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Robert Brittain BLYTH
(1784 –1850)
Barbara COOPER
(1786 –1871)
Benjamin Hall BLYTH
(1819 –1866)

 

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1. Mary Dudgeon WRIGHT

Benjamin Hall BLYTH 1
  • Born: 1819, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
  • Christened: 30 July 1819, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
  • Marriage (1): Mary Dudgeon WRIGHT on 1 August 1848 in Leith, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland 1
  • Died: 22 August 1866, North Berwick, East Lothian, Scotland at age 47

bullet   Cause of his death was died after a long illness, possibly diabetes.

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bullet  General Notes

BHB1 was an extremely prominent civil engineer in Edinburgh in the mid 1800s — built up his own business which still exists today, and was responsible for setting up much of Scotland's railways and also the London to York railway line, and spoke on various Parliamentary railway committees and so on.

The family initially lived at 26 Minto Street, Edinburgh (now an American owned holiday home, as far as I can make out), and then from about 1856 onwards at "Braeside", Hope Terrace, Edinburgh (I can't get the exact number for this - it might be 12 Hope Terrace, it might be 48 Hope Terrace). They were extremely monied. The houses were huge, and BHB1's will makes a lot of reference to possessions and sums of money.

Massively influential civil engineer. Founder of Blyth and Blyth Civil Engineers, which still exists today. Concentrated mainly on railways - the list of his work says: Kilmarnock Branch, Glasgow & Ayrshire Railway. Kilmarnock - Carlisle, London - York, Slammanan - Bo'ness lines.

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bullet  Recorded Events in His Life

  • He worked as a civil engineer.
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Benjamin married Mary Dudgeon WRIGHT, daughter of Francis Charteris WRIGHT and Alison PRINGLE, on 1 August 1848 in Leith, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland.1 (Mary Dudgeon WRIGHT was born on 23 June 1821 in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland 2 3, christened on 9 August 1821 in Saint Andrews Parish, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland and died on 29 December 1868 in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland.). The cause of her death was meningitis.


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bullet   Sources   bullet

  1. Kirsty M. Haining.
  2. Old Parish Registers of the Church of Scotland, Index of Births & Christenings, 1553 –1854 (Edinburgh, United Kingdom: General Register Office for Scotland), GROS numbers 685/01 0041; 685/01 0055; 685/01 0056; and 685/01 0057. The Old Parish Registers are church records of births, baptisms, banns, marriages, deaths, and burials that were kept by individual parishes within the Church of Scotland ("the Established Church") from 1553 until 1855 when civil registration began.  All original registers are now held by the General Register Office for Scotland at New Register House in Edinburgh, Scotland.
  3. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, International Genealogical Index (R) [database on-line] (Copyright © 1980, 2002), Parish Records, Batch No. C119835 (Edinburgh Parish, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland), 1820 –1827.


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