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| Author | Topic: Dispatch from Kingston-on-Spey re Speyside Geddie's |
| Richard Bennett |
posted 8/2/04 4:33 AM
. . . I have no Geddie connections other than the fact that I have lived in an original Geddie house in Kingston (dated 1832) for some 30 years. The house is called Burnside and is a long narrow house of two storeys built on one of the shingle ridges at the mouth of the Spey. We also know the much later Geddie houses of Millbank and The Cross. I knew Hamish Geddie of Millbank up until his death a few years ago. One of the later Geddie residents in Burnside was James Geddie, known locally as "African Jimmy" because of his origins in South Africa. One window pane has scratched on it, by a diamond presumably, the inscription, "J G 1903". Yours, Richard Bennett Burnside, Kingston-on-Spey, Scotland http://www.my-Blanton.com Blanton Florida History |
| elaine sproson |
posted 9/7/05 7:30 PM
Hi Richard, my ggg grandfather was William Geddie, shipbuilder.I have been looking at his will on scotlands people and wondered if the house you live in could have been his. He died in 1856 and the description of where his house is situated is as follows: the dwelling house , offices and gardens are situated on the south side of the Lien Burn at Kingston and some lots of land lie in the Lien of Garmouth on the south and north sides of the burn. The eastern half of the land was bounded on the west by a house belonging to his son James and by a footpath leading from the Garmouth road to the house which he wanted to be kept open "in all time coming". A sawmill and yard was situated between James's house and the public road leading from Kingston to Garmouth. How much easier it would have been just to have an address!! Does this sound like your house? Reading his will he was obviously a very wealthy man and it would be great if his house still existed. I live in West Yorkshire and hope to visit the Kingston area someday. I await your reply. Thanks, Elaine |
| Mike Porter |
posted 11/30/07 7:23 PM
Can any one give me any information on George Geddie, who went to Japan in 1890 and retired from there in 1910. He Worked for NYK (part of the Mitsubishi Corporation and may have been acquainted with Glover, the Scottish Samurai. |
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