Lt. Donald Moodie, RN[1, 2, 3]
1794 - 1861 (67 years)-
Name Donald Moodie Prefix Lt. Suffix RN Birth 25 Jun 1794 Melsetter,,,,Scotland 
Gender Male Death 27 Aug 1861 Pietermaritzburg,Natal,South Africa [4] Person ID I2067 My Genealogy Last Modified 6 Feb 2021
Father Maj. James Moodie, 9th Laird of Melsetter, b. 12 Feb 1757, Melsetter,,,,Scotland d. 28 Jun 1820, Edinburgh,Midlothian,Scotland., (Age 63 years) Mother Elizabeth Dunbar d. 1798 Marriage - _HTITL: Husband
- _WTITL: Wife
Family ID F688 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Eliza Sophia Pigot d. 26 Oct 1881 Marriage 29 Mar 1824 Grahamstown,Cape,South Africa., [5] - _HTITL: Husband
- _WTITL: Wife
Children 1. Sophia Eliza Moodie, b. 15 May 1825, Grahamstown,Cape,South Africa., d. 20 Jan 1860, Kwazulu-Natal,South Africa (Age 34 years)2. Catherine Jemima Moodie, b. 11 Aug 1826, The Cowie,Cape,South Africa d. 29 Sep 1860, Kwazulu-Natal,South Africa (Age 34 years)3. William James Dunbar Moodie, b. 13 Nov 1827, Port Francis,Cape,South Africa d. 13 Jun 1903, Bournemouth,Dorset,England., (Age 75 years)4. George Pigot Moodie, b. 22 Jan 1829, Grahamstown,Cape,South Africa., d. 2 Nov 1891, Westbrooke,Cape,South Africa (Age 62 years)5. Donald Hugh Menzies Moodie, b. 22 Apr 1830, Grahamstown,Cape,South Africa., 6. Charlotte Mary Moodie, b. 8 Feb 1832 d. 17 May 1888 (Age 56 years) 7. Benjamin Charles Moodie, b. 11 Nov 1833, Graaf Reinet,Cape,South Africa., d. 21 Aug 1858, Pietermaritzburg,kwaZulu-Natal,South Africa (Age 24 years)8. Richard James Frederic Moodie, b. 23 Jan 1835, Graaf Reinet,Cape,South Africa., d. 1 Feb 1836, Graaf Reinet,Cape,South Africa., (Age 1 year)9. John Bell Moodie, b. 6 Feb 1836, Graaf Reinet,Cape,South Africa., d. 1876, Pietermaritzburg,kwaZulu-Natal,South Africa (Age 39 years)10. Duncan Campbell Francis Moodie, b. 24 Jan 1838, Cape Town,,South Africa d. Abt Mar 1891, At Sea, (Age 53 years)11. Frederic Walter Octavius Moodie, b. 26 Sep 1839, Cape Town,,South Africa d. 20 Jun 1840, Cape Town,,South Africa (Age 0 years)12. Caroline Maria Mackenzie Moodie, b. 13 Sep 1841, Cape Town,,South Africa 13. Edith Jessie Georgina Moodie, b. 10 Nov 1842, George,Cape of Good Hope,South Africa., 14. Alfred Harding West Moodie, b. 29 Dec 1846, Pietermaritzburg,kwaZulu-Natal,South Africa d. 27 Feb 1882 (Age 35 years)Family ID F694 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 6 Feb 2021
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Notes - Note: The Moodie Book lists a total of 14 children of Donald and Eliza but there are only 10 children, including some who were deceased, listed in the Probate of the estate of Donald Moodie and Eliza Spigot. Those in the Moodie Book but not in the probate died without children which is why they were not included. I have included all children in the Moodie Book
From The Moodie Book:
Donald Moodie, Esq., Lieut. RN., third son of James Moodie, ninth Laird of Melsetter, was horn 25th June 1794, and entered the Royal Navy at Leith, loth December 1808,1 as a first-class volunteer on board the Ardent (64 guns, Captain James Vasbon), bearing the flag of Sir Osmond Nagle. He was transferred, in March 1809, to the Spitfire, sloop (Captain John Ellis), and after serving two years and a half in that vessel in the North Sea and Channel, at Quebec, and on the Spanish coast, he became, September 1811, midshipman on the America (74 guns, Captain Josias Rowley), on the Mediterranean station, in
which he served till October 1814 ; being present at the unsuccessful attack on Leghorn, the reduction of the Santa Maria and Guemios forts, the defences in the
Gulf of Spezia, and the fall of Genoa. Quitting the America in October 1814, he next, until December 1815, served off Ushant and Madeira, and again in the
Mediterranean in the Glasgow (50 guns, Captain the Hon. Henry Duncan) and Impressible (104 guns), flagship of Sir Josias Rowle'. He received his commission
as Lieutenant December 1815, shortly afterwards retiring on half-pay. In 1820 he emigrated to South Africa,3 and joined his brothers Benjamin and John. After
trying farming for some time, he accepted a post in the Civil Service of the Colony; and was for some time Acting-President of the Government Bank at Cape of Good Hope, Colonial Secretary of Natal, 1845-1849, and, in 1857, Speaker of the Legislative Assembly. He married in the district of Albany, Cape Colony, 29th March 1824, Eliza Sophia, second daughter of Major George Pigot,
- Note: The Moodie Book lists a total of 14 children of Donald and Eliza but there are only 10 children, including some who were deceased, listed in the Probate of the estate of Donald Moodie and Eliza Spigot. Those in the Moodie Book but not in the probate died without children which is why they were not included. I have included all children in the Moodie Book
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Sources - [S980] South Africa, Pietermaritzburg Estate Files 1846-1950, (familysearch.org), (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS7P-29F7-L?cc=2573604 : 4 October 2017), > image 1 of 1; Pietermaritzburg Archives (Formerly Natal State Archives), South Africa. (Reliability: 3).
- [S1355] The Marquis of Ruvigny and Raineval, The Moodie Book, (Privately Printed 1906. Retrieved from https://deriv.nls.uk/dcn23/9560/95604496.23.pdf), page 74 (Reliability: 3).
- [S1355] The Marquis of Ruvigny and Raineval, The Moodie Book, (Privately Printed 1906. Retrieved from https://deriv.nls.uk/dcn23/9560/95604496.23.pdf), page 52 (Reliability: 3).
- [S1355] The Marquis of Ruvigny and Raineval, The Moodie Book, (Privately Printed 1906. Retrieved from https://deriv.nls.uk/dcn23/9560/95604496.23.pdf), page 78 (Reliability: 3).
- [S1308] South Africa, Marriage Index, 1807-2007, (ancestry.com), Donald Moodie and Eliza Spigot 29 March 1824 (Reliability: 3).
- [S980] South Africa, Pietermaritzburg Estate Files 1846-1950, (familysearch.org), (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS7P-29F7-L?cc=2573604 : 4 October 2017), > image 1 of 1; Pietermaritzburg Archives (Formerly Natal State Archives), South Africa. (Reliability: 3).
