Name: James Greethead (also Greathead, Greithead) Strachan

Date of birth: 19 August 1806

Place of birth: Bristol, Gloucestershire

Father: James Strachan                       Mother: Ann Ellison

Spouse(s): Elizabeth Ward, youngest daughter of Mr B. P. Ward, Esq., of Clare Villa

Date(s) of marriage: 5 December 1843            Place(s) of marriage: Cheltenham, Gloucestershire

Occupation: Manager of County of Gloucester Bank, 105 High Street; Manager of Joint Stock Bank; later registered as Gentleman. Retired from County of Gloucester Bank in 1891, after 56 years of service

Lifestory: Brother of Richard Ellison Strachan. Baptised 11 June 1807. He had ten children: seven daughters and three sons (Eliza Ellen Strachan (b. c1845), Mary Catherine Strachan (b. c1846), Clara Ann Strachan (b. c1848), James Arthur Strachan (b. c1851), Susannah Strachan (b. c1854), Eliza Strachan (b. c1855), Marcy C. Strachan (b. c1856), Horace W. Strachan (b. c1856), Clara Strachan (b. c1858), Edward Aubrey Strachan (b. c1859). In 1856, appointed Treasurer to the Cheltenham Improvement Commissioners. Resident at 2 Tivoli Cottages 1843; 4 Clarendon Villas 1855; 106 High Street 1871; 600 Gloucester Bank 1881; Pittville Court 1891. Joseph Pitt’s land steward and accountant (1831) had been Josiah Greethead Strachan.

Moved to Pittville from:                     Moved from Pittville to: [death in Pittville]

Date of death: 28 November 1893     Place of death: Pittville Court, Prestbury Cheltenham, Gloucestershire

Date of burial: 2 December 1893       Place of burial: Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England by Reverend P. Smith

Notes: The will of James was proved on 28 December 1893 in London to his widow Elizabeth and sons James Arthur Strachan a major in the Light Infantry and Edward Aubrey Strachan a Captain in the Royal Enniskillen Fusiliers. His effects were valued at £28,976 14s 2d.

ID: 561       Contributor(s): Ella Forster