Subj: GLENDAY, WATSON, (BUTCHART,LINDSAY and others)in Rattray,Missouri, Dundee Date: 20/08/01 To: <A HREF="mailto:ANGUS-L-@rootsweb.com">ANGUS-L@rootsweb.com</A>, <A HREF="mailto:GLENDAY-L-@rootsweb.com">GLENDAY-L@rootsweb.com</A>, <A HREF="mailto:PERTHSHIRE-L-@rootsweb.com">PERTHSHIRE-L@rootsweb.com</A> Janet GLENDAY was christened 30 May, 1802 in Alyth to Peter GLENDAY and Eliz.ANDERSON. This information is taken from the IGI. I have not seen the OPR entry but I would expect it to record that this birth was "in fornication" because, two months earlier, on 14 Mar 1802 Peter GLENDAY had married Ann LINDSAY in Alyth. Peter GLENDAY and Ann LINDSAY had five children and in 1817 they emigrated to St. Charles, Missouri. In her excellent web site, Susan Chambless ( <A HREF="http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~schmblss/home/BlackBook/LindsayGlendayDurfeeSummary.html">Lindsay Glenday Durfee Summary</A> ) has reproduced a letter written in 1817 from Peter to his father in Scotland telling of their journey and their life in USA. This letter includes "......Give my respects to Andrew and Isabel Glenday.................Not forgetting my daughter and John Ogilvy's family, Marget White and her daughters and Peter Adamson. Be so good as let all these friends of mine see this letter........" The 'daughter' referred to in Scotland was presumably his illegitimate daughter, Janet GLENDAY who may have been brought up by the family at home. She would then be aged 15. When she was 27, on 23 Feb 1829 in Dundee she married Thomas WATSON, cabinetmaker having first had a son, Thomas WATSON, born in Dundee on 25 Nov 1828. The OPR entry for the marriage describes Janet as 'daughter of Will Glenday, Vintner, Rattray' - a Vintner being a wine merchant. They had four other children including Peter Glenday Watson and Elizabeth Anderson Watson, being named after Janet GLENDAY's parents - this serves to confirm that she was the daughter of Peter and the name Will. given in the OPR for her father was a slip by Janet or the Clerk. In 1821, Anne LINDSAY died in St. Charles, Missouri and in 1823 Peter or Patrick GLENDAY returned to Scotland with his elder daughter, Helen, and became an Inn Keeper in Rattray. This could certainly correspond with the occupation of Vintner given for Janet's father when she married Thomas Watson. Susan Chambless has given extracts from a "Certified Copy of Trust Disposition and Settlement by Patrick Glenday" which was "......presented at Perth, 11 November 1836 ....by William Johnston, Writer in Blairgowrie ". The document, of 28 pages, describes his property, including three small houses in the west end of Kerrymuir and land in the Westfields of Rattray and also by the lands of Craighall. It also describes his children, being three sons in Missouri or elsewhere, daughter Ann in Missouri (by then widowed) and daughter Helen residing in New Rattray. Janet Glenday, wife of Thomas Watson of Dundee, is also mentioned. This Trust Disposition was presented at Perth after Patrick GLENDAY died on 16 October 1836 and was buried in Rattray Churchyard. His tombstone describes him as the first feuar in New Rattray. He was aged 59 so had been born about 1777. Also inscribed on the tombstone are deaths of : Wife Anne LINDSAY, died St. Charles, Missouri 3 November 1821 aged 42 (born about 1779) Daughter Helen, died 20 May 1900 aged 96. Her husband was: John BUTCHART, builder, died 6 April 1884 aged 78 and their son was: Patrick James BUTCHART, died 14 December 1912 aged 68 (wife Mary Ann Burns, died 18 April 1926 aged 83 and daughter Adamina Mary died 18 June 1930). In the 1881 Census, William GLENDAY (born about 1826, Blairgowrie) and his wife, Janet DOUGLAS were living in Coupar Angus with their children including James Patrick Butchart GLENDAY who been born at Blairgowrie on 17 March 1864. This William GLENDAY was therefore most probably a relative of Peter/Patrick GLENDAY and his daughter, Helen, mother of Patrick James BUTCHART. Was William, born about 1826, a son of the Andrew and Isabel GLENDAY to whom Peter Glenday had sent his respects in his 1817 letter to his father, James GLENDAY? An Andrew GLENDAY had married Elizabeth or Betty Clark in 1808 in Dundee (and Isabel and Elizabeth were often interchanged as were Peter and Patrick). Was Andrew a brother of Peter ? Reverting to Janet GLENDAY and Thomas WATSON and their family in Dundee : Deborah Penman WATSON , born 17 February 1833 died 12 February 1834 aged 1 year. Thomas WATSON, the father, died of fever 8 January 1837 aged 29 leaving his widow and young family. Peter Glenday WATSON born 22 August 1836 died of fever 17 February 1837 aged 6 months. In the 1841 Census, the family was : Jess WATSON 35 weaver (Janet GLENDAY, daughter of Peter GLENDAY and Elizabeth ANDERSON) Thomas 10 (Thomas WATSON b.25 Nov 1828) Elizabeth 10 (Elizabeth Anderson WATSON c.10 Apr 1831) Jean 5 (Jean McKay WATSON b.19 Dec 1834) On 4th November 1850 Jess WATSON. nee GLENDAY died of Typhus Fever (Dundee was a very unhealthy place in the first half of the 1800s). On 26 August 1854 in Dundee, a Thomas WATSON married Mary Angus MORRIS, daughter of Peter MORRIS, baker of Dundee. They were my wife's great grandparents and Thomas went on to become Manager of the Ladywell Calender in Dundee. We cannot yet prove that this Thomas WATSON was the son of Thomas WATSON and Janet GLENDAY but there is a strong possibility. If anyone can "prove" that Thomas WATSON, son of Thomas Watson and Janet GLENDAY, is their forebear and not that of my wife, or has any knowledge of these families I would be delighted to hear from them. Douglas Nicholson (dlnbn@aol.com)