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Personal data Isabella Mortimer 

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

Household of Isabella Mortimer

(1) She is married to James Adamson.

They got married on July 23, 1897 at 63 Cockburn Street, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, she was 29 years old.Source 8


Child(ren):

  1. Isabella Adamson  1898-????
  2. Margaret Adamson  1899-????

Event (Witness at Marriage) on July 23, 1897 in 63 Cockburn Street, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland : Walter Young Engine Keeper and Maggie Arbuttnott, Book Sellar.Source 8


(2) She has/had a relationship with Patrick Clark.


Child(ren):

  1. Hugh Clark  ± 1890-1918

Event (One Time Partner): Fathers name recorded as Patrick Clark, Hugh Clarks Attestation papers!.Source 9


Notes about Isabella Mortimer

1. Isabella Mortimer dies 28 July 1901. The 1901 census shows 2 girls, born in 1901, Jessie and Alison.

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Isabella Mortimer

David Mortimer
1809-????
Janet Balfour
1804-1874
David Pride
1811-1861
Margaret Briggs
1815-< 1834

Isabella Mortimer
1868-1901

(1) 1897

James Adamson
1875-????

Isabella Adamson
1898-????
Margaret Adamson
1899-????
Jessie Adamson
1901-
Allison Adamson
1901-
(2) 

Patrick Clark
± 1868-????

Hugh Clark
± 1890-1918

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    1. 1901 Scotland Census Ancestry.com, Record for James Adamson Parish: Wemyss; ED: 9; Page: 9; Line: 1; Roll: CSSCT1901_148 1901 Scotland Census [Ancestry.com] The 1901 Census for Scotland was taken on the night of 31 March/1 April 1901. 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 Adamson
      Name: James Adamson
      Age: 26
      Estimated Birth Year: abt 1875
      Relationship: Head
      Spouse's name: Isabella Adamson
      Gender: Male
      Where born: Wemyss, Fife
      Registration Number: 459/2
      Registration District: Buckhaven
      Civil Parish: Wemyss
      County: Fife
      Address: Dunsire's Buildings
      Occupation: Coal Miner
      ED: 9
      Household Schedule Number: 46
      Line: 1
      Roll: CSSCT1901_148
      Household Members:
      Name Age
      James Adamson 26
      Isabella Adamson 32
      Isabella Adamson 3
      Margaret Adamson 2
      Jessie Adamson 2 Months
      Allison Adamson 2 Months
      Hugh Adamson 10
    2. Scotland. Select Births and Baptisms. Ancestry,com. 1564 -1950, Ancestry.com, 1868 Record for Isabella Mortimer 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: 6035516
      Record for Isabella Mortimer
      Name: Isabella Mortimer
      Gender: Female
      Birth Date: 26 Jan 1868
      Birth Place: Wemyss, Fife, Scotland
      Father: Alexander Mortimer
      Mother: Isabella Pride
      FHL Film Number: 6035516
    3. 1881 Scotland Census Ancestry.com, Record for Alexander Mortimer Parish: Wemyss; ED: 6; Page: 14; Line: 8; Roll: CSSCT1881_127 1881 Scotland Census [Ancestry.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
      Record for Alexander Mortimer
      Name: Alexander Mortimer
      Age: 48
      Estimated birth year: abt 1833
      Relationship: Head
      Spouse's name: Isabella Mortimer
      Gender: Male
      Where born: Scoonie, Fife
      Registration Number: 459/2
      Registration district: Buckhaven
      Civil Parish: Wemyss
      County: Fife
      Occupation: Coal Pit Banksman
      ED: 6
      Household schedule number: 74
      Line: 3
      Roll: CSSCT1881_127
      Household Members:
      Name Age
      Alexander Mortimer 48
      Isabella Mortimer 49
      Alexander Mortimer 19
      Andrew Mortimer 14
      Isabella Mortimer 13
      Janet Mortimer 11
      John Mortimer 9
      Helen Mortimer 7
    4. UK, WWI Pension Ledgers and Index Cards, 1914-1923, Ancestry.com, Record for Hugh Clark Commonwealth War Graves Commission; Author: Peter Singlehurst; Series Title: British Commonwealth War Graves Registers, 1914-1918; Archive Name: London, United Kingdom
      Record for Hugh Clark
      Name: Hugh Clark
      Gender: Male
      Age: 28
      Birth Date: abt 1890
      Death Date: 4 Oct 1918
      Cemetery: Pieta Military Cemetery, Malta
      Burial Country: Europe
      Regiment: Army Service Corps
      Regimental Number: TI/1521
      Region or Memorial: Europe
      Mother: Isabella Mortimer
      / Ancestry.com
    5. 1891 Scotland Census Ancestry.com, Record for Alexander Mortimer Parish: Wemyss; ED: 7; Page: 23; Line: 1; Roll: CSSCT1891_141 1891 Scotland Census [Ancestry.com] The 1891 Census for Scotland was taken on the night of 5/6 April 1891. 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 Alexander Mortimer
      Name: Alexander Mortimer
      Age: 57
      Estimated birth year: abt 1834
      Relationship: Head
      Spouse's name: Isabella Mortimer
      Gender: Male
      Where born: Leven, Fife
      Registration Number: 459/2
      Registration district: Buckhaven
      Civil Parish: Wemyss
      County: Fife
      Address: Methil Mill
      Occupation: Sexton & Railway Surfaceman
      ED: 7
      Household schedule number: 5
      Line: 1
      Roll: CSSCT1891_141
      Household Members:
      Name Age
      Alexander Mortimer 57
      Isabella Mortimer 57
      Isabella Mortimer 23
      Jessie Mortimer 21
      John Mortimer 19
      Helen A Mortimer 17
      Hugh Clarke 8 Months Grandson
      Alexander Rankine 22
    6. 1871 Scotland Census - Find my Past, Record for Alexander Mortimer 1871 Scotland Census - FindmyPast, Methilhill Farm House, Wemyss, Fife, Scotland 1871 Scotland Census [FindmyPast] 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.
      1871 England, Wales & Scotland Census
      Methilhill Farm House, Wemyss, Fife, Scotland

