James Grigor Scotland Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950 Name: James Grigor Gender: Male Birth Date: 24 Feb 1799 https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X1VR-MX6 Birthplace: LITTLE DUNKELD,PERTH,SCOTLAND Father's Name: Joseph Grigor Mother's Name: Elizabeth Brydie

DN: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-DB5S-HK4?i=2141&cc... http://www.national.archsrch.gov.za/sm300cv/smws/sm30ddf0?201811292... and https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/record-results?search_type=peopl...

His wife's DN: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSQF-Q9ZW-4?i=1730...

His daughter's DN: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSQF-H9W3-D?i=907&...

MEMORIALS RECEIVED. JAMES MACGREGOR REQUEST FOR GRANT OF LAND AT SALT RIVER ON WHICH HE QUARRY STONE. STARTING 18380000 http://www.national.archsrch.gov.za/sm300cv/smws/sm30ddf0?201811292...

MEMORIAL. J MACGREGOR. REGARDING TITLE DEED. STARTING 18680000 http://www.national.archsrch.gov.za/sm300cv/smws/sm30ddf0?201811292...

MARRIAGES. In St. Andrew’s Church, on Monday, the 5th February, 1832, by the Rev. J. ADAMSON, D.D.Mr. J. MacGREGOR, to Miss Harriet CAIRNS. https://www.eggsa.org/newspapers/index.php/grahamstown-journal?cati... and Cape of Good Hope Government Gazette 1832 - 1 - January to March https://www.eggsa.org/newspapers/index.php/cape-of-good-hope-govern...

South African Commercial Advertiser

Tuesday 16 August 1853 Deaths  '' Departed this Life suddenly on the 14th instant, Mr. James McGREGOR of Salt River House, aged 55 years and 7 months, leaving an affectionate wife and young family to deplore and mourn his premature death and irreparable loss; also a numerous circle of friends, who fully appreciated the strict principles of integrity and undeviating rectitude, which have ever formed the prominent features of his unblemished life. NB The Friends of the late Mr. McGREGOR are hereby invited to meet the Funeral Procession at the Castle-bridge at ¼ past 3 o’clock this afternoon. Cape Town, 16th August 1853.

On the forenoon of Sunday last Mr. James McGREGOR, well known and justly respected in this town, died suddenly, as is probable, from some affection of the heart, or large vessels near it. He had attended divine service in the Scotch Church as usual, and was walking homeward at 12 o’clock, when he felt severe pain in the left side and back, which increased rapidly, and in a few minutes he expired.

A sketch of Mr. McGREGOR’s life, by some person well acquainted with him, would be gratifying to the public and very useful at this moment. In early life he became a member of the School of Arts in Edinburgh, then just established, after the first Mechanics’ Institution in Glasgow. He there learned much, and profited by what he learned.

In this Colony he has acted for many years in a quiet unobtrusive manner, as builder, architect and engineer. He was the first who introduced Gas Lights, and he constructed the first Rail Road at the Cape. He superintended the construction of the Stone Jetty near the Amsterdam Battery, afterwards abandoned by Government, and began and completed the Central Causeway in Table Bay. He found employment for a number of aged and otherwise helpless people in the collection of bones, old iron and other apparently useless articles, strewed along the beach – a homely but most benevolent exertion of good sense and kind feeling. He was ever ready in promoting improvements, with advice, personal labor or money. He was a judicious and considerate master, and never experienced any difficulty in procuring laborers. He was one of those who give to God and man their due. Blameless, upright, active – of that class whom Mechanics’ Institutions are rearing for the benefit of the world. https://www.eggsa.org/newspapers/index.php/south-african-commercial...