Harrower Family Tree » Robert Henderson (1841-1875)

Personal data Robert Henderson 

Sources 1, 2, 3, 4

Household of Robert Henderson

He is married to Janet Harrower.

They got married on July 9, 1869 at 40 Broad Street, Stirling, Scotland, he was 27 years old.Source 1


Child(ren):


Event (Witness at Marriage) on July 9, 1869 in 40 Broad Street, Stirling, Scotland : Robert A. Henderson, Wits. Agnes Harrower, Wits..Source 1


Notes about Robert Henderson

1. Marriage on 09 July 1869 Robert was residing in Stirling Castle

2. Recorded as being Nephew to head in 1851

3. Death record for Roberts daughter, Catherine, records Robert as a Police Constable

4. Record of birth for Hector Armour records Robert as a Police Constable

5. Record of birth for Catherine Green Henderson records Robert as a Police Constable

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Robert Henderson

Mary Dempster
1789-????

Robert Henderson
1841-1875

1869

Janet Harrower
1843-1901

Catherine Green Henderson
1875-1881

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    1. Scotlands People - Statutory Registers of Marriages (from 1855), 1869 HARROWER, JANET, ROBERT HENDERSON (Statutory registers Marriages 490/ 73)
      1869 HARROWER, JANET, ROBERT HENDERSON (Statutory registers Marriages 490/ 73)
      Marriages in the Parish of Stirling in the County of Stirling.
      1869.
      1869. Ninth July at No. 40 Broad Street, Stirling.
      After Banns According to the Forms of the Free Church of Scotland.
      Signed Robert Henderson, Age 28, Private, 79th Highlanders (Bachelor). Age 28.
      Stirling Castle.
      Parents: Robert Henderson, Ales Brewer, Journeyman.
      Catherine Henderson M.S. Dempster.
      Signed Janet Harrower, Age 24. Domestic Servt, (Spinster).
      No. 40 Broad Street, Stirling.
      Parents: Colin Harrower, Weaver in Woollen Shawls + Plaid.
      Ann Harrower, M.S. Syme.
      Signed W.F. Goldie. Minister of Free South Church, Stirling, Witness.
      Robert A. Henderson, Wits.
      Agnes Harrower, Wits.
      Registered 1869 July 10th
      Stirling, Adam Steil, Registrar
    2. 1851 Scotland Census Ancestry.com, Record for Merry Dempster Parish: Edinburgh St Stephen; ED: 17; Page: 3; Line: 4; Roll: CSSCT1851_180; 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 Merry Dempster
      Name: Merry Dempster
      Age: 62
      Estimated Birth Year: abt 1789
      Relationship: Head
      Gender: Female
      Where born: Duns, Berwickshire
      Parish Number: 685/1
      Civil Parish: Edinburgh St Stephen
      County: Midlothian
      Address: 23 India Place
      Occupation: Dependant on Family
      ED: 17
      Page: 3
      Household Schedule Number: 17
      Line: 4
      Roll: CSSCT1851_180
      Household Members:
      Name Age
      Merry Dempster 62
      Robert Henderson 33
      Catherine Henderson 33
      Robert Henderson 9
      John Dempster Henderson 6
      Mary A D Henderson 4
      James D Henderson 8 Months
    3. Scotland. Select Births and Baptisms. Ancestry,com. 1564 -1950, Ancestry.com, 1841 Record for Robert Henderson 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 Henderson
      Name: Robert Henderson
      Gender: Male
      Birth Date: 21 Oct 1841
      Birth Place: Whitsome and Hilton, Berwick, Scotland
      Baptism Place: Whitsome and Hilton, Berwick, Scotland
      Father: Robert Henderson
      Mother: Catharine Dempster
      FHL Film Number: 1067904
      Reference ID: - 2:1605CMX
    4. 1871 England Census - Ancestry.com, 1871 HENDERSON, ROBERT Parish: Aldershot The National Archives; Kew, London, England; 1871 England Census; Class: RG10; Piece: 5183; Folio: 10; Page: 13; GSU roll: 849454 1871 England Census [Ancestry.com] The 1871 Census for England was taken on the night of 2 April 1871. Enumeration forms were distributed to all households a few days before the census night and the household members were required to complete the forms themselves. The next day, the enumerators collected the completed forms. All of the details from the individual forms were later sorted and copied into enumerators’ books. The information requested on the census included: Address (name of the street, avenue, or road; house number) Occupant (name of each person who spent the night in the house; their birthplace and relationship to head of family) Residence (whether home was inhabited; number of rooms occupied) Personal (sex, age, marital status) Occupation (whether employer, employee, or neither) Health (whether blind, deaf, dumb, imbecile, idiot, or lunatic)
      Record for Robert Henderson
      Name: Robert Henderson
      Age: 29
      Estimated Birth Year: 1842
      Relation: Head
      Gender: Male
      Where born: Scotland
      Civil parish: Aldershot
      Town: Aldershot
      County/Island: Hampshire
      Country: England
      Registration district: Farnham
      Sub-registration district: Frimley
      ED, institution, or vessel: 6
      Household schedule number: 173
      Piece: 816
      Folio: 59
      Page number: 26
      Household Members Age Relationship
      Robert Henderson 29 Head
      Janet Henderson 26 Wife
      Mary Ann Henderson 5 Daughter Scotland
    5. Scotlands People - Statutory Registers of Deaths (from 1855), 1875 HENDERSON, ROBERT (Statutory registers Deaths 465/ 225)
      1875 HENDERSON, ROBERT (Statutory registers Deaths 465/ 225)
      Deaths in the Parish of Alloa in the County of Clackmannan 1875
      Robert Henderson
      Cooper
      Married to Janet Harrower
      1875 December Twelfth 8hrs A.M.
      Kirkgate, Alloa M 31 Yrs
      Parents: Robert Henderson, Labourer
      Catherine Henderson M.S, Dempster
      COD: Heart Disease
      as certified by Peter Brotherston FRCsE
      Inf. John Henderson, brother, not present
      Registered
      1875 13th December, Alloa
      Wm. D Bruce
      Registrar
    6. Civil Service Evidence of Age, Record for Robert Henderson Civil Service Evidence of Age These vital records are for established civil servants and civil service examination candidates, collected by the Civil Service Commission (CSC) from 1855 in order to establish accurate birth dates for the purpose of either ensuring that an examination candidate was of the required age, or granting a pension. The CSC still held original documents by the 1980s for approximately 60,000 individuals, consisting largely of items that it would be impractical to replace, such as personal testimonials or documents from overseas.
      First name: Robert
      Last name: Henderson
      Birth year: 1841
      Birth date: 21 Oct 1841
      Place: Whitson
      County: Berwickshire
      Country: Scotland
      Event type: Birth
      Notes: Place: aka Whitsome
      Reference: 20051 100
      Record set: British Civil Service Evidence of Age
      Category: Birth, Marriage, Death & Parish Records
      Subcategory: Parish Baptisms
      Collections from: Great Britain, Scotland

