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Personal data Robert Simpson 

Sources 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

Household of Robert Simpson

He is married to Elizabeth Stein.

They got married on January 15, 1842 at Cameron, Fife, Scotland, he was 32 years old.Source 8


Child(ren):

  1. John Simpson  1864-????
  2. Mary Simpson  1856-????
  3. William Simpson  1846-????
  4. James Simpson  1848-????
  5. Christian Simpson  1854-????
  6. Jane Simpson  ± 1859-????
  7. David Simpson  1851-????
  8. Robert Simpson  ± 1840-????


Notes about Robert Simpson

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2. Robert Simpsons death register states his mothers name was Christina Henderson.

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Robert Simpson

Robert Simpson
1809-1890

1842

Elizabeth Stein
1822-1886

John Simpson
1864-????
Mary Simpson
1856-????
William Simpson
1846-????
James Simpson
1848-????
Christian Simpson
1854-????
Jane Simpson
± 1859-????
David Simpson
1851-????
Robert Simpson
± 1840-????

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  1. 1871 Scotland Census Ancestry.com, Record for Robert Simpson Parish: Dunipace; ED: 4; Page: 19; Line: 1; Roll: CSSCT1871_82 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 Robert Simpson
    Name: Robert Simpson
    Age: 60
    Estimated birth year: abt 1811
    Relationship: Head
    Spouse's name: Elizabeth Simpson
    Gender: Male
    Where born: Kirkcaldy, Fife
    Registration Number: 478
    Registration district: Dunipace
    Civil Parish: Dunipace
    County: Mitton Row
    Occupation: Ironstone Miner
    ED: 4
    Household schedule number:91
    Line: 1
    Roll: CSSCT1871_82
    Household Members:
    Name Age
    Robert Simpson 60
    Elizabeth Simpson 50
    David Simpson 19
    Christina Simpson 17
    Mary Simpson 15
    John Simpson 5
  2. 1851 Scotland Census Ancestry.com, Record for Robert Simpson Parish: Saline; ED: 4; Page: 3; Line: 3; Roll: CSSCT1851_94; Year: 1851 1851 Scotland Census [Ancestry.com] The 1851 Census for Scotland was taken on the night of 30/31 March 1851. 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 Robert Simpson
    Name: Robert Simpson
    Age: 40
    Estimated birth year:abt 1811
    Relationship: Head of Family (Head)
    Spouse: Elizabeth Simpson
    Gender: Male
    Where born: Kirkcaldy, Fife
    Parish Number: 455
    Civil Parish: Saline
    Town: Oakley
    County: Fife
    Address: S Oakley
    Occupation: Ironstone Miner
    ED: 4
    Page: 3
    Household schedule number:9
    Line: 3
    Roll: CSSCT1851_94
    Household Members:
    Name Age
    Robert Simpson 40
    Elizabeth Simpson 30
    Robert Simpson 12
    Alexr Simpson 10
    Elizabeth Simpson 8
    William Simpson 5
    James Simpson 2
  3. 1861 Scotland Census Ancestry.com, Record for Robert Simpson Parish: Saline; ED: 6; Page: 3; Line: 9; Roll: CSSCT1861_60 1861 Scotland Census [Ancestry.com] The 1861 Census for Scotland was taken on the night of 7/8 April 1861. 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 Robert Simpson
    Name: Robert Simpson
    Age: 48
    Estimated birth year: abt 1813
    Relationship: Head
    Spouse's name: Elizabeth Stein
    Gender: Male
    Where born: Kirkcaldy, Fife
    Registration Number: 455
    Registration district: Saline
    Civil Parish: Saline
    County: Fife
    Address: 9 South Oakley
    Occupation: Coal Miner
    ED: 6
    Household schedule number: 9
    Line: 9
    Roll: CSSCT1861_60
    Household Members:
    Name Age
    Robert Simpson 48
    Elizabeth Stein 40
    Alex Simpson 19
    Elizabeth Simpson 17
