Harrower Family Tree » Marjory Aitken (1815-1884)

Personal data Marjory Aitken 

Sources 1, 2, 3, 4
  • She was born in the year 1815 in Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland.Sources 1, 2, 3, 4
  • Profession: in the year 1884 Pauper in 412 High Street, Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland.Source 5
  • Resident:
    • in the year 1871: Anderson Close, Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland.Source 3
    • in the year 1861: Mid Street, Pathhead, Dysart, Fife, Scotland.Source 1
    • in the year 1851: Kirk Wynd, Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland.Source 4
    • in the year 1881: Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland.Source 2
  • (Informant at Death) on March 4, 1884 in 412 High Street, Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland: Informant, John Muir, Inspector of Poor, Kirkcaldy..Source 5
  • (Individual fact) in the year 1833 in Abbotshall, Fife, Scotland: Birth of daughter Juliet Sanderson.Source 2
  • She died on March 4, 1884 in 412 High Street, Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland, she was 69 years old.Source 5
    1884 AITKEN, MARJORY (Statutory registers Deaths 442/ 55)
    Oorzaak: Age & Debility 1884 AITKEN, MARJORY (Statutory registers Deaths 442/ 55)
  • A child of James Aitken and Margaret Younger

Household of Marjory Aitken

(1) She is married to James Wilson.

They got married on April 10, 1843 at Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland, she was 28 years old.Source 6


Child(ren):

  1. John Wilson  1852-1928 
  2. Barbara Wilson  1857-????
  3. Isabella Wilson  1849-????
  4. James Wilson  1844-????
  5. Margaret Wilson  1847-1916 


(2) She had a relationship with Joseph Sanderson.


Child(ren):

  1. Juliet Sanderson  ± 1833-1897


Notes about Marjory Aitken

1. Marjorys birth can't be found on Scotlands People

2. 24/03/1843 AITKEN, MARJORY, JAMES WILSON (Old Parish Registers Marriages 426/ 70 192 Dysart)
10/04/1843 AITKEN, MARJORY, JAMES WILSON (Old Parish Registers Marriages 442/ 60 144 Kirkcaldy) Page 144 of 386
Marriage to Joseph Sanderson cannot be found

3. 1884 AITKEN, MARJORY (Statutory registers Deaths 442/ 55)

4. Marjory Aitken cannot be found on Ancestry in the 1841 census. Several of the original volumes have not survived. They are mainly for parishes in Fife and it is said that they were lost when being transferred across the River Forth but there is no documentary evidence to support this. This includes Kirkcaldy!

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Marjory Aitken

James Younger
????-
Barbara Smith
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James Aitken
± 1790-< 1843
Margaret Younger
± 1778-1860

Marjory Aitken
1815-1884

(1) 1843

James Wilson
1815-1881

John Wilson
1852-1928
Barbara Wilson
1857-????
Isabella Wilson
1849-????
James Wilson
1844-????
Margaret Wilson
1847-1916
(2) 

Joseph Sanderson
± 1815-????

