| Husband: | James ADAM (1760-1849) | |
| Wife: | Janet SHEDDEN (1788-1863) | |
| Children: | Matilda ADAM (1812- ) | |
| Joanna Shedden ADAM (1822- ) | ||
| John Shedden ADAM (1824-1906) | ||
| James ADAM ( -1841) | ||
| Barbara ADAM ( - ) | ||
| Janet ADAM ( - ) | ||
| Elizabeth ADAM ( - ) | ||
| Marriage | 8 Aug 1807 | Morrishill, Beith, Ayrshire |
| Name: | James ADAM | |
| Sex: | Male | |
| Father: | - | |
| Mother: | - | |
| Birth | 1760 | Burnfoot, Lanarkshire |
| Occupation | Factor and Inventor | |
| Death | 1849 (age 88-89) | Edinburgh |
| Name: | Janet SHEDDEN | |
| Sex: | Female | |
| Father: | John SHEDDEN (1753-1833) | |
| Mother: | Barbara WILSON ( - ) | |
| Birth | 4 Apr 1788 | Morrishill, Beith, Ayrshire |
| Death | 21 Jun 1863 (age 75) | Edinburgh |
| Name: | Matilda ADAM | |
| Sex: | Female | |
| Birth | 30 Aug 1812 | |
| Name: | Joanna Shedden ADAM | |
| Sex: | Female | |
| Birth | 24 Dec 1822 | Beith |
| Name: | John Shedden ADAM | |
| Sex: | Male | |
| Spouse: | Louisa-Ann DALGRANO (1838-1922) | |
| Birth | 31 Mar 1824 | Isle of Lewis |
| Occupation | Draughtsman | |
| Death | 1906 (age 81-82) | Sydney, Australia |
| Name: | James ADAM | |
| Sex: | Male | |
| Spouse: | Margaret FRENCH ( - ) | |
| Occupation | Civil Engineer | |
| Death | 23 Nov 1841 | New Zealand |
| Name: | Barbara ADAM | |
| Sex: | Female | |
| Name: | Janet ADAM | |
| Sex: | Female | |
| Name: | Elizabeth ADAM | |
| Sex: | Female | |
| Spouse: | Rowan RONALD ( - ) | |
Marriage from scotlandspeople opr index.
There is an ancestry DNA match between descendants of Janet Shedden b. Beith and descendants of Alexander Hall Shedden b. India.
Information from another researcher's tree on ancestry.co.uk and scotlandspeople indexes.
Information from the Memoir of William Wilson.
Janet, born 28th March 1788; married, 10th August 1807, James Adam, W.S., and factor on the Drummond estates in Perthshire. Mr Adam gave up the factorship, and, on his own account, entered into extensive speculations and improvements in land in his native parish of Lochwinnoch, which financially proved disastrous. He afterwards for a time became factor in Lewis for Mackenzie of Seaforth, but ultimately resided and practised as W.S. in Edinburgh.
A man of considerable originality, he invented the screw propeller, and, along with his son James, experimented successfully on a fishing boat at Leith. In 1832, the result was laid before the Admiralty as being an invention eminently adapted for moving ships of war, but it was not approved of. Unfortunately Mr Adam took out no patent for his invention, which was afterwards applied for by, and granted to, Francis Potter Smith, of Hendon, in 1836. The correspondence between Mr Adam and the Board of Admiralty was printed in pamphlet form by Ballantyne & Hughes, Edinburgh, circa 1837.
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