John Hendrie JP

  General Notes:

M 1855 Old Monkland on 19th Sept 1855 at the Union Bank, Coatbridge marriage after banns was solemnized between us according to the rites and ceremonies of the Church of Scotland John Johnston minister of Old Monkland.

John HENDRIE present address: Airdrie House usual address : Airdrie House
Agnes G.HENDERSON Union Bank

groom: 26 Coalmaster batchelor born Airdrie House & reg.New Monkland 12 Sepr 1829
bride: 26 - spinster born Carrick Stone, Cumbernauld & reg. there b Jun 18 1829

Parents: Charles HENDRIE Factor & Barbara CLYDESDALE
Robert HENDERSON Banker & Mary Hay

w: Archibald Smith, Jessie Henderson

Portraits of the family

One picture portrays John Hendrie's 3 sons, one on a pony; the youngest, Alfred, must be the little boy on the pony. His eldest brother would be in a suit (Charles who was 6 years older than Alfred), and Robert only 2 years older than Alfred, I take to be the boy in the kilt on the right hand side of the photograph. I think the ages of the children help us to distinguish:* Charles B 1864 Robert 1868 Alfred 1870

The artist has not made much difference to the ages of the childrens* faces & so
their clothes (eldest in "adult" knickerbocker suit, younger pair in matching highland
costume) must help us decide.

I suppose the lady in the lace cap, is John Hendrie's mother Barbara Clydesdale, Mrs
Charles Hendrie.

The moustachioed gentleman, I think, is John Hendrie himself, born 1829. He would
probably have pictures painted of himself and wife, his parents and his children, or
old Charles might have commissioned them.

I guess that the children were painted as they looked about 1880.

The frames of the pictures of John & Agnes match. (Agnes is pictured in matching jewels)

The frames of the pictures of Barbara & of the man I think is Charles her husband, a
match. Are these 2 pictures older? They look to be the same style (same artist?) but
the varnish looks more worn on them.

I do hope that the 4 girls were painted. (I have not checked Henrietta's birth cert, but presume "C" stands for Clydesdale.

I enclose maps of the Renfrew/Glasgow area (l") to show Scotstoun House & a map of mid Scotland to show Carron Iron works, Larbert, long the home of Scottish ironsmelting. You will also note that I have marked Cumbernauld village, Airdrie town, Glasgow & Scotstoun on this map to illustrate ancestral roots. ⁶³

  Noted events in his life were:

• Address: 1851 Scotland census, Airdrie House, Old Monkland, Lanarkshire.

• Occupation/Address: Farmer Proprietor Of Coal Iron Mines - visitor, 1861 Scotland census, 39 Scott Street, Barony, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland.

• Occupation/Address: Coalmaster & farming 380 acres all arable employing 8 labourers, 1871 Scotland census, Scotstown House, Renfrew, Renfrewshire.

• Occupation/Address: Coalmaster, 1881 Scotland census, Scotstown House, Renfrew, Renfrewshire.

• Occupation/Address: JP Coalmaster, 1891 Scotland census, Thornwood House, Bothwell, Lanarkshire.

John married Agnes Galloway Henderson, daughter of Robert Henderson and Mary Thomson Hay, on 18 Sep 1855 in Union Bank, Coatbridge. (Agnes Galloway Henderson was born on 4 Jun 1829 in Carrick Stone, Cumbernauld, Dumbartonshire ^12,62 and was christened on 21 Jun 1829 in Cumbernauld, Dumbartonshire ¹².)