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Children of Charles and Ellen Drysdale
  • John, born 28 Sept. 1793 in Scotland. No further record.
  • John, born 8 Nov. 1794, in Alloa, Clackmananshire, Scotland (Scottish parish records); died 21 June 1869, age 77 (Death Register, Halifax County); married 10 Mar. 1830, Sarah Elizabeth Blake, daughter of Elizabeth and unknown Blake. Both buried in Greenhead cemetery.
  • Mary, born 16 May 1798 in Scotland; died 29 Feb. 1876, age 79. Buried Goodwood cemetery. Never married.
  • James McIntosh, born 24 Feb. 1805, bapt. 12 Apr. 1805 at St. Mathew's, Halifax; died 24 June 1876; married 31 Dec. 1839 Elizabeth Yeadon of Spryfield, daughter of William and Elizabeth (Drysdale) Yeadon. Both are buried in Greenhead cemetery.
  • Eleanor/Ellen (twin), bapt. 6 Sept. 1807 at St. Mathew's, Halifax; buried 3 Feb. 1897, age 90 years, in Hacket's Cove cemetery; married 1 June 1830 at St. Paul's, Halifax, David Umlah, son of John and Margaret (Redmond) Umlah of St. Margaret's Bay. David was born 17 Dec, 1805, bapt. at St. George's, Halifax; buried 8 Aug. 1883, age 79 years, at Hacket's Cove cemetery. (In her father's Will, Eleanor is called Ellen).
  • Jane, (twin), bapt. 6 Sept. 1807 at St. Mathew's, Halifax; died 28 May 1893, age 90 years. Buried Goodwood cemetery (Snow's Funeral Home); married 7 Feb. 1829 James Drysdale, son of John and Isabella (Byrne) Drysdale of Straw House, Brookside.
  • Charles Carmichael, bapt. 8 Oct. 1815 at St. Mathew's, Halifax; died 22 Aug. 1868, age 55 years; married 13 Nov. 1838 Mary Ann McGrath, daughter of John and Mary Ann (Peters) McGrath, and stepdaughter of William Umlach of Goodwood. Mary Ann was born about 1820; died 16 Oct. 1876. Both are buried in Goodwood cemetery on land they deeded for that purpose.
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