Dingeman Hendrikse Legacy » Margaret Loban (1808-1844)

Personal data Margaret Loban 


Household of Margaret Loban

Waarschuwing Attention: Spouse (William Farquhar) is 35 years older.

She is married to William Farquhar.

They got married in the year 1828 at London, England, she was 19 years old.


Child(ren):

  1. Margaret Farquhar  1832-????
  2. Mary Jane Farquhar  1837-1854
  3. Amelia Farquhar  1833-1914
  4. Agnes Farquhar  1835-1859


Notes about Margaret Loban

Source: Maggie Symon, a great-great-great-great niece of Margaret Loban.

I can give you a few more dates for Margaret, she was born to Robert Loban and Isabella Laing on 10 Jul 1808 in Fochabers, Moray, 7th of 9 children, died on 21 Jan 1844 in Fochabers. At the time she married William Farquhar the family were living in the boat building village of Kingston, across the Spey River from Fochabers, but they had moved back to Fochabers by 1841 Census, probably after her father died. Her mother died in 1855 and by that time only 3 of her 9 children survived her.

On the 1841 Census Margaret is living with four daughters, a governess and two servants in South Street, St Andrews, Fife. William seems to be a boarder with a Tutor also in St Andrews - so I guess they moved from Perth to St Andrews (where the University is) when the 12 years old William went away to school. Margaret died on 21 Jan 1844 in Fochabers (pre death certificates) the obituary in the Elgin Courant on the 1 Feb 1844 says "Death in Fochabers on the 21st uin (sic) Mrs Margaret Loban widow of the late General William Farquhar of EICS." And the daughters are with 'a cousin' (Farquhar) on the 1851 census in 21 Coates Crescent, Edinburgh.

William married Margaret Loban in *London*, and do you know if he went by a nickname of 'George', as you can see from this there was some confusion in the newspaper announcement. The London really puzzles me, having been here you know that London is just about as far away as you can get and still be on the mainland. I have also found entries for their marriage online in East India Company-linked papers.

Margaret's youngest sister Jane supported their mother and a succession of nieces and nephews as well as her own illegitimate daughter between 1841 and 1851 as a dressmaker, and she put up a gravestone, which was not a cheap thing. Margaret's sister Grace married a Tax Inspector who I am beginning to think she meet in Perth - they married in Bellie but the Banns were also read out in Perth implying that he lived there at the time. All the sisters I have found married local men; farmers and fishers.

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Birthday July 10, 1808

  • The temperature on July 10, 1808 was about 23.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east-northeast. Weather type: half bewolkt. Source: KNMI
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    De Republiek der Verenigde Nederlanden werd in 1794-1795 door de Fransen veroverd onder leiding van bevelhebber Charles Pichegru (geholpen door de Nederlander Herman Willem Daendels); de verovering werd vergemakkelijkt door het dichtvriezen van de Waterlinie; Willem V moest op 18 januari 1795 uitwijken naar Engeland (en van daaruit in 1801 naar Duitsland); de patriotten namen de macht over van de aristocratische regenten en proclameerden de Bataafsche Republiek; op 16 mei 1795 werd het Haags Verdrag gesloten, waarmee ons land een vazalstaat werd van Frankrijk; in 3.1796 kwam er een Nationale Vergadering; in 1798 pleegde Daendels een staatsgreep, die de unitarissen aan de macht bracht; er kwam een nieuwe grondwet, die een Vertegenwoordigend Lichaam (met een Eerste en Tweede Kamer) instelde en als regering een Directoire; in 1799 sloeg Daendels bij Castricum een Brits-Russische invasie af; in 1801 kwam er een nieuwe grondwet; bij de Vrede van Amiens (1802) kreeg ons land van Engeland zijn koloniën terug (behalve Ceylon); na de grondwetswijziging van 1805 kwam er een raadpensionaris als eenhoofdig gezag, namelijk Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck (van 31 oktober 1761 tot 25 maart 1825).
  • In the year 1808: Source: Wikipedia
    • April 8 » The Roman Catholic Diocese of Baltimore is promoted to an archdiocese, with the founding of the dioceses of New York, Philadelphia, Boston, and Bardstown (now Louisville) by Pope Pius VII.
    • May 2 » Outbreak of the Peninsular War: The people of Madrid rise up in rebellion against French occupation. Francisco de Goya later memorializes this event in his painting The Second of May 1808.
    • May 3 » Peninsular War: The Madrid rebels who rose up on May 2 are executed near Príncipe Pío hill.
    • August 21 » Battle of Vimeiro: British and Portuguese forces led by General Arthur Wellesley defeat French force under Major-General Jean-Andoche Junot near the village of Vimeiro, Portugal, the first Anglo-Portuguese victory of the Peninsular War.
    • October 14 » The Republic of Ragusa is annexed by France.
    • November 23 » French and Poles defeat the Spanish at Battle of Tudela.

Day of death January 21, 1844

  • The temperature on January 21, 1844 was about 7.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west. Weather type: half bewolkt dampig. Source: KNMI
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    De Republiek der Verenigde Nederlanden werd in 1794-1795 door de Fransen veroverd onder leiding van bevelhebber Charles Pichegru (geholpen door de Nederlander Herman Willem Daendels); de verovering werd vergemakkelijkt door het dichtvriezen van de Waterlinie; Willem V moest op 18 januari 1795 uitwijken naar Engeland (en van daaruit in 1801 naar Duitsland); de patriotten namen de macht over van de aristocratische regenten en proclameerden de Bataafsche Republiek; op 16 mei 1795 werd het Haags Verdrag gesloten, waarmee ons land een vazalstaat werd van Frankrijk; in 3.1796 kwam er een Nationale Vergadering; in 1798 pleegde Daendels een staatsgreep, die de unitarissen aan de macht bracht; er kwam een nieuwe grondwet, die een Vertegenwoordigend Lichaam (met een Eerste en Tweede Kamer) instelde en als regering een Directoire; in 1799 sloeg Daendels bij Castricum een Brits-Russische invasie af; in 1801 kwam er een nieuwe grondwet; bij de Vrede van Amiens (1802) kreeg ons land van Engeland zijn koloniën terug (behalve Ceylon); na de grondwetswijziging van 1805 kwam er een raadpensionaris als eenhoofdig gezag, namelijk Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck (van 31 oktober 1761 tot 25 maart 1825).
  • In the year 1844: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 3.1 million citizens.
    • February 28 » A gun on USSPrinceton explodes while the boat is on a Potomac River cruise, killing six people, including two United States Cabinet members.
    • March 21 » The Bahá'í calendar begins. This is the first day of the first year of the Bahá'í calendar. It is annually celebrated by members of the Bahá'í Faith as the Bahá'í New Year or Náw-Rúz.
    • May 1 » Hong Kong Police Force, the world's second modern police force and Asia's first, is established.
    • May 24 » Samuel Morse sends the message "What hath God wrought" (a biblical quotation, Numbers 23:23) from a committee room in the United States Capitol to his assistant, Alfred Vail, in Baltimore, Maryland, to inaugurate a commercial telegraph line between Baltimore and Washington D.C.
    • August 8 » The Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, headed by Brigham Young, is reaffirmed as the leading body of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).
    • October 22 » Millerites, followers of Baptist preacher William Miller anticipate the end of the world in conjunction with the Second Advent of Christ. The following day became known as the Great Disappointment.


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