David Bryce Tod

David Bryce, Architect, had a natural son of his own, this David Bryce Tod, who was brought up separately with his mother and was provided for in a will made in 1852.

They lived at a respectable New Town address and the reasons why David Bryce (Architect) did not marry the mother are unknown.

(Source: Dictionary of Scottish Architects)

"David Bryce Sr. (the architect) died at 131 George Street on 5 August 1876 after a six-day illness of bladder and bronchial problems and was buried at New Calton Cemetery. He left what was then a very substantial sum of £37,973 3s 6d and considerable heritable property.

His natural son David Bryce Tod tried but failed to have David Bryce's will amended to accept him as the legitimate son and heir. His mother seems to have been Janet Tod although whether or not she was a cousin (the spelling of Tod is different from his mother's family) has not yet been proved.

David Bryce Tod lived in Worcester and then ran a coach-building business in Bishop Auckland, Co.Durham, England, where he and his wife, Annie, raised a family of 11 children.

In his last years he returned to Scotland with his wife and daughter and they ran a Temperance Hotel in Aberlady."

(Further research needed on the following, who may be a son of this David Bryce Tod)

David Bryce Tod moved to live in Hempstead, New York State, USA.

1936 David Bryce Tod was living in Mountainville, New York.

See this wedding announcement in the Hempstead Sentinel for October 29 1936:

"Hempstead friends recently received announcements of the marriage on October 17 of Miss Portia A. Webb, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Giles A. Webb of Pontiac, Mich., to David Bryce Tod, Jr.

, son of Mr. and Mrs. David B. Tod of Mountainville, N. Y.

The Tods were former residents of Hempstead.===

The young couple are building a home in Mountainvllle. "