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Ancestors (and descendant) of William Paxton

Hugh Paxton
1777-1854
Margaret Givan
1778-1851
John Dick
± 1795-< 1851
Margaret Bulram Bruce
1795-1878
John Paxton
1806-1866
Margaret Dick
1819-1884

William Paxton
1855-????


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    1. Scotland. Select Births and Baptisms. Ancestry,com. 1564 -1950, Ancestry.com, 1855 Record for William Paxton 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.
      Record for William Paxton
      Name: William Paxton
      Gender: Male
      Birth Date: 4 Jul 1855
      Birth Place: Aberdour, Fife, Scotland
      Father: John Paxton
      Mother: Margaret Dick
      FHL Film Number: 6035516
    2. 1861 Scotland Census Ancestry.com, Record for John Paxton Parish: Aberdour; ED: 2; Page: 6; Line: 8; Roll: CSSCT1861_53 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 John Paxton
      Name: John Paxton
      Age: 52
      Estimated birth year: abt 1809
      Relationship: Head
      Spouse's name: Margaret Paxton
      Gender: Male
      Where born: Burntisland, Fife
      Registration Number: 401
      Registration district: Aberdour
      Civil Parish: Aberdour
      County: Fife
      Address: Monziehall Farm
      Occupation: Farmer
      ED: 2
      Household schedule number: 28
      Line: 8
      Roll: CSSCT1861_53
      Household Members:
      Name Age
      John Paxton 52 Head
      Margaret Paxton 44 Wife
      John Paxton 16 Son
      Elisabeth Paxton 12 Daughter
      George Paxton 10 Son
      Janet Paxton 8 Daughter
      James Paxton 8 Son
      William Paxton 6 Son
      Robert Paxton 3 Son
      James Junis 17 Ploughman
      William Kilgour 16 Ploughman

    Historical events

    Birthday July 4, 1855

    • The temperature on July 4, 1855 was about 12.4 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-northwest. The atmospheric humidity was 100%. 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).
    • From April 19, 1853 till July 1, 1856 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Hall - Donker Curtius with the prime ministers Mr. F.A. baron Van Hall (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. D. Donker Curtius (conservatief-liberaal).
    • In the year 1855: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 3.3 million citizens.
      • January 26 » Point No Point Treaty is signed in Washington Territory.
      • February 11 » Kassa Hailu is crowned Tewodros II, Emperor of Ethiopia.
      • February 22 » The Pennsylvania State University is founded in State College, Pennsylvania (as the Farmers' High School of Pennsylvania).
      • March 2 » Alexander II becomes Tsar of Russia.
      • June 1 » The American adventurer William Walker conquers Nicaragua.
      • September 3 » American Indian Wars: In Nebraska, 700 soldiers under United States General William S. Harney avenge the Grattan massacre by attacking a Sioux village and killing 100 men, women and children.
    

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