1. parents: John Robertson,? Margaret Taylor name: David Robertson gender: Male birth date: 24 Apr 1873 birthplace: WEMYSS,FIFE,SCOTLAND father's name: John Robertson mother's name: Margaret Taylor indexing project (batch) number: C11459-1 system origin: Scotland-ODM source film number:6035516
Scotland. Select Births and Baptisms. Ancestry,com. 1564 -1950, Ancestry.com, 1873 Record for David Robertson Ancestry.com. Scotland, Select Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014. Original data: Scotland, Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013.
Record for David Robertson Name: David Robertson Gender: Male Birth Date: 24 Apr 1873 Birth Place: Wemyss, Fife, Scotland Father: John Robertson Mother: Margaret Taylor
1881 Scotland Census Ancestry.com, Record for John Robertson Parish: Wemyss; ED: 4; Page: 15; Line: 22; Roll: CSSCT1881_127 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 Robertson Name: John Robertson Age: 54 Estimated birth year:abt 1827 Relationship: Head Spouse's name: Margaret Robertson Gender: Male Where born: Wemyss, Fife Registration Number: 459/1 Registration district:Wemyss Civil Parish: Wemyss County: Fife Address: Weaver's Row Occupation: Blacksmith ED: 4 Household schedule number: 77 Line: 22 Roll: CSSCT1881_127 Household Members: Name Age John Robertson 54 Margaret Robertson 52 Helen Robertson 26 John Robertson 23 Margaret Robertson 18 Alice Robertson 17 Robert Robertson 16 Eliza Robertson 13 William Robertson 11 Georgina Robertson 9 David Robertson 7
The temperature on April 24, 1873 was about 1.3 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 68%. Source: KNMI
From July 6, 1872 till August 27, 1874 the Netherlands had a cabinet De Vries - Fransen van de Putte with the prime ministers Mr. G. de Vries Azn. (liberaal) and I.D. Fransen van de Putte (liberaal).
January 17 » A group of Modoc warriors defeats the United States Army in the First Battle of the Stronghold, part of the Modoc War.
February 11 » King Amadeo I of Spain abdicates.
March 3 » Censorship in the United States: The U.S. Congress enacts the Comstock Law, making it illegal to send any "obscene literature and articles of immoral use" through the mail.
April 4 » The Kennel Club is founded, the oldest and first official registry of purebred dogs in the world.
May 23 » The Canadian Parliament establishes the North-West Mounted Police, the forerunner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
August 30 » Austrian explorers Julius von Payer and Karl Weyprecht discover the archipelago of Franz Josef Land in the Arctic Sea.
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