      I. Robert Henderson, Labourer, residing in Alloa, a strong, well made, healthy man, about five feet eight inches in height,
      do solemnly and sincerely declare that
      My Son, Robert Henderson, Labourer, residing in Alloa, was born at Whitson in Berwickshire on the Twenty First of October Eighteen hundred and forty one, and that his age is thirty one years past in October last...
      Signed Robert Harrower
      10 June 1873

      Signature of Magistrate
      Name: John Ewing, one of her Majestys Justice of the Peace for Clackmannanshire

    Historical events

    Birthday October 21, 1841

    • The temperature on October 21, 1841 was about 9.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west-northwest. Weather type: half bewolkt hagel bui. Source: KNMI
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    Day of marriage July 9, 1869

    • The temperature on July 9, 1869 was about 22.1 °C. The air pressure was 6 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 50%. 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 June 4, 1868 till January 4, 1871 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Bosse - Fock with the prime ministers Mr. P.P. van Bosse (liberaal) and Mr. C. Fock (liberaal).
    • In the year 1869: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
      • March 6 » Dmitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society.
      • May 15 » Women's suffrage: In New York, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton form the National Woman Suffrage Association.
      • May 26 » Boston University is chartered by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
      • July 10 » Gävle, Sweden, is largely destroyed in a fire; 80% of its 10,000 residents are left homeless.
      • August 2 » Japan's Edo society class system is abolished as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms.
      • August 16 » Battle of Acosta Ñu: A Paraguayan battalion made up of children is massacred by the Brazilian Army during the Paraguayan War.

    Day of death December 12, 1875

    • The temperature on December 12, 1875 was about 5.5 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 97%. 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 August 27, 1874 till November 3, 1877 the Netherlands had a cabinet Heemskerk - Van Lijnden van Sandenburg with the prime ministers Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) and Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (AR).
    • In the year 1875: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
      • January 5 » The Palais Garnier, one of the most famous opera houses in the world, is inaugurated in Paris.
      • February 24 » The SSGothenburg hits the Great Barrier Reef and sinks off the Australian east coast, killing approximately 100, including a number of high-profile civil servants and dignitaries.
      • March 3 » The first ever organized indoor game of ice hockey is played in Montreal, Quebec, Canada as recorded in the Montreal Gazette.
      • April 4 » Vltava, composed by Czech composer Bedřich Smetana and also known by its German name Die Moldau, premiered in Prague.
      • May 1 » Alexandra Palace reopens after being burned down in a fire in 1873.
      • September 3 » The first official game of polo is played in Argentina after being introduced by British ranchers.
    

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