Harrower Family Tree » Thomas Scott Reid (1815-1869)

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1. 1861 Scotland Census Ancestry.com, Record for Thomas Reid Parish: Perth Burgh; ED: General Prison for Scotland; Page: 13; Line: 1; Roll: CSSCT1861_51 1861 Scotland Census [Ancestry.com] The 1861 Census for Scotland was taken on the night of 7/8 April 1861. The following information was requested: place, name, relationship to head of family, marital status, age, gender, profession, birthplace, and whether blind, deaf, and dumb. Database online.

   Record for Thomas Reid
   Name: Thomas Reid
   Age: 49
   Estimated birth year: abt 1812
   Relationship: Prisoner
   Gender: Male
   Where born: Jedburgh, Roxburghshire
   Registration Number: 387/1
   Registration district: Perth Burgh
   Civil Parish: Perth Burgh
   Town: Perth
   County: Perthshire
   Occupation: House Painter
   ED: General Prison for Scotland
   Household schedule number: 1
   Line: 1
   Roll: CSSCT1861_51
   Household Members: (Amonst others)
   Name Age
   Thomas Reid 49

2. 1841 Scotland Census Scotlands People, 1841 REID, THOMAS SCOTT (Census 685/3 24/ 9) Parish: Edinburgh, Leith Wynd 1841 Scotland Census [scotlandspeople.com] The 1841 Census for Scotland was taken on the night of 6 June 1841. The following information was requested: name, age, gender, profession, and birthplace. Database online.

   1841 REID, THOMAS SCOTT (Census 685/3 24/ 9)
   Name: Thomas Scott Reid
   Age: 29
   Estimated birth year: abt 1812
   Gender: Male
   Where born: Scotland
   Civil Parish: Edinburgh Leith Wynd
   County: Midlothian
   Address: No 8 Mcdowall Street
   Occupation: Painter
   Parish Number: 685/3
   Household Members:
   Name Age
   Henry Murray 40
   Elizabeth Murray 35
   Thomas Murray 12
   William Murray 10
   Helen Murray 7
   George Murray 5
   Phebe Murray 8 Mo
   Thomas Scott Reid 29
   Margaret Reid 28
   Thomas Reid 4

3. Scotland. Select Births and Baptisms. Ancestry,com. 1564 -1950, Ancestry.com, 1815 Record for Thomas Reid Ancestry.com. Scotland, Select Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014. Original data: Scotland, Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013. FHL Film Number:1067946 Reference ID:2:18CZHS8

   Record for Thomas Reid
   Name: Thomas Reid
   Gender: Male
   Birth Date: 17 Nov 1815
   Baptism Date: 31 Dec 1815
   Baptism Place: Kelso, Roxburgh, Scotland
   Father: James Reid
   Mother: Isabel Story
   FHL Film Number: 1067946
   Reference ID: 2:18CZHS8

4. 1851 Scotland Census Ancestry.com, Record for Thomas Reid Parish: Kelso; ED: 6; Page: 9; Line: 16; Roll: CSSCT1851_202; Year: 1851 1851 Scotland Census [Ancestry.com] The 1851 Census for Scotland was taken on the night of 30/31 March 1851. The following information was requested: place, name, relationship to head of family, marital status, age, gender, profession, birthplace, and whether blind, deaf, and dumb. Database online.

   Record for Thomas Reid
   Name: Thomas Reid
   Age: 37
   Estimated birth year: abt 1814
   Relationship: Head
   Spouse: Margaret Reid
   Gender: Male
   Where born: Jedburgh, Roxburghshire
   Parish Number: 793
   Civil Parish: Kelso
   Town: Kelso
   County: Roxburghshire
   Address: Rox St
   Occupation: House Painter
   ED: 6
   Page: 9
   Household schedule number: 55
   Line: 16
   Roll: CSSCT1851_202
   Household Members:
   Name Age
   Thomas Reid 37
   Margaret Reid 36
   Agnes Reid 16
   Thomas Noble Reid 14

5. 1841 Scotland Census Ancestry.com, Record for Thomas Scott Reid Parish: Edinburgh Leith Wynd; ED: 2; Page: 10; Line: 1030; Year: 1841 1841 Scotland Census [Ancestry.com] The 1841 Census for Scotland was taken on the night of 6 June 1841. The following information was requested: name, age, gender, profession, and birthplace. Database online.

