Harriett Strachan (née Moyes)

Harriett Strachan née Moyes, co-claimant for compensation as one of the executors of her husband Thomas Renny Strachan (q.v.), but not listed among the awardees. Assumed to be a beneficiary of the claims.

1. Daughter of Shadrach Moyes, a customs officer in Edinburgh, and his wife Eliza Moyes. Listed as the widow of Thomas Renny Strachan when she acted as executor of her mother in 1839. Her father was one of the first people to build on Princes Street in Edinburgh in 1769.

2. Died sine prole, her husband's estate passing to John Rennie-Strachan-Carnegie (q.v.). "JOHN RENNY-STRACHAN-CARNEGIE, Esq. of Tarrie, Angus, second son of the late Sir David Carnegie of Kinnaird, Bart., succeeded to the estates of Tarrie and Seaton, on the demise of the life-renter Mrs. Renny-Strachan, by testamentary deed of gift of Thomas Renny-Strachan, Esq., who died 20th October, 1823, without issue. Mr. T. R. Strachan succeeded his brother Alexander, about 1809, and married Harriet, only daughter of the late Mr. Moyn, who held a high situation under Government, at Edinburgh, who survived him thirty years, and died issueless."

T71/866 St David claim nos. 104 (Swamps) and 122 (Norris).

1. Midlothian Testaments transcribed at http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/LANARK/2000-04/0956625808 [accessed 13/06/2012]. Modern Edinburgh (London, Religious Tract Society, 1854) p. 57.

2. See separate entries for Thomas Renny Strachan and John Rennie-Strachan-Carnegie. David Macgregor Peter, The baronage of Angus and Mearns, comprising the genealogy of three hundred and sixty families ... being a guide to the tourist and heraldic artist (Edinburgh, Oliver and Boyd, 1856) pp. 331-332.