Harrower Family Tree » Jean Galt (1765-1842)
Personal data Jean Galt
Sources 1, 2, 3, 4- Alternative name: Jane Galt (also known as / alias)
- She was born in the year 1765 in Craigie, Ayrshire, Scotland.Sources 3, 4, 5, 6
- She was christened on December 17, 1765 in Craigie, Ayrshire, Scotland.Sources 1, 3
- Profession: in the year 1803 Farmers Wife, Birth of eighth child, Son Mathew in Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, Scotland.Source 7
- Resident:
- in the year 1841: Wardneuk Farm, Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, Scotland.Source 4
- in the year 1800: Cookston, Ayrshire, Scotland.Source 8
- in the year 1807: Wardlaw, Ayrshire, Scotland.Source 9
- in the year 1789: Cookston, Ayrshire, Scotland.Source 10
- She died on June 28, 1842 in Wardneuk Farm, Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, Scotland, she was 77 years old.Source 11
- A child of John Galt and Helen Young
Household of Jean Galt
She is married to John Rankin.
They got married on May 17, 1788 at Craigie, Ayrshire, Scotland, she was 23 years old.Source 2
Child(ren):
- Elizabeth Rankin 1794-????
- James Rankin 1791-????
- John Rankin 1789-????
- William Rankin 1793-< 1800
- Helen Rankin 1796-????
- Mathew Rankin 1803-????
- Robert Rankin 1807-????
- William Rankin 1800-????
- Jean Rankin 1798-????
Notes about Jean Galt
1. "Homely Musings, by a Rustic Maiden" (Jane Stevenson) written in 1870, downloaded from https://archive.org/details/homelymusingsby00stevgoog
The book describes part of the authors life, visiting various family residences, on her travels around Ayrshire. Jean/Jane Stevenson's Grandmother, Mary Galt, is Jean Galts sister, her Great Grandmother is Helen Young, Great Grandfather is John Galt.
3. The book does not mention Jean Galt by name, she is named only as another of Jane Stevensons Great Grandmother's daughters, but states that she was married to a man named John Rankine, Farmer at Wardneuk, who had a son named David, his youngest son, who was in the Farm of Goatfoot.
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- Scotland. Select Births and Baptisms. Ancestry,com. 1564 -1950, Ancestry.com, 1765 Record for Jean Galt Ancestry.com. Scotland, Select Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014. Original data: Scotland, Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013.
Record for Jean Galt
Name: Jean Galt
Gender: Female
Baptism Date: 17 Dec 1765
Baptism Place: Craigie by Kilmarnock, Ayr, Scotland
Father: John Galt
FHL Film Number: 1041336
Reference ID: - 2:15F3ZKM - Scotlands People - Old Parish Registers of Banns and Marriages, 1788 RANKIN, JOHN, JANE GALT. (Old Parish Registers Marriages 584/ 10 289 Craigie) https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/view-image/nrs_opr_records/8315386?image=289&return_row=1 26/04/1788 RANKINE, JOHN, JANE GALT (Old Parish Registers Marriages 597/ 60 53 Kilmarnock) https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/view-image/nrs_opr_records/8143663?image=53&return_row=2
17/05/1788 RANKIN, JOHN JANE GALT (Old Parish Registers Marriages 584/ 10 289 Craigie)
Craigie 1788 Marriages.
John Rankin parish of Kilmk. and Jane Galt here entered their names for procln. of Banns 17 May
https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/view-image/nrs_opr_records/8315386?image=289&return_row=1
26/04/1788 RANKINE, JOHN, JANE GALT (Old Parish Registers Marriages 597/ 60 53 Kilmarnock)
Kilmarnock 1788 Marriages.
Rankine 26th April 1788 John Rankine in this parish & Jean Galt in the parish of Craigie after lawful proclamation were married
https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/view-image/nrs_opr_records/8143663?image=53&return_row=2 - Scotlands People - Old Parish Registers of Births and Baptisms, 1765 GALT, JEAN (Old Parish Registers Births 584/ 10 108 Craigie)
1765 GALT, JEAN (Old Parish Registers Births 584/ 10 108 Craigie)
Anno Domini 1765
Jean daughter to John Galt in Harelaw was Baptized 17 Decr - 1841 Scotland Census Ancestry.com, Record for Margaret Kerr Parish: Kilmarnock; ED: 6A; Page: 6; Line: 1135; Year: 1841 1841 Scotland Census [Ancestry.com] The 1841 Census for Scotland was taken on the night of 6 June 1841. The following information was requested: name, age, gender, profession, and birthplace. Database online.