    William Simpson 15
    James Simpson 18
    David Simpson 9
    Christian Simpson 6
    Mary Simpson 4
    Jane Simpson 2
  4. Scotlands People - Old Parish Registers of Births and Baptisms, 1809 SIMPSON, ROBERT(Old Parish Registers Births 442/40 125, Kirkcaldy)
    14/12/1809 SIMPSON, ROBERT(Old Parish Registers Births 442/40 125, Kirkcaldy)
    1809.
    30 November
    Robert Son of Alexander Simpson, Coalhewer & Christian Pride his spouse. Bap 14th Dec'r following. Wit Mrs. Billerwell, Dysart, & Jane Peat, the childs Grandmother
  5. 1881 Scotland Census Scotlands People, 1881 SIMPSON, ROBERT, (Census 478/ 2/ 2) Dunipace, Stirling Parish: Dunipace, Stirling, Scotland 1881 Scotland Census [Scotlandspeople.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 Downloaded from Ancestry @ https://www.ancestry.co.uk/mediaui-viewer/tree/38830317/person/19289630018/media/f43f2ac2-3c0e-4ec1-b9b7-d2ee3f676ed5
    1881 SIMPSON, ROBERT, 478/ 2/ 2 Dunipace, Stirling
    Dwelling: Milton Row, Dunipace
    Robert SIMPSON Head M 72 Ironminer Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland
    Eliz. SIMPSON Wife M 63 Ceres, Fife, Scotland
    Mary SIMPSON Daughter U 20 Paper Mill Worker Saline, Fife, Scotland
    John SIMPSON Son U 16 Ironmoulder Saline, Fife, Scotland
  6. 1841 Scotland Census Scotlands People, 1841 STEIN, WILLIAM, (Census 412/ 3/ 11) Parish: Cameron 1841 Scotland Census [scotlandspeople.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. Originally written as Stien, in Scotlands People, 1841 Census. Transcript of 1841 Census on Ancestry.co.uk also states Stien. I have changed entry in Ancestry.co.uk for this record, to read Stein, (As below) It has been reported to Ancestry.co.uk that the name is incorrect by Richard Evans on 21/01/2013 (Stein rather than Stien, Correction due to an error in transcription). Image from Scotlands People is that for Isabella Brown, rather than William Stein
    1841 STEIN, WILLIAM, (Census 412/ 3/ 11)
    Name: William Stein
    Age: 50
    Estimated birth year:abt 1791
    Gender:Male
    Where born: Fife, Scotland
    Civil Parish: Cameron
    County: Fife
    Address: Denhead
    Occupation: Agricultural Labourer
    Parish Number: 412
    Household Members:
    Name Age
    William Stein50
    Elizabeth Stein50
    Elizabeth Stein19
    Robert Stein17
    David Stein11
    Isabella Brown88
    Robert Simpson25
    Robert Simpson 1
  7. Scotlands People - Statutory Registers of Deaths (from 1855), 1890 SIMPSON, ROBERT (Statutory Deaths 478/ 17) Dunipace Downloaded from Ancestry
    1890 SIMPSON, ROBERT (Statutory Deaths 478/ 17) Dunipace
    Deaths in the Parish of Dunipace in the County of Stirling 1890.
    Robert Simpson
    Ironstone Miner
    Widower of Elizabeth Stein
    1890, June Fourteenth 6h, P.M.
    Row, Dunipace M. 82 Years
    Parents: Alexander Simpson
    Pit Contractor (Deceased)
    Christina Simpson
    M.S. Henderson (Deceased)
    COD: Debility 3 Months
    As cert. by Michael Benny M.D.
    Alex. Simpson
    Son (Present)
    Registered 15th June, Dunipace
    Robert Tennent
    Registrar
  8. Scotlands People - Old Parish Registers of Banns and Marriages, 1842 SIMPSON, ROBERT, ELISABETH STEIN, (Old Parish Registers Marriages 15/01/1842, 412/20 126) Cameron
    1842 SIMPSON, ROBERT, ELISABETH STEIN, (Old Parish Registers Marriages 15/01/1842, 412/20 126) Cameron
    Cameron Banns and Marriages 1842.
    Simpson & Stein
    1842 January.This day Robert Simpson & Elizabeth Stein both in this Parish were contracted in order to marriage & having been regularly proclaimed were married on the 15th same month