   Record for Thomas Scott Reid
   Name: Thomas Scott Reid
   Age: 29
   Estimated birth year: abt 1812
   Gender: Male
   Where born: Scotland
   Civil Parish: Edinburgh Leith Wynd
   County: Midlothian
   Address: No 8 Mcdowall Street
   Occupation: Painter
   Parish Number: 685/3
   Household Members:
   Name Age
   Henry Murray 40
   Elizabeth Murray 35
   Thomas Murray 12
   William Murray 10
   Helen Murray 7
   George Murray 5
   Phebe Murray 8 Mo
   Thomas Scott Reid 29
   Margaret Reid 28
   Thomas Reid 4

6. Scotlands People - Old Parish Registers of Births and Baptisms, 1815 REID, THOMAS (Old Parish Registers Births 793/ 40 525 Kelso) 31/12/1815

   31/12/1815 REID, THOMAS (Old Parish Registers Births 793/ 40 525 Kelso)
   Births and Baptisms Kelso 1815
   James Reid & Isabel Story his wife had a son named Thomas born on the seventeenth day of Novr and baptized on the thirty first day of Decr 1815
   Witnesses Robt. Mason Joseph Henderson

7. Scotlands People - Old Parish Registers of Banns and Marriages, 1836 REID, THOMAS, MARGARET NOBLE (O.P.R. Marriages 685/002 0430 0394 St Cuthbert's)

   REID, THOMAS MARGARET NOBLE (O.P.R. Marriages 685/002 0430 0394 St Cuthbert's)
   Register of Marriages for 1836, St Cuthbert's, Reid and Noble,16 May, 1836
   Thomas Reid, Painter, Residing in No. 7 Low Calton, and Margaret Noble, Residing in No. 21, Same Place, both in this Parish, Daughter of William Noble, Molecatcher in Kelso, have been Threetimes proclaimed in order to Marriage, in the Parish Church of St Cuthberts, and no Objections have been Offered.
   Married on the Nineteenth day of May Current, by the Reverend James Scott, Minister of the Relief Congregation in Bread Street

8. National Archives Scotland, Thomas Reid, Prisoner in Perth Prison, Scotland, 1861 census. JC12 50 is the Minute book of the High Court while on the South Circuit JC26/1860/80 Trial papers relating to Thomas Reid for the crime of forgery and uttering a forged cautionary obligation AD14/60/102 Accused Thomas Reid, Verdict: Guilty, Verdict Comments: Guilty in terms of own confession, Sentence: Imprisonment - 12 months, Victim, Thomas Noble, Roxburgh Street, Kelso

   Thomas Reid, Prisoner in Perth Prison, Scotland, 1861 census.
   Crime - National Archives Scotland - ref AD14/60/102,
   Thomas Reid, painter, Age 49, address, Kelso, for the crime of forgery and uttering a forged cautionary obligation at Horsemarket Street, Kelso.
   Victim - Thomas Noble, Roxburgh Street, Kelso.
   Related record JC26/1860/80
   
   Reference Title Date Access status
   JC26/1860/80 Trial papers relating to Thomas Reid for the crime of forgery and uttering a forged cautionary obligation at Horsemarket Street, Kelso. Tried at High Court, Jedburgh 13 Apr 1860
   Country code GB
   Repository code 234
   Repository National Archives of Scotland
   
   Dates 13 Apr 1860
   Access status Open
   Level File
   Finding aids 19th Century Solemn Database
   
