James Dalrymple of Woodhead

JAMES DALRYMPLE OF WOODHEAD

James Dalrymple of Woodhead is the son of Alexander Dalrymple of Woodhead and his wife Jean Reid. He was born on 31 October 1814 and his baptism was registered at Kirkintilloch in Dunbartonshire, Scotland on 22 November 1814 [National Records of Scotland, Kirkintilloch Baptisms]

DALRYMPLE
JAMES ALEXANDER DALRYMPLE/AGNES REID M
22/11/1814 498/ 30 175 Kirkintilloch Vie

Grand-Nephew of William Gray of Wester Gartshore

James Dalrymple of Woodhead identified himself as James Dalrymple of Woodhead "grand nephew of William Gray of Wester Gartshore (1726-1805)" when he relettered his grand uncle's memorial stone in the Gartshore Quaker Burial Ground in 1879. [John Fowler Mitchell, CIE., and Sheila Mitchell, Monumental Inscriptions (pre-1855) in Dunbartonshire (Scottish Genealogy Society, 1969), page 83].

Farmer

In 1882 James Dalrymple of Woodhead was a farmer Mocavo: Slaters Royal National Commercial Directory of Scotland

President of the Agricultural Society

James Dalrymple of Woodhead was President of the Kirkintilloch Agricultural Society for 1858-59, 1863-64, 1866-67, 1870-72, and 1878-80 Mocavo: Kirkintilloch, town and parish, page 356

Death

James Dalrymple of Woodhead died in 1901.

Monumental Inscription in the Quaker Burial Ground at Gartshore

Wm Gray of Wester Gartshore, 1780, 85, s. Wm, 1805, 79; relettered 1879 by the latter's grand nephew Jas Dalrymple of Woodhead [John Fowler Mitchell, CIE., and Sheila Mitchell, Monumental Inscriptions in Dunbartonshire (Scottish Genealogy Society, 1969), Gartshore Quaker Burial Ground, page 83, inscription number 2]