Harrower Family Tree » Andrew Leitch (1841-1916)

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1. 1871 Scotland Census Ancestry.com, Record for Andrew Leitch Parish: Monifieth; ED: 4; Page: 18; Line: 22; Roll: CSSCT1871_57 1871 Scotland Census [Ancestry.com] The 1871 Census for Scotland was taken on the night of 2/3 April 1871. 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 Andrew Leitch
   Name: Andrew Leitch
   Age: 29
   Estimated Birth Year: abt 1842
   Relationship: Head
   Spouse's Name: Isabell Leitch
   Gender: Male
   Where born: Dunfermline, Fife
   Registration Number: 310
   Registration district: Monifieth
   Civil parish: Monifieth
   County: Angus
   Address: East Brock Street
   Occupation: Coalmerchant
   ED: 4
   Household schedule number: 101
   Line: 22
   Roll: CSSCT1871_57
   Household Members Age Relationship
   Andrew Leitch 29 Head
   Isabell Leitch 29 Wife
   Robert Leitch 11 Son
   Eliza R Leitch 9 Daughter
   Andrew Leitch 7 Son
   James T Leitch 4 Son
   Thomas T Leitch 2 Son
   Annie W Leitch 11 Mo Daughter
   Annie Ellis 17 Servant

2. Scotland, National Probate Index (Calendar of Confirmations and Inventories), 1876-1936, Ancestry.com, 1916 Record for Andrew Leitch Ancestry.com. Scotland, National Probate Index (Calendar of Confirmations and Inventories), 1876-1936 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry Operations, Inc., 2015. Original data: Commissary Clerk of Edinburgh under the Sheriff Courts Act, 1876. Calendar of Confirmations and Inventories. Description In Scotland, probate records are called confirmations and they include a testament and an inventory of the estate. This collection includes an index and images to the annually published Calendar of Confirmations and Inventories filed in Scotland for the years 1876–1936.

   Record for Andrew Leitch
   LEITCH, Andrew, Coal Exporter, Dundee, residing at Netherlea, Newport, died 10 May 1916, at Newport, testate.
   Confirmation granted at Cupar, 29 July, to Robert Thomson Leitch, Coal Exporter, East Dock Street, Dundee, James Thomson Leitch and Frederick Leitch, both in Buenos Ayres, John David Leitch, Norfolk, Virginia, U.S.A., and George Alexander Leitch, Buenos Ayres, his sons, and Thomas Brown William Niven, Writer, 50 West Regent Street, Glasgow, and Follett Holt, 6 Sussex Square, Hyde Park, London, his sons-in-law, Executors nominated in Will or Deed, dated 3 July 1914, and recorded with other Writs in Court Books of Commissariot of Fife, 21 July 1916. Value of Estate, £16,766, 18. 9d.

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3. 1851 Scotland Census Ancestry.com, Record for Robert Leitch Parish: Beath; ED: 2; Page: 17; Line: 1; Roll: CSSCT1851_85; 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 Robert Leitch
   Name: Robert Leitch
   Age: 27
   Estimated Birth Year: abt 1824
   Relationship: Head
   Spouse: Ann Leitch
   Gender: Male
   Where born: Beath, Fife
   Parish Number: 410
   Civil Parish: Beath
   Town: White Rashes
   County: Fife
   Address: White Rashes
   Occupation: Blacksmith
   ED: 2
   Page: 17
   Household Schedule Number: 60
   Line: 1
   Roll: CSSCT1851_85
   Household Members:
   Name Age
   Robert Leitch 27
   Ann Leitch 27
   Andrew Leitch 9
   Helen Leitch 7
   John Leitch 5
   Agnes Leitch 2
   Christina Leitch 7 Months

