Mr William Mudie

William was born on April 26th, 1788 in Arbroath, Angus, Scotland and his baptism took place there on May 3rd, 1788.

Birth Notes
- Arbroath Vol Iv, RegisterNumber 88, FatherOccupation Stampmaster. Wit John Spink; 'second' Beside Child's Name.

William's father was Mr William Mudie and his mother was Mrs Marina Myleston. His paternal grandparents were Mr William Mudie and Mrs Margaret Mann. He had five brothers and two sisters, named John, William, Charles, James, George, Jean and Margaret. He was the second youngest of the eight children. He died at the age of 71 on May 5th, 1859 in St Andrews & St Leonard's, Fife, Scotland.

Death Notes
- Probate: St Andrews and St Leonards, Fife, Scotland (CUPAR SHERIFF COURT, SC20/50/22)

General Notes
- Stationer.
  
  William Mudie, the fifth son, was a bookseller and stationer, first in Arbroath and later in St. Andrews. He was admitted burgess of Arbroath on 4th February 1808, on payment of one pound ten shillings "he being the son of a Burgess". He died on 5th May 1859 in St. Andrews, and was buried in the Cathedral Burying Ground there. His surviving son, David Cowan Mudie, was an engineer and from 1846 to 1853 a partner with Mr. Gershom Gourlay in the firm of Gourlay, Mudie and Co., which owned the Dundee Foundry. In the latter year he went to Edinburgh. He died on 21st April 1893. His daughter, Isabella, inherited from her mother a share in the small property of Greenlaw Hill, near Barry. Her husband was the eldest son of William Yeaman, banker, of Scrusloch in the parish of Glenisla, and, was himself a solicitor and agent of the Royal Bank of Scotland at Meigle, Perthshire. Source: The Mudies of Angus

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