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     John Ogilvie was born in 1879 at Broughty Ferry, Dundee, Forfar, Scotland. He was a senior partner with the family firm J. & J. Ogilvie,solicitors. in Dundee. He was also active in the field of social work, following in the footsteps of his father. He was clerk and Treasurer of the Dundee School of Social Study and Training. He married Ann (Nancy) Hutton Loggie circa 1908. John Ogilvie began military service in 1914 attached to the North Scottish R.G.A. (Territorials) retiring after the Armistice with the rank of Captain. He was an office-bearer of St. Luke's U.F. Church, Broughty Ferry, of which his father was one of the original members. He died on 18 October 1922 at Kalaw, Burma.

     Philip Gordon Ogilvie was born in 1890 at Broughty Ferry, Dundee, Scotland. He died on 23 June 1938 at Kalaw, Burma.

     John Ogilvie was christened on 17 July 1810 at Dundee, Forfar, Scotland. He was educated at St. Andrews University. He was a partner in J & J Ogilvie, Solicitors, Dundee. He was also the author of a magnificent family tree which is the source of much of the information on this website. As Aunt Minnie says in her book "A Scottish Childhood" he has traced the family (through many twists and turns) back to the Norse god Odin! He married Annie (Anne) Maxwell, daughter of Dr John Maxwell and Elizabeth (Betsy) Stormonth, on 8 December 1840 at Dundee, Angus, Scotland. John Ogilvie appeared on the census of 1861; The Census lists John Ogilvie, Writer, as head of household, living at 4 Park Place, Dundee with his wife Anne and children: James age 19, Writer, Rachel age 14, Elizabeth age 12, George age 9, William age 8, Andrew age 6, Mary age 2. Also listed are Mary Maxwell, visitor, age 31, Christina, scholar, also a visitor and perhaps daughter of Mary Maxwell, age 7 and born in England. (All others above born in Dundee.) Finally, Elizabeth Auld, 54 and Jessie Thomson, 35 are listed as domestic servants. He died on 9 September 1869 at Dundee, Scotland, at age 59 Cause of death: typhus fever. John Ogilvie is buried in Western Cemetery, Perth Road, Dundee, with his wife, Anne, in Section III 218. The name of the children's nurse, Betsy Auld, is also on the tomb.

     Annie (Anne) Maxwell was born on 26 March 1822 at Dundee, Angus, Scotland, and baptised on 9 April. As of 1840,her married name was Ogilvie. She married John Ogilvie, son of James Ogilvie and Rachel Jameson, on 8 December 1840 at Dundee, Angus, Scotland. Annie (Anne) Maxwell lived in 1841 at 4 Park Place, Dundee. In 1878 Annie brought Charles, Maxwell and Percy, children of her daughter, Rachel, back to Scotland with her after their mother died in Chile. She lived in 1880 at 11 Miles Road, Clifton, Bristol, England. The 1881 English census lists 26 other individuals living in the household. Annie's daughters, Mia and Minnie, and son, William; her grandsons,(children of her daughter Rachel and James Balfour) Charles, Maxwell and Percy aged 8, 7 and 5 respectively; her daughter-in-law, Harriet and Harriet's 2 children, Juliet and John, aged 4 and 1, (perhaps visiting), Ann and John Wedderburn from Angus, Scotland, relationship unspecified, (Annie's grandmother was Isabella Wedderburn, so probably a great neice and nephew) 5 servants, 5 pupils (?) and a visitor, Janet MacDonald. She died on 3 September 1910 at All Saints Road, Clifton, at age 88. Annie Ogilvie is buried in Western Cemetery, Perth Road, Dundee, with her husband, John, Section III 218. The name of the children's nurse, Betsy Auld, is also on the tomb. Click on the icon above to read Annnie's Memoirs.

     James Ogilvie was born in 1842 at Dundee, Scotland. He died in 1870 at Dundee at age 28 from tuberculosis.

     Annie Ogilvie was born in 1841 at Dundee, Angus, Scotland. She married Dr Alexander Stormonth Maclagan Wedderburn on 20 April 1865. Annie Ogilvie settled in Forfar, Angus after her marriage.

