? Reid

? REID (floruit 1875-79)

is the son of John Reid (died before 12 June 1875) and the grandson of William Reid of Walworth County, Wisconsin, USA, and his wife, Mary Elizabeh Drew. He and his deceased father are mentioned in the last will and testament of James Drew, sometime writer in Glasgow, afterwards in London, who was his granduncle. James Drew's will was drawn up on 12 June 1875 and he made a number of codicils before he died on 24 March 1879 [National Archives of Scotland, Copy of Probate and the Will of the late James Drew, formerly writer in Glasgow, late of Cornwall Terrace, Regents Park, County of Middlesex, London (Registered in a Non-Scottish Court), reference SC70/6/16, pages 543-596].

The deceased John Reid and his son (Whose name appears not to have been known to his uncle) are mentioned in the first codicil to the last will and testament of James Drew, which was made on 12 June 1875. In this James Drew instructed his trustees to: “pay the sum of one thousand pounds free of legacy duty to each one of the following named children of my deceased sister Mary Drew and the said William Reid, namely to Elizabeth Fairlie Reid, Ann Hamilton Reid, Mary Drew Reid, James Drew Reid, and George Reid, and also to the only child (son) of the deceased John Reid eldest son of my said sister” [Ibidem, page 573]. He and his deceased father are mentioned again in a second codicil dated 27 September 1878. In this James Drew further instructs his trustees to pay out of the residue of his estate, free of legacy duty: “£500 to each one of Elizabeth Fairlie Reid, Ann Hamilton Reid, Mary Drew Reid, James Drew Reid, George Reid, and the only child (son) of the deceased John Reid, all my nieces and nephews named in my first Codicil and to their issue respectively, if any, as specified in said first Codicill” [Ibidem, page 587]. James Drew revoked the legacies he made in his second codicil by a third codicil dated 5 January 1879, although his bequest of £1000 still stood [Ibidem, page 592].