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James REIDAge: 6718401907

Name
James REID
Given names
James
Surname
REID
Birth 1840 35 33
Birth of a sisterJane REID
1841 (Age 12 months)

Death of a sisterJane REID
1842 (Age 2)

Birth of a brotherAdam REID
1847 (Age 7)
Birth of a brotherJohn REID
1850 (Age 10)
Birth of a brotherWilliam McLaren REID
1853 (Age 13)
Death of a motherEdmond S THOMSON
1856 (Age 16)

Death of a brotherAdam REID
1864 (Age 24)

MarriageMargaret AITKENView this family
1866 (Age 26)
Death of a sisterEdmond REID
1872 (Age 32)

Death of a fatherJames REID
24 September 1874 (Age 34)
Death of a brotherWilliam McLaren REID
1893 (Age 53)

Death 26 December 1907 (Age 67)
Family with parents - View this family
father
mother
Marriage: 1836
-9 months
elder brother
3 years
elder sister
4 years
himself
2 years
younger sister
7 years
younger brother
4 years
younger brother
John REID
Birth: 1850 45 43Leith, Scotland
Death: 15 January 1937Coatham, Redcar, Scotland
4 years
younger brother
Family with Margaret AITKEN - View this family
himself
wife
Marriage: 1866Santiago, Chili

Shared note

(Research): [ReidMar02.FTW]

James #4 Reid was a blacksmith, locomotive engineer and man ager of a bone mill at Leith, Scotland.

As a young engineer he was sent to Chili with locomotives f or the new Chilian railways. Here he met Margaret Aitken , elder daughter of a Fifeshire couple, resident in Valpara iso, Chili. Margaret's father was also employed in the Chi lian railway industry.

James and Margaret were married in Valporaiso in 1866 and t he next year their first child Nelly was born.

James was persuaded, by his father, to return to Scotland w here he took over his father's job of managing the bone mil l (fertilizer) on Salimander Street, Leith. At number 31 , seven further children were born.