4. 1891 Scotland Census Ancestry.com, Record for Andrew Leitch Parish: Forgan; ED: 3; Page: 34; Line: 10; Roll: CSSCT1891_132 1891 Scotland Census [Ancestry.com] The 1891 Census for Scotland was taken on the night of 5/6 April 1891. 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 Andrew Leitch
   Name: Andrew Leitch
   Age: 49
   Estimated Birth Year: abt 1842
   Relationship: Head
   Spouse's Name: Isabella Leitch
   Gender: Male
   Where born: Dunfermilne, Fife
   Registration Number: 431
   Registration district: Forgan
   Civil parish: Forgan
   County: Fife
   Address: Hill Crest
   Occupation: Ship Owner
   ED: 3
   Household schedule number: 157
   Line: 10
   Roll: CSSCT1891_132
   Household Members Age Relationship
   Andrew Leitch 49 Head
   Isabella Leitch 49 Wife
   Fred Leitch 15 Son
   George Leitch 10 Son
   Wilson Leitch 20 Daughter
   Mary Leitch 19 Daughter
   Jessie Sturrock 26 Servant
   JT Leitch 22 Son

5. Scotland, Select Marriages, Ancestry.com, 1561-1910, Ancestry.com, 1859 Record for Andrew Leitch & Isabella Thomson Ancestry.com. Scotland, Select Marriages, 1561-1910 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014. Original data: Scotland, Marriages, 1561-1910. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013.

   Record for Andrew Leitch & Isabella Thomson
   Name: Andrew. Leitch
   Gender: Male
   Marriage Date: 29 Mar 1859
   Marriage Place: Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland
   Spouse: Isabella Thomson
   FHL Film Number:280225
   

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6. 1901 Scotland Census Ancestry.com, Record for Andrew Leitch Parish: Forgan; ED: 4; Page: 15; Line: 19; Roll: CSSCT1901_139 1901 Scotland Census [Ancestry.com] The 1901 Census for Scotland was taken on the night of 31 March/1 April 1901. 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 Andrew Leitch
   Name: Andrew Leitch
   Age: 59
   Estimated Birth Year: abt 1842
   Relationship: Head
   Gender: Male
   Where born: Scotland, Dunfermline
   Registration Number: 431
   Registration district: Forgan
   Civil parish: Forgan
   County: Fife
   Address: Netherlea
   Occupation: Steam Ship Marager
   ED: 4
   Household schedule number: 83
   Line: 19
   Roll: CSSCT1901_139
   Household Members Age Relationship
   Andrew Leitch 59 Head
   Thomas T Leitch 33 Son
   George A Leitch 20 Son
   Cathrine Mcdonald 25 Servant
   Matilda Ramsay 19 Servant
   Johan Hunter 48 Servant

7. UK and Ireland, Find A Grave Index, 1300s-Current, Ancestry.com, 1916 Record for Andrew Leitch

   Record for Andrew Leitch
   
   Inscription
   
   [front]
   In memory of Isabella Thomson wife of Andrew Leitch who died 12th July 1897 aged 56 years.
   Also of their son Charles Arthur who died May 1884 aged 8 years.
   Also of the above Andrew Leitch J.P. who died 10th May 1916 aged 75 years.
   Also of their son Thomas Thomson 7th Canadians wounded in France, died in Canada 21st May 1917 aged 49 years.
   Also their grandson Follett Hallett Holt lieutenant Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry killed in France 22nd August 1918 aged 20 years.
   Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori
   
   [front base]
   Family burial ground Andrew Leitch, Newport, Fife
   
   [right]
   Also of their daughter Annie Wilson who died at Boscastle, Cornwall 27th October 1928.
   And of their son Andrew who died at Cowichan Station, Vancouver Island 12th February 1936.
   Also of their son Frederick who died at Buenos Aires 30th November 1940.
   Also of their son James Thomson who died at Buenos Aires 18th June 1949 aged 83 years.
   
   [left]
   Also of their eldest daughter Eliza Robertson wife of Sir Follett Holt K.B.E. who died 30th January 1949 aged 87 years.
   And of their son John David Leitch who died 22nd June 1952 aged 79 years.
   Also of their daughter Mary Isabella Niven who died 1953 aged 81 years.
   And of their son George Alexander Leitch who died 25th September 1953 aged 72 years. Burnham, Eton, Buckinghamshire, England
   
   Gravesite Details
   
   The memorial is a square column with inscriptions on front, right and left sides. A finial is sitting upright on the ground on the right side. The site is outlined by a grave curb filled with gravel.

