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Alexander Badenoch (1850-1935) King Street, Castle Douglas Alexander Badenoch was the baby of the family, born in 1850, so just in for his whole life. a year old when the 1851 census was made of the family home in Ge- He married in 1877 in Kelton, Kirkcudbrightshire to a woman called Jeannie orge Street, Huntly. But the story about him and his family is one of the Pettigrew from Airdrie, Lanarkshire. Jeannie was the daughter of William Pet- best ones in the whole family tree, so here goes In 1861, he was still tigrew and Margaret Brownlee. a schoolboy and still living with his mum and brother George in Huntly. William Pettigrew is described in the Who’s Who in Glasgow, 1909, as “the By 1871, his brother George was a married man in London, but Ale- General Superintendent of the Caledonian Railway Company spent the early xander was still living in Huntly with his mother, now at 64 Gordon years of his life in Castle-Douglas, and began his railway career at New Ga- Street, and working as a Saddler’s Apprentice, the trade he would work lloway Station. He entered the office of the general superintendent, of which he is now the head, on 11th March, 1868, and nine years later was appointed ALEXANDER’S station-master at Wemyss Bay, but in November, 1882, returned to the ge- neral superintendent's office as chief clerk. On the appointment of Mr. Calth- FATHER IN LAW, rop as head of the department in 1903, Mr. Pettigrew was made out-door WILLIAM PETTIGREW, assistant; and on Mr.
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