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REID, ANDREW (1778 LIVING 1851)

REID, ANDREW, registrar of deeds and teacher; b. Kirkcaldy, Scotland, 15 Oct 1778, s/o Robert Reid and Helen Geddes; unmarried; living in 1851.

Andrew Reid was county registrar of deeds from 1802 to 1813. His father was high sheriff in this period, and he also acted as his deputy. In 1813 his father succeeded him as registrar, and some three years later he returned to Kirkcaldy, the place of his birth, and taught school for thirteen years.

When Reid came back to the Miramichi he was recommended by the Rev. James Thomson for the position of catechist at Tabusintac, but it is not known that the appointment was made. He applied for a teacher's license in 1829, presenting a letter of reference from Scotland which stated that he had conducted himself soberly in Kirkcaldy and had been "exemplarily regular" in the discharge of his responsibilities.

Reid taught at Chatham Head in the early 1830s; then in Glenelg parish for several years, and in Nelson parish from around 1841. He was still teaching in Nelson in 1851, at which time he was enumerated in the census as living at Chatham Head in the home of William Brown, the father of George Brown. He was seventy-one years of age at that time.

Sources

[b] Reid biog. data / Hist. UC Tabusintac; PANB (teachers' petitions)

Remarques

Reid was designated as an uncle of William Brown in the census of 1851, but the relationship has not been confirmed.


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