   Related record AD14/60/102
   Accused Thomas Reid, Verdict: Guilty, Verdict Comments: Guilty in terms of own confession, Sentence: Imprisonment - 12 months
   Victim, Thomas Noble, Roxburgh Street, Kelso
   

9. Newspaper Article, 1860 REID, THOMAS The Scotsman, 16 April 1860, Page 4 https://www-britishnewspaperarchive-co-uk.nls.idm.oclc.org/viewer/BL/0000540/18600416/092/0004

   This article is from https://www-britishnewspaperarchive-co-uk.nls.idm.oclc.org/viewer/BL/0000540/18600416/092/0004
   Monday 16th April 1860 - Page 4
   Original article URL:
   https://www-britishnewspaperarchive-co-uk.nls.idm.oclc.org/viewer/BL/0000540/18600416/092/0004
   The Scotsman, 16 April 1860, Page 4
   JEDBURGH CIRCUIT COURT OF JUSTICIARY The spring Circuit Court of Judiciary was opened at Jedburgh on Friday --- the Hon. Lord Ardmillan presiding. The calender was very light - there being only one criminal case, and two cases of appeal.
   Charge of Forgery. Thomas Reid, painter in Kelso, was charged with having on two occasions forged a cautionary obligation or obligatory writing for the payment of rent of premises occupied by him. The person whose name was forged was brother-in-law to the prisoner, and had been in the habit of giving his name as security for the prisoner. Two seperate cases of forgery were charged, but in one of the cases the rent had been paid. The panel pleaded guilty, and was sentanced to twelve months'imprisonment

10. National Archives Scotland, Record for Thomas Reid http://www.maxwellancestry.com/

    On 5 May 1856, Thomas Reid was imprisoned at Kelso Prison, for the crime of stealing a Carpet Bag containing various articles. He spent 1 1/2 days in prison.
    On 07 May 1856, he was transferred to Jedburgh Prison, to spend the remainder of his sentence of 2 days; he is liberated 9 May 1856.
    On 13 January 1860, Thomas was imprisoned at Kelso Prison, for the crime of Forgery. He Spent 3 days in prison.
    On 16 January 1860, Thomas was transferred to Jedburgh Prison, where he spent 58 Days.
    On 13 April 1860 he was tried for Forgery, by Lord Ardmillan at the Spring Circuit Court in Jedburgh. Thomas was Convicted and sentenced to 12 months.
    On 17 May 1860 Thomas was transferred to Perth Prison, to spend the remainder of his 12 month sentence.
    
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    https://www.scottishindexes.com/adentry.aspx?adid=860102
    

11. Scotlands People - Statutory Registers of Deaths (from 1855), 1869 REID, THOMAS (Statutory registers Deaths 811/ 2)

    1869 REID, THOMAS (Statutory registers Deaths 811/ 2)
    1869 Deaths in the Parish of Yetholm, in the County of Roxburgh.
    Thomas Reid,
    1869, Supposed January Ninth,
    In the River Bowmount about 1/2 a mile below Yetholm Mill. Male,
    Age Supposed 55 Years.
    COD: Drowning As certified by Dr. Hunter Yetholm Not seen till after death.
    Registered on the information of James C. Stevenson, Procurator Fiscal, Jedburgh
    22nd Jany 1869.
    Registered
    1869 25th January, Yetholm
    Robert McMorrow,
    Registrar

12. Newspaper Article, 1869 REID, THOMAS Stonehaven Journal January 21 1869, Third column, second report

    Reid, Thomas, Drowning, Stonehaven Journal January 21 1869
    On Thursday the body of a man was found in Bowmont Water, near Yetholm. It was identified as that of Thomas Reid, a painter, upwards of fifty years of age. Reid was a native of Jedburgh, and has left a widow.

