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Henry Reid was a grocer and spirit dealer by trade who lived and worked in Barrowfield Road (later Canning Street, still later London Road) Calton, Glasgow. In July 1793 he married Margaret Thomson. Henry died in 1833 and is buried alongside his wife in the old Calton Cemetery, Abercromby Street.
Details relating to Henry's many descendants spanning five generations are accessible via this website. Please be sure to check the Family Tree and timeline of events for more information.
In places the Scottish naming convention has been referred to when trying to trace back ancestry.
Reid Tokens
Reid Tokens
Due to a shortage of regal copper coins at the time, private trade tokens/coins were used by merchants instead. Henry Reid traded with at least two known types of farthing/token that we are aware of. One bears the full name of Henry Reid and the other as "H.Reid" but in essence similar in nature as depicted in the image below as per Baldwins auction 102
Descendants of Henry Reid
Descendants of Henry Reid
1. Henry Reid (b. 1770, d. 1833 - Calton, Glasgow)
sp. Margaret Thomson, m. 1793
2. Alexander John Reid (b. 1796-03-21) - family emigrated to America in 1857
sp. Isabelle Wilson, m. 1834
3. Margaret Thomson Reid (b. 1839)
3. Walter Reid (b. 1841)
3. Jane Reid (b. 1844)
3. Jesse Reid (b. 1846)
3. Lilias Wilson Reid (b. 1849)
3. Alexander Reid (b. 1852)
2. Janet Reid (b. 1802, d. 1868)
sp. Thomas Wilson, m. 1821-09-11 - worked as a baker
3. Andrew Thomson Wilson (b. 1826-05-12) - surgeon in Kirn
sp. Cecilia Lennox Buchanan, m. 1856-10-25
3. Margaret Thomson Wilson (b. 1833-08-04)
3. Elizabeth Callendar Wilson (b. 1835-08-23)
2. Henry Reid (b. 1798)
sp. Margaret Dickson, m. 1825-07-19
3. John Dickson Reid (b. 1827-12-30)
3. Mary Reid (b. 1829-09-25)
3. Andrew Thomson Reid (b. 1831-07-24)
3. Margaret Thomson Reid (b. 1831)
2. Allan Reid (b. 1808, d. 1854) - grocer
sp. Agnes Wilson, m. 1833
2. William Reid (b. 1810, d. 1883) - surgeon and secretary to Glasgow's Cow Pock Institute
sp. Elizabeth Ferguson Dick (b. 1818), m. 1839 - London Road, Glasgow
3. Mary Reid (b. 1841, d. 1896)
sp. William Graham Young MD , m. 1865
4. Bessie D Young (b. 1870)
4. Margaret F Young (b. 1867)
4. William Young (b. 1874)
3. Rev. Henry Reid MA (b. 1842) - minister of Irvine West UP Relief church 1868 - 1886, emigrated to Australia
sp. Catherine Murdoch Hutchison m. 1869
4. William Reid (b. 1870, d. 1955 Bendigo Benevolent Home, Australia)
4. James Reid (b. 1871)
3. Wilson Dick Reid (b. 1845, d. 1846)
3. William Walter Dick Reid (b. 1848, d. 1907) - Winsey Salesman, Shift dealer
sp. Mary Jane Ingle, m. 1889-10-17
4. Clara Reid (b. 1894)
3. Andrew Thomson Reid (b. 1850-11-28, d. 1851-07-18)
3. Alexander Dick Reid (b. 1853-02-02, d. 1853-02-15) twin
3. John Dick Reid (b. 1853-02-02) twin - warehouse man
3. Allan Reid (b. 1855, d. 1933-07-06) - India merchant's clerk.
sp. Ellen Galt Mitchell (b. 1859-06-19, d. 1921-12-13), m. 0
3. Margaret Thomson Reid (b. 1858, d. 1935) - mother's help
3. Walter Dick Reid (b. 1861, d. 1903) - manager of a belting company
sp. Emily Jane Bull, m. 1889
4. Elizabeth D Reid (b. 1890)
4. Emily B Reid (b. 1894)
4. James B Reid (b. 1892)
4. William Charles Reid (b. 1896-08-15 - Eccles, England, d. 1957-07-17 - Glasgow, Scotland) - one of Glasgow's justices of the peace
sp. Mary Stevenson Stewart (b. 1899-09-28, d. 1993-07-07)
3. Andrew Thomson Reid (b. 1864, d. 1899) - Woollen cloth manufacturer's agent
2. Andrew Reid (b. 1800, d. 1822) - student in Divinity
(buried in the Old Calton Cemetery, Abercromby St Glasgow)
Descendants of Henry Reid, grocer and spirit dealer, Calton, Glasgow
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