James Henderson (1813 - 1892)

Born 25 Sep 1813 in Bridge of Allan, Lecropt, Stirlingshire, Scotland

Ancestors

Son of Unknown Junkine [uncertain] and Margaret (McEwan) Henderson

Husband of Amelia (Millar) Henderson — married 2 Dec 1836 in St Ninians, Stirlingshire, Scotland

Descendants

Died 19 Aug 1892 at age 78 in Oamaru, Otago, New Zealand

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Biography

James Henderson migrated from Scotland to New Zealand.

Born 25 Sep 1813 Bridge of Allan, Par. of Lecropt, STI/PER, SCT ^[1]

(erroneously given as Sep 1814 in the Maxton "letter" 28 Nov 1875)

Baptized 1813 Lecropt, PER, SCT

Witnesses: Archibald Galloch (?possibly Garnock), Peter Dewar (no date given in OPR)

Buried Oamaru Cem., Oamaru, OTG, NZ

Lived

1841 Cleuch Burnfoot, Forth, Lanarkshire, Scotland

HENDERSON: James, 25, blacksmith; Amelia 26; Archibald 4; Margaret 2 (all not born county); James 4 mths born county ^[2]

1851 Forth, Par. of Carnwath, Lanarkshire, Scotland

HENDERSON, James, head, mar, 35, blacksmith b Lecropt, STI; Ameliaa (sic), wife, 34, b Kippen, STI; Children: Archibald, 14, smith's son b Logie, STI; Margreat (sic) 12, b SantNinians (sic); David, 7; William, 5, both scholars b Carnwath, LKS; Elizabeth, 3; Amelia 7 mths, both b Carnwath; Visitor John SMITH, unm, 18, wright b Carnwath, LKS

(Prior households had a hand hewer and a range maker in them, so I assume that by 1851 the family had moved from Cleuch Burnfoot into the actual village, rather than the census page "Village" also including the vicinity of Forth) ^[3]

1861 Village of Forth, Carnwath, Lanarkshire, Scotland

HENDERSON: James 46 smith b Bridge of Allan, Stirling; wife Amelia 44 b Kippen, Stirling; Children: Margaret 22 b St Ninians, Stirling; James 20 smith, David 18 wright, William 15 smith, Elizabeth 13, Amelia 10, Mary 8, John 6 all scholars, Janet & Isabel 3, Agnes 1 all b Carnwath ^[4]

1871 Beatons, Par. of Lesmahagow, Lanarkshire, Scotland

HENDERSON: James, 56 blacksmith b Lecropt, PER; wife Amelia 55 wife of blacksmith b Kippen STI; Children (all b Carnwath, LKS): Amelia 20 dom serv; John 16 blacksmith; Janet 13 dom serv; Isabella 13 dom serv; Agnes 11 scholar (the next entry was Woodgate, then "Livery Stables", then Bothie) ^[5]

Links

James on Lorna's Web pages

James on FamilySearch

DNA

yDNA

FTDNA Discover time tree

yFull branch R-Y29908

yDNA confirmed as haplogroup R-BY19859 from BigY testing of three descendants, two descended from son William and one from son David.

Unfortunately they have no Henderson matches, and are a mismatch to the tested descendant of James' brother Archibald, who does have Henderson matches, whose families are from the Bridge of Allan and environs.

As at Mar 2023 it became highly likely that James' father was indeed a Jenkins, this from the arrival of a BigY match to a descendant of Peter Jenkins (marr. Jane McNee) assigned to the same haplogroup. This was not a surprise given autosomal matches across the extended families and the above mentioned yDNA mismatch between the Henderson descendants.

Exactly which Jenkins male is open to further investigation. Henderson-2297 10:15, 30 March 2023 (UTC)

atDNA

Maternal relationship to Margaret McEwan confirmed by triangulated segment of DNA on Chr 19 from 11-16 mbp involving several descendants of James from assorted lines, and a descendant of Margaret McEwan's brother James

MRCA James McEwan and Margaret Fisher who married in 1807 at Kincardine by Doune, Perthshire

The triangulation involves:

Duncanson-93 (GedMatch T076500)

descendants of Amelia Phillips daughter of James Henderson & Amelia Millar

J Mitchell (GedMatch T101728) and PA_HendFF (GedMatch T409256)

descendants of Margaret Smith, sister of Amelia Phillips

Callow-75 (GedMatch T463475) & Excell-33 (GedMatch A259786)

Sources

1. ↑ James Henderson (1814-1892) and his family; Family History by Isabella Chittock, Printed by the Otago Daily Times, date unknown - copy available in FamilySearch Memories for James
2. ↑ 1841 Census Forth, Par. of Carnwath, image sighted
3. ↑ 1851 Census Village, Forth, Carnwath, LKS, EnumDist 8 Entry #38, hsehold of James & Amelia(a) HENDERSON, extracted Sep/Oct 1994/5
4. ↑ 1861 Census for Scotland - transcriptions via Ancestry.com>: Village of Forth, Par. of Carnwath, LKS, Reg 632 ED 9 Pg 8 Sched 37, hsehold of James & Amelia HENDERSON
5. ↑ 1871 Census: Carnwath, LKS SCT Dist 632 ED 2 Page 19 Schedule #59, hsehold of James & Amelia HENDERSON, Census images for Scotland via ScotlandPeople

• WikiTree profile Henderson-2303 created through the import of HENDERSONLornaAncestorsPlus1Desc4WikiTree.ged on Oct 18, 2011 by L Henderson.