     Rachel Ogilvie was born on 1 April 1847 at Dundee, Forfar, Scotland. She married James Robert Balfour, son of James Balfour and Isabella Hutchison, on 20 September 1871 at 4 Park Place, Dundee, in the Parish of St. Peter. As of 1872,her married name was Balfour. Rachel Ogilvie died on 23 July 1878 at age 31 of tuberculosis in Arequipa, Peru while her mother, Anne Maxwell, was visiting her with daughters Minnie and Mia. They took the 3 boys, aged 5, 3 and 2, back with them to Scotland. In his memoirs, William Maxwell Ogilvie writes: "My mother and sisters, Minnie and Mia ... went to South America in 1877, to see my sister Rachel, Mrs. James Balfour, at Arequipa, in Peru, who was very ill with consumption, and who died there in 1878". She was buried on 11 September 1878 at the Cementerio de Disidentes in Valparaiso, Chile.

     Arthur Pitt Chambers Cary married Charlotte Louisa Joyce in 1887. Arthur Pitt Chambers Cary died in 1937.

     Bessie Ogilvie was born in 1849 at Dundee, Forfar (Angus), Scotland; Source: 1861 census. She died in 1870 at Dundee, Forfar (Angus), Scotland; from tuberculosis. Source: A Scottish Childhood.

     John Maxwell Ogilvie was born on 17 February 1850 at Dundee, Scotland; Source: Old Parish Records. He died in November 1851 at Dundee, Scotland. He was buried on 13 November 1851 at Howff Cemetery, age 22 months, cause of death "fever".

     William Maxwell Ogilvie was born on 10 September 1852 at 4 Park Place, Dundee, Forfar, Scotland. He was at Dundee High and attended St. Andrews University for one year, and Edinburgh University for one year, graduating as an engineer. He served as an apprentice for Gourly Brothers Foundry in Dundee. He worked for several years in Bristol. 1875 He enjoyed playing golf at St. Andrews and for several years went mountain climbing in Switzerland. He In 1882 he accepted his brother-in-law, James Balfour's invitation to join the firm of Balfour, Lyon & Co., in Valparaiso, Chile. He stayed with Jim Balfour and his brother, Tom, in Vina del Mar, 5 miles south of Valpo. (James was married to William's sister, Rachel.) He married Mary Anna Wolff on 11 October 1886 at Valparaiso, Chile. They lived at Calle Montano No. 10, then in the "big White House at Chorillos for a few years, and then at Salto, near Vina." William returned to England in 1902 to take over his firm's London agency, and after 4 years in Bristol, he moved to be closer to London. He lived at The Glade, in Harrow Weald, north-west London. William Maxwell Ogilvie married Rotha Thomas on 18 November 1924. To read William Ogilvie's Memoirs click on the icon above. William Maxwell Ogilvie died in 1929.

     Andrew Jameson Ogilvie was born in 1855 at Dundee, Angus, Scotland. He was a student at St. Andrew's University for one term. He sailed to Perth, Western Australia on the vessel Gem and arrived on 20 November 1872 according to the Bi-Centennial Dictionary of Western Australians. He leased 600 acres, then 2 larger properties of 1,000 and 16,000 acres in 1877. In 1878 he employed a cook and a well-digger in 1881. On his 1896 marriage certificate, he is listed as a Sheep Farmer. Later he ran a horse and cattle property with varying success. Andrew had a common-law wife, Jilba, an Aborinal woman, prior to his marriage to Ada Fisher. Jilba was, almost certainly, the mother of John Jameson. After Andrew died Murchison Station was purchased by a man from India (the Shah of ...) All of Andrew's records were destroyed. Government records show Jilba as working on the station with "her 3 children". Jilba is buried in the same plot as Andrew - click on icon above to see details in Cemetery description. He married Ada Leila Frances Fisher, daughter of William Henry (Will) Fisher and Fanny Maria Sainsbury, on 13 January 1896 at The Church, Fremantle, Western Australia, Australia. Andrew Jameson Ogilvie died on 8 October 1906 at Watts Pool, Murchison, Western Australia, by drowning. An inquest was conducted and his death was ruled "accidental by drowning". It appeared that he had gone duck hunting,which he enjoyed, and slipped and fell into 3 feet of water which soon became 10 feet where his body was found. His wife said that he was "timid of water" and he apparently had tried to grasp an object to hold onto, but could not and drowned in the Murchison River. An obituary in the Geraldton Express, a local newspaper described Andrew Ogilvie as "a gentleman in every sense of the word, and those who knew him best doubt that he created a single enemy during the whole of his career in the Northampton District. While always taking a keen interest in public matters, he abstained from public participation, his retiring disposition preventing him from engaging in the turmoil incidental to party warfare of any sort of kind."

