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James Rendall and Isabella Tulloch Scollay

James Rendall (b. 26^th October 1851) was a son of William Rendall and Marjorie Lennie. He was born shortly before the family moved from Skaill to Peatwall.

He married Isabella Tulloch Scollay (b. 12 Jun 1853), the daughter of William Scollay and Ann Reid, on 22^nd May 1874. Isabella was a farm servant at Noltland at the time.

James was a farm servant and living at Breck, Aikerness in 1881. He and Isabella had ten children:

• Jane Mason Rendall b. 28^th July 1874. Jane had a son in 1905. She married David Reid (b. 29^th September 1871), the son of shoemaker Archibald Reid and Elizabeth Leslie, in 1922. David was a crofter at Rose Cottage. Jane died there on 14^th December 1949 at the age of seventy five.

• James Rendall b. 16^th April 1879. James was at Lochend at the time of the 1891 census.

• John Rendall b. 4^th August 1881

• George Rendall b. 19^th August 1884. George was at Lochend at the time of the 1891 census.

• Mary Lennie Rendall b. 14^th December 1886 who married George Rendall (b. 7^th July 1884) in 1925. George was the son of George Rendall and Barbara Cooper.

• Betsy Groat Rendall b. 2^nd January 1888 and died on 27^th January 1889

• Robert Reid Rendall b. 26^th May 1889 who married Annie Rendall, the daughter of William Rendall and Lizzie Bremner, in 1915. They had nine children and stayed at Noltland.

• Betsy Groat Rendall b. 19^th February 1891. She was with the family at Lochend at the time of the 1901 census.

• Isabella Rendall b. 4^th April 1892 who married seaman David Hutchison (b. 5^th August 1891) in 1920. David was a son of John Hutchison and Ann Rendall.

• Davina Reid Rendall b. 14^th November 1897. She was with the family at Lochend at the time of the 1901 census.

The family moved to Lochend around 1885 and appeared there at the time of the 1891 census with James and Isabella staying for the rest of their lives.

James's occupation on registering the birth of the children was farm servant and subsequently crofter. In the 1901 census, James's occupation at Lochend is given as cattleman on farm.

Isabella died on 2^nd November 1922 at the age of sixty nine. James died there on 23^rd August 1929. He was seventy eight.