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From: Ian Mackie <>
Subject: [ANGUS] Thomas Fyfe Shipmaster & Mary Fyfe
Date: Fri, 05 Jul 2002 17:57:48 +1000


Thomas Fyfe b 19/11/1789 by family tradition died at Calcutta India of
heat stroke on a voyage to ship jute. www.scottishdocuments.com index of
wills includes:-
Fyfe Thomas 17/2/1835 Master of the Brig Isabella of Dundee Dundee
Sheriff Court

Fyfe Thomas 10/6/1835 Shipmaster of the Brig Isabella of Dundee Dundee
Sheriff Court

Fyfe Thomas 13/6/1854 Shipmaster in Dundee Dundee Sheriff Court

which however are intestate.

A lookup request re Isabella produced:-
"In the 1829 & 1830 editions of the Lloyd's Register
(Green Book - Underwriters)
ISABELLA
Master: Captain T. Fife
Rigging: Snow; single deck with beams; sheathed in copper in 1826;
partly fastened with copper bolts
Tonnage: 303 tons
Construction: in Perth, using Oak & Larch; vessel 4 years old
Owners: Hill & Co.
Draught under load: 16 feet
Port of survey: London
Voyage: sailed for Calcutta"

Above thanks to
"Provost, Gilbert" <> (again thanks)
So death before 1835 seems probable!

Mary b 30/6/1797 survived to 24 Jan 1895, and her death certificate
shows Wm. Thos. Fyfe, grandson as the informant, address 2 Dalhousie
Terrace Dundee. The IGI includes 3 daughters only. Recently a letter
written by "Margaret" to my father in 1951 came to hand and included:-
"On the other side-the Grand father was a Captain Thomas? Fyfe who was
part owner of his ship, and died of fever in Calcutta. As far as I can
gather their house was in Dundee (West End I think) and there were three
children. Our Grandmother Agnes Grieve, her sister Charlotte, and a
brother William. This William Fyfe was cashier in Lilybank foundry. He
was lame-having had some sort of accident in his youth. We don't seem
to know whom he married, but there were two children, a son William- He
was an auctioneer-(I suppose in Dundee, and married a daughter of a
Captain Fairweather-I think!) of Newport,-we don't seem to know about
his offsprings if any. The daughter Mary-became a Mrs. Robertson-and
died a few years ago in Dundee-no family."
A check by Ian A.McDougall (again thanks) of the 1881 census for Dundee
produced only one (unlikely) candidate at
64 Lilybank Road. Wednesday 3rd July logged on to www.origins.net, paid
the £6 for access and searched the 1891 census. Therein:-
Dwelling: 2 Dalhousie Terrace Liff & Benvie Dundee
Relation Marr Age
Occupation Birthplace.
William Fyfe Head M 69 Commercial Clerk
Dumfriesshire
Mary " Wife M
53 Forfarshire, Arbroath
Mary " Daur U 23 Mantle
Saleswoman Renfrewshire, Glasgow
William T Fyfe Son U 22 Auctioneer &
Valuator "
plus 3 boarders, 2 visitors and a servant.

Thursday 4th July at LDS local library the Lowlands CD disc of 1881
census produced:-
Dwelling: 98 Pollok Street, Govan, Lanark
Relation Marr Age
Occupation Birthplace.
William Fyfe Head M 59 Temperance
Hotel Keeper Dumfriesshire
Mary " Wife M 44
Temperance Hotel Keeper Wife St Vigians, Forfar
Mary " Daur U 13
Scholar Govan, Renfrew
William Thos. Fyfe Son U 12
Scholar Govan, Renfrew
Jane Craighead (Fyfe) Wifes Aunt W 82
Annuitant St Vigians, Forfar

Then the IGI produced :- William Thomas Fyfe b 1 Apr 1869 Govan, Lanark.
F William Fyfe, M Mary Davidson
and Mary Fyfe b 22 Jan 1868 Govan,
Lanark. F William Fyfe, M Mary Davidson
also William Fyfe, Mary Davidson m 21 Jun 1865 Tradeston, Glasgow.

Thus family are now
Descendants of Thomas Fyfe

1 Thomas Fyfe b: 16 November 1789 in Dundee, Scotland d: Abt 1833 in
Calcutta, India
. +Mary Fyfe b: 30 June 1797 in Rescobie, Angus, Scotland m: 24
February 1820 in Rescobie, Angus, Scotland d: 24 January 1895 in East
Newport, Fife
........ 2 Helen Shepherd Fyfe b: 09 August 1822 in Dundee, Angus,
Scotland
........ 2 Charlotte Fyfe b: 15 April 1824 in Dundee, Angus, Scotland
d: 19 August 1894 in East Newport, Fife
............ +David Preston b: 12 February 1811 in Dundee, Angus,
Scotland m: 06 October 1845 in Dundee, Angus, Scotland d: 18 January
1848 in Dundee, Angus, Scotland
........ 2 Agnes Grieve Fyfe b: 07 January 1826 in Dundee, Angus,
Scotland d: 11 May 1895 in 73 Annfield Rd, Dundee, Angus, Scotland
............ +John McDonald b: 27 October 1834 in Redgorton, Perthshire
m: 17 December 1862 in 36 Albert St, Dundee, Scotland d: 20 May 1899 in
Brook St, Broughty Ferry, Angus, Scotland
................... 3 Charlotte Fyfe McDonald b: 06 January 1870 in 2
Annfield Rd, Dundee, Scotland d: 01 August 1943 in 13 Ranmoor Park
Road, Sheffield, England
....................... +David Cable Mackie b: 16 July 1870 in 8 Hunter
St, Dundee, Scotland m: 02 October 1894 in Liff & Benvie d: 05 December
1928 in St Andrews, Fyfe, Scotland
................... 3 Elizabeth Matthews McDonald b: 21 August 1864 in
Dundee, Angus, Scotland
....................... +William Walker b: 1855 in Broughty Ferry,
Angus, Scotland m: 1895 in St Peter, Dundee, Angus
................... 3 Agnes Fyfe McDonald b: 15 May 1868 in Dundee,
Angus, Scotland
....................... +William M'Gregor Crabbe b: 1855 in Dundee,
Angus, Scotland m: 1888 in St Peter, Dundee, Angus
................... 3 Daniel McDonald b: 24 February 1863 d: 26 April
1863 in Dundee, Angus, Scotland
........ 2 William Fyfe b: 1821 d: Aft 1890
............ +Mary Davidson b: Abt 04 April 1837 in Arbroath, Angus m:
21 June 1865 in Tradeston, Glasgow, Lanark d: Aft 1890
................... 3 William Thomas Fyfe b: 01 April 1869 in Govan,
Glasgow
................... 3 Mary Fyfe b: 22 January 1868 in Govan, Glasgow

Ian
Melbourne


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