Juliet Sanderson
± 1833-1897

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    1. 1861 Scotland Census Ancestry.com, Record for James Wilson Parish: Dysart; ED: 6; Page: 7; Line: 23; Roll: CSSCT1861_56 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 James Wilson
      Name: James Wilson
      Age: 46
      Estimated birth year: abt 1815
      Relationship: Head
      Spouse's name: Margery Wilson
      Gender: Male
      Where born: Granton, Elginshire
      Registration Number: 426
      Registration district: Dysart
      Civil Parish: Dysart
      Town: Pathhead
      County: Fife
      Address: Mid Street
      Occupation: Flaxdresser
      ED: 6
      Household schedule number: 43
      Line: 23
      Roll: CSSCT1861_56
      Household Members:
      Name Age
      James Wilson 46
      Margery Wilson 45
      Margaret Wilson 14
      Isabella Wilson 12
      John Wilson 9
      Barbara Wilson 6
    2. 1881 Scotland Census Ancestry.com, Record for James Wilson Parish: Kirkcaldy; ED: 5; Page: 6; Line: 15; Roll: CSSCT1881_122 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. In the 1881 Ancestry Census, there are 4 Females listed as being in same house as Andrew and his family in New Row, Dunfermline. Checks on Scotlands People show they are living in St. Leonards Street, Dunfermline. Again another problem transcript.
      Record for James Wilson
      Name: James Wilson
      Age: 66
      Estimated Birth Year: abt 1815
      Relationship: Head
      Spouse's name: Marjory A Wilson
      Gender: Male
      Where born: Dysart, Fife Should be Grantown
      Registration Number: 442
      Registration District: Kirkcaldy
      Civil Parish: Kirkcaldy
      Town: Kirkcaldy
      County: Fife
      Occupation: Flax Dresser (Unable to Work)
      ED: 5
      Household Schedule Number: 32
      Line: 15
      Roll: CSSCT1881_122
      Household Members:
      Name Age
      James Wilson 66
      Marjory A Wilson 65
      Juliet Sanderson 48 Stepdaughter Flax Mill Worker
      Marjory Wilson 13 Grandaughter Flax Mill Worker
    3. 1871 Scotland Census Ancestry.com, Record for James Wilson Parish: Kirkcaldy; ED: 5; Page: 5; Line: 15; Roll: CSSCT1871_76 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 James Wilson
      Name: James Wilson
      Age: 56
      Estimated birth year: abt 1815
      Relationship: Head
      Spouse's name: Marjory Wilson
      Gender: Male
      Where born: Grantown, Morayshire
      Registration Number: 442
      Registration district: Kirkcaldy
      Civil Parish: Kirkcaldy
      Town: Kirkcaldy
      County: Fife
      Address:Anderson Close
      Occupation: Flax Dresser
      ED: 5
      Household schedule number: 26
      Line: 15
      Roll: CSSCT1871_76
      Household Members:
      Name Age
      James Wilson 56
      Marjory Wilson 56 Kirkcaldy
      Margaret Wilson 24 Kirkcaldy Millworker
      John Wilson 19 Kirkcaldy Coachman
      Barbara Wilson 14 Kirkcaldy Millworker
      Marjory Wilson 3 Grandaughter Balmalcolm
    4. 1851 Scotland Census Ancestry.com, Record for James Wilson Parish: Kirkcaldy; ED: 13; Page: 16; Line: 19; Roll: CSSCT1851_91; 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 James Wilson
      Name: James Wilson
      Age: 37
      Estimated birth year: abt 1814
      Relationship: Head
      Spouse: Marjory Wilson
      Gender: Male
      Where born: Cunningstone, Aberdeen
      Parish Number: 442
      Civil Parish: Kirkcaldy
      County: Fife
      Address: Kirk Wynd
      Occupation: Flax Overseer Journeyman
      ED: 13
      Page: 16
      Household schedule number:76
      Line: 19
      Roll: CSSCT1851_91
      Household Members:
      Name Age
      James Wilson 37
      Marjory Wilson 36
      James Wilson 7
      Margaret Wilson 4
      Isabel Wilson 2
    5. Scotlands People - Statutory Registers of Deaths (from 1855), 1884 AITKEN, MARJORY (Statutory registers Deaths 442/ 55)
      1884 AITKEN, MARJORY (Statutory registers Deaths 442/ 55)
      Deaths in the District of Kirkcaldy in the County of Fife. 1884.
      Marjory Wilson, Pauper. Widow of James Wilson, Flax dresser.
      1884, March Fourth, 10h 30m AM, 412 High Street, Kirkcaldy, F. 68 Years.
      Parents: James Aitken, Joiner (Deceased),
      Margaret Aitken, MS Younger (Deceased)
      COD: Age and Debility.
      As Certified by ?Carr? MB Ch.
      Informant, John Muir, Inspector of Poor, Kirkcaldy.
      Registered,
      1884 March 4 at Kirkcaldy,
      PM Maknight?
      Registrar
    6. Scotlands People - Old Parish Registers of Banns and Marriages, 1843 AITKEN, MARJORY, JAMES WILSON (Old Parish Registers Marriages 426/ 70 192 Dysart) https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/view-image/nrs_opr_records/10170652?image=192&return_row=1 KIRKCALDY 10/04/1843 AITKEN, MARJORY, JAMES WILSON (Old Parish Registers Marriages 442/ 60 144 Kirkcaldy) https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/view-image/nrs_opr_records/10170651?image=144&return_row=0 Web address below shows both documents
      DYSART
      24/03/1843 AITKEN, MARJORY. JAMES WILSON (Old Parish Registers Marriages 426/ 70 192 Dysart)
      https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/view-image/nrs_opr_records/10170652?image=192&return_row=1

