Harrower Family Tree » Thomas Rattray (1796-1862)

Personal data Thomas Rattray 

Sources 1, 2, 3, 4
  • He was born in the year 1796 in Dalgety, Fife, Scotland.Sources 1, 2, 4
  • Occupations:
    • in the year 1841 Coal Miner in Fordell Square, Dalgety, Fife, Scotland.Source 2
    • in the year 1851 Coal Miner in Terrace Row, Dalgety, Fife, Scotland.Source 1
    • in the year 1861 Coal Miner in Springhill, Crossgates, Fife, Scotland.Source 4
  • Resident:
    • in the year 1841: Fordell Square, Dalgety, Fife, Scotland.Source 2
      James Rattray 16
      Andrew Rattray 14
      Thomas Rattray 12
      William Rattray 10
      Alexander Rattray 6
      John Rattray 1
      Euphemia Rattray 3
    • in the year 1851: Terrace Row, Dalgety, Fife, Scotland.Source 1
    • in the year 1861: Springhill, Crossgates, Fife, Scotland.Source 4
    • on August 28, 1824: Fordell Square, Dalgety, Fife, Scotland.Source 5
  • (Informant at Death) on January 20, 1862 in Springhill, Crossgates, Fife, Scotland: John Rattray, Son, Present.Source 6
  • He died on January 20, 1862 in Springhill, Crossgates, Fife, Scotland, he was 66 years old.Source 6
    Oorzaak: Phthisis (TB)
  • A child of James Rattray and Helen White

Household of Thomas Rattray

He is married to Janet Walker.

They got married on November 16, 1823 at St Cuthberts, Midlothian, Scotland, he was 27 years old.Source 7


Child(ren):

  1. James Rattray  1824-1882 
  2. Andrew Walker Rattray  1827-1883 
  3. Thomas Rattray  1829-????
  4. William Rattray  1831-????
  5. Alexander Rattray  1834-????
  6. John Rattray  1839-????
  7. Euphemia Rattray  1838-????
  8. Helen Rattray  1842-????

Event (Proclamation of Marriage) on November 1, 1823 in Dalgety, Fife, Scotland .Source 7


Notes about Thomas Rattray

1. 1861 Census there is a Robert Glass age 5 born Aberdour, a Grandson to Thomas and Janet, No birth record found in Scotlands People

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Thomas Rattray

James Rattray
????-< 1862
Helen White
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Thomas Rattray
1796-1862

1823

Janet Walker
1799-1874

James Rattray
1824-1882
Andrew Walker Rattray
1827-1883
Thomas Rattray
1829-????
William Rattray
1831-????
Alexander Rattray
1834-????
John Rattray
1839-????
Euphemia Rattray
1838-????
Helen Rattray
1842-????

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  1. 1851 Scotland Census Ancestry.com, Record for Thomas Rattray Parish: Dalgety; ED: 1; Page: 21; Line: 1; Roll: CSSCT1851_86; 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 Thomas Rattray
    Name: Thomas Rattray
    Age: 55
    Estimated birth year: abt 1796
    Relationship: Head
    Spouse: Janet Walker
    Gender: Male
    Where born: Dalgety, Fife
    Parish Number: 422
    Civil Parish: Dalgety
    Town: Terrace Row
    County: Fife
    Address: Terrace Row
    Occupation: Coal Miner
    ED: 1
    Page: 21
    Household schedule number: 1
    Line: 1
    Roll: CSSCT1851_86
    Household Members:
    Name Age
    Thomas Rattray 55
    Janet Walker 52
    Thomas Rattray Jur 22 Miner
    William Rattray 20 Miner
    Alexander Rattray 17 Miner
    Euphemia Rattray 14
    John Rattray 12
    Helen Rattray 9
  2. 1841 Scotland Census Ancestry.com, Record for Thomas Rattray Parish: Dalgety; ED: 2; Page: 2; Line: 1637; 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 Thomas Rattray
    Name: Thomas Rattray
    Age: 40
    Estimated birth year: abt 1801
    Gender: Male
    Where born: Fife, Scotland
    Civil Parish: Dalgety
    County: Fife
    Address: Square
    Occupation: Coal Miner
    Parish Number: 422
    Household Members:
    Name Age
    Thomas Rattray 40
    James Rattray 16
    Andrew Rattray 14
    Thomas Rattray 12
    William Rattray 10
    Alexander Rattray 6
    John Rattray 1
    Euphemia Rattray 3
    Janet Walker 40
  3. Scotland. Select Births and Baptisms. Ancestry,com. 1564 -1950, Ancestry.com, 1824 Record for James Rattray 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 James Rattray
    Name: James Rattray
    Gender: Male
    Birth Date: 28 Aug 1824
    Birth Place: Dalgety, Fife, Scotland
    Father: Thomas Rattray
    Mother: Janet Walker
    FHL Film Number: 1040127
  4. 1861 Scotland Census Ancestry.com, Record for Thomas Rattray Parish: Dalgety; ED: 1; Page: 11; Line: 22; Roll: CSSCT1861_55 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 Thomas Rattray
    Name: Thomas Rattray
    Age: 64
    Estimated birth year: abt 1797
    Relationship: Head
    Spouse's name: Janet Rattray
    Gender: Male
    Where born: Dalgety, Fife
    Registration Number: 422
    Registration district: Dalgety
    Civil Parish: Dalgety
    County: Fife
    Address: Springhill
    Occupation: Coal Miner
    ED: 1
    Household schedule number: 55
    Line: 22
    Roll: CSSCT1861_55
    Household Members:
    Name Age
    Thomas Rattray 64
    Janet Rattray 62
    Euphemia Rattray 24 Bleacher
    John Rattray 21 Coal Miner
    Robert Glass 5 Grandson b, Aberdour
  5. Scotlands People - Old Parish Registers of Births and Baptisms, 1824 RATTRAY, JAMES THOMAS RATTRAY/JANET WALKER M. 28/08/1824 422/30 20 Dalgety Downloaded from Ancestry @ https://www.ancestry.co.uk/mediaui-viewer/tree/28344171/person/12031967228/media/ed51d775-5750-420f-9749-1c7fa374ebdf
    1824 RATTRAY, JAMES THOMAS RATTRAY/JANET WALKER M. 28/08/1824 422/30 20 Dalgety
    1824
    Rattray
    James Lawful son to Thomas Rattray and Janet Walker in the Square was born 28th August 1824
  6. Scotlands People - Statutory Registers of Deaths (from 1855), 1862 RATTRAY, THOMAS (Statutory registers Deaths 422/ 1)
    1862 RATTRAY, THOMAS (Statutory registers Deaths 422/ 1)
    Deaths in the Parish of Dalgety in the County of Fife 1862.
    Thomas Rattray,
    Coal Miner
    Married to Janet Walker
    1862 January Twentieth 9h 0m A.M.
    Springhill, Crossgates M. 65 Years
    Parents: James Rattray
    Colliery Clerk (deceased)
    Helen Rattray M.S. White (deceased)
    COD: Phthisis
    As certified by G.L. White
    Surgeon, Aberdour
    Inf. John Rattray, Son
    Present
    Registered
    1862 January 22nd, Dalgety
    John Cunningham
    Registrar
  7. Scotlands People - Old Parish Registers of Banns and Marriages, 1823 RATTRAY, THOMAS, JANET WALKER (Old Parish Registers Marriages 16/11/1823 685/2 400 578 St Cuthbert's) Not downloaded 1823 RATTRAY, THOMAS, JANET WALKER (Old Parish Registers Marriages 01/11/1823 422/ 30 116 Dalgety) https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/record-results/3628696496557d99ebf397 Downloaded from Ancestry @ https://www.ancestry.co.uk/family-tree/tree/77272312/photo/NcJfx2Zpp9ljHi3dww6Kcbso!4QIt5pg259ZLUMaLZg3_13tReXo2YbYGTjs1usi
    1823 RATTRAY, THOMAS, JANET WALKER (Old Parish Registers Marriages 16/11/1823 685/2 400 578 St Cuthbert's)

