See also
| Husband: | Robert SHEDDEN (1709-1759) | |
| Wife: | Margaret SIMSON ( - ) | |
| Children: | John SHEDDEN (1753-1833) | |
| William SHEDDEN (1755- ) | ||
| Margaret SHEDDEN (1757-1841) | ||
| Janet SHEDDEN (1759- ) | ||
| Elizabeth SHEDDEN ( - ) | ||
| Marriage | 6 Feb 1752 | Beith |
| Name: | Robert SHEDDEN | |
| Sex: | Male | |
| Father: | John SHEDDEN (1675?-c. 1765) | |
| Mother: | Margaret MONTGOMERIE ( - ) | |
| Birth | 5 Oct 1709 | Beith |
| Residence | Marshalland & Morrishill | |
| Residence | Virginia | |
| Death | 7 Aug 1759 (age 49) | |
| Name: | Margaret SIMSON | |
| Sex: | Female | |
| Father: | - | |
| Mother: | - | |
| Name: | John SHEDDEN | |
| Sex: | Male | |
| Spouse 1: | Barbara WILSON ( - ) | |
| Spouse 2: | Janet SIMSON ( - ) | |
| Birth | 27 Jun 1753 | |
| Residence | Morrishill | |
| Death | 1833 (age 79-80) | Morrishill, Beith, Ayrshire |
| Name: | William SHEDDEN | |
| Sex: | Male | |
| Birth | 10 Jun 1755 | Beith |
| Name: | Margaret SHEDDEN | |
| Sex: | Female | |
| Spouse: | Charles WATSON ( - ) | |
| Birth | 7 Jul 1757 | Beith |
| Death | 23 Apr 1841 (age 83) | |
| Name: | Janet SHEDDEN | |
| Sex: | Female | |
| Spouse 1: | James SCRIMGEOUR ( - ) | |
| Spouse 2: | James Arthur WILSON (1766- ) | |
| Birth | 6 Apr 1759 | Beith |
| Name: | Elizabeth SHEDDEN | |
| Sex: | Female | |
| Spouse: | William REID ( - ) | |
Birth from scotlandspeople OPR births
Information from Wikipedia page for Morrishill
Robert Shedden of Marshalland b. 5/10/1709.
He returned from Virginia and bought Morrishall from William Adam in 1748.
Robert also bought The Longcroft, Hillhead and the Shortback of the Hill plus lands at Townhead of Broadstone.
Robert married Margaret Simson of Willowyard and then Elizabeth Moore of Bruntwood.
Robert had 7 children and died in 1759. His widow married James Wilson.
Information from History of the county of Ayr.
Robert Shedden, bought the lands of Morrishill, in 1748, and afterwards the lands of Broad- stone. He married, in 1752, Margaret, daughter of William Simson of Willowyard, and had 5 children.
Information re Jamie Montogomery from Glasgow Museums.
In 1750 a Scottish merchant in Virginia named Robert Shedden purchased an enslaved boy named Jamie for £56. Two years later Shedden sent the young boy back to Scotland where he would be apprenticed to Shedden’s brother-in-1aw, a carpenter named Robert Morrice who lived in Shedden’s home town of Beith, Ayrshire. Shedden intended to profit by this, for he would eventually have Jarmie sent back to Virginia and sold as a valuable carpenter.
Information from the Memoir of William Wilson
Robert's date of birth confirmed.