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Personal data Robert Chalmers Leitch 

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Household of Robert Chalmers Leitch

He is married to Fanny Brymer Bennet.

They got married on September 17, 1879 at St Martin-In-The-Fields, London, Westminster, England, he was 25 years old.Source 7


Child(ren):

  1. Randolph N C Leitch  1881-????

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Robert Chalmers Leitch

Robert Leitch
1801-1876
Margaret Chalmers
1802-1880
Robert Leitch
1832-????
Margaret Reid
1829-1878

Robert Chalmers Leitch
1853-????

1879

Fanny Brymer Bennet
1855-????

Randolph N C Leitch
1881-????

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    1. 1881 Scotland Census Ancestry.com, Record for Robert Chalmers Leitch Parish: Edinburgh St Cuthberts; ED: 76; Page: 9; Line: 17; Roll: CSSCT1881_282 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 Robert Chalmers Leitch
      Name: Robert C Leitch
      Age: 27
      Estimated Birth Year: abt 1854
      Relationship: Head
      Spouse's name: Fanny Brymer Leitch
      Gender: Male
      Where born: Culross, Perth
      Registration Number: 685/1
      Registration District: St George
      Civil Parish: Edinburgh St Cuthberts
      County: Midlothian
      Address: 20 Richmond Terrace
      Occupation: Managing Clerk In W L Office
      ED: 76
      Household Schedule Number: 54
      Line: 17
      Roll: CSSCT1881_282
      Household Members:
      Name Age
      Robert C Leitch 27
      Fanny Brymer Leitch 26
      Randolph N C Leitch 5 Mo
    2. Scotland. Select Births and Baptisms. Ancestry,com. 1564 -1950, Ancestry.com, 1853 Record for Robert Chalmers Leitch 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 Robert Chalmers Leitch
      Name: Robert Chalmers Leitch
      Gender: Male
      Birth Date: 3 Nov 1853
      Baptism Date: 6 Dec 1853
      Baptism Place: Saline, Fife, Scotland
      Father: Robert Leitch
      Mother: Margaret Reid
      FHL Film Number: 1040339
    3. 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
    4. England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1837-1915, FreeBMD, 1879 Record for Robert Chalmers Leitch and Fanny Brymer Bennet
      Record for Robert Chalmers Leitch and Fanny Brymer Bennet
      Name:Robert Chalmers Leitch
      Registration Year:1879
      Registration Quarter: Jul-Aug-Sep
      Registration District:St George Hanover Square
      Inferred County: London
      Volume:1a
      Page: 680
      Records on Page:
      Name
      Fanny Brymer Bennet
      Mary Osborn Hayling
      Robert Chalmers Leitch
      James Prue
      / Ancestry.com
    5. Edinburgh, Scotland, Electoral Registers, 1832-1966, Ancestry.com, 1883-1884 Record for Robert Chalmers Leitch Edinburgh City Archives; Edinburgh, Scotland; Register of Voters For the City of Edinburgh and the Burgh of Leith; Reference: Sl56/29
      Record for Robert Chalmers Leitch
      Name: Robert Chalmers Leitch
      Residence Year: 1883-1884
      Street Address: 20 Richmond Terrace
      Residence Place: Edinburgh, Scotland
      Occupation: Cashier
      / Ancestry.com
    6. 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
    7. Westminster, London, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1935, Ancestry.com, Record for Robert Chalmers Leitch and Fanny Brymer Bennet City of Westminster Archives Centre; London, England; Westminster Church of England Parish Registers; Reference: STG/PR/5/1
      Record for Robert Chalmers Leitch and Fanny Brymer Bennet
      Name: Robert Chalmers Leitch
      Gender: Male
      Spouse: Fanny Brymer Bennet
      Marriage Age: Full Age
      Marriage Date: 17 Sep 1879
      Marriage Place: St Martin-In-The-Fields, London, Westminster, England
      Parish as it Appears: St George, Hanover Square
      Father: Robert Leitch
      / Ancestry.com
    8. 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

    Birthday November 3, 1853

    • The temperature on November 3, 1853 was about 12.0 °C. The atmospheric humidity was 78%. Source: KNMI
    •  This page is only available in Dutch.
      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.
      • February 22 » Washington University in St. Louis is founded as Eliot Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri.
      • March 19 » The Taiping reform movement occupies and makes Nanjing its capital until 1864.
      • July 8 » The Perry Expedition arrives in Edo Bay with a treaty requesting trade.
      • July 14 » Opening of the first major US world's fair, the Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations in New York City.
      • October 4 » The Crimean War begins when the Ottoman Empire declares war on the Russian Empire.
      • November 30 » Crimean War: Battle of Sinop: The Imperial Russian Navy under Pavel Nakhimov destroys the Ottoman fleet under Osman Pasha at Sinop, a sea port in northern Turkey.

    Christening day December 6, 1853

    • The temperature on December 6, 1853 was about 2.0 °C. The atmospheric humidity was 98%. Source: KNMI
    •  This page is only available in Dutch.
      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 4 » After having been kidnapped and sold into slavery in the American South, Solomon Northup regains his freedom; his memoir Twelve Years a Slave later becomes a national bestseller.
      • January 19 » Giuseppe Verdi's opera Il trovatore receives its premiere performance in Rome.
      • July 14 » Opening of the first major US world's fair, the Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations in New York City.
      • July 25 » Joaquin Murrieta, the famous Californio bandit known as the "Robin Hood of El Dorado", is killed.
      • October 4 » The Crimean War begins when the Ottoman Empire declares war on the Russian Empire.
      • November 30 » Crimean War: Battle of Sinop: The Imperial Russian Navy under Pavel Nakhimov destroys the Ottoman fleet under Osman Pasha at Sinop, a sea port in northern Turkey.

    Day of marriage September 17, 1879

    • The temperature on September 17, 1879 was about 14.3 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the east-northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 85%. 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 Netherlands , there was from August 20, 1879 to April 23, 1883 the cabinet Van Lijnden van Sandenburg, with Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (conservatief-AR) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1879: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
      • March 23 » War of the Pacific: The Battle of Topáter, the first battle of the war is fought between Chile and the joint forces of Bolivia and Peru.
      • April 23 » Fire burns down the second main building and dome of the University of Notre Dame, which prompts the construction of the third, and current, Main Building with its golden dome.
      • May 2 » The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party is founded in Madrid by Pablo Iglesias.
      • May 26 » Russia and the United Kingdom sign the Treaty of Gandamak establishing an Afghan state.
      • September 18 » The Blackpool Illuminations are switched on for the first time.
      • December 28 » Tay Bridge disaster: The central part of the Tay Rail Bridge in Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom collapses as a train passes over it, killing 75.
    

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