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Note: Dear John: Thank you so much for the e-mail and attachment which came through fine and which I found fascinating. It has whetted my appetite to resume the quest. It has been almost three years since we spent about three days in Annan and Dumfries and looked in the telephone directory, made a cold call on Joe and Margaret Weild living in Annan and were very hospitably received the next day by them and Joe's sister Janette. My wife is good at that sort of thing but I am usually a bit more reserved. We haven't done much to follow up since but neither have they. The local libraries, particularly the one in Dumfries, seemed set up to assist in genealogical research and Janette was working on a family history. I am not aware that they have e-mail capability but should you care to write them, the address is: Ms. Janette Weild 45 High Street Annan, Dumfriesshire Scotland, DG 12 6AD Mr. & Mrs. W.J.Weild (Joe and Margaret) 12 English Street Annan, Dumfriesshire Scotland, DG 12 5AY. Thanks again for the information. When I have digested it I will revert. I am copying this to my home for my wife's benefit. Best regards No. 1 Stone David Weild, who died at Hopses? 7th Dec. 1708, aged 6o years Helen Hope, his spouse, who died 31st May, 1725 aged 74 years John Weild, their son, who died at Flosh, 19th June 1744, aged 84 Janet Brown, his spouse, who died 5th June 1722, aged 76 years Andrew Weild, their son, who died at Annan 1st Apr. 1818 aged 83 Jean Hope, his spouse, who died 31st July 1816 aged 73 years John Weild, their son who died at the Island of St. Bartholomew on 16th August 1809, aged 36 years David Weild, also their son, who died at Annan, 26th May 1861 aged 84 Also Margaret Gass his spouse who died at Annan 26th January 1877, aged 90 years John Weild, son of the above David Weild, who died at Thornliebank, 15th July, 1891, aged 73 years The Rev. Andrew Weild, son of the above David Weild, born 6th February 1820, was Minister of the U.P. Church, Thornliebank for upwards of fifty years, and died there 2nd January 1902. And I heard a voice from Heaven saying unto me- Write Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth. Yea, saith the Spirit that they may rest from their labours and their works do follow them. Rev. XIV - 13 ………………………………. No 2 Stone Nathaniel Weild who died at Banoch 24th June 1726 aged 28 years John Weild, son of John Weild who died at…….. 24th March 1765, aged 12 years Mary Weild, his sister, who died 14th July 1774 aged 12 years John Weild, who died 23rd August 1785 aged 58 years Mary Edgar, his spouse, who died 31st Jan. 1813, aged 85 years Agnes Weild, their daughter, who died at Blatwood, 26th May 1793, aged 34 years Herbert Weild, who died at Browhouses 18th Jan. 1836 aged 81 years Mary Jackson, his spouse who died on the 10th July 1852 aged 83 years Mrs Elizabeth Hardie daughter of John Weild, Blatwood, who died at Myrtle Bank, Prestwich, near Manchester, on 23rd March 1852 aged 87 years. ……………………………… No 3 Stone Herbert Weild who died at Woodhall 16th Oct. 1719 aged 86 years David Weild, son of John Weild, who died at Woodhall in April 1743 aged 11 years Margaret Weild, his sister who died in August 1746, aged 11 years Jane Weild, daughter of David Weild, Annan, and widow of the Rev.James Harkness, M.D., who died at Jersey City, New Jersey, U.S. America 23rd March 1900, aged 80 years Rear Admiral William Harkness L.L.D., M.D., Naval Observatory, Washington, U.S.A. son of the above James Harkness and Jean Weild, who died in Jersey City U.S.A. on 28th Feb. 1903 aged 65 …………………………………….. No 4 Stone John Weild, son of John Weild, who died at Woodhall 15th Dec. 1743, aged 17 years Jean Weild, daughter of Andrew Weild who died at Flosh, in Jan 1785 aged 3 years Jean and Mary, his sisters who died in infancy John Weild, son of David Weild, who died at Annan 17th Aug.1813 aged 3 days David Weild, his brother, who died at Annan 5th March 1827, aged 3 months Janet Weild, daughter of the above Andrew Weild, who died at Annan 5th Jan. 1854 aged 76 years Margaret Weild, daughter of the above David Weild, who died