| Description | A collection of 50 miniature (6.5 x 10.5 cm) professional portraits of various members of the Cadenhead family. Further biographical information prepared by the depositor, including details of connections between the different family members, is available in the deposit file and also added below. The numbers below correspond with the reference number on the family trees (see MS 3850/4/1/1/1).
1. John Cadenhead
(brother of Alexander Cadenhead 1858-60. Advocate in Aberdeen, son of John and Anna Cadenhead, died 1867 aged 78.)
2. Dr Robert Cushny, minister at Fochabers
(father of Carrie (Caroline) Anne Mary Cushny; Minister of Fochabers or Bellie. b. 1810 d. 1881 m. 1844 Margaret Forbes b.1814. His mother Anne Gray was an aunt of the Alice Gray who married James Leonard (great grandparents of Josephine Elizabeth Carter). Anne Gray married Alexander Cushny minister of Oyne in 1786 and had several children including Alexander Cushny b.1790 minister of Rayne and Robert b.1810 minister of Fochabers or of Bellie.)
3. Dr John Cadenhead
(married to Jessie Duguid, died 1868 [aged 63?], son of William Cadenhead (gardener) and Margaret (maiden surname) Duncan.)
4. Mrs Janet Milne
(Jessie (Mrs) Milne. Sister to Alice Gray. Jessie (Janet) Milne was the third wife of Dr John Milne, former rector of Dollar Academy. Milne's first wife was Louisa Walford and his second wife was Emily Collinson Bell.)
5. Mrs Janet Milne
("Auntie Jessie" (no.4))
6. Mrs Strachan & Alexander Couts
(Sister of Alice Gray)
7. William Leonard
(Uncle William Leonard, brother of Dr Leonard, merchant in Malta. The brother of James Leonard - Surgeon and father of Katherine Seaton (Josephine Carter's grandmother))
8. James Cadenhead (brother of George Cadenhead)
(Skipper. He is described as George's brother; although there is no reference to him in the Cadenhead book. However the Old Parochial Register for Old Machar, Aberdeen has the following entry for his baptism: '30th November 1821 Alexander Cadenhead Esq Advocate Aberdeen and his spouse Jane Shireffs had a son born named James, baptised by the Revd. Dr Shirrefs, in presence of James Brebner Esq. and John Cadenhead advocate. Old Machar'.)
9. Alexander Cadenhead
(older brother of George Cadenhead, went to Canada, b.1823 m. Mary Dingwall Fordyce 1850.
10. Alexander Cadenhead
11. Brebner Cadenhead
(went to Canada, b.1824 (brother of Alexander and George Cadenhead)
12. Brebner Cadenhead
13. Mrs Robert Skinner
(cousin of Mrs George Cadenhead)
14. George Cadenhead
(Josephine Carter's grandfather)
15. George Cadenhead
16. George Cadenhead
(from an early drawing by James Cadenhead)
17. George Cadenhead Jr.
(the son of James Cadenhead and Wilhelmina Wilson)
18. George Cadenhead
(Josephine Carter's grandfather)
19. Mrs George Cadenhead and Alice Cadenhead
(Josephine Carter's grandmother and mother)
20. Mrs George Cadenhead
(Josephine Carter's grandmother)
21. Mrs George Cadenhead
22. Mrs George Cadenhead
23. Catherine Seaton Foreman Leonard
24. Mr and Mrs James K Leonard
25. Mr and Mrs James K Leonard
26. James Keith Leonard
27. Jessie Leonard, half sister of Mrs George Cadenhead
28. Jessie Leonard
29. Robert McKenzie (husband of Jessie Leonard)
30. Anne Cadenhead of Summerhill b.1829
31. Colonel James Cadenhead of Summerhill
(Captain James Cadenhead, then Col, in the Madras Army later lived at Summerhill near Aberdeen. The Cadenhead book, written by George, says that James C. was the youngest son of John Cadenhead and Isobel Sim. Father of Helen and Emily (see 32))
32. Helen and Emily Cadenhead
(children of Anne and Col James Cadenhead of Summerhill. Emily died young)
33. Mrs Cadenhead (née Davidson)
(mother of Edith, Jessie, Florence and Louisa Cadenhead. Charlotte Helen Davidson married John, the brother of Colonel James Cadenhead (see 31). Could Florence be the cousin as in the nurse Florence Cadenhead, a cousin? (See Cadenhead photos))
34. Mrs J Leonard
(possibly not Jane, the wife of James K Leonard but rather Alice Jane (JEO's mother))
35. Alice and James Cadenhead
(JEO's mother and uncle)
36. Alice and James Cadenhead
37. Alice Cadenhead
38. Alice Cadenhead
39. Alice Cadenhead
40. Alice Cadenhead
41. Alice Cadenhead
(aged about 12-15 years old)
42. Alice Cadenhead
(18 years old)
43. Alice Cadenhead and Poppy
44. Alice Cadenhead and Poppy
45. Alice Carter
(as a little girl)
46. Alice Jane Cadenhead
(after Carter)
47. Ethel Leonard
(Mrs Alexander Cushny, subsequently Mrs Comb)
((Cousin Ethel) Successively Mrs Alexander Cushny and Mrs Combe. She was a cousin to James and Alice Cadenhead (JEO's mother), being the daughter of John William Leonard (uncle Jack) b. 1832, Katherine's brother and Fanny Warren. Ethel was born in 1863 and married Alexander Cushny, widower and merchant Shanghai b.1823, the son of Alexander Cushny minister of Rayne and nephew to Dr Robert Cushny minister of Fochabers. On her second marriage, she married a Mr Combe far nearer her own age.)
48. George Cadenhead Jr.
(the son of James Cadenhead and Wilhelmina Wilson (JEO's uncle and aunt.)
49. Robert Burnett
(miniature of Robert Burnett taken from one painted in Edinburgh in Dec 1815 by miniature painter W.J. Thomson - Mrs Burnett. Robert Bennett was married to Amelia Shirrefs. Amelia was the sister of Jane who married Alexander Cadenhead in 1817.)
50. Reverend W. A. Lunan
(minister at Pinehill, Kincardineshire, d.1769 at 66. Jane Sheriffs' father James was married to a Jane Lunan.) |