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Sources

  1. 1851 Scotland Census Ancestry.com, Record for James Oliver Parish: Cavers; ED: 1; Page: 9; Line: 3; Roll: CSSCT1851_201; 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 James Oliver
    Name: James Oliver
    Age: 45
    Estimated birth year: abt 1806
    Relationship: Head
    Gender: Male
    Where born: Denholm
    Parish Number: 785
    Civil Parish: Cavers
    County: Roxburghshire
    Address: Denholm
    Occupation: Stocking Maker
    ED: 1
    Page: 9
    Household schedule number: 33
    Line: 3
    Roll: CSSCT1851_201
    Household Members:
    Name Age
    James Oliver 45
    Archibald Oliver 15
    John Oliver 13
    Walter Oliver 11
    George Oliver 9
    Isabella Oliver 6
  2. Scotland. Select Births and Baptisms. Ancestry,com. 1564 -1950, Ancestry.com, 1837 Record for John Oliver Ancestry.com. Scotland, Select Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014. Scotland, Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013. FHL Film Number: 1067933 Reference ID: - 2:189WTD1
    Record for John Oliver
    Name: John Oliver
    Gender: Male
    Birth Date: 8 Apr 1837
    Birth Place: Cavers, Roxburgh, Scotland
    Baptism Place: Cavers, Roxburgh, Scotland
    Father: James Oliver
    Mother: Margaret Little
    FHL Film Number: 1067933
    Reference ID: - 2:189WTD1

Historical events

Birthday April 8, 1837

  • The temperature on April 8, 1837 was about 1.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east-northeast. Weather type: half bewolkt. Special wheather fenomena: storm(achtig). 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 1837: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 2.9 million citizens.
    • February 8 » Richard Johnson becomes the first Vice President of the United States chosen by the United States Senate.
    • May 3 » The University of Athens is founded in Athens, Greece.
    • July 1 » A system of civil registration of births, marriages and deaths is established in England and Wales.
    • September 18 » Tiffany & Co. (first named Tiffany & Young) is founded by Charles Lewis Tiffany and Teddy Young in New York City. The store is called a "stationery and fancy goods emporium".
    • November 7 » In Alton, Illinois, abolitionist printer Elijah P. Lovejoy is shot dead by a mob while attempting to protect his printing shop from being destroyed a third time.
    • November 8 » Mary Lyon founds Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, which later becomes Mount Holyoke College.


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