Harrower Family Tree » John Caint (1845-1923)

Personal data John Caint 

Sources 1, 2, 3, 4

Household of John Caint

(1) He is married to Janet Dick.

They got married on September 6, 1900 at New Sauchie, Clackmannanshire, Scotland, he was 55 years old.Source 6


Child(ren):

  1. Janet Cant  1878-????
  2. Ann Cant  1880-????
  3. Elizabeth Cant  1880-????

Event (Witness at Marriage) on September 6, 1900 in New Sauchie, Clackmannanshire, Scotland : Witnesses were W A Rattray, John Stewart, George Philp, and Kate McLeod..Source 6


(2) He is married to Isabella Beveridge.

They got married on April 7, 1863 at Clackmannan Manse, Clackmannan, Clackmannanshire, Scotland, he was 18 years old.Source 5


Child(ren):

  1. Edward Cant  1866-????
  2. John Cant  1870-1919 
  3. Elizabeth Cant  1867-????

Event (Witness at Marriage) on April 7, 1863 in Clackmannan Manse, Clackmannan, Clackmannanshire, Scotland : John Ferguson, Elizabeth Meiklejohn.Source 5


Notes about John Caint

1. Whistlemount is 2-3 miles from Fossoway, in Perthshire.

2. It states on John Cant's death register that he was a Widower of 1st. Elizabeth Harrower, and 2nd. Janet Dick.
Person registering death was Charles Paterson, Son-in-Law, obviously was miss-led with the name of Johns first wife, as it was Isabella Beveridge.

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Ancestors (and descendant) of John Caint

John Caint
????-< 1863

John Caint
1845-1923

(1) 1900

Janet Dick
1842-????

Janet Cant
1878-????
Ann Cant
1880-????
Elizabeth Cant
1880-????
(2) 1863

Isabella Beveridge
1846-1900

Edward Cant
1866-????
John Cant
1870-1919
Elizabeth Cant
1867-????

