Harrower Family Tree » Margaret Chalmers (1802-1880)

Personal data Margaret Chalmers 

Sources 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
  • She was born on August 17, 1802 in Kinghorn, Fife, Scotland.Sources 1, 3, 4, 5, 6
  • She was christened on August 22, 1802 in Kinghorn, Fife, Scotland.Source 1
    Age: 0
  • Resident:
    • in the year 1841: Donibristle Coalworks, Aberdour, Fife, Scotland.Source 3
    • in the year 1861: 46 Blair Row, Forth Iron Works, Carnock, Fife, Scotland.Source 4
    • in the year 1871: .Source 5
    • in the year 1851: 45 Blair Row, Forth Iron Works, Carnock, Fife, Scotland.Source 6
  • (Informant at Death) on October 13, 1880 in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland: Andrew Leitch, Son. Saint Bernards Place, Dunfermline..Source 7
  • She died on October 13, 1880, she was 78 years old.Sources 2, 7
    1880 LEITCH, MARGARET (Statutory registers Deaths 424/ 427)/Cemetery Road, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland
    Oorzaak: Old age and Debility. Pneumonia 10 days/Cemetery Road, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland/Cemetery Road, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland
  • A child of Condie Chalmers and Barbary Leitch

Household of Margaret Chalmers

She is married to Robert Leitch.

They got married on October 25, 1825 at Auchtertool, Fife, Scotland, she was 23 years old.Source 8


Child(ren):

  1. Barbara Leitch  1828-???? 
  2. Andrew Leitch  1826-1910 
  3. Condie C Leitch  1830-1861
  4. Robert Leitch  1832-???? 
  5. Alexander Leitch  ± 1840-????
  6. Peter Leitch  1847-????
  8. Janet Leitch  1837-1906 


Notes about Margaret Chalmers

1. CHALMERS, MARGARET, CONDY CHALMERS/BARBARY LEITCH, F. 22/08/1802. 439/40 82, Kinghorn

2. LEITCH, ROBERT, MARGT. CHALMERS, 25/10/1825, 407/ 20 28, Auchtertool

3. 1880 LEITCH, MARGARET (Statutory registers Deaths 424/ 427)

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Margaret Chalmers
1802-1880

1825

Robert Leitch
1801-1876

Barbara Leitch
1828-????
Andrew Leitch
1826-1910
Condie C Leitch
1830-1861
Robert Leitch
1832-????
Alexander Leitch
± 1840-????
Peter Leitch
1847-????
Margaret Chalmers Leitch
1843-????
Janet Leitch
1837-1906