Historical events

Birthday November 30, 1809

  • The temperature on November 30, 1809 was about 3.0 °C. There was 2 mm of rainWind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: betrokken. Source: KNMI
  •  This page is only available in Dutch.
    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 1809: Source: Wikipedia
    • February 27 » Action of 27 February 1809: Captain Bernard Dubourdieu captures HMS Proserpine.
    • April 19 » An Austrian corps is defeated by the forces of the Duchy of Warsaw in the Battle of Raszyn, part of the struggles of the Fifth Coalition. On the same day the Austrian main army is defeated by a First French Empire Corps led by Louis-Nicolas Davout at the Battle of Teugen-Hausen in Bavaria, part of a four-day campaign that ended in a French victory.
    • May 5 » Mary Kies becomes the first woman awarded a U.S. patent, for a technique of weaving straw with silk and thread.
    • May 17 » Emperor Napoleon I orders the annexation of the Papal States to the French Empire.
    • July 6 » The second day of the Battle of Wagram; France defeats the Austrian army in the largest battle to date of the Napoleonic Wars.
    • July 28 » Peninsular War: Battle of Talavera: Sir Arthur Wellesley's British, Portuguese and Spanish army defeats a French force led by Joseph Bonaparte.

Christening day December 14, 1809

  • The temperature on December 14, 1809 was about 3.0 °C. There was 22 mm of rainWind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: betrokken. 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 1809: Source: Wikipedia
    • January 16 » Peninsular War: The British defeat the French at the Battle of La Coruña.
    • March 29 » King Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden abdicates after a coup d'état. At the Diet of Porvoo, Finland's four Estates pledge allegiance to Alexander I of Russia, commencing the secession of the Grand Duchy of Finland from Sweden.
    • April 19 » An Austrian corps is defeated by the forces of the Duchy of Warsaw in the Battle of Raszyn, part of the struggles of the Fifth Coalition. On the same day the Austrian main army is defeated by a First French Empire Corps led by Louis-Nicolas Davout at the Battle of Teugen-Hausen in Bavaria, part of a four-day campaign that ended in a French victory.
    • July 28 » Peninsular War: Battle of Talavera: Sir Arthur Wellesley's British, Portuguese and Spanish army defeats a French force led by Joseph Bonaparte.
    • September 18 » The Royal Opera House in London opens.
    • November 18 » In a naval action during the Napoleonic Wars, French frigates defeat British East Indiamen in the Bay of Bengal.

Day of marriage January 15, 1842

  • The temperature on January 15, 1842 was about 1.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south east. Weather type: betrokken mist. Source: KNMI
  •  This page is only available in Dutch.
    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 1842: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 3.1 million citizens.
    • February 7 » Battle of Debre Tabor: Ras Ali Alula, Regent of the Emperor of Ethiopia defeats warlord Wube Haile Maryam of Semien.
    • March 9 » Giuseppe Verdi's third opera, Nabucco, receives its première performance in Milan; its success establishes Verdi as one of Italy's foremost opera composers.
    • March 9 » The first documented discovery of gold in California occurs at Rancho San Francisco, six years before the California Gold Rush.
    • March 28 » First concert of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Otto Nicolai.
    • August 29 » Treaty of Nanking signing ends the First Opium War.
    • November 26 » The University of Notre Dame is founded.

Day of death June 14, 1890

  • The temperature on June 14, 1890 was about 11.9 °C. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the north-northwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 70%. Source: KNMI
  • Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • 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 April 21, 1888 to August 21, 1891 the cabinet Mackay, with Mr. A. baron Mackay (AR) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1890: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
    • January 25 » Nellie Bly completes her round-the-world journey in 72 days.
    • March 20 » Prime Minister of the German Empire Otto von Bismarck is dismissed by Emperor Wilhelm II.
    • July 10 » Wyoming is admitted as the 44th U.S. state.
    • October 1 » Yosemite National Park is established by the U.S. Congress.
    • December 15 » Hunkpapa Lakota leader Sitting Bull is killed on Standing Rock Indian Reservation, leading to the Wounded Knee Massacre.
    • December 30 » Following the Wounded Knee Massacre, the United States Army and Lakota warriors face off in the Drexel Mission Fight.


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