      First name(s)Last nameRelationshipMarital statusSexAgeBirth Year OccupationBirth place
      Alexander Mortimer HeadMarried Male371834 Mill TenderFife, Scotland
      IsabellaMortimer WifeMarried Female351836 -Fife, Scotland
      Margaret Mortimer Daughter UnmarriedFemale161855 Mill WorkerKirkland, Fife, Scotland
      DavidMortimer Son-Male141857 Mill WorkerFife, Scotland
      Alexander Mortimer Son-Male91862 ScholarKirkland, Fife, Scotland
      AndrewMortimer Son-Male51866 -Fife, Scotland
      IsabellaMortimer Daughter -Female31868 -Fife, Scotland
      JessieMortimer Daughter -Female11870 -Fife, Scotland
    7. Scotlands People - Statutory Registers of Deaths (from 1855), 1901 MORTIMER, ISABELLA (Statutory registers Deaths 459/2 106)
      1901 MORTIMER, ISABELLA (Statutory registers Deaths 459/2 106)
      Deaths in the District of Buckhaven in the County of Fife 1901.
      Isabella Adamson
      Married to James Adamson, Coal Miner
      1901 July Twenty Eighth 11h 45m A.M.
      Kirlkland, Wemyss F. 32 Years
      Parents: Alexander Mortimer
      Pithead Labourer
      Isabella Mortimer M.S. Pryde
      COD: Pulmonary Phthisis
      As cert by James Carter MBCM
      Inf. James Adamson
      Widower (Present)
      Registered
      1901 July 29 Buckhaven
      David M. Pryde
      Registrar
    8. Scotlands People - Statutory Registers of Marriages (from 1855), 1897 ADAMSON, JAMES ISABELLA MORTIMER Statutory registers Marriages 685/4 275)
      1897 ADAMSON, JAMES ISABELLA MORTIMER Statutory registers Marriages 685/4 275)
      Marriages in the district of Saint Giles in the City of Edinburgh 1897
      1897 Twenty Third July
      63 Cockburn Street, Edinburgh
      By declaration in prescence of Walter Young Engine Keeper and Maggie Arbuttnott, Book Seller
      James Adamson
      Coal Miner Bachelor
      Age 22 East Wemyss, Fife
      Parents: James Adamson Coal Miner
      Margaret Adamson M.S. Fairfoul
      Isabella Mortimer
      Mill Worker Spinster
      Age 26 Leven Fife
      Parents: Alexander Mortimer
      Coal Banksman
      Isabella Mortimer M.S, Pryde
      Warrant of Sherriff Substitute of the Lothians & Peebles dated 23rd July 1897
      Registered
      1897 July 23d Edinburgh
      Thomas Temple
      Registrar
    9. Commonwealth Graves Commision, HUGH CLARK 1918 Record for Hugh Clark Date of death 4 October 1918 https://www.ancestry.co.uk/mediaui-viewer/tree/164924182/person/182512285783/media/7aa82405-6ac3-43e0-bae8-d6e4b592e157 https://www.ancestry.co.uk/mediaui-viewer/tree/164924182/person/182512285783/media/fe8629ba-248b-47f0-bbf1-f1e2eee34348 https://www.ancestry.co.uk/discoveryui-content/view/303449:1219?ftm=1
      Driver H Clark T1/1521 A.S.C. att.85. .Fld.Amb. Grave 1 Row 20 Plot A Date of death 4 October 1918

      Graves Registration Report Form
      Place of Burial: Pieta Military Cemetery
      Plot A Row 20
      T1/1521 Dvr. H. Clark R.A.S.C.
      Date of death 4 October 1918

      Report of Headstone Inscription
      Badge design 1078 1F/0
      T1/1521 Driver
      H Clark
      Royal Army Service Corps
      d. 4th October 1918 Age 28
      Centre of stone: Cross

      Report Headstone Personal Inscription
      Badge design: 1078 1F/0
      Headsone No.: 116
      Line 1: THEY MISS HIM MOST
      Line 2: WHO LOVED HIM BEST
      Mrs. HM Page 75 McDonald Street Methil, Fife

      Hugh Clark Service Number T1/1521
      H.T., Army Service Corps who died on 04 October 1918 Age 28
      Son of Mrs. Isabella Mortimer, of Kirkland, Leven, Fife.
      THEY MISS HIM MOST WHO LOVED HIM BEST
      Remembered with Honour
      PIETA MILITARY CEMETERY
      A XX 1.

