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Personal data John Spence 

Sources 1, 2
  • He was born on April 30, 1775 in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland.Sources 1, 3
    Agnes, David, Margaret, Edward, Jean, Christian and Henry He was three years younger than Helen, having been born on 4 Oct 1805 in Torryburn, Dumferline, Fife.
  • Occupations:
    • in the year 1841 Labourer in Carnock, Fife, Scotland.Source 1
    • in the year 1801 Ploughman in Crossgates, Fife, Scotland.Source 4
    • in the year 1796 Ploughman in Crossgates, Fife, Scotland.Source 2
  • Resident:
    • in the year 1841: Carnock, Fife, Scotland.Source 1
    • in the year 1801: Crossgates, Fife, Scotland.Source 4
    • in the year 1796: Crossgates, Fife, Scotland.Source 2
  • He died before 1857.Source 5
    Wife Agnes died a Widow
  • A child of David Spence and Jean Flockhart

Household of John Spence

He is married to Agnes Strang.

They got married on November 18, 1796 at Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland, he was 21 years old.Source 2


Child(ren):

  1. David Spence  1797-????
  2. Edward Spence  1801-1883 
  3. Jean Spence  1803-????
  4. Agnes Spence  1810-????
  6. Unknown Spence  1808-????
  7. Christian Spence  1812-1899 
  9. Margaret Spence  1799-????

Event (Proclamation of Marriage) on October 21, 1796 in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland .Source 2


Notes about John Spence

1. Red - Recorded
SPENCE, EDWARD, JOHN SPENCE/AGNES STRANG M 06/09/1801 424/80 433 Dunfermline
SPENCE, JEAN, JOHN SPENCE/AGNES STRANG F 21/07/1803 424/80 519 Dunfermline
SPENCE ,----- JOHN SPENCE/AGNES STRANG U 00/00/1808 424/90 54 Dunfermline
SPENCE, AGNES, JOHN SPENCE/AGNES STRANG F 29/07/1810 424/90 156 Dunfermline
SPENCE, ANDREW AITKEN, JOHN SPENCE/AGNES STRANG M 25/12/1818 414/20 352 Carnock
SPENCEWILLIAM STRANG JOHN SPENCE/AGNES STRANG 27/09/180513/10/1805 DUNFERMLINE ASSOCIATE
SPENCE, DAVID JOHN SPENCE/AGNES STRANG 23/07/1797 424/ 80 246 Dunfermline
1799 SPENCE, MARGARET JOHN SPENCE/AGNES STRONG 09/06/1799 424/80 333) Dunfermline

2. The Spences had seven other children - Agnes, David, Margaret, Edward, Jean, Christian and Henry. William Spence was three years younger than Helen, having been born on 4 Oct 1805 in Torryburn, Dunfermline, Fife.

3. No record of birth in SP for Christian & Henry!

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Ancestors (and descendant) of John Spence

John Spence
1775-< 1857

1796

Agnes Strang
1776-1857

David Spence
1797-????
Edward Spence
1801-1883
Jean Spence
1803-????
Agnes Spence
1810-????
Andrew Aitken Spence
1818-????
Unknown Spence
1808-????
Christian Spence
1812-1899
William Strang Spence
1805-????
Margaret Spence
1799-????
Henry Spence
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Sources

  1. 1841 Scotland Census Ancestry.com, Record for John Spence Parish: Carnock; ED: 2; Page: 6; Line: 780; 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 John Spence
    Name: John Spence
    Age: 60
    Estimated Birth Year: abt 1781
    Gender: Male
    Where born: Fife, Scotland
    Civil parish: Carnock
    County: Fife
    Address: Carnock
    Occupation: Labourer
    Parish Number: 414
    Household Members Age
    John Spence 60
    Agnes Strang 60
  2. Scotlands People - Old Parish Registers of Banns and Marriages, 1796 SPENCE, JOHN AGNES STRANG (Old Parish Registers Marriages 424/100 320) Dunfermline Downloaded from Ancestry @ https://www.ancestry.co.uk/mediaui-viewer/tree/3736977/person/-1693000033/media/92cbbe91-8722-4c94-a69b-2e5ea12d06bc
    1796 SPENCE, JOHN AGNES STRANG (Old Parish Registers Marriages 424/100 320) Dunfermline
    Oct 21st
    John Spence Ploughman in Crossgates and Agnes Strang both in this Parish gave in their names for proclamation in order to Marriage and being regularly proclaimed and no Objections made they were married 18th Nov'r
  3. Scotlands People - Old Parish Registers of Births and Baptisms, 1775 SPENCE, JOHN (Old Parish Registers of Births 424/ 60 604) Dunfermline Not downloaded Info from FamilySearch @ https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/sources/G9W2-LM1
    1775 SPENCE, JOHN DAVID SPENCE/JEAN FLOCKHART 30/04/1775 424/ 60 604 Dunfermline