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  1. 1901 Scotland Census Ancestry.com, Record for John Cant Parish: Alloa; ED: 15; Page: 28; Line: 2; Roll: CSSCT1901_151 1901 Scotland Census [Ancestry.com] The 1901 Census for Scotland was taken on the night of 31 March/1 April 1901. The following information was requested: place, name, relationship to head of family, marital status, age, gender, profession, birthplace, and whether blind, deaf, and dumb. Database online
    Record for John Cant
    Name: John Cant
    Age: 57
    Estimated birth year: abt 1844
    Relationship: Head
    Spouse's name: Janet Cant
    Gender: Male
    Where born: Whistlemount, Perthshire
    Registration Number: 465A
    Registration district: Alloa
    Civil Parish: Alloa
    County: Clackmannan
    Address: Sauchie
    Occupation: Freestone Quarryman
    ED: 15
    Household schedule number: 141
    Line: 2
    Roll: CSSCT1901_151
    Household Members:
    Name Age
    John Cant 57 Head
    Janet Cant 60 Wife Bannockburn
    Janet Cant 23 Daughter Sauchie Woollen Factory Worker
    Annie Cant 21 Daughter Sauchie Woollen Factory Worker
  2. 1871 Scotland Census Ancestry.com, Record for John Cant Parish: Clackmannan; ED: 1; Page: 12; Line: 25; Roll: CSSCT1871_80 1871 Scotland Census [Ancestry.com] The 1871 Census for Scotland was taken on the night of 2/3 April 1871. The following information was requested: place, name, relationship to head of family, marital status, age, gender, profession, birthplace, and whether blind, deaf, and dumb. Database online.
    Record for John Cant
    Name: John Cant
    Age: 26
    Estimated birth year: abt 1845
    Relationship: Head
    Spouse's name: Isabella Cant
    Gender: Male
    Where born: Fossoway, Perthshire
    Registration Number: 466
    Registration district: Clackmannan
    Civil Parish: Clackmannan
    Town: Clackmannan
    County: Clackmannan
    Address: South Side
    Occupation: Agricultural Labourer
    ED: 1
    Household schedule number: 78
    Line: 25
    Roll: CSSCT1871_80
    Household Members:
    Name Age
    John Cant 26 Head
    Isabella Cant 26 Wife Dunfermline
    Edward Cant 5 Son Airth
    Elizabeth Cant 3 Daughter Falkirk
    John Cant 1 Son Clackmannan
  3. 1891 Scotland Census Ancestry.com, Record for John Cant Parish: Clackmannan; ED: 5; Page: 19; Line: 16; Roll: CSSCT1891_144 1891 Scotland Census [Ancestry.com] The 1891 Census for Scotland was taken on the night of 5/6 April 1891. The following information was requested: place, name, relationship to head of family, marital status, age, gender, profession, birthplace, and whether blind, deaf, and dumb. Database online
    Record for John Cant
    Name: John Cant
    Age: 46
    Estimated birth year: abt 1845
    Relationship: Head
    Spouse's name: Janet Cant
    Gender: Male
    Where born: Fossoway, Perthshire
    Registration Number: 466
    Registration district: Clackmannan
    Civil Parish: Clackmannan
    County: Clackmannan
    Address: North Side of Road
    Occupation: Stone Quarryman
    ED: 5
    Household schedule number: 84
    Line: 16
    Roll: CSSCT1891_144
    Household Members:
    Name Age
    John Cant 46
    Janet Cant 49 Wife Bannockburn,
    Janet Cant 13 Daughter Sauchie
    Annie Cant 11 Daughter Sauchie
    Geoe Dick 63 Boarder
  4. 1881 Scotland Census Ancestry.com, Record for John Cant Parish: Clackmannan; ED: 5; Page: 35; Line: 14; Roll: CSSCT1881_130 1881 Scotland Census [Ancestry.com] The 1881 Census for Scotland was taken on the night of 3/4 April 1881. The following information was requested: place, name, relationship to head of family, marital status, age, gender, profession, birthplace, and whether blind, deaf, and dumb. Database online
    Record for John Cant
    Name: John Cant
    Age: 36
    Estimated birth year: abt 1845
    Relationship: Head
    Spouse's name: Janet Dick
    Gender: Male
    Where born: Fossoway, Perthshire
    Registration Number: 466
    Registration district: Clackmannan
    Civil Parish: Clackmannan
    County: Clackmannan
    Occupation: Quarryman
    ED: 5
    Household schedule number: 185
    Line: 7
    Roll: CSSCT1881_130
    Household Members:
    Name Age
    John Cant 36 Head
    Janet Dick 39 Wife Bannockburn
    Janet Cant 3 Daughter Clackmannan
    Ann Cant 1 Daughter Clackmannan
    Elizabeth Cant 1 Daughter Clackmannan
    Elizth Kinsela 19 Stepdaughter Mother is Janet Dick Woollen Weaver Bannockburn
    Jane Kinsella 17 Woollen Weaver Bannockburn
    John Kinsella 14 Woollen Weaver Bannockburn
    William Kinsella 11 Bannockburn
    Richard Kinsella 9 Bannockburn
    David Soutar 19 Boarder
  5. Scotlands People - Statutory Registers of Marriages (from 1855), 1863 CAINT, JOHN ISABELLA BEVERIDGE (Statutory registers Marriages 466/ 15)
    1863 CAINT, JOHN ISABELLA BEVERIDGE (Statutory registers Marriages 466/ 15)
    Marriages in the Parish of Clackmannan in the County of Clackmannan 1863.
    1863 Tenth April
    Clackmannan Manse
    After Banns according to the Forms of the Established Church of Scotland.
    (Signed)
    John Caint Farm Servant Bachelor
    Age 18 Loanside, Clackmannan
    Parents: John Caint, Soldier (Dec)
    Elizabeth Murray
    (Signed)
    I.B. (Isabella Beveridge) Domestic Servant. Spinster
    Bellsdyke, Bothkenner
    Parents: Robert Beveridge. Collier, (Dec)
    Helen Beveridge M.S. Watters
    (Signed)
    John Gilchrist, Minister
    (Signed)
    John Ferguson, Witness
    Elizabeth Meiklejohn, Witness
    Registered
    1863, April, 13. Clackmannan
    Registrar
    D Smeaton (not signed)
  6. Scotlands People - Statutory Registers of Marriages (from 1855), 1900 CANT, JOHN JANET DICK (Statutory registers Marriages 465/A 69)
    1900 CANT, JOHN JANET DICK (Statutory registers Marriages 465/A 69)
    Marriages in the Parish of Alloa in the County of Clackmannan 1900.
    1900 Sixth September
    After Publication according to the Forms of the Church of Scotland.
    (Signed)
    John Cant, Quarryman, Widower
    Age 56 Main Street, Sauchie, Alloa
    Parents: John Cant, Labourer (deceased)
    Elizabeth Cant M.S. Murray
    (Signed)
    Janet Dick or Kinsella
    Her X mark
    (Signed) W.A. Rattray, Witness
    (Signed) John Stewart, Witness
    Widow Age 59
    Main Street, Sauchie, Alloa
    Parents: James Dick, Nailer (deceased)
    Jane Stewart M.S, Dick
    [Should read Jane Dick M.S. Stewart]
    (Signed)
    Geo. Murray, Minister
    (Signed)
    George Philp, Witness
    Kate McLeod, Witness
    Registered
    1900 September 8th, Alloa
    John Cram
    Assist. Registrar
    A.R.G.
  7. Scotlands People - Statutory Registers of Deaths (from 1855), 1923 CANT, JOHN (Statutory Deaths 465/0A 0024)
    1923 CANT, JOHN (Statutory Deaths 465/0A 0024)
    John Cant
    Roadman
    Widower of
    1st Elizabeth Harrower
    2nd Janet Dick
    1923 February Thirteenth 5h 30m P.M.
    5 Grandra Row, Sauchie, Alloa M. 78 Years
    Parents: John Cant Labourer (deceased)
    Elizabeth Cant M.S. Murray (deceased)
    COD: Cerebral Haemorrhage, Paraplegia
    As certified by
    Edward S Dyer M.B.C.M.
    Inf. Charles Paterson
    Son-in-Law
    Registered
    1923 February 14th Alloa
    And. Roys Grant
    Registrar

