East Lothian Todds TF 274

The East Lothian/Haddingtonshire Todds included a family of George Todd and Agnes Gray who had children in Garvald 1777-1780 and then seemed to move west to Gladsmuir. and then north to Dirleton. James b 1786 Gladsmuir moved to Dirleton by 1813 when he married Christina Gourley Scott. Descendants included Ruthven Campbell Todd (1914-1978) the Scottish poet and editor of Blake and writer of detective novels under the name R.T. Campbell. Other researchers of this family include: Georgia McLeish Clements (gclements42@yahoo.com,au), Allan Green (allangreen44@hotmail.com), Richard McMurtry (rmcmurtry@baymoon.com)

Summary

Dunbar

The Todds of Dunbar appear in the parish registers in the 1600s (though not the famous James Todd of Dunbar reported to have drowned on the prison ship in 1679). There are Todds born there in the 1790s but we know not of their fate. A John Todd of Dunbar is living in Gifford, East Lothian in 1851 but we can not find his children later.

Garvald, Gladsmuir,Dirleton

There is a George Todd who with Agnes Gray had children in Garvald, then a son James in Gladsmuir. The son James and a daughter Isabella 1776-1842 moved to Dirleton where James’ children were born and where James and some of his children were buried in the Todd Family Enclosure, Dirleton, East Lothian churchyard. This is the family of Ruthven Campbell Todd, a famous Scottish poet and author.

Ormiston

There are Todds in Ormiston in the 1720s. One branch Alexander Todd md 1755 Margaret Forrest has descendants in Edinburgh in 1851.

Morham and Berwick

In memory of Jane Davidson, wife to Richard Todd, tenant in Northrigg, interred here, who died Feburary the 19th 1870 aged 77; also John Todd, son to Richard Todd in Berwick, her grandson, interred within this churchyard, who died March the 12th 1774 aged 4 years; also her husband, Richard Todd who died December 5th 1781 aged 77. The History of Morham, birthplace of John Knox."

Dirleton/Garvard/Gladsmuir Todd

(Note that the George Todd b 1747 Spott near Dunbar and the George Todd b 1739 Dunbar could be the George Todd md 1776 to Alison Pringle in Dunbar and the George Todd md Agnes Gray. So the Todds below COULD be Dunbar Todds)

George Todd married Agnes Gray abt 1775 East Lothian/Haddingtonshire

Isabel Todd 1777 b Garvald, East lothian d 1842 buried Dirleton

Jean 1778

Mary 1780 Garvald

James Todd b 1786 Gladsmuir, East Lothian md 1813 Dirleton to Christina Scott

Gourley born North Leith, Midlothian

George Todd (1814-1903) 1816 farmer md 1845 Dirleton to Eliza

Todd b 1827 Edinb (dau of Geroge Todd 1778-1844 and Dora Cooper).

Dorothy Cooper Todd b 1846 md Jo Mergher

James H Todd (or Joseph b 1848 Dirleton (1847-1860)

George b 1850 Dirleton md E. King

Charles W. Todd b 1854 Isle of Man

Malince? S. Todd 1856

Elie Todd 1861

Anna Aitken /Anne Gourley Todd b1816 (Anne Gourley Todd md 1840 to

James Aitken???)

Agnes G. Todd 1837 md (1) 1852 Wm Dunlop (2) Jas B Parsons

David Gouley Todd 1820 Commissioner Agent single 1861 d 1867

(Richard Todd b 1826 Dirleton (1827-1872 killed by Maoris)

(Charles Hitchener Todd b 1828 d 1836

Robert Ferguson Todd b 1829 md 1874 Grorse? Reeves

James R Todd b 1880

Evelyn G. Todd

William Walker Todd b 1830 Dirleton 1883

Ruthven Campbell Todd 1833 East Lothian md (1) 1861 Harriet Elizabeth

Russell in Nottingham England (2) Bessie L Walkerb 1853

Edith M Todd 1862-1862

Ethel Todd 1863 md Henry Reid

Ruthven R. Todd b 1865

Gourley Todd b 1869 md Kate Steel HUTCHESON b 1871

Gourley Todd b 1900 d 1971 Dumfries

Phyllis H Todd 1902

Malryn? Todd 1903

Kitty Todd md Stirling BLAIR

Barbara Todd

Jean Todd md M. Luby

Charles C. Todd 1871/1870 md Sylvie Buckley

Annie S Todd b 1880 (1879-1881)