13. Newspaper Article, 1869 REID, THOMAS Southern Reporter 21 January 1869 Thomas Reid Drowning

    Southern Reporter 21 January 1869 Thomas Reid Drowning Longer Report
    Singular Case of Drowning at Yetholm. - On Thursday last Thomas Reid, a painter residing in Yetholm, was found drowned in the Bowmount, a short distance from the village, under circumstances which go to show that he committed suicide. It seems that for some time past, Mr S. Laidlaw, grocer, has been the victim of a series of petty robberies, the money in his shop till, having been observed to disappear in a most unacountable manor. Suspicion at last fell upon Reid, who had been working on the premises ; and a watch was accordingly decided upon. On Friday week two florins and a couple of shilling pieces were marked and placed in the till, from which they were abstracted the same day. They were afterwards recovered in various shops in the village, where they had been passed by Reid, who had evidently stolen them from Mr Laidlaw's premises during a visit he had paid on the day they disapeared. On the case being reported to the authorities, a warrant was issued for his apprehension, and a constable proceeded to put it in force on Wednesday. Reid had however, obtained information of the affair, and was not to be found at his lodgings, whence the policeman set out for him to Hawick, where he was supposed to have taken refuge. Meanwhile the culprit, who was lurking in a shed at the Deanmill, quietly returned to his old quarters, and spent the night there. He got up early next morning, left the house, and not long afterwards was found drowned in the Bowmont, in a pool but a few inches deep. The constable who had proceeded to Hawick with the warrant for his arrest received intimation of his death at Jedburgh while returning homeward. Reid was upwards of 60 years of age, and has left a widow, with a grown up family. He was a native of Jedburgh, and lived for some time in Kelso.-ibid

14. Newspaper Article, 1860 Thomas Reid Southern Reporter - Thursday 19 April 1860

    FORGERY
    Thomas Reid, painter in Kelso, was charged with having on two occasions forged a cautionary obligation or obligatory writing for the payment of rent of premises occupied by him. The person whose name was forged was brother-in-law to the prisoner, awl had been in the habit of giving his name as security for the prisoner. Two separate cases of forgery were charged, but in one of the cases the rent had been paid. The panel pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment.

15. Newspaper Article, 1869 Kelso Chronicle - Friday 22 January 1869 Thomas Reid, Drowning

    Kelso Chronicle - Friday 22 January 1869
    Yetholm
    Drowning Case-
    On Thursday, Thomas Reid, a painter, who has been residing here for some time, was found drowned in the Bowmont under rather peculiar circumstances. He had been engaged by Mr Shiell Laidlaw to paint some articles in his shop, and several things shortly afterwards being amissing, suspicion fell upon Reid. Mr Laidlaw leaving home one day. marked two-florin pieces, and also two one-shilling pieces, which were put into a drawer where Reid was working; and during the day, not only the money marked. but several old coins, were abstracted from the drawer. The money was afterwards recovered from various shops in the town, where they had been presented by Reid. On the case being reported to the authorities, a warrant was issued for his apprehension, and a constable proceeded to put the warrant in force. On Wednesday week Reid was not to be found at his lodgings in Yetholm, and it was supposed that he had gone to Hawick, and the policeman immediately went to that town to apprehend him, However, he had not gone there, but was secluded in a shed at Deanmill, and returned to his lodgings late that night, He got up early the next morning and left the house, and was found during the day drowned in the Bowmont, in a pool about a foot deep. The constable who had proceeded to Hawick with the warrant for his arrest, received the intimation of his death on his way home, Reid was upwards of 60 years of age, and has left a widow with a grown-up family. He was a native of Jedburgh, but some years ago, previous to leaving for Jedburgh, and latterly for Hawick, he kept an eating -house in the Horsemarket, and also a greengrocer’s shop in Sheddon Park Road, Kelso
    

Historical events

• Birthday November 17, 1815
• Christening day December 31, 1815
• Day of marriage May 19, 1836
• Day of death January 9, 1869

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