Originally Posted by
spittalhill
I have an interest in this family, principally because Jean, b 1769, I believe married Alexander Bain in Thurso in 1792 and is the mother of Andrew Geddes Bain who went to South Africa in 1815 with his soldier uncle William, and became famous in the fields of road building and geology in that country. Andrew and his son built many of the mountain passes between the Cape Colony and the interior which opened up the country to development. I previously believed that Jean and her husband both died inthe early 1800s but I now have reason to believe that they may have moved to Edinburgh. William married and lived in Edinburgh but was a Lt. Col in the British Army and served in South Africa and in Ceylon where he died at Trincomalee in 1821 aged 58. Henrietta was a spinster and died in Edinburgh in 1879 aged 80. Her death was registered by William's daughter and Henrietta and William are both commemorated on her gravestone in Dean Cemetery in Edinburgh. This was the only Geddes family in Caithness which I could find which fitted these names and dates.
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