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Ancestors (and descendant) of James Swan Moffat

William Moffat
1792-1846
Elizabeth Reid
1789-1851
Peter Drylie
????-< 1887
Helen Cunningham
????-< 1887

James Swan Moffat
1863-????


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    1. Scotland. Select Births and Baptisms. Ancestry,com. 1564 -1950, Ancestry.com, 1863 Record for James Swan Moffat 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 Swan Moffat
      Name: James Swan Moffat
      Gender: Male
      Birth Date: 26 Aug 1863
      Birth Place: Newton, Midlothian, Scotland
      Father: William Moffat
      Mother: Isabella Drylie
      FHL Film Number: 6035516
    2. 1881 Scotland Census Ancestry.com, Record for William Moffat Parish: Dalkeith; ED: 14; Page: 1; Line: 5; Roll: CSSCT1881_277 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 Wm Moffat
      Name: Wm Moffat
      Age: 54
      Estimated Birth Year: abt 1827
      Relationship: Head
      Spouse's name: Isabella Drylie
      Gender: Male
      Where born: Newton, Midlothian
      Registration Number: 683
      Registration District: Dalkeith
      Civil Parish: Dalkeith
      County: Midlothian
      Address: No. 2 Square
      Occupation: Coal Miner
      ED: 14
      Household Schedule Number: 2
      Line: 5
      Roll: CSSCT1881_277
      Household Members:
      Name Age
      William Moffat 54
      Isabella Drylie 54
      David Moffat 27
      Ellen Moffat 20
      James Swan Moffat 17
      Peter Moffat 30
      Isabella Drylie Young 6 (Father is Peter). Grandaughter

    Historical events

    Birthday August 26, 1863

    • The temperature on August 26, 1863 was about 15.1 °C. There was 10 mm of rain. The air pressure was 10 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 77%. Source: KNMI
    • Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
    • 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 1863: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
      • January 29 » The Bear River Massacre: A detachment of California Volunteers led by Colonel Patrick Edward Connor engage the Shoshone at Bear River, Washington Territory, killing hundreds of men, women and children.
      • February 17 » A group of citizens of Geneva founded an International Committee for Relief to the Wounded, which later became known as the International Committee of the Red Cross.
      • May 6 » American Civil War: The Battle of Chancellorsville ends with the defeat of the Army of the Potomac by the Army of Northern Virginia.
      • May 14 » American Civil War: The Battle of Jackson takes place.
      • July 13 » New York City draft riots: In New York City, opponents of conscription begin three days of rioting which will be later regarded as the worst in United States history.
      • September 19 » American Civil War: The first day of the Battle of Chickamauga, in northwestern Georgia, the bloodiest two-day battle of the conflict, and the only significant Confederate victory in the war's Western Theater.
    

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