     Mary Isabella Ogilvie was born in January 1859 at 4 Park Place, Dundee, Forfar, Scotland. She was a congregant at St. Peter's Presbyterian Church, a short walk from 4 Park Place. She was educated at the East of Scotland Institution on Tay Street, in Dundee. She never married. At the age of 20 she moved with her mother and sister, Mia, to Clifton, Bristol in England where she lived for the rest of her life. She travelled extensively to France, Chile (to visit her sister Rachel Balfour), and Australia (to visit her Ferguson cousins near Perth. Western Australia). Her sister, Rachel, died at age 31 while Minnie, Mia and their mother were visiting. Rachel left 3 young boys who came with Minnie and her mother to live with them in Clifton. See Rachel Balfour. Aunt Minnie liked to play the piano. In her nineties she wrote a memoir entitled A Scottish Childhood which she published herself in 1952. She lived at 35 Canynge Square, Clifton, Bristol. She died at Clifton at age 93.

     Mia (Margaret) M.B. Ogilvie was born in 1863 at Dundee, Forfar, Scotland; Source: A Scottish Childhood. As of 1883,her married name was Evans. She married Ernest Dering Evans in 1883. Mia (Margaret) M.B. Ogilvie died on 7 March 1947.

     Ernest Dering Evans was born circa 1857. He married Mia (Margaret) M.B. Ogilvie, daughter of John Ogilvie and Annie (Anne) Maxwell, in 1883. Ernest Dering Evans died on 4 November 1948.

     John Philip Ogilvie Evans was born on 8 May 1918 at Flax Bourton, Bristol. He was was a Boardmaker for a paper company in Bristol after being discharged from the RNVR. He married Penelope Prideaux, daughter of Humphrey Wyatt Prideaux and Constance Evelyn West, on 28 October 1944 at Clifton, Bristol. John Philip Ogilvie Evans lived in 1945 at 13 Manilla Road, Clifton, Bristol, and later the family moved to 2 Worcester Crescent off College Road. Following retirement, John and Penelope went to live at White Cottage, Trewithian, Cornwall. He died on 13 July 1989 at Trewithian, Cornwall, at age 71.

     Ann (Nancy) Hutton Loggie lived at Waterybutts, Errol, Pershire; and later in Northern Ireland. She was born circa 1890. She married John Ogilvie, son of George Ogilvie and Harriet Gordon, circa 1908. As of circa 1910,her married name was Ogilvie. Ann (Nancy) Hutton Loggie died after 1922.

     George Maxwell Ogilvie was born in 1911 at Dundee, Forfar (Angus), Scotland, he was also known as Geordie. He was a partner in J & J Ogilvie, solicitors. He married Clara Caroline Harrison circa 1950. George Maxwell Ogilvie died in 1979 at Dundee, Scotland.

     Sheila Ann Ogilvie was born on 26 October 1909 at Broughty Ferry, Dundee. She was educated at Edinburgh University where she took a double first in modern languages, with honours in German, having studied under Professor Schlatt there. Sheila took evening classes in engineering and factory safety at the Polytechnic of Central London (now Westminster College), and eventually became one of the first female factory inspectors in Great Britain. She was working for the Colonial Service and went to Palestine to work in the Labour Department in Jerusalem. For her excellent service there she was awarded the Palestine 1945-48 medal and was a survivor of the King David Hotel, Jerusalem, bomb outrage in 1947. Sheila returned to Britain in 1948. Subsequently she was sent to Africa where at Bamako, French Sudan she set up the Institute of Public Health in Industry. Later she was appointed assistant labour adviser at the Colonial Office in London with official responsibility for the conditions of working women in the Colonies (now the Commonwealth). She became deputy adviser to the Secretary of State for the Colonies. Sheila travelled extensively in Africa, the Caribbean and the Far East to see working conditions for herself. On one occasion, she went to Hong Kong as the official government representative to study women's working conditions. For her services to the government she was made an OBE (Order of the British Empire). Sheila translated two books from French into English: The Concept of Empire in Western Europe from the Fifth to the Fourteenth Century by Robert Folz, pub. 1969; and The Art of Cezanne by Kurt Badt, pub. 1985. Sheila retired in 1969 to Edinburgh where she continued to meet and correspond with the many friends she had made at home and abroad during her travels, until her health broke down and she was unable to communicate. She died on 24 January 1991 from Alzheimers disease (dementia) at Charteris House, Lasswade Road, Edinburgh, at age 81.

