Lieutenant John Bladen Moodie

LIEUTENANT JOHN BLADEN MOODIE

John Blade Moodie is the son of Benjamin Moodie of Melsetter and his wife Henrietta Sinclair. His baptism was registered at Walls and Flotta on 12 March 1760. National Records of Scotland, Walls and Flotta Baptisms, reference OPR.32/1]

http://archive.org/stream/moodiebookbeing00ruvi#page/n7/mode/2up (p. 49):

Lieutenant Royal Marines, served for some years before being invalided; appointed Ensign of an Independent Company of Invalids at Plymouth 18 February 1791. Allowed to retire on full pay as an Invalid 4 February 1795. He was still living in 1824 but his name is not in the Army List in 1825.

Married Mary Maxwell, daughter of unknown Clunes of White Hall, co. Ross-shire, and by her he had issue:

• Hector Munroe Moodie, died unmarried, of typhus at Fort George, Inverness;
• Isabel Moodie, married unknown Urquhart of Edinburgh, an artist;
• Mary Moodie, died aged 15;
• Henrietta St Clair Moodie, born at Plymouth, died in London 12 January 1887 having married in London ca 1830 Harry Smith, youngest son of Edward Smith of the Enniskilling Dragoons, by whom (died 1858) she had issue (5 children);
• Jemima Moodie;
• Fenella Moodie.