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- Martha is the daughter of John Strang, shipping merchant at St. Andrews.
. First wife: 1843, Sep 21 he married Martha Strang at Rothesay, Scotland., whose father was a leading shipping merchant in St. Andrews at a time when that port carried on an extensive trade with Great Britain and the West Indies. She died 1847, leaving 2 Ritchie children.
By his first marriage Chief Justice Ritchie had two children, a son William Pollok, who was a lawyer, & who died in Malta about the year 1870, & a daughter Martha, who married D. D. Robertson, Esq., & is now (1907) living with her daughters at Rothesay, N. B. To Mrs. Robertson the writer is indebted for a good deal of the information concerning her father which appears in this chapter.
Ref: Judges of NB & Their Times, Jos. Wilson Lawrence, St. John, N.B., Pub. 1907. - - -
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