Janet Reid

  Research Notes:

Received from Dr. Janet Clarke: Family Tree of John McKenzie #160.
Janet was the wife of Peter McKenzie, recruiting sergeant in the 72nd Highland Regiment, later to become the Seaforths, who died prematurely from yellow fever in Barbados, and Janet returned to Paisley, Scotland, with her children, and the family were all involved in the weaving trade which flourished at that time.
Son, John McKenzie, married Mary Stewart, & Martine Saunders is a descendant of Peter McKenzie, junior.
The children were born in different locations due to their father's army manoeuvres.



1861 Census.
30 Cotton Street, Paisley.
Janet McKenzie 48 Former coop winder Paisley. b.c.1813
John McKenzie 20 single card cutter Glasgow . b.c.1841
James McKenzie 17 single shawl cropper England.
b.c.1844
Margaret McKenzie 15 single silk reeler Spain.
(b.c.1846 m. Wotherspoon by 1869)
Peter McKenzie 11 single scholar W/India.
b.c.1850
Archibald Burns 3 grandson Paisley [ son of Janet "Jessie" McKenzie [ b.1836 ] who was first married to Joseph Burns in Paisley on 09 Apr 1857 and then James Renfrew in Paisley on 13 Aug 1868.]


1881 Census.
1 Cameron St., Abbey, Renfrew, Scotland.
Jessie Renfrew 45 W Paisley, Renfrew, Scotland, Head. [c.1836]
Archibald Burns 21 U Paisley, Renfrew, Son, Watchmaker. [c.1860]
Peter Burns 19 U Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Son Labourer. [c.1862]

Janet Wotherspoon 12 U Paisley, Renfrew, Visitor Scholar. [c.1869]
[Notes 1] Archibald & Peter Burns from Jessie's previous marriage.
2] Janet Wotherspoon is Jessie's neice, Margaret's daughter.
3] There are also two boarders- not related to the family.

Janet married Peter McKenzie by 1836 in Prob Paisley, Scotland. (Peter McKenzie died about 1848 in Barbados, West India.) The cause of his death was Yellow Fever.