    1823 RATTRAY, THOMAS, JANET WALKER (Old Parish Registers Marriages 01/11/1823 422/ 30 116 Dalgety)

    Nov 1 1823
    Which day Thomas Rattray in this parish and Janet Walker in the parish of St Cuthberts, Edinburgh gave in their names for the Proclamation to marriage and after being regularly proclaimed were (married)

Historical events

Day of marriage November 16, 1823

  • The temperature on November 16, 1823 was about 9.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north-northwest. Weather type: betrokken mist. 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 1823: Source: Wikipedia
    • February 11 » Carnival tragedy of 1823: About 110 boys are killed during a stampede at the Convent of the Minori Osservanti in Valletta, Malta.
    • July 2 » Bahia Independence Day: The end of Portuguese rule in Brazil, with the final defeat of the Portuguese crown loyalists in the province of Bahia.
    • July 24 » Afro-Chileans are emancipated.
    • July 24 » In Maracaibo, Venezuela, the naval Battle of Lake Maracaibo takes place, where Admiral José Prudencio Padilla defeats the Spanish Navy, thus culminating the independence for the Gran Colombia.
    • September 22 » Joseph Smith claims to have found the golden plates after being directed by God through the Angel Moroni to the place where they were buried.
    • December 2 » Monroe Doctrine: In a State of the Union message, U.S. President James Monroe proclaims American neutrality in future European conflicts, and warns European powers not to interfere in the Americas.

Day of death January 20, 1862

  • The temperature on January 20, 1862 was about -5.1 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 0.5 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the east-southeast. 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 March 14, 1861 till January 31, 1862 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt - Loudon with the prime ministers Mr. J.P.P. baron Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. J. Loudon (liberaal).
  • In The Netherlands , there was from February 1, 1862 to February 10, 1866 the cabinet Thorbecke II, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1862: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
    • January 31 » Alvan Graham Clark discovers the white dwarf star Sirius B, a companion of Sirius, through an 18.5-inch (47cm) telescope now located at Northwestern University.
    • April 16 » American Civil War: Battle at Lee's Mills in Virginia.
    • May 20 » U.S. President Abraham Lincoln signs the Homestead Act into law, opening 84million acres of public land to settlers.
    • September 4 » American Civil War Maryland Campaign: General Robert E. Lee takes the Army of Northern Virginia, and the war, into the North.
    • November 5 » American Indian Wars: In Minnesota, 303 Dakota warriors are found guilty of rape and murder of whites and are sentenced to hang. 38 are ultimately executed and the others reprieved.
    • November 7 » American Civil War: Union General Ambrose Burnside was assigned to command the Army of the Potomac in Antietam, Maryland. After Union General George B. McClellan refused to pursue Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia after their retreat from the Battle of Antietam.


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