Record for Margaret Kerr
Name: Margaret Kerr
Age: 60
Estimated birth year: abt 1781
Gender: Female
Where born: Ayrshire, Scotland
Civil Parish: Kilmarnock
County: Ayrshire
Address: Wardneuk
Parish Number: 597
Household Members:
Name Age
David Rankin 30
Mary Kerr 20
John Rankin 4 Days
Jean Galt 70
Margaret Kerr 60
Katherin Sillars 25
Janet Thorburn 25
James Brown 20
Thomas Grey 12 - Scotland. Select Births and Baptisms. Ancestry,com. 1564 -1950, Ancestry.com, 1761 Record for Janet Galt Ancestry.com. Scotland, Select Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014. Scotland, Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013. FHL Film Number: 1041386 Reference ID: 2:16F077F
Record for Janet Galt
Name: Janet Galt
Gender: Female
Birth Date: 4 Apr 1761
Baptism Date: 12 Apr 1761
Baptism Place: Kilmarnock, Ayr, Scotland
Father: John Galt
Mother: Helen Young
FHL Film Number: 1041386
Reference ID: 2:16F077F - Homely Musings, by a Rustic Maiden by Jane Stevenson, Homely Musings, by a Rustic Maiden by Jane Stevenson, https://ia802205.us.archive.org/2/items/homelymusingsby00stevgoog/homelymusingsby00stevgoog.pdf
The book describes part of the authors life, visiting various family residences, on her travels around Ayrshire. Jean/Jane Stevenson's Grandmother, Mary Galt, is Jean Galts sister, her Great Grandmother is Helen Young, Great Grandfather is John Galt.
- Scotlands People - Old Parish Registers of Births and Baptisms, 1803 RANKIN, MATTHEW (Old Parish Registers Births 597/ 40 35 Kilmarnock)
08/04/1803 RANKIN, MATTHEW (Old Parish Registers Births 597/ 40 35 Kilmarnock)
Births April 1803
Rankine. Mathew 8th child of John Rankin Farmer & Jean Galt spouses was born 8th April 1803 - Scotlands People - Old Parish Registers of Births and Baptisms, 1800 RANKIN, WILLIAM (Old Parish Registers Births 597/ 30 475 Kilmarnock)
23/11/1800 RANKIN, WILLIAM (Old Parish Registers Births 597/ 30 475 Kilmarnock)
Births and Baptisms - Nov - 1800
Rankin.
William - seventh child of John Rankin, Farmer in Cookston, and Jean Galt his wife - was born Nov10th 1800 & baptised Nov. 23rd 1800 - Scotlands People - Old Parish Registers of Births and Baptisms, 1807 RANKIN, ROBERT (Old Parish Registers Births 597/ 40 131 Kilmarnock)
15/11/1807 RANKIN, ROBERT (Old Parish Registers Births 597/ 40 131 Kilmarnock)
Rankin.
