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Personal data Alexander Simpson 

Source 1
  • Profession: in the year 1806 Overseer at Coalworks. Son David birth.Source 2

Household of Alexander Simpson

He is married to Christian Pride.

They got married on February 17, 1804 at Dysart, Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland.Source 1


Child(ren):

  1. Robert Simpson  1809-1890 
  2. David Simpson  1806-> 1843 


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Ancestors (and descendant) of Alexander Simpson

Alexander Simpson
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1804

Christian Pride
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Robert Simpson
1809-1890
David Simpson
1806-> 1843

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Sources

  1. Scotlands People - Old Parish Registers of Banns and Marriages, 1804 SIMSON, ALEXANDER CHRISTIAN PRIDE (O.P.R. Marriages 426/00 0050 0156 DYSART) Downloaded from Ancestry
    17/02/1804 SIMSON, ALEXANDER CHRISTIAN PRIDE (O.P.R. Marriages 426/00 0050 0156 DYSART)
    Marriages Dysart 1804
    Simson & Pride
    Feb 17th Alex'r Simson here and Christ Pride in Ceres were contracted, after proclamation married
  2. Scotlands People - Old Parish Registers of Births and Baptisms, 1806 SIMPSON, DAVID (Old Parish Registers Births 442/00 0040 0103 KIRKCALDY) Downloaded from Ancestry.com @ https://www.ancestry.co.uk/mediaui-viewer/tree/38830317/person/28663966484/media/bc74db6d-0331-4410-bbfc-0659d51ae318 SIMPSON, DAVID, ALEXANDER SIMPSON/CHRISTIAN PRIDE, 15/05/1806, 442/40 103, Kirkcaldy
    1806 SIMPSON, DAVID (Old Parish Registers Births 442/00 0040 0103 KIRKCALDY)
    David, Son of Alexander Simpson, Overseer of the Coal Work & Christian Pride his Spouse. Bap'd 15th thereof Wit. Catharine Campbell, Wife of John Campbell, Coallier & Janet Peat the childs aunt

Historical events

Day of marriage February 17, 1804

  • The temperature on February 17, 1804 was about -2 °C. Wind direction mainly east-northeast. Weather type: omtrent helder. 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 1804: Source: Wikipedia
    • January 1 » French rule ends in Haiti. Haiti becomes the first black-majority republic and second independent country in North America after the United States.
    • February 14 » Karađorđe leads the First Serbian Uprising against the Ottoman Empire.
    • February 16 » First Barbary War: Stephen Decatur leads a raid to burn the pirate-held frigate USSPhiladelphia.
    • April 25 » The western Georgian kingdom of Imereti accepts the suzerainty of the Russian Empire.
    • May 14 » William Clark and 42 men depart from Camp Dubois to join Meriwether Lewis at St. Charles, Missouri, marking the beginning of the Lewis and Clark Expedition's historic journey up the Missouri River.
    • May 18 » Napoleon Bonaparte is proclaimed Emperor of the French by the French Senate.

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