Harrower Family Tree » Margaret Reid (1829-1878)

Personal data Margaret Reid 

Sources 1, 2, 3

Household of Margaret Reid

She is married to Robert Leitch.

They got married on September 24, 1853 at Culross, Perthshire, Scotland, she was 24 years old.Source 2


Child(ren):

  1. Robert Chalmers Leitch  1853-???? 

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Margaret Reid

Margaret Reid
1829-1878

1853

Robert Leitch
1832-????

Robert Chalmers Leitch
1853-????

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  1. 1871 Scotland Census Ancestry.com, Record for Robert Leitch Parish: Dunfermline Burgh; ED: 15; Page: 3; Line: 9; Roll: CSSCT1871_72 1871 Scotland Census [Ancestry.com] 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.
    Record for Robert Leitch
    Name: Robert Leitch
    Age: 37
    Estimated Birth Year: abt 1834
    Relationship: Head
    Spouse's name: Margaret Reid
    Gender: Male
    Where born: Beath, Fife
    Registration Number: 424/1
    Registration District: Dunfermline Burgh
    Civil Parish: Dunfermline Burgh
    County: Fife
    Address: Golfdrum Street
    Occupation: Engine Driver
    ED: 15
    Household Schedule Number: 16
    Line: 9
    Roll: CSSCT1871_72
    Household Members:
    Name Age
    Robert Leitch 37
    Margaret Reid 40
    Robert Chalmers Leitch 16
    Robert Mar Reid 13 Boarder
  2. Scotland, Select Marriages, Ancestry.com, 1561-1910, Ancestry.com, 1853 Record for Robert Leitch and Margaret Reid Ancestry.com. Scotland, Select Marriages, 1561-1910 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014. Original data: Scotland, Marriages, 1561-1910. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013.
    Record for Robert Leitch and Margaret Reid
    Name: Robert Leitch
    Gender: Male
    Marriage Date: 24 Sep 1853
    Marriage Place: Culross, Perth, Scotland
    Spouse: Margaret Reid
    FHL Film Number: 1040077
    / Ancestry.com
  3. 1861 Scotland Census Ancestry.com, Record for Robert Leitch Parish: Saline; ED: 2; Page: 2; Line: 10; Roll: CSSCT1861_60 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 Robert Leitch
    Name: Robert Leitch
    Age: 28
    Estimated Birth Year: abt 1833
    Relationship: Head
    Spouse's name: Margaret Leitch
    Gender: Male
    Where born: Beath, Fife
    Registration Number: 455
    Registration District: Saline
    Civil Parish: Saline
    County: Fife
    Address: Loanhead
    Occupation: Engine Driver
    ED: 2
    Household Schedule Number: 7
    Line: 10
    Roll: CSSCT1861_60
    Household Members:
    Name Age
    Robert Leitch 28
    Margaret Leitch 32
    Robert Leitch 7
  4. Scotlands People - Statutory Registers of Deaths (from 1855), 1878 LEITCH, MARGARET CAMPBELL (Statutory registers Deaths 343/ 7)
    1878 LEITCH, MARGARET CAMPBELL (Statutory registers Deaths 343/ 7)
    Deaths in the district of Culross in the County of Perth 1878.
    Margaret Campbell Leitch
    (Married to Robert Leitch, Enginekeeper)
    1878 April Twelfth 5h.15m. A.M.
    Low Valleyfield, Parish of Culross. F. 52 years
    Parents: James Reid, Farmer (Deceased)
    Janet Reid M.S. Reid (Deceased)
    COD: Inflamation of the Liver
    (second attack) 8 days
    As cert, by William B. Dour M.D.
    Inf. R Chalmers Leitch
    Son Edin.
    Registered
    1878 April 13th Culross
    John Kirk Penney
    Registrar

Historical events

Day of marriage September 24, 1853

  • The temperature on September 24, 1853 was about 11.3 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The atmospheric humidity was 89%. 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 Netherlands , there was from November 1, 1849 to April 19, 1853 the cabinet Thorbecke I, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
  • 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 1853: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 3.3 million citizens.
    • January 19 » Giuseppe Verdi's opera Il trovatore receives its premiere performance in Rome.
    • March 19 » The Taiping reform movement occupies and makes Nanjing its capital until 1864.
    • April 16 » The Great Indian Peninsula Railway opens the first passenger rail in India, from Bori Bunder to Thane.
    • October 4 » The Crimean War begins when the Ottoman Empire declares war on the Russian Empire.
    • December 30 » Gadsden Purchase: The United States buys land from Mexico to facilitate railroad building in the Southwest.
    • December 31 » A dinner party is held inside a life-size model of an iguanodon created by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins and Sir Richard Owen in south London, England.

Day of death April 12, 1878

  • The temperature on April 12, 1878 was about 11.8 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the east-northeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 69%. 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 November 3, 1877 to August 20, 1879 the cabinet Kappeijne van de Coppello, with Mr. J. Kappeijne van de Coppello (liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1878: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
    • January 9 » Umberto I becomes King of Italy.
    • February 22 » In Utica, New York, Frank Woolworth opens the first of many of five-and-dime Woolworth stores.
    • May 14 » The last witchcraft trial held in the United States begins in Salem, Massachusetts, after Lucretia Brown, an adherent of Christian Science, accused Daniel Spofford of attempting to harm her through his mental powers.
    • June 10 » League of Prizren is established, to oppose the decisions of the Congress of Berlin and the Treaty of San Stefano, as a consequence of which the Albanian lands in the Balkans were being partitioned and given to the neighbor states of Serbia, Montenegro, Bulgaria, and Greece.
    • June 15 » Eadweard Muybridge takes a series of photographs to prove that all four feet of a horse leave the ground when it runs; the study becomes the basis of motion pictures.
    • October 15 » The Edison Electric Light Company begins operation.


Same birth/death day

Source: Wikipedia


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