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8. 1881 Scotland Census Ancestry.com, Record for Andrew Leitch Parish: Forgan; ED: 3; Page: 36; Line: 18; Roll: CSSCT1881_120 1881 Scotland Census [Ancestry.com] The 1881 Census for Scotland was taken on the night of 3/4 April 1881. 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 Andrew Leitch
   Name: Andrew Leitch
   Age: 39
   Estimated Birth Year: abt 1842
   Relationship: Head
   Spouse's Name: Isabella Leitch
   Gender: Male
   Where born: Dunfermline, Fife
   Registration Number: 431
   Registration district: Forgan
   Civil parish: Forgan
   County: Fife
   Address: Hillcrest
   Occupation: Ship Owner & Coal Merchant
   ED: 3
   Household schedule number: 182
   Line: 18
   Roll: CSSCT1881_120
   Household Members Age Relationship
   Andrew Leitch 39 Head
   Isabella Leitch 39 Wife
   Elizabeth R Leitch 19 Daughter
   Wilson Leitch 10 Daughter
   Mary Leitch 8 Daughter
   John T Leitch 7 Son
   Fred T Leitch 6 Son
   Charles A Leitch 3 Son
   George A Leitch 3 Mo Son
   Mary Marshall 25 Servant
   Mary Morrison 26 Servant

9. Scotlands People - Old Parish Registers of Births and Baptisms, 1841 LEITCH, ANDREW (Old Parish Registers Births 405/ 20 21 Auchterderran)

   1841 LEITCH, ANDREW (Old Parish Registers Births 405/ 20 21 Auchterderran)
   1841
   Leitch, Andrew to Robert Leitch & Ann McKinlay born the 12th Aug't 1841

10. Web Site Information, Andrew Leitch of Netherlea Hospital, Dundee Loch Line Shipping Co.

    About Andrew Leitch of Netherlea Hospital, Dundee Loch Line Shipping Co.
    Netherlea was built as a domestic villa, for the local shipowner, Andrew Leitch, in about 1893 to designs by the Dundee architect Thomas Martin Cappon. It is a large red sandstone building in simple Tudor style, of two storeys and attics, with stick on half-timbering in the gables.
    Extract from the 25-inch OS map surveyed in 1893. Reproduced by permission of the National Library of Scotland
    Andrew Leitch was a prominent figure in Dundee, and was particularly associated with the development of the harbour. Born in Fife, he started out as a colliery clerk, later moving to Dundee as the agent for Halbeath Colliery. From there he progressed to being a coal merchant, then exporter, also establishing the Dundee Loch Line Steam Shipping Company. He married in 1859 Isabella Thomson, with whom he had eleven children. She died, at Struan Inn, Banks of Garry, following a carriage accident in July 1897. Andrew Leitch remarried when he was sixty years old in 1902. His second wife, Janet Elizabeth née Smith, became a notable local figure, a supporter of women’s rights, the National Union of Women Workers and many philanthropic causes. She was also the first woman to be elected to the local School Board in Newport. She died in 1913, and her husband outlived her by just three years.
    In 1917 the contents of the house were auctioned, at that time the house comprised: drawing-room, parlour, dining room, billiard room and hall, 10 bed and dressing-rooms, as well as laundry and kitchen apartments. By 1931, Netherlea was the home of Mr G. L. Wilson, a member of the Cupar Liberal Club, but by 1936 was the home of David Hamilton Brackenridge, who, like Leitch, was a member of the Dundee Harbour Trust. Brackenridge was born in Cupar in 1871, and was educated at Madras College, St Andrews, and Dundee High School. He spent 21 years in Calcutta as representative of the Dundee jute merchants, J. C. Duffus & Company. On his return from India, he became the local agent for Duffus. He died at Netherlea in January 1939 and a month later his widow had put the house up for sale. The accommodation was listed as comprising: on the ground floor, four public rooms, billiard room, cloakroom and lavatory, kitchen and usual offices; on the first floor, five bedrooms, two bathrooms and maids’ sitting-room and bathroom; on the second floor, three maids’ bedrooms and box room. It also had a modern garage, greenhouse and outhouses, was in excellent condition, electrically fitted throughout, and the grounds tastefully laid out.
    Presumably the house failed to find a buyer, the contents were sold about a year later, but in 1945 Netherlea was offered to Fife County Council, and its future as a hospital discussed by the Public Health Committee. Before then, during the Second World War, it had been occupied by officers of the Norwegian Air Force. It became a maternity hospital under the NHS with 17 beds, an isolation room and nursery, plus 13 staff bedrooms, the conversion to a hospital was carried out by the architect Frank Pride, of Walker and Pride to plans drawn up in 1946.
    Although officially opened on 21 July 1948, by the end of September it had yet to admit any expectant mothers. Lieutenant Colonel Noel Baxter of New Gilston, the county convenor for the East Fife Hospital Group Board of Management, visited the hospital expecting it to be up and running and was shocked to find this was not the case. Although Netherlea had a doctor, matron and nursing staff, it could not open to patients because there was no cook. Until one could be appointed, patients were being sent to Dundee, Perthshire or even Edinburgh – ‘all over the shop’ according to the County Medical Officer of Health. It opened not very long afterwards, presumably once a suitable cook had been found.
    In 1974 Netherlea became a long-stay hospital for the elderly. Designated a community hospital in 1997, it closed in 2011. I’m afraid I can’t post photographs yet of Netherlea, as I can’t find one that is in the public domain – but if you follow the link to the Courier article, there is a photograph there, which also turns up searching on Google images.
    Sources: Dundee Advertiser, 3 Feb 1893, p.5: St Andrew’s Citizen, 17 July 1897, p.8: Dundee Evening Telegraph, 10 May 1916, p.2; 4 June 1936, p.5; 30 Jan 1939, p.5, 4 Sept 1945, p.8: Dundee People’s