Winifred C. Todd b 1881 (1880-1968) md Neil MacVicar d 1958

Neil Nigel MacVicar 1920 md Marily Voulgary

Effie C. Todd 1882-1963

William James Walker todd b 1884 (William Walker Todd) d 1944

md Christian Craik

Ruthven Campbell Todd b 1914-1978

Christopher 1939 md Michelle Bontout

Dominique 1967 md Phillip Taylor

Phillip Todd 1970 md Margot Hassel

J. David S Todd 1915-1995 md Isa Borland

Duncan Todd 1951 md Margaret Ballingall

Derek Todd 1953

Hester Dering Todd b 1921

Allison Gillespie Todd b 1916 d 2001 md

1947 Richard Ross F Cassidy

George Lyon Walker Todd b 1918 Babs Thomas 1933

Mairi Todd 1960

Hilda Todd md FAusto Barberi

Paul Loftie Todd b 1920 md Betty Roberts (2) Elise Bisoff

Sarah Todd 1948 md Gerald Francis

Jerri Todd 1955 md (1) David Low, (2) Anthony

Bradburn

Jo Todd 1960

Elizabeth Ann Stoney Todd b 1922

Margaret Stuart Christian Todd b 1924 d 1990

Michael Benison Todd b 1926 d 2000 Peebles md (1) Kath

(2) 1957 Eva Rodgers

Gordon Walker Todd b 1961 md 1982

Evelyn Todd Jackson

Joan Todd b 1962

Janet Hope Leslie Todd b 1928

Harry C Todd b 1887 1958 md Eidht Miller

Ian Todd 1921 md Mary James

Susan Todd 1923 md Peter Schurr

Jane Todd 1928 md Richard Beney

Christina Gouley Todd 1836 md 1858 George Ainslie

Earliest Parish Register Entries

DUNBAR TODDS

William Todd md 1682 Christian Mason (Dunbar)

John Tod md 1669 Catherine Lawson (dunbar)

(John Tod & Agnes Lawson

George 1673 Dunbar)

Jean 1675 Dunbar)

John Todd & Janet Hoog

George Todd b 1747 Spott, East lOthian (outside of Dunbar)

Janet Tod 1736 Dunbar

John Todd 1745 Dunbar

John Tod & Margaret Rochead

Elizabeth 1734 Dunbar

James Tod & Ann Bruce

Marion 1737 Dunbar

George 1739 Dunbar

Martha 1741

Margaret 1744 Dunbar

Ann 1746 Dunbar

Jannet 1751 Dunbar

George Todd & Isabel Todd

John 1760 Dunbar

James Todd md 1781 Dunbar to Molly Hoog

John Todd md 1784 Dunbar to Helen Trotten

Agnes 1793 dunbar

James Todd & Margaret Jordan:

James Todd b 1807 Dunbar

Janet Todd 1805 Dunbar

John Todd & md 1812 Dunbar Elizabeth Murray

John Todd b 1818 Dunbar md Margaret White b 1813 Garvald (per 1851 census,

Gifford East Lothian)

Elizabeth Murray Todd b 1841 Yester, East Lothian

John Todd b 1844 Yester

Peter Todd b 1846 Yester

Note that Gifford is 4 miles from Garvald; so the Garvald Todds might be Dunbar Todds.

John Todd md 1811 Mary Howell in Dunbar

George Todd & md 1776 Dunbar & Whittingshame to Alison Pringle

Marion 1777 Dunbar

Janet Tod 1779 Dunbar

Jean Tod 1781 Dunbar

Mary Tod 1783 Dunbar

John Todd b 1786 Dunbar (see census)

