Mary O'Grady Geddes

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Personal and Family Information

Mary was born on 14 MAY 1870 in Slamannan, Scotland, the daughter of Thomas Geddes and Margaret Fleming Johnston.

She died in 1942. The place is not known.

Her husband was Duncan MacGregor, who she married in 1892 in Luib Hotel, Killin, Scotland. Their seven known children were Margaret (1893-?), Thomas (1897-?), Duncan (c1900-?), Mary Jane Geddes (1903-1965), Helen (1905-1946), Janet (c1907-?) and Alex (c1910-?).

Pedigree Chart (3 generations)


 

Mary O'Grady Geddes
(1870-1942)

 

Thomas Geddes
(1839-1907)

 

Thomas O'Grady
(1810-1882)

 

Standish O'Grady
(1766-1840)

 
   

Katherine Waller
(c1770-1853)

 
   

Mary Taylor
(c1821-?)

 

Alexander Balfour
(c1790-?)

 
   

Catherine Bartlett Taylor
(c1795-?)

 
   

Margaret Fleming Johnston
(1846-1920)

 

Gavin Johnson
(1814-?)

   
 
 
     
 
 
   

Margaret Dunn
(c1815-?)

   
 
 
     
 
 

Events

EventDateDetailsSourceMultimediaNotes
Birth14 MAY 1870
Place: Slamannan, Scotland
Death1942

Notes

Note 1

!Source: http://web.ukonline.co.uk/members/tom.paterson/paterson.htm

!Notes: My [Tom Paterson] great grandmother Mary O'Grady was born on May 14th 1870 at Salterhill near Slamannan in Stirlingshire. It took me some time to find the certificate as her father , Thomas O'Grady, changed the family name to Geddes. My grandmother had always referred to that branch as being Geddes. The census returns show the family as Geddes in 1881 and 1891. I am still looking for clues as to why Thomas changed the name. It is likely to be one of two reasons; to get rid of the stigma of an Irish name, or to revert to a name associated with his mother rather than his father - he was illegitimate.