Genealogy of the Bartholomew Family
A family of Scottish merchants, engravers and mapmakers and their descendants
Last Update: 24 September 2024
There are three significant family groups of Bartholomews established in Scotland. Though this website focuses on the Bartholomews of Linlithgow we know through Y-DNA testing that this family branch is related genetically to the other two branches: (1) Bartholomews of Falkirk/Muiravonside and (2) Bartholomews of Duntarvie/Kirkliston. For more information on these separate groups, follow the link here.
The Bartholomews of Linlithgow family story begins with an Archibald Bartholomew, Merchant and Burgess of Linlithgow, Scotland. He was born ca.1682 and died ca.1750. Archibald married Agnes Morrison, daughter of a John Morrison, on 24 July 1709.
Archibald and Agnes had nine known children (five daughters and four sons).
merchant b.1718
Archibald's son George Bartholomew was born 10 June 1718 in Linlithgow. Like his father, George was a merchant in Linlithgow as well as Dean of Guild. He married Anne Andrew in 1745, three months after Charles Edward Stuart ('Bonnie Prince Charlie') had landed in Scotland to start gathering men for what was to become the Jacobite Rebellion. George and Anne had seven children, but only three survived to adulthood.
George's eldest surviving son was John Bartholomew, born in 1754. John settled across the Firth of Forth to become laird of Wester Baldridge, Dunfermline. Son Andrew b. 1759 continued the family merchant tradition in the burgh until he lost his fortune in 1804. Youngest daughter, Anna, b. 1761 married Scottish lawyer Ralph Bowie. They emigrated to Pennsylvania.
It is with this John's first son George Bartholomew, born in 1784, that the family's engraving and map-making tradition started.
An interesting account of younger George's early life and his relationship to his father can be found in this article published by the Dunfermline Historical Society: 'My Favourite Boy'.
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The information presented here is primarily based on the painstaking research completed by Robert Gordon Bartholomew (1927-2017) based in Edinburgh. Robert had been a passionate genealogist throughout his lifetime and it is to him that this family genealogy is dedicated.
The Genealogy of the MACDONALDS of SUTHERLAND: Related by marriage to the Bartholomews of Linlithgow through the marriage between John George Bartholomew and Janet (Jennie) Macdonald in 1889, Click HERE for the genealogy and history of this family. |