11. 1861 Scotland Census Scotlands People, 1861 LEITCH, ANDREW (Census 410 3 12) Parish: Beath 1861 Scotland Census [Scotlands People] 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.

    1861 LEITCH, ANDREW (Census 410 3 12)
    Parish of Beath, Great North Road
    Andrew Leitch Head Married Age 19 Clerk at Colliery Coal Fife, Dunfermline
    

12. Scotland, National Probate Index (Calendar of Confirmations and Inventories), 1876-1936, Ancestry.com, 1883 Record for Robert Leitch Scotland, National Probate Index (Calendar of Confirmations and Inventories), 1876-1936

    Record for Robert Leitch
    Name: Robert Leitch
    Death Date: 28 Apr 1883
    Death Place: Townhill
    Confirmation Date: 2 Jun 1883
    Confirmation Place: Cupar, Scotland
    
    2 June. - Confirmation of Robert Leitch,
    Engineer, Townhill, Dunfermline, who died 28 April 1883 at Townhill, testate, granted at Cupar, to Robert Hamilton, Merchant, Edinburgh, John Stevenson, Coal Master, Townhill aforesaid, and Andrew Leitch, Steam Shipowner, Dundee, and Robert Leitch, Clerk, Townhill, deceased's sons, Executors nominated in Will or Deed, dated 26 April1872, and Codicil, dated 13 February 1883, and recorded in Court Books of Commissariot of Fife, 25 May 1883

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13. Scotlands People - Statutory Registers of Deaths (from 1855), 1916 LEITCH, ANDREW (Statutory registers Deaths 431/ 23)

    1916 LEITCH, ANDREW (Statutory registers Deaths 431/ 23)
    Deaths in the Parish of Forgan in the County of Fife 1916.
    Andrew Leitch
    Ship Owner
    Widower of
    1st Isabella Thomson
    2nd Janet Elizabeth Smith
    916 May Tenth 5h 50m am
    Netherlea, New Newport M. 74 years
    Parents: Robert Leitch
    Engineer (deceased)
    Anne Leitch
    M.S. McKinlay (deceased)
    COD: Morbus Cordis 1 1/2 months
    As Certified by Montague Reid
    L.R.B.P. & S. E.
    Inf. Robert Leitch
    Son (Present)
    Fenbrae, West Tayport
    Registered
    1916 May 10th, Newport
    Fred. G. Kemp
    Registrar
    