      DYSART
      1843 WILSON, JAMES, MARJORY AITKEN, (Old Parish Registers Marriages 426/ 70 192 Dysart)
      1843 Wilson & Aitken.
      March 24th James Wilson, Flaxdresser of this parish and Marjory Aitken of the parish of Kirkcaldy were regularly contracted and after pro(clamation) - Married

      KIRKCALDY
      10/04/1843 AITKEN, MARJORY, JAMES WILSON (Old Parish Registers Marriages 442/ 60 144 Kirkcaldy)
      https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/view-image/nrs_opr_records/10170651?image=144&return_row=0

      KIRKCALDY
      10/04/1843 AITKEN, MARJORY, JAMES WILSON (Old Parish Registers Marriages 442/ 60 144 Kirkcaldy)
      1843 Marriages of the Parish of Kirkcaldy.
      118 Wilson Aitken. Upon the 26th March, 2nd & 9th of April 1843 were proclaimed. James Wilson, Flaxdresser, of the Parish of Dysart, son of James Wilson, Weaver, and Marjory Aitken of this Parish, daughter of the late James Aitken, Wright, Ky and Married on the 10th

    Historical events

    Day of marriage April 10, 1843

    • The temperature on April 10, 1843 was about 5.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north-northwest. Weather type: half bewolkt. 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 year 1843: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 3.1 million citizens.
      • February 6 » The first minstrel show in the United States, The Virginia Minstrels, opens (Bowery Amphitheatre in New York City).
      • February 11 » Giuseppe Verdi's opera I Lombardi alla prima crociata receives its first performance in Milan, Italy.
      • August 15 » The Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace in Honolulu, Hawaii is dedicated. Now the cathedral of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu, it is the oldest Roman Catholic cathedral in continuous use in the United States.
      • August 15 » Tivoli Gardens, one of the oldest still intact amusement parks in the world, opens in Copenhagen, Denmark.
      • September 21 » John Williams Wilson takes possession of the Strait of Magellan on behalf of the Chilean government.
      • December 16 » The discovery of octonions by John T. Graves, who denoted them with a boldface O, was announced to his mathematician friend William Hamilton, discoverer of quaternions, in a letter on this date.

    Day of death March 4, 1884

    • The temperature on March 4, 1884 was about 11.4 °C. The air pressure was 6 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 57%. 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 April 23, 1884 to April 21, 1888 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1884: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
      • January 4 » The Fabian Society is founded in London, United Kingdom.
      • April 20 » Pope Leo XIII publishes the encyclical Humanum genus.
      • May 1 » The Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions demands the eight-hour work day in the United States.
      • October 6 » The Naval War College of the United States is founded in Rhode Island.
      • November 1 » The Gaelic Athletic Association is set up in Hayes's Hotel in Thurles, County Tipperary.
      • December 10 » Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is published.
    

    Same birth/death day

    Source: Wikipedia


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