Thomas Stevenson Tweedie (1784 - 1855)

Born 19 Apr 1784 in Quarter, Glenholm, Broughton (nr. Peebles) Scotland

Ancestors

Husband of Harriet Matthews — married about 1807 in West Bengal, India

Descendants

Died 12 Nov 1855 at age 71 in Quarter, Glenholm, Broughton (nr. Peebles) Scotland

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Biography

Thomas Stevenson Tweedie of Quarter, Physician-General, H.E.I.C.S., D.L., J.P. co. Peebles. He was baptised 20th April, 1784

Thomas Stevenson Tweedie joined the HEICS, was commissioned as surgeon on 19/3/1805 and served with various cavalry regiments in India, Burma and at the Cape of Good Hope. It was no doubt when he was in India that he met Harriet Mathews, and subsequently married her although the record of the marriage has not been traced.

Shortly after the death of Harriet in 1825, Thomas returned to Scotland with his surviving children and in 1828 married for a 2nd time. He retired from the HEICS as physician-general in 1844 but later returned to India. A JP and DL for Peeblesshire,Thomas added to the Quarter estate by purchasing many properties in Glenholm parish. The financial means which allowed him to purchase these properties probably came from his 1st wife Harriet. Her father seems to have been Colonel Arnold Nesbit Matthews of the Bengal Artillery who owned indigo estates in India; the consequent Tweedie family’s wealth may stem from him.

He became heir male of Oliver in 1837. He added largely to the family estates by purchase of Rachan, Kingledoors, Glenrath, Wrae.

Thomas married (1) Harriet Matthews c 1807 in West Bengal, India.

Thomas married (2) Benjamina Mackay, daughter of Charles Mackay, on 16 March 1828.

Children

1. James, of Quarter, Rachan, b. 6 February, 1831, Lieutenant 80th Regiment, married (1) 1858, Jane White, daughter of John White of Drummelzier and Netherwood ; (2) Emma Charlotte Cunliffe, second daughter of David Cunliffe, Bengal C.S.
2. Charles, b. 28th January, 1835 married Ada Frances Cunliffe, eldest daughter of David Cunliffe, B.C.S.,
3. William Thomas b. 5 March 1838; married (1) 30 April 1864, Mary Cope, only child of Francis Cope, (2) Alice Lyle
4. Benjamina, b. 19 April 1833; married 17 December 1862, John Swift of Keoltown, J.P., co. Westmeath.
5. Annie Elizabeth, b. 28 December 1847; married (1) 11 June 1868, Charles Ringwood, C.E., of Bengal, (2) John Crumpe.
6. Mary Hay, b. 28 February 1854; married Douglas William Giffard, M.D., on 29 April 1879.

He died in 1855.

Sources

• History of the Tweedie, or Tweedy, family by Michael Forbes Tweedie, Published 1902, - Appendix. The Family of Tweedie of Quarter, Kingledoors, Rachan, Pg 166.