14. Web Site Information, 1896-99 Andrew Leitch Netherlea, 65 West Road 1911-14 Robert Thomson Leitch Hillcrest, 5 Wellpark Terrace West

    Provosts of the Burgh of Newport-on-Tay
    
    1887-96 Alexander Scott Ashbank Villa, 70 Tay Street
    1896-99 Andrew Leitch Netherlea, 65 West Road
    1899-02 Alexander Thomson Ravensby, 14 Norwood
    1902-05 Thomas Roger Snowdon, 16 Tay Terrace
    1905-08 William Carswell Ascot, 3 Beechwood Terrace
    1908-11 William Robertson Struan Bank, 26 Birkhill Avenue, Wormit
    1911-14 Robert Thomson Leitch Hillcrest, 5 Wellpark Terrace West
    
    https://historic-hospitals.com/2019/02/23/netherlea-hospital-newport-on-tay/

15. Scotland, Burial Monument Inscriptions, 1507-2019, Ancestry.com, 1913 Record for Janet Elizabeth Leitch & Andrew Leitch d. 1916 Scottish Monumental Inscriptions; Kennoway, Scotland; Index to Scottish Monumental Inscriptions

    1913 Record for Janet Elizabeth Leitch & Andrew Leitch d. 1916
    Janet Elizabeth Leitch
    Death Date1913
    CemeteryVicarsford Cemetery, Forgan
    Burial PlaceFife, Scotland
    NotesIlmo Janet Elizabeth Leitch Wife of Andrew Leitch, Netherlea, Newport D. 4.12.1913 Member of Forgan School Board 1903 -1913. Also the Above Andrew Leitch, J.p. D. 10.5.1916

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16. Will and Inventorys, 1916 Andrew Leitch Wills and testaments Background information Testaments provide information about how people lived in the past: how they dressed, furnished their homes, conducted their affairs, the tools of their trade, what land they owned, the crops they grew and, in the 19th century, which public utilities they invested in and which railway companies they owned shares in. A will is the document drawn up by an individual wishing to settle his or her affairs prior to death. It sets out instructions for the disposal of their possessions. A testament is the legal document drawn up after a person has died, to enable the court to confirm an executor who would be responsible for winding-up the deceased's affairs. Every testament includes an inventory of the dead person's property. This may be a brief summary valuation of the goods involved, or it can be a long list of individual items and valuations.

    Leitch Andrew 29/7/1916 Coal Exporter, Dundee, Netherlea, Newport, d. 10/05/1916 at Newport, testate. Cupar Sheriff Court SC20/50/98
    Leitch Andrew 29/7/1916 Dundee, Netherlea, Newport, d. 10/05/1916 at Newport, testate. Cupar Sheriff Court Wills SC20/56/16
    

17. London, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1938, Ancestry.com, 1902 Record for Janet Elizabeth Smith & Andrew Leitch London Metropolitan Archives; London, England, UK; London Church of England Parish Registers; Reference Number: P81/PET/003

    Record for Janet Elizabeth Smith & Andrew Leitch
    Female
    Marriage Age50
    Record TypeMarriage
    Birth Dateabt 1852
    Marriage Date4 Mar 1902
    Marriage PlaceSaint Peter, Belsize Park: Belsize Square, Camden, England
    Father Edward Smith
    Spouse Andrew Leitch
    Register TypeParish Register

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18. England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1995, Ancestry.com, 1913 Record for Janet Elizabeth Smith Ancestry.com. England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1995 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Original data:Principal Probate Registry. Calendar of the Grants of Probate and Letters of Administration made in the Probate Registries of the High Court of Justice in England. London, England © Crown copyright. Source Description This is a directory of probates for England and Wales. Volumes in this collection cover years 1858 to 1995.

    Record for Janet Elizabeth Smith
    Name: Janet Elizabeth Smith [Janet Elizabeth Leitch]
    Death Date: 4 Dec 1913
    Death Place: Fife, Scotland
    Probate Date: 5 May 1914
    Probate Registry: London, England

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• Birthday August 12, 1841
• Day of marriage March 4, 1902
• Day of death May 10, 1916

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