      From attestation papers
      Hugh Clark Driver T1/1521
      Age 27 years. Service 4 years 3 months Died 4/10/18.
      Cause of Death Tuberculosis of Lung,, complicated by Malaria
      He was admitted from H.S."Goorka" in a dying condition and too ill for information to be obtained from him. The notes accompanying him state that he had been in Macedonia two years, and that in the early part of 1918 he had a cough, but did not go sick. In August, he had Malaria. On 19/9/18 he was transferred from 21st Stationary Hospital to 29th General Hospital, suffering from Malaria, and symptoms suggestive of Influenza. Tuberculosis of the left Lung was recognised, and Tubercle Bacilli found In the sputum. He was transferred to H .S. "Goorka" 28/10/18 and received at Mtarfa, Malta, 2/10/18, as on the dangerously ill list. His temperature on admission was 101°, Pulse 120 and respirations 32. He had frequent diarrhoea, and such examination as was possible showed advanced Tuberculosis of both lungs. He died 4/10/18 Post Mortem Examination, corraborated the clinical diagnosis both lungs being diseased, a condition of enteritis was also present in the intestine.
      Death was due to Tuberculosis of tho Lungs, commencing while on Active Service, and accelerated by Malaria also contracted on Active Service in Salonica.
      Mtarfa, Malta 17th October 1918 ??? Colonel, A.M.S. O.i/c Military Hospital, Mtarfa
      / http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty

    Historical events

    Birthday January 26, 1868

    • The temperature on January 26, 1868 was about 5.2 °C. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 74%. Source: KNMI
    • Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
    • From June 1, 1866 till June 4, 1868 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt - Heemskerk with the prime ministers Mr. J.P.J.A. graaf Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt (AR) and Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief).
    • From June 4, 1868 till January 4, 1871 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Bosse - Fock with the prime ministers Mr. P.P. van Bosse (liberaal) and Mr. C. Fock (liberaal).
    • In the year 1868: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
      • April 7 » Thomas D'Arcy McGee, one of the Canadian Fathers of Confederation, is assassinated by a Fenian activist.
      • May 16 » The United States Senate fails to convict President Andrew Johnson by one vote.
      • September 19 » La Gloriosa begins in Spain.
      • October 7 » Cornell University holds opening day ceremonies; initial student enrollment is 412, the highest at any American university to that date.
      • November 27 » American Indian Wars: Battle of Washita River: United States Army Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer leads an attack on Cheyenne living on reservation land.
      • December 9 » The first traffic lights are installed, outside the Palace of Westminster in London. Resembling railway signals, they use semaphore arms and are illuminated at night by red and green gas lamps.

    Day of marriage July 23, 1897

    • The temperature on July 23, 1897 was about 19.0 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 74%. Source: KNMI
    • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
    • Regentes Emma (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1898 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
    • In The Netherlands , there was from May 9, 1894 to July 27, 1897 the cabinet Roëll, with Jonkheer mr. J. Roëll (oud-liberaal) as prime minister.
    • In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1897 to August 1, 1901 the cabinet Pierson, with Mr. N.G. Pierson (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1897: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
      • February 1 » Shinhan Bank, the oldest bank in South Korea, opens in Seoul.
      • June 16 » A treaty annexing the Republic of Hawaii to the United States is signed; the Republic would not be dissolved until a year later.
      • July 2 » British-Italian engineer Guglielmo Marconi obtains a patent for radio in London.
      • July 11 » Salomon August Andrée leaves Spitsbergen to attempt to reach the North Pole by balloon. He later crashes and dies.
      • August 10 » German chemist Felix Hoffmann discovers an improved way of synthesizing acetylsalicylic acid (aspirin).
      • December 9 » Activist Marguerite Durand founds the feminist daily newspaper La Fronde in Paris.

    Day of death July 28, 1901

    • The temperature on July 28, 1901 was between 14.3 °C and 23.9 °C and averaged 17.7 °C. There was 6.5 hours of sunshine (41%). Source: KNMI
    • 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 July 27, 1897 to August 1, 1901 the cabinet Pierson, with Mr. N.G. Pierson (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
    • In The Netherlands , there was from August 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1901: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 5.2 million citizens.
      • May 3 » The Great Fire of 1901 begins in Jacksonville, Florida.
      • August 21 » Six hundred American school teachers, Thomasites, arrived in Manila on the USAT Thomas.
      • September 7 » The Boxer Rebellion in Qing dynasty (modern-day China) officially ends with the signing of the Boxer Protocol.
      • October 24 » Annie Edson Taylor becomes the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel.
      • October 29 » In Amherst, Massachusetts, nurse Jane Toppan is arrested for murdering the Davis family of Boston with an overdose of morphine.
      • October 29 » Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of U.S. President William McKinley, is executed by electrocution.
    

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