The 1Q 2005 Issue of the Redpath Ridpath Reidpath Family Newsletter is now available.
This issue is a little late, but this time I have a very good excuse: a total reconstruction of the family website. Gone are the old static pages, we now have a content management system (CMS). I also decided to ditch my old internet service provider (ISP) and that transition to a new host for the site was not smooth at all. Both these major projects have been completed, and while I'm sure we still have some bugs to work out, the new site is open for business!
The new CMS has many new features, some are fully operational and others require a bit of work before we get them 100%. Here are some of the things you can do:
One of our most popular features, the genealogy database, has taken much longer to get working, but I'm glad to announce that this last "missing feature" is now operational. Check out the Genealogy Database !
I note in the last News letter reference to the hamlet of Redpath, near Earlston. I have one or two (not great) photographs which I attach. You may include them in the next edition or forward them to whoever you wish. There is only one street, a cul-de-sac, with a turning circle at the end. Next to the village hall, which is pictured.
The reference to Melrose Abbey - Dryburgh Abbey is closer to Redpath and I imagine there would have been a closer tie or influence. Not sure though, not something I have looked into. Earlston is indeed the closest town to Redpath - I was married there. I am from Yetholm myself (right on the Scotland/England border) although I live and work in Edinburgh now. If any Redpath is ever in Edinburgh for research purposes or a holiday I would be glad to meet them for a drink and a "blether"
I looked for a Redpath tartan twenty seven years ago because I needed a tartan for the kilt I wanted for our wedding. I had to resort to my mothers tartan - Brodie. I am pretty sure there isn't one, which isn't too surprising.
I look forward to your updates, which I enjoy a great deal.
Keep up the good work.
I just recently became interested in my wife's genealogy. Her mother was a Redpath who was born and reared in McAlester, Oklahoma, USA.. My mother-in-law's grandfather, John George Redpath, emigrated in 1867 from the northern portion of Northumberland, England, into Pomeroy, Ohio, and eventually into OK while the area was still the Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory - several years before Oklahoma became a state. He and his wife, Margaret Potts, whom he married in Ohio, had ten children to reach adulthood. Their second son, William Redpath, married Sula Gleason, who was part Choctaw Indian on her mother's side. The marriage took place in Mushulatubbe District, Choctaw Nation, I.T.
The mother, Sula, and the five children, two sons and three daughters, were members of the Choctaw Nation by blood line. William became a member of the Nation as an Intermarried White. I am fairly certain that the reference John V. Ridpath was given in the restaurant in Ardmore, OK, should have been Indians with the name of Redpath rather than Ridpath. But then, from what I have read on your site, what's the difference between Redpath, Ridpath, and Reidpath?
I don't know if John V. Ridpath received other comments on the McAlester Indian with the name Ridpath/Redpath, but it has been nearly three years since he posted the message. I hope he hasn't given up on getting a response to his newsletter message.
I am indebted to my wife's distant cousin, Valerie Glass, in Northumberland, England, for much information on John Redpath and his family and for recommending your site to me. I have found the Redpath genealogy and family history facinating as well as my wife's Choctaw genealogy which can be traced back to Chief Mushulatubbe in the late 1700's.