Stowell family history - the Lauder branch

THE LAUDER BRANCH

The Lauder connection comes through Jane Lauder⁽³⁶⁾, who married Robert Riddel⁽³⁵⁾ in 1843.

Lauder generations

Generation	Lauder family member	Spouse	Date and place of marriage
O	Jane Lauder⁽³⁶⁾ (1820-1904)	Robert Riddel⁽³⁵⁾ (1815-1899)	23 Oct 1843, at the Secession Manse, Earlston
N	Rev.William Lauder⁽²¹⁰⁾ (ca. 1770-1852)	Helen Thorburn⁽²¹¹⁾ (1786-?)	IGI has about 1816 in Berwick, but there is no trace in church records there. More likely about 1812.

Jane LAUDER

A Jane Lauder⁽³⁶⁾was, according to the IGI, born at Earlston, in Berwickshire, on 16 May 1820. There is an entry for her in Old Parochial Registers for Earlston, Berwickshire.

Lauder Jane, daughter of William Lauder, Minister of the Antiburgher Congregation Earlstoun and Helen Thorburn his wife was born there on the 16^th May and baptized June 12^th 1820 by the Rev^d W^m Rattray.

I also have a note from a birthday book indicating that her birthday was on 05 Jun, so there is some uncertainty here. However, if this is the correct Jane Lauder, then her parents were William Lauder and Helen Thorburn, and I suspect that these are the correct parents since the name Thorburn has been preserved through my mother's line down to my generation.

Jane Lauder married Robert Riddel⁽³⁵⁾. There is an entry in the Old Parish Register of Earlston, Berwickshire, which reads:

Robert Riddel residing in Manchester and Jane Lauder residing at Earlstoun gave in their names for proclamation Earlstoun 14^th October 1843.

For details of the children of Jane Lauder and Robert Riddel, see the entry for Robert Riddel⁽³⁵⁾

William LAUDER

The information I have at present about William Lauder⁽²¹⁰⁾ is that an entry in the IGI for which no source details are given says he was born about 1797 at Berwick, Scotland. The birth and baptism entry for Jane Lauder above indicates that William was a minister of one of the dissenting (Antiburgher) congregations in Earlston. An archivist at the National Archives of Scotland found an entry in which states that William Lauder was the second minister of Earlston, East (Antiburgher) congregation. He was ordained on 04 Apr 1804 and succeeded the first minister, John Dalziel, two months later. The same book states that William Lauder died aged 81 on 06 Jun 1852 in his 49th year as the minister at Earlston. Thus his death information suggests he was born between Apr 1770 and Apr 1771. There are no suitable entries in the old parish records available via the Scotlandspeople website, so his place and date of birth remain something of a mytery.

The IGI contains an entry for a marriage between William Lauder and Helen Thorburn at Berwick in about 1816. The records microfilmed by the LDS church for Berwick do not cover this year, and the source of the date is not given. The only marriage records for Berwick for that period are for the Church of England parish of Holy Trinity. The record has been searched, and no matching entry has been found.

From the Scotlandspeople website, there are five children of a William Lauder whose births or baptisms are recorded in the old parish registers for Earlston. The first two children have only the father named, and the last three have both parents named. Possibly therefore the first two had different parents, or the style of the information recorded changed.

Children of William Lauder⁽²¹⁰⁾ and Helen Thorburn⁽²¹¹⁾

Name	Notes
Isabella Lauder⁽⁷¹¹⁾	born or baptised 08 Dec 1814 at Earlston. Register names only the father.
James Lauder⁽⁷¹²⁾	born or baptised 07 Feb 1816 at Earlston. Register names only the father.
Mungo Lauder⁽⁷¹³⁾	born or baptised 30 Apr 1817 at Earlston.
William Lauder⁽⁷¹⁴⁾	born or baptised 14 Apr 1819 at Earlston.
Jane Lauder⁽³⁶⁾	born on 16 May 1820 and baptised 12 Jun at Earlston. Married Robert Riddel ⁽³⁵⁾ in Earlston in 1843 and they had three children, for which see the entry for Robert Riddel.

Two things are interesting about the table above. One is the possibility that the first two children are from William and Helen and this suggests that the marriage of William and Helen was before about Mar 1814.

The other interesting thing is the appearance of the name Mungo. There is a family rumour of a connection with Mungo Park (b.1771), the explorer, which remains to be investigated. Also it suggests that a possible baptismal record for Helen Lauder is that in the Old Parish Register for Lilliesleaf where there is an entry for nine children of a Mungo Thorburn "in Friershaw", I think it reads. 20 Apr 1786 his daughter Helen was born. There is also a note that "all these were baptized by the Rev^d Campbell".

Annie Elizabeth LAUDER

Another piece of as yet unplaced information which I have is a telegram addressed to Mrs Annie Elizabeth Lauder at 13 Zetland Place, Edinburgh 5 on the occasion of her 100th birthday. The telegram was sent from Buckingham Palace, but has no date. The Scotlandspeople database contains only one Annie Elizabeth Lauder who reached the age of 100 and a copy of the entry in the deaths register confirms that Zetland Place was her usual residence. She died on 07 Sep 1950 aged 100, and is described as a fundholder, and single. Her parents were a James Lauder, clothier, and Jane Lauder, née Halliday. The IGI has a record of her birth on 27 Aug 1850, and baptism on 06 Oct 1850 at the Lloyd Street Presbyterian Chapel in Manchester, Lancs (my great-grandfather James Riddel ⁽¹⁵⁾ was also baptised there, in 1849). Two siblings were also baptised in Manchester, William Lauder (born 06 Mar 1849, baptised 06 May 1849) and Helen Lauder (born 01 Dec 1853, baptised 05 Feb 1854).

Presumably this Annie Elizabeth Lauder was related to Norah Riddel⁽²⁸⁰ in some way through Jane Lauder⁽³⁶⁾, as the telegram was in Norah Riddel's posession, but I have not yet established the connection.