Jane Todd b 1815 md Peter Raeburn

Mary Todd 1783

Alison 1785 dunbar

Janet 1789 Dunbar

James Todd & md 1776 Dunbar Euphans Gowans

Fanny 1777 Dunbar

Janet 1779

Barbara 1789 Dunbar

James 1782 Dunbar

Margaret 1787 Dunbar

Alexander 1791 Dunbar

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INNERWICK TODDS

Andro Todd md 1628 Helen Lyell in Innerwick

William Tod 1629

James Tod 1632

Alexander Tod 1635 Innerwick

Elizabeth Todd 1636

Thomas Tod md 1711 Janet Downie Innerwick

Alexander Todd 1714 cockburnpath, Berwickshire

Simon Todd md Helen Cairncross

John Tod 1737 Dunbar

Joseph Tod b 1742 Innerwick

Joseph Tod md Elizabeth Dinavel

Joseph 1762 Innerwick

Allison Todd 1773 Innerwick

John todd & md 1757 Oldhamstock, East Lothian to Janet Dinavel

Allison Tod 1773 Innerwick

Simon Todd md 1755 Mary Hoog Innerwick

Alexander b 1757 Innerwick

William Todd md Elspeth Crombie

Jane Tod 1733 Innerwick

Helen Tod 1737 Innerwick

John Tod b 1740 Innerwick

John Todd md Janet Hoog

George Tod 1744 Innerwick

Margaret Todd 1741 Innerwick

**

James Todd md 1753 Prestonkirk to Susan Gillis

Thomas Todd Md Jane Cooper

Jane Cooper Todd 1808 Whittingehame

HADDINGTON TODDS

Alexander Todd md Charlotte Bruere

Alexander Bruere Todd b 1784 Haddington

Susan b1790 Haddington md 1814 George Cadell in Tranent, East Lothian

Archibald George b 1785

George 1788 Haddington

Elizabeth 1792 Haddington

Jane Elizbeth Tod 1795 Haddington

Francis 1798 Haddington

Charlotte Bruere Tod 1786 Haddington

ORMISTON TODDS

Note that Ormiston is 5.7 miles from Gladsmuir where the James Todd b 1786 son of George and Agnes Gray was born. Garvald where James’ sisters were born is 13 miles from Ormiston.

George Todd md Isobel Lawrie

Alexander Todd 1760 Ormiston

Alexander Todd md 1727 Ormiston to Margaret Donaldson

George Tod 1728 Ormiston

Margaret 1732 Pencaitland

Margaret 1737 Ormiston

Jean 1733 Ormiston

Mary 1739 Ormiston

Margaret 1742 Ormiston

Alexander Todd d Margaret Davidson

Isabella Jane 1881 Haddington

Alexander Todd md Ann Todd 1830 Ormiston)

Alexander Todd md 1755 Ormiston Margaret Forrest

Margaret Tod 1757 Ormiston

Isobel Tod 1759 Osmiston

Helen 1763 Ormiston

Marion 1765 Ormiston

Elizabeth 1768 Ormiston

Katherine 1771 Ormiston

William Todd 1772 Ormiston

John Todd 1773 Ormiston d 1861 Tranent, East Lothian

Alexander 1776 Ormiston

James Todd b 1779 Crumter (Ormiston?) Corn Merchant 1851 Edinb. b & Marion

Gray b 1789 Dalkeith, Midlothian (dau of David Gray & Janet Young)

Ann 1810 Ormiston

Alexander 1811 (single in 1851 Edinb.Corn Merchant

William 1814

Margaret 1816 Ormiston

James Todd 1817

Andrew 1819

Isabella 1821 ormiston

George 1822

Robert 1825 Ormiston, East Lothian (single in 1851 Edinb.

James Todd

Agnes b 1664 North Berwick

George Todd & Agnes Gray: (There is an Agnes Gray b Dirleton in 1755 (Thomas Gray & Margaret Hume) and one born Tanent 1763 (John Gray and Elsepth Johnstone) and one born North Berwick1752 (d Samuel Gray & Mary Spinks)

Jean 1778

Isabel Todd 1777 b Garvald, East lothian

Mary 1780 Garvald

James Todd b 1786 Gladsmuir, East Lothian

James Todd 1786 & md 1813 Dirleton Christina Scott Gourley:

1841 Dirleton, East Lothian

James Todd 55 farmer b 1786

Christian Todd 45

George Todd 25 1816 farmer

Anna Aitken 25 Anne Gourley Todd md 1840 to James Aitken???)

David Todd (David Gouley Todd 1820) 20 1821 Commissioner Agent

(Richard Todd b 1826 Dirleton)

(Charles Hitchener Todd b 1828)

Robert Todd 18 (Robert Ferguson Todd b 1829)

William Todd 10 (William Walker Todd b 1830 Dirleton)

Campbell Todd 7 (Ruthven Campbell Todd 1833) 1834 East Lothian

Christian Todd 5 (Christina Gouley Todd 1836) md 1858 George Ainslie

Christian Matthewson 50

Hellen Royd 25

Mary Frerkwood 20

Barbary Bolton 10

Thomas Thomson 20

George Craig 20

1851 Dirleton, East Lothian

James Todd Age: 65 Estimated birth year: abt 1786 born: Gladsmuir, Haddington

Occupation: Farmer (occufessing 700 Im Acres Em Ploying 20 Mon 13 Woman & 5 Boys

James Todd 65

Christina Todd 56 N Leith, Midlothian

James Todd 26 Dirleton

Agnes Dunlop 33

Christina Todd 15

Isabella Dixon 28

John Liegler Huie 28

Charles J Brown 44

Agnes Cowe 19

Emily Hay 26

Anne Robertsen 23

Robert Bell 35

1851 Dirleton, East Lothian

George Todd md 1845 Dirleton, East Lothian to Eliza Todd

(George Todd & Eliza Todd: Dorothy Cooper Todd 1846)

