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David Rendall and Elizabeth Pottinger

David Rendall (b. 21^st March 1850) was the youngest of the eight known children of John Rendall and Margaret Lennie. He was brought up with his parents at Quoynabreckan and married Elizabeth Pottinger from Stanegeo on 4^th February 1870.

Elizabeth (or Betsy as she was called) was born on 29^th January 1846. She was the daughter of Thomas Pottinger and Ann Leslie.

David and Elizabeth were to spend their lives at Stanegeo. They had ten children:

• Joann Rendall (b. 22^nd April 1870) who married James Cowper (or Cooper) on 28^th August 1891.They had a daughter Lizzie Ann Cowper.

• Thomas Rendall (b. 11^th February 1872) who married Catherine Drever Leslie (b. 27 July 1880) on 26^th December 1902

• James Rendall (b. 1^st February 1875) who married Jessie Ann Stewart Drever (b. abt 1871) on 2^nd September 1897. They had six children while at Stanegeo. They died at Links, Westray.

• Margaret Deerness Rendall (b. 18^th September 1877) who married seaman Robert Bews (b. abt 1872) on 20^th November 1907. They had family in Westray.

• David Rendall (b. 29^th April 1880) who married Marion Robertson,

• William Rendall (b. 11^th February 1883) who married Johann Harcus. They had family and stayed at Windywalls, Westray.

• George Rendall (b. 14^th October 1885) who married Georgina Groat. They also had family and stayed at Beach House, Westray.

• Sinclair Rendall (b. 2^nd July 1888) who married Mary Ann Rendall from Peatwall. Mary's parents were George McDonald Rendall, a second cousin of Sinclair Rendall, and Georgina Hutchison.

• Elizabeth Rendall (b. 29^th January 1891) who married James Mowat in 1891. They lived in Shapinsay.

• Catherine Rendall (b. 16^th April 1893) who married William Rendall from Peatwall, a brother of bother Sinclair Rendall's wife, Mary Ann Rendall.

David Rendall's occupation was largely that of farmer although there was some fishing. He died at Stanegeo on 11^th April 1927 at the age of seventy seven. Elizabeth had died there a year earlier on 27^th April 1926 at the age of eighty.