The Scotland Connection
Thanks to our contact with Marisa Smyth in Scotland, we can now confirm that
the parents of our JamesWaddell were: John Waddell, born about 1757 in
Lesmahagow. Lanark Scotland, and his wife, Jean Thomson, also born in Scotland
around the year 1759. John and Jean were married about the year 1776 in Scotland
and their family consisted of 10 children.
There is one story that three of John's sons left Scotland together for North
America. On the way. theywere said to have had a "falling out" and each went to
a different location. The only one traced in the book is his 7th
child (5th son), James, who settled on the Kingston Peninsula in southern New
Brunswick near Reeds Point around the year 1819.
NOTE: To date, no connection has been established between this Scottish
family and that of the
Reverend John Waddell, who settled in Truro in 1797
where he married Nancy Blanchard and
produced a family of seven children — 3
sons and 4 daughters. Their 4th child. Dr. John
Waddell. was born in 1810.
About 1837. he went home to Scotland to complete his education.
He returned
around 1839 and began to practice medicine in Truro until the fall of 1849. He
then
moved to Saint John, New Brunswick, where he took charge of the New
Brunswick Lunatic
Asylum. He was still there in May of 1873. His first wife,
Susan Lynds died before bearing any
children. His second wife. Jane
Blanchard could have been his mother's first cousin. They had
at least three
children - 2 daughters and 1 son. Dr. John Waddell died in December of 1878.
