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Sarah Currie (Riddell)

Birthdate:
Death: July 04, 1743
Edinburgh, Scotland (United Kingdom)
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Reverent Archibald Riddell and Helen Aitkenhead
Wife of John Currie, Minister of Oldhamstocks
Mother of Isobell Elliot; Walter Currie and John Currie
Sister of Dr John Riddell of Granton, MD and Walter Riddell of Granton

Managed by: Alisdair James Smyth
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About Sarah Currie

From Wikipedia: Archibald Riddell (minister)

Rev. Archibald Riddell (1635–1708) [married] firstly to Helen Aitkenhead, daughter of Rev Henry Aitkenhead, minister of North Berwick, and had two sons, Captain Walter Bennet Riddell of Granton, Edinburgh (died 1738), and Dr John Bennet Riddell, MD, physician in Edinburgh (died 1740). Their daughter, Sarah Bennet Riddell, married Rev John Currie, minister of Oldhamstocks in 1703 who became Moderator in 1709.

From Scotland's People: Old Parish Records - Marriages and Banns

  • 26 November 1703 marriage or banns of Sarah Riddell to John Currie, in the parish of Edinburgh

From Scotland's People: Old Parish Registers - Births and Baptisms

Possible list of 7 children of John Currie and Sarah Riddell from first: 11 October 1704 Archibald Currie to last: 3 January 1720 John Currie

  • 11 October 1704 birth or baptism of Archibald Currie, son of John Currie and Sarah Riddell [child 1], in the parish of Haddington
  • 15 March 1708 birth or baptism of Isobell Currie, daughter of John Currie and Sarah Riddell [child 2], in the parish of Haddington
  • 16 June 1709 birth or baptism of Anna Currie, daughter of John Currie and Sarah Riddell [child 3], in the parish of Haddington
  • 27 April 1711 birth or baptism of Jean Currie, daughter of John Currie and Sarah Riddel [child 4], in the parish of Haddington
  • 24 September 1715 birth or baptism of Margaret Currie, daughter of John Currie and Sarah Riddell [child 5], in the parish of Edinburgh
  • 3 November 1717 birth or baptism of Walter Currie, son of John Currie and Sara Riddell [child 6], in the parish of Haddington
  • 3 January 1720 birth or baptism of John Currie, son of John Currie and Sara Riddell [child 7], in the parish of Haddington

From Scotland's People: Old Parish Records - Deaths and Burials

4 July 1743 death or burial of Sarah Currie, [maiden surname] Reddle, [spouse of] John Currie, in the parish of Edinburgh

From Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae; the succession of ministers in the Church of Scotland from the reformation by Hew Scott Volume 1 Published 1915 Page 370

John Currie, born Ochiltree; ordained to Oldhamstocks 14 March 1695; translated and admitted 29 June 1704; Moderator of the General Assembly 14 April 1709; died 18 June 1720. He married 26 November 1703, Sarah Riddell, daughter of Archibald Riddell, minister of Trinity Parish, Edinburgh, and had issue

  • John Currie, merchant, Jamaica;
  • Walter Currie;
  • Isobel Currie (marriage proclaimed 27 March 1726, Thomas Elliot, writer, Edinburgh).

[Oldhamstocks Sessions and Edinburgh Registrations (Marriage and Burials); Passages in the Life of Mr John Bell (Wodrow MSS.); Brown's Gospel Truth, Warrick's Moderators.]

From History of the ancient Ryedales, and their descendants in Normandy, Great Britain, Ireland, and America, from 860 to 1884 by Gideon Tibbetts Rildon Published 1884 Page 88

Sarah Riddell (2:1), second daughter of Archibald [Riddell] (1:1), was born in Scotland, and presumably went to New Jersey in America, with her father; she was married to John Currie, minister of Haddington. No other information.

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Sarah Currie's Timeline

1708
March 15, 1708
1717
November 3, 1717
Haddington, East Lothian, Scotland (United Kingdom)
1720
January 3, 1720
Haddington, East Lothian, Scotland (United Kingdom)
1743
July 4, 1743
Edinburgh, Scotland (United Kingdom)
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