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  1. Scotland. Select Births and Baptisms. Ancestry,com. 1564 -1950, Ancestry.com, 1802 Record for Margaret Chalmers 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. FHL Film Number: 1040168
    Record for Margaret Chalmers
    Name: Margaret Chalmers
    Gender: Female
    Birth Date: 17 Aug 1802
    Baptism Date: 22 Aug 1802
    Baptism Place: Kinghorn, Fife, Scotland
    Father: Condy Chalmers
    Mother: Barbary Leitch
    FHL Film Number: 1040168
  2. Portrait and biographical album of Sedgwick County, Kansas, MRS. BARBARA L. WILSON Portrait and biographical album of Sedgwick County, Kansas, containing full page portraits and biographical sketches of prominent ... citizens of the county, together with portraits and biographies of all the governors of Kansas and of the Presidents of the United States Page 871 County, Kansas Published Chicago, Chapman brothers,1888. Description 5 p. l., 19-1123, [5] p.incl. illus., plates (part double) ports.28 cm. Rights Public Domain, Google-digitized. Permanent URL https://hdl.handle.net/2027/wu.89065277261
    MRS. BARBARA L. WILSON, who owns a good home in Payne Township, comprising 160 acres of land with excellent farm buildings, and pleasantly located on section 14, is the widow of the late Robert L. Wilson, who departed this life on the 23d of June, 1885. Mr. Wilson is a capable business man, and was the first Justice of the Peace in Payne Township, serving in 1871. He was also Postmaster of Greenwich for a term of eleven years, during which time his officee was in a small house on his farm. Mrs. Wilson was born in Scotland, June 5, 1828, and is the daughter of Robert and Margaret (Chambers) Leitch, who were natives of Scotland, where they spent their entire lives. Robert Leitch rested from his labours on the 15th of July, 1876, and the affectionate wife and mother joined her husband on the other side Oct. 13, 1880. Their family included eight children, namely: Andrew, Barbara, Condie. Robert, Alex, Peter, Margaret and Janet. Condie died when about twenty-eight years of age; the others are surviving, and continue on their native soil. The father was a machinist by trade, as also all his sons. Mrs. Wilson came to the United States when about twenty-five years of age. Her husband had preceded her some two years. settling first in Pennsylvania, where he was joined by his wife, and not long afterward they removed to New York State, locating in Orange County. Thence they removed two years later to Clinton, Ohio, in the Chippewa coal regions, where Mr. Wilson followed mining for a short time, and from there removed to Clay County, Ind. He worked there in a coal mine, and then pushed still further westward,becoming a resident of Alton, Ill., where the family resided for a period of fourteen years. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson came with their family to Kansas in 1870, locating first on Payne’s ranch until the outlines of the sections could be definitely ascertained. They camped on the land included in their present farm for a time, and afterward occupied a dugout during the winter months until a house could be erected. The husband by hard work and perseverance succeeding in raising enough vegetables to provide the family for the season, but were obliged to contend with hailstorms and grasshoppers, and were often reduced to corn bread and water. Mr. Wilson finally succeeded in clearing a quarter-section of land, through which the Ft. Scott Railroad now passes, and which is numbered among the fertile farms of the county. The childhood and youth of Mrs. Wilson were spent in her native county not far from the early home of her husband, to whom she was married on the 17th of April, 1848. Mr. Wilson. was the son of James and Elizabeth (Strong) Wilson, who were also of Scotch birth and parentage, and passed to their long home years ago. Their family consisted of thirteen children, of whom Robert L. was the youngest. After coming to Illinois and during the progress of the late Rebellion, Mr. Wilson enlisted as a Union soldier in Company G, 66th Illinois Infantry, and continued in the service about twenty-two months, being in many battles, but escaping without a wound. He marched with the troops of Gen. Sherman as far as Atlanta, when, on account of ill-health, he received his discharge, and was mustered out at Louisville, Ky., in 1865. To Mr. and Mrs. Wilson there were born seven children, namely: James lives in this township: Robert is deceased; John lives in this township; Andrew and Margaret are deceased; Mary is the wife of Thomas Barnes. of Osage City; Lydia is the wife of Frank E. Austin, and resides with her widowed mother on the farm, Mr. Austin having charge of its business. Mrs. Wilson is a consistent member of the Christian Church, with which she identified herself many years ago. Her husband belonged to the Baptist Church at the time of his death.
  3. 1841 Scotland Census Ancestry.com, Record for Robert Leitch Parish: Aberdour; ED: 6; Page: 10; Line: 783; 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 Robert Leitch
    Name: Robert Leitch
    Age: 35
    Estimated birth year: abt 1806
    Gender: Male
    Where born: Fife, Scotland
    Civil Parish: Aberdour
    County: Fife
    Address: Donibristle Colliery
    Occupation: Engineer
    Parish Number: 401
    Household Members:
    Name Age
    Robert Leitch 35
    Margaret Leitch 35
    Andrew Leitch 14
    Barbara Leitch 12
    Condie Leitch 10
    Robert Leitch 8
    Janet Leitch 4
    Alexander Leitch 2
  4. 1861 Scotland Census Ancestry.com, Record for Robert Leitch Parish: Carnock; ED: 6; Page: 11; Line: 23; Roll: CSSCT1861_54 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 Leitch
    Name: Robert Leitch
    Age: 59
    Estimated birth year: abt 1802
    Relationship: Head
    Spouse's name: Margaret Leitch
    Gender: Male
    Where born: Beath, Fife
    Registration Number: 414
    Registration district: Carnock
    Civil Parish: Carnock
    County: Fife
    Address: 46 Blair Row
    Occupation: Engine Keeper
    ED: 6
    Household schedule number: 46
    Line: 23
    Roll: CSSCT1861_54
    Household Members:
    Name Age
    Robert Leitch 59
    Margaret Leitch 58
    Condie C Leitch 30
    Margaret E Leitch 18
    Peter Leitch 14
  5. 1871 Scotland Census Ancestry.com, Record for Robert Leitch Parish: Culross; ED: 2; Page: 7; Line: 16; Roll: CSSCT1871_61 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 Leitch
    Name: Robert Leitch
    Age: 69
    Estimated birth year:abt 1802
    Relationship: Head
    Spouse's name: Margaret Leitch
    Gender: Male
    Where born: Beath, Fife
    Registration Number: 343
    Registration district:Culross
    Civil Parish: Culross
    County:Perthshire
    Address:Eden Villa
    Occupation: Formerly Engine Keeper
    ED: 2
    Household schedule number:51
    Line: 16
    Roll: CSSCT1871_61
    Household Members:
    Name Age
    Robert Leitch 69
    Margaret Leitch 68
    Margaret Morris 10 Grandchild b. Carnock
  6. 1851 Scotland Census Ancestry.com, Record for Robert Leitch Parish: Carnock; ED: 2; Page: 28; Line: 18; Roll: CSSCT1851_85; 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 Leitch
    Name: Robert Leitch
    Age: 49
    Estimated birth year: abt 1802
    Relationship: Head
    Spouse: Margaret Leitch
    Gender: Male
    Where born: Dunfermline, Fife
    Parish Number: 414
    Civil Parish: Carnock
    Town: Forth Iron Works
    County: Fife
    Address: 45 Blair Row
    Occupation: Engine Keeper
    ED: 2
    Page: 28
    Household schedule number: 90
    Line: 18
    Roll: CSSCT1851_85
    Household Members:
    Name Age
    Robert Leitch 49
    Margaret Leitch 47
    Andrew Leitch 24
    Robert Leitch 18
    Janet Leitch 14
    Alexr Leitch 11
    Margaret Leitch 9
    Peter Leitch 5
  7. Scotlands People - Statutory Registers of Deaths (from 1855), 1880 LEITCH, MARGARET (Statutory registers Deaths 424/ 427)
    1880 LEITCH, MARGARET (Statutory registers Deaths 424/ 427)
    Deaths in the District of Dunfermline in the County of Fife 1880.
    Margaret Leitch.
    Widow of Robert Leitch. Engine - man.
    1880. October Thirteenth 2h. 50m. P.M.
    Cemetery Road, Dunfermline.
    F. 78 Years
    Parents: Condie Chalmers.
    Shoemaker, Master (deceased).
    Barbara Chalmers M.S. Leitch (deceased)
    COD: Old age and Debility. Pneumonia 10 days As certified by John Wm. Bell L.R.C.P.
    Inf. Andrew Leitch, Son. Saint Leonards Place, Dunfermline.
    Registered October 13th at Dunfermline,
    Jmes Walls. Registrar
  8. Scotlands People - Old Parish Registers of Banns and Marriages, 1825 LEITCH, ROBERT, MARGT. CHALMERS/FR369 (FR369), 25/10/1825, 407/ 20 28, Auchtertool Not downloaded
    LEITCH, ROBERT, MARGT. CHALMERS/FR369 (FR369), 25/10/1825, 407/ 20 28, Auchtertool

