Direct descendant is highlighted in red

FATHER

James Cuddie

MOTHER

Isabella Russell

HUSBAND

George Gilmore

CHILDREN

1. John Gilmore

Margaret Cuddy
by Susan Brooke
Jan 2023

There is very strong evidence that Margaret Cuddy was the daughter of James Cuddy and Isabella Russell. She was baptized as an adult on 24 Sep 1809. (1) She married George Gilmore a year later on 16 May 1810, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland. (2) At that time George Gilmore was a weaver on Pittencrieff which was a street in Dunfermline. (3)   Jean Cuddie, a sister to Margaret, was listed as living at 21 Pittencrieff Street in the 1851 census of Dunfermline.  Helen Gilmore, a sister to George Gilmore, lived on Pittencrieff St North Side in the 1841 and 1851 census records. 
They baptized their first child on 15 Nov 1811.  She apparently died two years later as the obituary on her son, John Gilmore, stated that his mother died when John was an infant and that he left for American when he was about 3 years old.  .

Sources

(1) Baptism of Margaret Cuddy

When their son, John Gilmore, was baptized at Queen Anne St.  Burgher Associate, Dunfermline in 1811, the only other person named Cuddy in that same church was a Jean Cuddy who was baptizing her children.
The death Certificate on Jean Cuddie stated that her parents were James Cuddie and Isabella Russell. (see page for Jean Cuddie)
The parents of Margaret Cuddy's husband, George Gilmore, were born in Cairneyhill, Fife, Scotland.  The only family named Cuddie living there at that time was James Cuddie and his wife Isabella Russell.

From looking at the baptismal records for the six children of James Cuddie and Isabella Russell, it seems that the family was in Bathgate, West Lothian through 1788. (Jean Cuddy, born about 1788, is from Bathgate in the 1851 census.)  The family does not show up in Cairneyhill, Fife until 1809.  When they arrived in Cairneyhill they had their three youngest children baptized at Cairneyhill Associate Congregation, Carnock, Fife . The three baptisms were recorded on the same page.  Margaret, an adult, was baptized 24 Sep 1809.  The next entry is for two children of James Cuddy and Isabella Russell, Clementina and Janet Cuddy who were baptized 4 Jul 1809.  The death record for Janet indicates she was born in 1797 which would mean she was baptized when she was 12. 

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Three baptisms were recorded on the same page.  Margaret, an adult, was baptized 24 Sep 1809.  The next entry is for two children of James Cuddy and Isabella Russell, Clementina and Janet Cuddy who were baptized 4 Jul 1809

(2) Marriage of George Gilmore to Margaret Cuddie

"George Gilmour Weaver on Pittencrieff and Margaret Cuddie both in the parish on in them Names for proclamation in order to marriage, and being regularly proclaimed and no objections made they were married 16th May 1810"

(3) Dunfermline