Historical events

Day of marriage April 7, 1863

  • The temperature on April 7, 1863 was about 11.5 °C. The air pressure was 13 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 63%. Source: KNMI
  • Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from February 1, 1862 to February 10, 1866 the cabinet Thorbecke II, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1863: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
    • January 26 » American Civil War: Governor of Massachusetts John Albion Andrew receives permission from the Secretary of War to raise a militia organization for men of African descent.
    • April 30 » A 65-man French Foreign Legion infantry patrol fights a force of nearly 2,000 Mexican soldiers to nearly the last man in Hacienda Camarón, Mexico.
    • June 14 » Second Assault on the Confederate works at the Siege of Port Hudson during the American Civil War.
    • September 9 » American Civil War: The Union Army enters Chattanooga, Tennessee.
    • October 15 » American Civil War: The H. L. Hunley, the first submarine to sink a ship, sinks, killing its inventor.
    • November 27 » American Civil War: Battle of Mine Run: Union forces under General George Meade take up positions against troops led by Confederate General Robert E. Lee.

Day of death February 13, 1923

  • The temperature on February 13, 1923 was between -6 °C and 2.3 °C and averaged -0.8 °C. There was 6.5 hours of sunshine (66%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from September 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1923: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 7.1 million citizens.
    • February 10 » Texas Tech University is founded as Texas Technological College in Lubbock, Texas
    • April 18 » Yankee Stadium: "The House that Ruth Built" opens.
    • August 23 » Captain Lowell Smith and Lieutenant John P. Richter performed the first mid-air refueling on De Havilland DH-4B, setting an endurance flight record of 37 hours.
    • September 7 » The International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL) is formed.
    • October 6 » The Turkish National Movement enters Constantinople.
    • October 13 » Ankara becomes the capital of Turkey.


Same birth/death day

Source: Wikipedia


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