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GEDDIE'S IN AUSTRALIA - NEW
ZEALAND - TASMANIA
Gerald
Cameron Robertson
Gerald Cameron
Robertson is the son of William Hustwick
Robertson and grandson of Ann Cameron (sister to
Barbara Cameron who married William Geddie in
Scotland.) Gerald was born on September 11, 1898
at South Springfield, Tasmania, Australia.
Ann
Cameron's husband was also a William and worked
as a ropemaker. William Hustwick came out to
Tasmania and was married there. His mother (Ann)
had died in Scotland before William left.
It appears from the record that Barbara
Marshall, the sister of William Hustwick's
grandmother (Ann Marshall), married yet another
William Hustwick, a shipbuilder from
Speymouth (on the River Spey in Banffshire,
Scotland).
GERALD'S FAMILY CHART
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[Photo, chart and
description courtesy of Judy Cocker, Gerald's
granddaughter, of Tasmania, Australia]
IMAGES
FROM SCOTLAND
Heather in bloom on a
Scots hillside
The Geddie vessel BAN
RIGH, 1909
Nine Sons of JAMES
& FRANCIS FRASER GEDDIE
(From the left
are James, George & Alex [twins], Francis,
William, Alfred, Fredrick, John Winchester, and Duncan)
ALEXANDER
& BARBARA GEDDIE DAVIDSON
The
daughter of William and Barbara Cameron Geddie, Barbara
was born August 28, 1861 and died February 25, 1935. She
married Alexander Davidson on June 2, 1894. Alexander, a
policeman and farmer, was born April 27, 1861 and died
December 27, 1939. Their children included a daughter,
Margaret Mabel Davidson, who married Thomas Muirhead.
[Information on
Margaret and Thomas courtesy Judy Cocker, Tasmania
Australia]
MARSHALL & ALEX
GEDDIE
Sons of William and
Barbara Cameron Geddie, both drowned
at sea on the SWIFT January 15, 1896. William Marshall
b. April 4, 1863, Alexander b. August 5, 1868.
The
SPINAWAY - George Geddie, Captain
Go TO
VESSELS BUILT AT GEDDIE SHIPYARDS -- SPEYSIDE
[Geddie
shipyards data courtesy James Mackay, Woking, England]
Go To
History & Features of The River Spey
(Photographs
and Geddie Ship Paintings Courtesy
Alex Geddie Muirhead,
Glasgow Scotland)
Banff, Scotland Today
Speyside and Banff Area Map - Northeastern Scotland
Family
of Henry and Ellen Geddie Summers
Dundee, Scotland c.1910
(Henry, Colin, Elizabeth [Lizzie] and Ellen)
Ellen
Geddie Summers
(1870-1925)
Ellen
Geddie was born to John Geddie (b.1817-d.1896)
and Isabella Murdoch at Kingston, Elgin, Scotland
in 1870. This was John Geddie's second marriage
[1870]. Ellen's first brother was Colin (b.1872)
who in 1894 married Mary Ann Allan. Their
daughter Lizzie Annie Geddie was born in 1899.
Ellen's second brother James (b.1873) married
Elizabeth Kilgour Dingwall in East London, South
Africa. James died in 1954. The children from
John Geddie's first marriage to Elspet James
(d.1868) were William (b.1850) and Andrew
(b.1852). Ellen married Henry Summers in 1898.
Their first child, Isabella Mary, born in 1898,
died in her first year of life; Elizabeth
[Lizzie], (b.1902-d.1994); and Colin (unknown at
present). Colin married late in life and had no
children. Elizabeth married George Roscoe and had
Ellen Geddie (b.1923), George (b.1926), and Donald (b.1937).
1926),
and Donald (b.1937).
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(Portraits and family
history courtesy Elaine Sproson of Halifax,
West Yorkshire UK and her mother Ellen Geddie Fisher,
Manchester UK]
GEDDIE'S
OF SOUTH AFRICA
Alexander
Geddie
Alexander
Geddie, one of the nine sons of James Geddie in Scotland
(above)
who emigrated to East London, South Africa. He is the
great-grandfather
of Heather (nee Craigie) Jacoby.
(Photo
courtesy of Heather Jacoby, East London, South Africa)
A GEDDIE PONTOON
BOAT IN SOUTH AFRICA
From
a postcard, this image shows the pontoon boat
that regularly crossed the Buffalo River in East
London, South Africa 100 years ago. The Geddie
family boatbuilding skills were put to another
use here by Alex Geddie (the twin of George and
son of James Geddie pictured above), who built
and ran this pontoon until the first bridge
spanned the river. The pontoon was large enough
to carry an oxwagon and the usual span.
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Cape of Good Hope Region of South Africa -
Geddie's of Scotland migrated to the cities of East London and Port
Elizabeth
in the 19th century
(Photo and
Description Courtesy Moira MacDonald of Devon, England
and her grandmother Grace Geddie of East London, South
Africa)
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