     Margaret Helen Ogilvie was born circa 1920; she was also known as Margie. As of circa 1937,her married name was Fulton. She died in 1985 at Derry, N. Ireland.

     Mary Anna Wolff was born on 4 June 1852 in Elberfeld, Germany. Formed as Barmen-Eberfeld in 1929 through the amalgamation of the towns of Barmen, Elberfeld, Beyenburg, Cronenberg, Ronsdorf and Vohwinkel, the name was changed to Wuppertal (Wupper Valley) in 1930. As of 1886,her married name was Ogilvie. She married William Maxwell Ogilvie on 11 October 1886 at Valparaiso, Chile. In her Memoirs, Elsie Carlisle described her mother as "tall and rather stately, with lovely features, grey eyes and soft brown hair.... She was deeply, passionately religious - her faith was the core of things; and she loved my Father and all of us children with devotion. But she was a sad person with little sense of humour and power of relaxation .... She was [also] inflexible, uncompromising and intolerant. She was determined to make us good and for anything that she judged wrong I was ostracized until I had confessed and apologised...But [this] never made the least difference to my love for Mother or my knowledge that she was doing what she believed was right for my good.... And how she has been justified in her children.... and I know they would admit that they owed a great debt to the driving force of her character." Mary Anna Wolff died on 19 July 1923 at Bournemouth at age 71 and is buried there.

     Rotha Thomas was born circa 1860 at London, England. As of after 1923,her married name was Ogilvie. She married William Maxwell Ogilvie, son of John Ogilvie and Annie (Anne) Maxwell, on 18 November 1924. Rotha Thomas died circa 1945.

     Sir (William) Heneage Ogilvie Maj-Gen KBE, MD, MCh, FRCS was born on 14 July 1887 at Valparaiso, Chile. At age 11, Heneage travelled to Scotland to live with his uncle, George Ogilvie at Westlands in Broughty Ferry, for 3 years while studying in Dundee. Later he went to England under the care of Miss Sykes, governess, and was sent to Mr. Bradshaw's School at Packwood Haugh. He stayed with his grandmother Annie, and great-aunt Minnie in Clifton for the holidays. Later he went to Clifton College, New College, Oxford and Guy's Hospital, London. At Oxford he gained first class honors in physiology in 1910. He obtained his F.R.C.S. (Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons) in 1920. He married (Vere) Magdalen Quilter in February 1915 in Southwark Cathedral. Heneage Ogilvie became an assistant surgeon at Guy's in 1923, a full surgeon in 1938 and consultant surgeon in 1952. He was vice-president of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1945-7. He was elected Hunterian professor in 1924 and Bradshaw lecturer in 1946. He was joint editor of "The Practitioner" from 1946-1962. He was considered one of the great general surgeons in British surgery. His primary interests were surgery of the gastrointestinal tract and orthopedics. Heneage served in a medical capacity in 3 wars: the Balkan War of 1912-13 (click on icon above to read his letter), and the two World Wars. He was appointed as Consultant Surgeon to the West Africa Force in 1941 and to the Middle East Force in 1942 with the rank of Major-General. From 1944-45 he was Consulting Surgeon Eastern Command. In 1946 he was appointed KBE for his war efforts. In 1948 Heneage published an article on a previously unrecognized condition of the colon thereafter known as Ogilvie syndrome. Heneage also enjoyed travelling and sailing, He founded the Surgical Travelers Club. He was a skilled sailor and member of the Royal Ocean Racing Club. A brilliant essayist, his many publications include "Surgery, Orthodox and Heterodox" (1948), "No Miracles Among Friends" (1959) amd "The Tired Business Man (1964). His reputation was international and he was an honorary fellow of tahe Royal College of Surgeons of Canada, Royal Australian College of Surgeons and the American College of Surgeons. Sir Heneage Ogilvie died on 15 April 1971 at London, England, at age 83. He is buried in Bosham, Sussex.

     (Vere) Magdalen Quilter was born on 24 June 1891. She married Sir (William) Heneage Ogilvie Maj-Gen KBE, MD, MCh, FRCS, son of William Maxwell Ogilvie and Mary Anna Wolff, in February 1915 in Southwark Cathedral. As of September 1915,her married name was Ogilvie. (Vere) Magdalen Quilter died in 1985.

     Florence (Flo) Ogilvie was born in 1888 at Valparaiso, Chile. As of 1913,her married name was Venables. She married Rev. Malcolm Venables on 14 April 1913 at the Church of Harrow Weald by the Bishop of London. Florence (Flo) Ogilvie died after 1970.