Gabriel Christie (British Army officer)
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Ralph Earl
, circa 1784Gabriel Christie (16 September 1722 – 26 January 1799) was a
Province of Quebec
.
Early life
Born in
.Military career
In 1745, Christie was gazetted Lieutenant of the
Commander-in-Chief of the Leeward Islands. In 1793, he was gazetted Lt.-General, and in 1796 he was made Colonel Commandant of the King's Royal Rifle Corps. In 1798, he received his final promotion to General and Commander-in-Chief of the British Forces in the Canadas, at Montreal
.
Canadian Seigneur
Christie was based in the
Lachenaie and Repentigny to his lands. He owned land in England too, but even these seigneurial acquisitions were not enough to satisfy his ambition: In 1792, he made two unsuccessful requests for land grants in the Eastern Townships. His final purchase was in 1796, when Jean-Baptiste Boucher de Niverville sold him the seigneury of Chambly
.
Christie hired agents to look after his extensive land holdings and lived comfortably in
American Invasion of Canada in 1775. The seigneuries near St. Johns that he purchased with Hazen also created difficulties for him as during the War of Independence Hazen sided with the armies under Richard Montgomery who invaded Quebec
. Hazen and Christie were in court for years over their failed business partnership.
Family
He had married Sarah Stevenson, daughter of John Stevenson of
Rue Saint-Paul, Montreal
.
- General George III. He married Mary, daughter and heiress of General Ralph Burton, of Hotham Hall, Yorkshire and assumed the Burton name by license. Their sons died unmarried. Their eldest daughter married first Major-General John Clitherow and second Henry Peters of Betchworth Castle. Their youngest daughter founded at Wakefielda home for discharged female prisoners.
- Catherine Christie (1772-1849). At Jamaica, she married Major John Robertson (1767-1815), of the King's Royal Rifle Corps, son of Colonel Daniel Robertson of Struan. He was associated with the mercantile firm of Alexander & James Robertson of Montreal, through whom he was granted 2,000 acres in the township of Buckingham, Quebec. She returned to Montreal in 1831 with her three children: Catherine (married Philip Anglin, of the King's Royal Rifle Corps), Maria and Amelia.
- Sarah Christie (1774-1836), married Rev. James Tunstall (1760-1840), Rector of Christ Church Cathedral, Montreal. They were the parents of three sons and a daughter, Mrs Edward Roe.
- Gabriel Plenderleath (b.c.1778)
- George Plenderleath (b.c.1779)
- William Smith Plenderleath (1780-1845), inherited his father's Canadian estates from his half-brother, on the condition he took the name 'Christie'. He was married three times, but had no children (1) In 1808, Marie-Marguerite Chaboillez, daughter of Charles Chaboillez and widow of Simon McTavish of the North West Company,[1] (2) Elizabeth McGinnis (3) Amelia Martha Bowman (1805-1898)
See also
References
- ^ Lost Montreal (Oxford University Press, 1975), by Luc d'Iberville-Moreau
External links
- Biography at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
- The Christie Seigneuries: Estate Management and Settlement in the Upper Richelieu Valley, 1760-1854
- Genealogical Memoirs of the Christie family of Stirling
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