Mary Joan Kleinhans

She was the first cousin of Euphemia Ruddock, and died shortly after the birth of her last child, Whitney.

The Jamaican Ruddock ancestral name was possibly "Riddoch". Other versions of the name in Jamaica since the 1700s were Ruddock, Riddock, Ruddick. Currently mostly Ruddock.

Alexander Riddoch was a minister in Kirkwall, Orkney, off the coast of northern mainland Scotland. He died 4 December 1763, aged about 45. On 7 April 1752 he married Cecilia Steuart, also from Kirkwall.

She was very well-connected - her brother Charles was a successful businessman in Norfolk, Virginia and was appointed Receiver General of British North America. He seems to have taken on the responsibility of helping his nephews make their way in the world. There is mention of three nephews - Thomas, Charles and Alexander, whose surname seems to have changed from Riddoch to Ruddach.

Thomas went to Virginia in 1771 and when things began to look unsettled there, his uncle found him a place in Tobago. His brother James had already been found a place in Jamaica, on an estate owned by another Orkney family, the Laings.

Charles Ruddach married a widow, Elizabeth Macfarlane and they had a son George. When Charles died, she married again and her son by that marriage, Louis Edward Nolan, carried the controversial message that led to the Charge of the Light Brigade, in which he died.