George Todd 36 b 1815 b dirleton

Elizabeth Todd 24 1827 Edinburgh, Midlothian

Dorothy C Todd 5

James H Todd 3 Dirleton

George Todd 1

Jane Pirrie 36

Jane Kinnonmond 19

1861Dirleton East Lothian

Occupation: Farmer Of 670 Jonss Bern Emps St Lab 26 Young Women & 4 Boys

James Todd 76 abt 1785 born: Gladsmuir, Haddington

David G Todd 40

James Todd 36 1825 son Dirleton

George Todd 11 1850 grandson Dirleton

Charles W Todd 7 Grandson b Isle of Man 1854

Malcolm Macgregor 37

Eliza M Junes 28

Mary Edington 20

1871 James Todd

Civil parish: St Andrew Count: Angus

John Guild 51 b newburgh, fife

Margaret F Guild 42 b INverness

William Guild 14

Alexander M Guild 12

John E Guild 10

Robert H Guild 10

James Todd 46 b Dirleton brother in law (1825)

Isabella Todd 36 b b iNverness sister-in-law

Caroline Smith 49

Margaret Annandale 29

Charlotte Macintosh 24

Margaret George 22

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1881 Partick, Larnarkshire

Ruthven C Todd 47 Dirleton, Haddington

Bessie L Todd 28 1853 gLASGOW

Ruthven R Todd 16 1865 Glasgow

Gourlay Todd 12 1869

Charles C Todd 10

Annie S Todd 1

Winifred C Todd 6 MO

Margt Love 51

Mary Todd 28 b 1853

Elizabeth Robertson 20

1891 Hamilton, Lanarkshire

Ruthven R Todd 26 Stockbroker b1865

Ethel C Todd 27

Gonelay W Todd 23

William J W Todd 7

Harry C Todd 4

William D London 26

Helen Ross 20

Agnes Earl 19

1901

Kirkcolm, Renfrewshire

Gourley W Todd 32

Kate Steele Todd 30

Gourley Todd 1

Wilhelmina Hutcheson 59

Christina S Coutts 19

Annie F Findlay 20

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By 1871, above family had moved on. Andrew Todd from Roxburgh had moved in.

This is a Coldstream Berwickshire family per rootsweb:

Andrew Todd & Elizabeth Lister: Margaret 1870, James 1868, Jane Walker 1871 norht berwick

1871 Dunbar East Lothian

Andrew Todd 40 b abt 1831 Kelso, Roxburghshire Farm Servant

Elizabeth Todd 24 Spott, Haddinggton

Janet Todd 15 Dunbar, Haddington

John Todd 11 1860 Coldingham, Berwickshire

Alison Todd 8

Elizabeth Todd 6

Thomsyne Todd 4 1867 Coldingham Berwickshire

James Todd 2 1869 b Dunbar

Margaret Todd 1

1871

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Jane Todd md Peter Raeburn 1834 Dunbar

1851 Dunbar, East Lothian

Peter Raeburn 36

Jam Raeburn 36

Elizabeth Raeburn 12

Flauie Raeburn 8

Mary Deanda 1

John Todd 65 b Dunbar

William James Walker Todd

Designation: Architect

Born: 6 February 1884

Died: 29 April 1944

Bio Notes: William James Walker Todd was born in Glasgow on 6 February 1884, the son of Ruthven Campbell Todd CA. He was educated at Fettes College and articled to Thomas Purves Marwick in January 1902. He travelled in Italy as early as 1903 and attended the Edinburgh School of Applied Art, which merged with Edinburgh College of Art while he was a student in 1902-07. While there he won the Diploma of Merit for his National Art Survey Work and the Royal Institution Travelling Studentship in 1907, these gaining him a place in Peddie's office on his return from a further spell of continental travel. He commenced practice on his own account at 44 Hanover Street in 1909, and was later joined by Sydney Houghton Miller (born May 1884), who had won the Pugin Studentship in that year. The two entered a formal partnership at 19 Young Street in 1914: designs made together before that date appear to have been in collaboration rather than in partnership, and earlier in that year Todd had briefly worked in association with Bailey Scott Murphy prior to the latter's death, although it is unclear whether a formal partnership had existed. What should have been the Todd & Miller partnership's major work, St David's Church at Dundee, was never realised despite a reduction in the design. The practice closed in 1915 when the partners were called up: Walker Todd served in France with the Royal Scots, reaching the rank of Captain.