    John Spence
    G9W2-LM1

    birth: 22 April 1775, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom
    marriage: 18 November 1796, Crossgates Dunfermline, Fife Scotland
    residence: 1841, Carnock (Fife), Fife, Scotland
    father: David Spence
    KCX9-P47
    mother: Jean Flockhart
    9SXF-25F
    spouse:Agnes Strang
    KNSQ-4ZH
  4. Scotlands People - Old Parish Registers of Births and Baptisms, 1801 SPENCE, EDWARD (Old Parish Registers Births 424/80 433) Dunfermline Downloaded from Ancestry @ https://www.ancestry.co.uk/mediaui-viewer/tree/3736977/person/-1693000001/media/06883429-f8a9-4623-8e87-b87b74264013
    1801 SPENCE, EDWARD (Old Parish Registers Births 424/80 433) Dunfermline
    John Spence, Ploughman in Crossgates and Agnes Strang his Wife had a Son born 3d Sept. baptized 6th named Edward.
    Witness's Edward Strang overseer at Berrielaw and Will'm Weir Coalhewer there
  5. Scotlands People - Statutory Registers of Deaths (from 1855), 1857 STRANG, AGNES (Statutory registers Deaths 424/1 26)
    1857 STRANG, AGNES (Statutory registers Deaths 424/1 26)
    Deaths in the Burgh of Dunfermline in the County of Fife 1857.
    Spence, Agnes
    Widow of General Labourer
    1857 January Thirty first 7h A.M.
    Rumblingwell, Dunfermline F. 82 years
    Parents: Edward Strang
    Colliery Inspector (Deceased)
    Margaret Strang
    Maiden name Weir (Deceased)
    COD: General Debility
    No Medical Attendant
    Burial: Carnock Burying Ground
    As certified by Alexander Paul, Sexton
    Inf. Edward Spence, Son (Not Present)
    Registered
    1857 February 3rd, Dunfermline
    Ro. Wilson
    Assist. Registrar
    WW

Historical events

Birthday April 30, 1775

  • The temperature on April 30, 1775 was about 17.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northeast. Weather type: helder. Special wheather fenomena: veel dauw. Source: KNMI
  • Erfstadhouder Prins Willem V (Willem Batavus) (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1751 till 1795 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
  • In the year 1775: Source: Wikipedia
    • March 8 » An anonymous writer, thought by some to be Thomas Paine, publishes "African Slavery in America", the first article in the American colonies calling for the emancipation of slaves and the abolition of slavery.
    • April 14 » The first abolition society in North America is established. The Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage is organized in Philadelphia by Benjamin Franklin and Benjamin Rush.
    • June 12 » American Revolution: British general Thomas Gage declares martial law in Massachusetts. The British offer a pardon to all colonists who lay down their arms. There would be only two exceptions to the amnesty: Samuel Adams and John Hancock, if captured, were to be hanged.
    • July 27 » Founding of the U.S. Army Medical Department: The Second Continental Congress passes legislation establishing "an hospital for an army consisting of 20,000 men."
    • August 20 » The Spanish establish the Presidio San Augustin del Tucson in the town that became Tucson, Arizona.
    • October 18 » African-American poet Phillis Wheatley is freed from slavery.

Day of marriage November 18, 1796

  • The temperature on November 18, 1796 was about 8.0 °C. There was 110 mm of rainWind direction mainly south by east. 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 1796: Source: Wikipedia
    • March 9 » Napoléon Bonaparte marries his first wife, Joséphine de Beauharnais.
    • April 28 » The Armistice of Cherasco is signed by Napoleon Bonaparte and Vittorio Amedeo III, King of Sardinia, expanding French territory along the Mediterranean coast.
    • June 1 » Tennessee is admitted as the 16th state of the United States.
    • July 11 » The United States takes possession of Detroit from Great Britain under terms of the Jay Treaty.
    • August 4 » French Revolutionary Wars: Napoleon leads the French Army of Italy to victory in the Battle of Lonato.
    • December 31 » The incorporation of Baltimore as a city.


Same birth/death day

Source: Wikipedia


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