the death of Farquhar Smith). Very simple Gothic with a gableted W bellcote (for two bells) and SW porch; minimally projecting apse at E end. Parsonage to the W. Small and plain by Ross & Joass, 1863 (during first year of Smith’s incumbency at St John’s), extended in 1895 by John Robertson. (Source: Gifford, J., 1992, Highlands and Islands. Buildings of Scotland series. Penguin, London. p. 384.) Gifford explains that the Episcopalians set up their own parochial system in the seocond half of the C.19th and by 1914 had a church near every significant centre of population (p. 39). “The dominant architect favoured by the Episcopalians was Alexander Ross, who designed a string of villagey Gothic churches” from 1853 (p. 40). The earliest, St Ninian, Kilmartin (Inverness) was originally thatched. “His largest was St Andrew’s Cathedral, Inverness, of 1866-69, a huge stodgy box brooding beside the River Ness, perhaps lamenting the lack of its intended W spires, but with an interior arranged along best Tractarian lines.” (p. 40)
2. Very Rev. Charles PRESSLEY SMITH (1862-1930), M.A., Canon of Cumbrae, 1897-1920; Dean of Argyll and the Isles, 1897-1930 (preceded by Arthur John Maclean, -1897); Provost of St. John’s Cathedral, Oban, 1920-1930; retired, 1930. Preached a Sermon, “The Good Bishop”, in the Church of St. John the Divine, Oban, on Quinquigesima Sunday, 1906, being the Sunday after the Funeral of Rt. Rev. (James Robert) Alexander CHINNERY-HALDANE, Bishop of Argyll and The Isles, who died prematurely (http://anglicanhistory.org/scotland/chinnery-haldane.html, accessed 18 August 2010.
3. Chaplain-Colonel The Rev. James SMITH, B.D., T.D., FRGS, FSA Scot. Minister of St. George’s-in-the-West Parish of St. Nicholas Aberdeen (see his Genealogies of an Aberdeen Famikly, 1540-1913, Aberdeen U.P., 1913, at p. viii, online version at www.archive.org/stream/genealogiesofabe00smituoft/genealogiesofabe00smituoft_djvu.txt, accessed 4 Nov 2010), states that his maternal aunt, Elizabeth Chalmers, married James CARDNO (merchant, Fraserburgh), the brother of Farquhar Smith’s wife, Elizabeth Chalmers CARDNO; but this needs to be checked as it seems unlikely that James Cardno would have both a wife and a sister called Elizabeth Chalmers.
4. Inverness Advertiser, Fri 12 Dec 1873: “SMITH, Reverend Farquhar – Incumbent of St John’s Church, Arpafeelie, has been appointed Diocesan Inspector of Schools”. (ambaile.org.uk)
5. University of Dundee, Archives Service, Records relating to Religion, Brechin Diocesan Library collection, ref. Br MS 3/DC/71 [1707] (1874), “The Dark Days of the Church”, by Farquhar Smith, incumbent of Arpafeelie in a series of letters to the editor of “The Scottish Guardian”. 1874. [Extracts from minutes of United Presbytery and chanonry of Dingwall, 1707]; with index. [Transcript by Dean William Christie, c. 1910] (www.dundee.ac.uk/archives/rel10.htm)
6. Mayce Alice Pressley Smith (b.1887), 1932 appeal for materials for mat-making, Grenfell Mission of Newfoundland and Labrador, from mid-1920s to 1930s (www.heritage.nf.ca/arts/silkmats.html).
7. Charles Pressley Smith’s second wife, Elizabeth Mary BEITH, may be a relation of the Scottish novelist and playwright, Ian Hay, pen name of schoolteacher Major John Hay BEITH.
8. Christian Hoyer Millar was the grandfather of Frederick Hoyer Millar, 1st Baron Inchyra; who was grandfather of the present 3rd Baron Inchyra, Christian James Charles Hoyer Millar (born 1962). The Byre at Inchyra is a popular wedding venue at Inchyra House. The venue is near St Madoes, where the present Laird of Inchyra's great grand-uncle's first cousin, twice removed, the late Nancy Smith or MacDonald, married and raised her own family. Nancy's grandfather, Hugh Smith [AN014], was a first cousin of Charles Pressley Smith.
Updated 27 May 2015 and 30 August 2017 and 08 June 2022 by Peter Symon.
