Sarah Riddell

Abt 1677 - Aft 1720  (> 44 years)

• Name	Sarah Riddell
  Birth	Abt 1677	Scotland
  Gender	Female
  Role	1685	East Jersey, New Jersey, USA
  	Transported prisoner's child
  Departure	5 Sep 1685	Leith, Midlothian, Scotland
  	Aboard the Henry and Francis
  Arrival	7 Dec 1685	Perth Amboy, Middlesex, New Jersey, USA
  Imprisonment	24 Sep 1689	Rochefort, Allier, Auvergne, France   [1]
  	Held with her father, brother and maid in prison, following their capture at sea returning from East Jersey
  Death	Aft 1720
  Person ID	I37295	East Jersey Genealogies
  Last Modified	7 Dec 2025

  
  

  Father	Archibald Riddell,   b. Abt 1636, Ayrshire, Scotland d. 17 Feb 1708, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland (Age 72 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Helen Aitkenhead,   b. Abt 1637, North Berwick, East Lothian, Scotland d. Abt Oct 1685, At sea (Age 48 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Family ID	F30567	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mr John Currie,   b. Abt 1672, Ochiltree, Ayrshire, Scotland d. 18 Jun 1720, Haddington, East Lothian, Scotland (Age 48 years)
  Marriage	26 Nov 1703	Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland   [2, 3]
  Children	1. John Currie,   b. Abt Dec 1719, East Lothian, Scotland  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   2. Walter Currie,   b. 1717, East Lothian, Scotland  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   3. Isobel Currie,   b. 1708, East Lothian, Scotland  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   4. Archibald Currie,   b. 1704, East Lothian, Scotland  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   5. Anna Currie,   b. 1709, East Lothian, Scotland  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   6. Jean Currie,   b. 1711, East Lothian, Scotland  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F23284	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	7 Dec 2025

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - Abt 1677 - Scotland Departure - Aboard the Henry and Francis - 5 Sep 1685 - Leith, Midlothian, Scotland Arrival - 7 Dec 1685 - Perth Amboy, Middlesex, New Jersey, USA Imprisonment - Held with her father, brother and maid in prison, following their capture at sea returning from East Jersey - 24 Sep 1689 - Rochefort, Allier, Auvergne, France Marriage - 26 Nov 1703 - Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  Only three children are recorded in Scott's Fasti Ecclesiae Warrick's lives of the Moderators : Isobell, Walter and John

  
  

• Sources

  [S3611] Privy Council of Scotland, The Register of the Privy Council of Scotland, 3rd Series, XIV, pp337-338, 427. [S3608] Marriages (OPR) Scotland, (Name: National Records of Scotland; Location: Edinburgh;), Edinburgh 685/1 450/154. [S3612] Scott, Hew, Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae; the Succession of Ministers in the Church of Scotland from the Reformation, (Name: Oliver and Boyd; Location: Edinburgh; Date: 1923;), Vol. I - Synods of Lothian and Tweeddale, p370.