Alexander Christie

• Name	Alexander Christie  [1]
  Birth	Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland   [2]
  Gender	Male
  Person ID	I44507	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	1 Mar 2026

  
  

  Family	Catherine Mitchell,   b. County Down, Ireland
  Children	+ 1. Mary Christie,   b. Port la Tour, Nova Scotia d. Between 1824 and 1827
  Family ID	F25974	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	28 Feb 2026

  
  

• Notes

  "ALEXANDER CHRISTIE was from Edinburgh, his wife a widow Catherine Mitchell was from County Down, Ireland. He drew lands in Shelburne, but as work in his line (mason and bricklayer) failed there he came to Barrington with his family and did the mason-work for John Sargent's first grist mill. His son Obed at the age of 14 was apprenticed to Wm. Donaldson to learn coopering. The father Alexander, lived at The Passage where Wm. Robertson afterwards lived, and later moved to Tatamagouche and River John, N.S. His son Alex went to sea and died of sea sickness. Mrs. Christie had a daughters, Jenny Mitchell who m. Thomas Black. Obed Christie once, in a fit, fell into the fire and burned his hand which had to be amputated. His death was due to falling in shallow water, in another fit."m [A History of Barrington Township and Vicinity, citation details below]

  
  

• Sources

  [S2654] The Nickerson Family: The Descendants of William Nickerson, 1604-1689, First Settler of Chatham, Massachusetts, Parts I, II & III: The First Six Generations with Vital Statistics of the Seventh Generation, The Combined 2nd Edition With Corrections by Pauline Wixon Derrick with Gertrude James and Barbara E. Goward. Cape Cod, Massachusetts: The Nickerson Family Association, 1997. [S2572] A History of Barrington Township and Vicinity, Shelburne County, Nova Scotia 1604-1870, with a Biographical and Genealogical Appendix by Edwin Crowell. Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, 1923.