The Four Daughters of Andrew Reid and Isabella Niven Andrew Reid (1696–1741) was a maltman (or brewer) in Glasgow, the son of Patrick Reid and Agnes Mitchell. On 17 February, 1777, he married Isabella Niven (1701–1739), the daughter of William Niven and Margaret Sheils. A printed family tree suggests Margaret was the granddaughter of another William Niven, the covenanter, who was imprisoned and then banished to the American plantations in 1684. Andrew and Isabella appear to have had seven children, but it is their four surviving daughters who prove to have led well-documented and interesting lives. Agnes was the eldest of the daughters, born about 1728; Isabella, the third daughter, was born about 1732; Elizabeth, my 4x great-grandmother, was baptized 10 February, 1734 and the youngest daughter, Janet, was baptized 13 February, 1739, her mother dying immediately after birth. [i] Their father died in 1741, leaving four orphans aged between two and 13. The four are described at