Robert 10th child of John Rankin farmer in Wardlaw and Jean Galt sp. born Nov'r 15th 1807 - Scotlands People - Old Parish Registers of Births and Baptisms, 1789 RANKINE, JOHN (Old Parish Registers Births 597/ 30 260 Kilmarnock)
1789 RANKINE, JOHN (Old Parish Registers Births 597/ 30 260 Kilmarnock)
Kilmarnock 1789 Baptisms
John Rankine first son & first child of John Rankine Cookstown and Jean Galt spouses their first marriage born 14th June 1789 & baptized 18th June 1789 by Mr. McKinlay - Scotlands People - Wills and Testaments, 1843 Rankin, Jean (Wills and testaments Reference SC6/44/12, Ayr Sheriff Court) Image 605 Last image 607 Page 605 https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/view-image/nrs_wills_testaments/730819?image=1&session=100412&return_row=0 1843 Rankin, Jean (Wills and testaments Reference SC6/44/12, Ayr Sheriff Court) Image 607 Last image 607 Page 606 & 607 https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/view-image/nrs_wills_testaments/730819?image=2&session=100412&return_row=0
1843 Rankin, Jean (Reference SC6/44/12 Ayr Sherrif Court Inventories) First Page
Inventory
Umquhile
Mrs Jean Galt or Rankin
At Ayr the eighth day of December one thousand eight hundred & forty three years, Compeared John Sturrock Writer in Kilmarnock who produced inventory of the personal estate of the deceased Mrs Jean Galt or Rankin after designed and also Last will & Testament by said defunct of which Inventory & last will and testament the tenor follows -
Inventory of the personal Estate of Mrs Jean Galt or Rankin lately residing at Wardneuk in the parish of Kilmarnock, (widow of the deceased John Rankin late Farmer there) and who died at Wardneuk on the twenty eighth day of June Eighteen hundred forty two.- Value of the deceaseds proportion of the free personal estate of the said John Rankin, her husband conform to Residuary Account thereof exhibited resigned by the Executor after named on the twenty sixth day of February 1841, the said proportion never having been seperated or divided from the remainder of the said John Rankins estate in his Exceutors hands-------------------------------------------------------------£182-15-4
Sum of the Inventory, One Hundred and eighty two pounds fifteen shillings & four pence Sterling (signed) David Rankin Andrew Jamason Esquire,
Commisary Depute of the Commisariat of Ayrshire, Compeared David Rankin, Farmer in Wardneuk in the parish of Kilmarnock. Executor of the deceased Mrs Jean Galt or Rankin lately residing at Wardneuk, widow of the deceased John Rankin. Farmer there who being solemnly sworn & examined depones that the said Mrs Jean Galt or Rankin, the deponents mother died at Wardneuk aforesaid upon or about the twenty eighth day of June Eighteen hundred & Forty two, and the deponent has entered upon the possession & management of the deceaseds personal Estate as sole Executor, nominated by her in her Last will & Testament executed on the Eighteenth day of November, Eighteen hundred & thirty nine, which is now exhibited & signed by the Deponent & the said Commissary Depute of this date
as relative hereto:- That the Deponent does not know of any settlement or writing relative to the disposal of the deceased personal Estate or Effects or any part of them other than that now exhibited:- That the pregoing Inventory which is likewise Signed by the Deponent & the said Commissary depute is a full and true Inventory of all the personal or movable Estate or Effects of the said deceased Mrs Jean Galt or Rankin wheresoever situated already recovered, or known to the deponent to be existing belonging or due to her beneficially at the time of her death:- And that the said Estate situated in Scotland is above the value of One Hundred pounds & under the value of Two Hundred pounds Sterling - All which is truth as the deponent shall answer to God,
(Signed) David Rankin,
And. Jameson.-------
Written by Chas. Lockhart
Collated by ??
Testament
Umquhile
Mrs Jean Galt or Rankin }
I, Mrs Jean Galt or Rankin residing at Wardneuk in the parish of Kilmarnock Relict of the deceased John Rankin
Farmer there in order to regulate the succesion to my moveable Estate, Do hereby Make constitute and appoint David Rankin now Farmer in Wardneuk aforesaid, my son to be my sole Executor & universal legatory with full power to intromit with my whole moveables and Executry of every description all which I hereby Assign transfer and Make over to and in favour of the said David Rankin his heirs Executors and assignees - to give up Inventories thereoff to confirm the same & generally to do every thing in the premises competent to an Executor But under the burden of the just and lawful onesaid debts that shall be due by me at the time of my death & of my deathbed & funeral charges - And this I declare to be my Last will & Testament. Dispensing with the delivery hereof, & declaring these presents to be valid though found in my custody, or in that of any other person to whom I may have commited the same undelivered at the time of my death - And I consent to the Registration hereof in the books of Council & Session, or others competent therin to remain for preservation, for that purpose I constitute.
My Procurators & in Witness whereof I have subscribed these presents written by Thomas Brown Apprentice to John Sturrock Writer in Kilmarnock, at Wardneuk aforesaid this Eighteenth day of November Eighteen hundred and thirty nine years before these Witnesses the said John Sturrock & Thomas Brown (signed, Jean Galt, John Sturrock Witness, Thomas Brown Witness- Kilmarnock 7th December 1843,- The within is the Last Will and Testament of the deceased Mrs. Jean Galt or Rankin, lately residing at Wardneuk referred to in oath emitted by me as her executor, before the Commissary Depute of Ayrshire of this date in reference to stamped inventory of the defuncts personal Estate exhibited by me, (Signed) David Rankin. And. Jameson.-----------
Written by Chas Lockhart
Collated by ??
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