at Thornliebank 29th May 1866 aged 63 years Robert McKinnell and Janet Weild daughter of the above David Weild, his spouse, both of whom died at Annan and are buried at the new cemetery there. Mary Weild, youngest and last surviving daughter of David Weild, Annan, who died at Thornliebank 22nd Nov. 1917, aged 88 ……………………………………. The above was compiled by Andrew Wield Adams who revisited Scotland some sixty years ago (1930’s) His great-grandfather was John Weild His grandfather was Andrew Weild * born at Brow Houses between Lowther Town and Gretna 6th March 1803. His grandmother was Elizabeth Steel born 22 Nov. 1803 His mother was Elizabeth Weild, born 25th Dec. 1844 His father was Joseph Adams of Whitehaven, across the border in England. They married at Gretna Green and later migrated to Australia and stayed for a short time at Mount Duneed, Victoria, with the Harkness family who had married into the Weilds and also, migrated to Australia. They then moved to Hobart Tasmania where Joseph Adams set up a blackmith’s shop on Constitution Dock. Their son (My grandfather) became the head of the Taxation Department for the Commonwealth of Australia, and received a citation from King George the Sixth. Rear Admiral William Harkness has the Rochester University’s Naval Science Building in the U.S. named in his honour. He was born in Ecclefechan Scotland on 17th Dec 1837 Emigrated 1840 to Jersey City. Career Highlights. Surgeon with the Army at the First Battle of Bull Run and again during the attack on Washington in 1864. Became one of the U.S’s foremost astronomers. Discovered the coronal line K1474 during the total eclipse of the sun in Aug 1869. Member from 1871 of the U.S. Transit of Venus Commission. Headed the Venus parties at Hobart, Tasmania in 1874 and again in Washington DC in 1882. Discovered in 1879 theory of the focal curve of achromatic telescopes. Designed most of the large instruments at the U.SA. Naval Observatory used during the latter part of the nineteenth and early part of twentieth centuries. After the Civil War he studied the new problem of the behavior of the magnetic compass under the influence of the heavy iron on ironclad ships using the U.S. ironclad Monadnock. *Andrew Weild had a brother George Weild (Capt.) who had 3 sons John, William and George and daughter Margaret. Sister Margaret married James Weild. Andrew also had a brother Robert Weild who died in Lancashire. I have a Ship’s Record as follows: Jane Weild Born Dumfries Scotland 1835 Rebecca Weild Born Dumfries Scotland 1836 Sailed from Liverpool on 25 Dec 1856 on the David McIvor. Arrived at Geelong, Victoria, Australia 7th April 1857 Religion Presbyterian Both can read and write Came out to Geelong as Governesses Jane was engaged by Rev Geo: Vance of Skene Street Rebecca was engaged by Nath Howard of Belmont. ……………………………. I have found out through Steve Weild of Regina Canada that the monument referred to in my Great Uncle Andrew’s notes is in the graveyard of the Old Kirk, Gretna Green, Dumfries Shire, Scotland. My Great Uncle has sketched the single Monument, on which the four stones are placed , as a rectangled structure rather tall with the four tablets on the side numbered,No 1 No 11 No 111 No 1V. Above the stones on the side of the Monument are the words IN MEMORY OF and above that along the top of the Monument are four cones lined up with the four tablets. Inserted on the face of the first cone is a small palque with the drawing of a bird perched over a shield with the words”Vive et Vivas” I also have a pewter tea pot with what I have been told is the Family Crest screwed on to the top of the lid. It consists of a bird with outstretched wings on what looks like three oak tree leaves with a round object like an apple (acorn) in the middle under the bird’s beak. In closing I have been told that the word WEILD was derived from the word WOLD which applied to wooded parts of the country. John Wield Adams 1/9 Fischer Street Torquay Victoria Australia 3228 BORN 25 DEC 1844 FROM RESEARCH DONE BY HER SON ANDREW ADAMS WHEN HEVISITED GRETNA IN THE 1930'S OR SO.
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