In January 1920 John More Dick Peddie (born 1853) merged his practice with theirs as J M Dick Peddie & W J Walker Todd. Peddie retired in November of that year and appears to have taken most of the practice's library with him: his copy of Garner and Stratton's 'Domestic Architecture of England during the Tudor Period', now in the possession of Mrs Scott Duncan, has an inscription recording its gift to Walker Todd at that time.

Miller left the partnership in 1927 and opened his own office at 15 York Place. The reasons for his leaving are not known but the continued omission of his name from the practice title may have rankled. His place was taken by another former assistant, David John Chisholm, David John Chisholm, also born in 1884 and a contemporary of Miller's at George Watson's College, who had been articled to Peddie & Washington Browne for the unusually long period of 1901-08 and had subsequently sought experience elsewhere before rejoining the firm shortly after the end of the First World War. He was an exceptionally fine draughtsman with a profound knowledge of Gothic and Classic detail.

When Chisholm was taken into partnership he was the only member of the practice to be a member of the RIBA, but in March 1931 Walker Todd, at that time a member of the Council of the Edinburgh Architectural Association, was elected ARSA concurrently with his belated application for admission as LRIBA; his proposers were his old colleagues at Peddie & Washington Browne's, John Wilson and Robert Stirling Reid. His election as ARSA almost immediately brought about his admission as Fellow on the recommendation of the Council in November. Wilson (by then Chief Architect at the Department of Health for Scotland) reported to the Council that 'he is in my opinion one of the ablest architects we have in Scotland and his work proves that beyond doubt'. Wilson probably had Walker Todd's local authority housing in mind which was among the very best of its period.

In 1936 the partnership of Jamieson & Arnott was dissolved as a consequence of the enforced retirement of Ernest Arthur Oliphant Auldjo Jamieson through ill health. That partnership was then less busy than it had been and for reasons not entirely clear James Alexander Arnott left to practise alone. Jamieson's son, George Lindsay Auldjo Jamieson (born 1905), then sought a merger with Dick Peddie & Walker Todd. He brought to Dick Peddie & Walker Todd the Sydney Mitchell & Wilson archive, much of the Jamieson & Arnott archive and those clients who were his father's rather than Arnott's. The practice title then became Dick Peddie, Todd & Jamieson, letterheads of that time bearing the subhead 'incorporating Sydney Mitchell & Wilson' to leave no doubt that the Jamiesons had had the dominant financial interest in the Jamieson & Arnott partnership.

The practice conditions during the Second World War resulted in the merger of the Dick Peddie Todd & Jamieson and the Richardson & McKay practices in 1942, John Ross McKay having secured a lot of war work, perhaps more than he could find staff for. He quickly became the leading partner, particularly so after the death of Walker Todd on 29 April 1944, after which the firm continued as Dick Peddie McKay & Jamieson. Todd was survived by his wife Christian Todd (maiden name as well as married name) of Whitethorn House, Milnathort, five daughters, and five sons, of whom the writer Ruthven Campbell Todd, who settled in the USA, was one. Although he had lived in considerable state at 34 Inverleith Terrace, William James Walker Todd left the surprisingly small moveable estate of £566 10s 0d.

And here is the obit for his son Ruthven. It doesn't look like he had any children but I am still checking.

Ruthven Campbell Todd (14 June 1914 ?1978) was a Scottish poet and novelist, known also as an editor of William Blake, and as an artist.

He was born in Edinburgh, and educated at Fettes College and Edinburgh School of Art. After a short spell in the office of his father, an architect. he worked as an agricultural labourer on Mull. for two years. He then started a career in copy-writing and journalism, while writing poetry and novels, based in Edinburgh, London, and Dunmow in Essex. He was involved with the surrealists at the time of the 1936 International Surrealist Exhibition.

During World War II he was a conscientious objector. He moved to the USA in 1947. There he had a position at the University of New York, and ran a small press, the Weekend Press, during the 1950s.

He settled in Majorca in 1958, where he died.

He wrote also under the pseudonym R. T. Campbell; he contributed to children's literature with the Space Cats series.

There is a tree on ancestry who has William James Walker Todd in it and I have messaged the poster to see what she knows.

Chris