Historical events

Birthday August 17, 1802

  • The temperature on August 17, 1802 was about 16.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south-southwest. Weather type: omtrent helder. 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 1802: Source: Wikipedia
    • April 21 » Twelve thousand Wahhabis under Abdul-Aziz bin Muhammad, invaded city of Karbala, killed over three thousand inhabitants, and sacked the city.
    • April 26 » Napoleon Bonaparte signs a general amnesty to allow all but about one thousand of the most notorious émigrés of the French Revolution to return to France.
    • May 20 » By the Law of 20 May 1802, Napoleon Bonaparte reinstates slavery in the French colonies, revoking its abolition in the French Revolution.
    • May 28 » In Guadeloupe, 400 rebellious slaves, led by Louis Delgrès, blow themselves up rather than submit to Napoleon's troops.
    • July 22 » Emperor Gia Long conquers Hanoi and unified Viet Nam, which had experienced centuries of feudal warfare.
    • November 19 » The Garinagu arrive at British Honduras (Present day Belize)

Christening day August 22, 1802

  • The temperature on August 22, 1802 was about 19.0 °C. Wind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: zeer 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 1802: Source: Wikipedia
    • April 21 » Twelve thousand Wahhabis under Abdul-Aziz bin Muhammad, invaded city of Karbala, killed over three thousand inhabitants, and sacked the city.
    • May 3 » Washington, D.C. is incorporated as a city after Congress abolishes the Board of Commissioners, the District's founding government. The "City of Washington" is given a mayor-council form of government.
    • May 19 » Napoleon Bonaparte founds the Legion of Honour.
    • May 28 » In Guadeloupe, 400 rebellious slaves, led by Louis Delgrès, blow themselves up rather than submit to Napoleon's troops.
    • July 22 » Emperor Gia Long conquers Hanoi and unified Viet Nam, which had experienced centuries of feudal warfare.
    • September 11 » France annexes the Kingdom of Piedmont.

Day of marriage October 25, 1825

  • The temperature on October 25, 1825 was about 10.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west-northwest. Weather type: regen hagel winderig. 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 1825: Source: Wikipedia
    • January 27 » The U.S. Congress approves Indian Territory (in what is present-day Oklahoma), clearing the way for forced relocation of the Eastern Indians on the "Trail of Tears".
    • February 9 » After no candidate receives a majority of electoral votes in the US presidential election of 1824, the United States House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams as President of the United States.
    • June 11 » The first cornerstone is laid for Fort Hamilton in New York City.
    • August 6 » The Bolivian Declaration of Independence is proclaimed.
    • August 25 » Uruguay declares its independence from Brazil.
    • November 26 » At Union College in Schenectady, New York, a group of college students form the Kappa Alpha Society, the first college social fraternity.

Day of death October 13, 1880

  • The temperature on October 13, 1880 was about 9.7 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 85%. 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 August 20, 1879 to April 23, 1883 the cabinet Van Lijnden van Sandenburg, with Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (conservatief-AR) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1880: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
    • May 11 » Seven people are killed in the Mussel Slough Tragedy, a gun battle in California.
    • May 13 » In Menlo Park, New Jersey, Thomas Edison performs the first test of his electric railway.
    • June 28 » Australian bushranger Ned Kelly is captured at Glenrowan.
    • June 29 » France annexes Tahiti, renaming the independent Kingdom of Tahiti as "Etablissements de français de l'Océanie".
    • August 14 » Construction of Cologne Cathedral, the most famous landmark in Cologne, Germany, is completed.
    • September 1 » The army of Mohammad Ayub Khan is routed by the British at the Battle of Kandahar, ending the Second Anglo-Afghan War.


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