Harrower Family Tree » Robert Bird (1831-1901)

Personal data Robert Bird 

Sources 1, 2
  • He was born in the year 1831 in Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland.Source 2
  • Profession: in the year 1891 Yarn Dyer in 357 High Street, Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland.Source 2
  • Resident in the year 1891: 357 High Street, Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland.Source 2
  • He died on January 8, 1901 in Kinghorn, Fife, Scotland, he was 70 years old.Source 3
    Age: 72
    Oorzaak: Paralysis (3 mos) as certified by James Welsh, Surgeon
  • A child of Alexander Bird and Mary Gibson

Household of Robert Bird

(1) He is married to Margaret Wilson.

They got married on April 4, 1884 at Harbour Head, Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland, he was 53 years old.Source 4


Child(ren):

  1. Mary Bird  1888-????


(2) He is married to Agnes Grant.

They got married on November 17, 1862 at Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland, he was 31 years old.Source 1


Child(ren):

  1. Alexr Bird  1865-????
  2. Agnes Bird  1874-????

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Robert Bird

Alexander Bird
????-< 1884
Mary Gibson
????-< 1884

Robert Bird
1831-1901

(1) 1884

Margaret Wilson
1847-1916

Mary Bird
1888-????
(2) 1862

Agnes Grant
????-1883

Alexr Bird
1865-????
Agnes Bird
1874-????

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Sources

  1. Scotland, Select Marriages, Ancestry.com, 1561-1910, Ancestry.com, 1862 Record for Robert Bird & Agnes Grant 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 Bird
    Name: Robert Bird
    Gender: Male
    Marriage Date: 17 Nov 1862
    Marriage Place: Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland
    Spouse: Agnes Grant
    FHL Film Number: 6035516
    / Ancestry.com
  2. 1891 Scotland Census Ancestry.com, Record for Robert Bird Parish: Kirkcaldy and Abbotshall; ED: 3; Page: 15; Line: 16; Roll: CSSCT1891_135 1891 Scotland Census [Ancestry.com] The 1891 Census for Scotland was taken on the night of 5/6 April 1891. 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 Bird
    Name: Robert Bird
    Age: 60
    Estimated Birth Year: abt 1831
    Relationship: Head
    Spouse's Name: Margaret Bird
    Gender: Male
    Where born: Kirkcaldy, Fife
    Registration Number: 442
    Registration district: Kirkcaldy and Abbotshall
    Civil parish: Kirkcaldy and Abbotshall
    County: Fife
    Address: 357 High Street
    Occupation: Yarn Dyer
    ED: 3
    Household schedule number: 73
    Line: 16
    Roll: CSSCT1891_135
    Household Members Age Relationship
    Robert Bird 60 Head
    Margaret Bird 47 Wife
    Alexr Bird 26 Son
    Agnes Bird 17 Daughter
    James Wilson 16 Stepson
    Christina Wilson 8 Step Daughter
    Mary Bird 3 Daughter
  3. Scotlands People - Statutory Registers of Deaths (from 1855), 1901 BIRD, ROBERT (Statutory Register Deaths 72 439/ 4 Kinghorn) Not downloaded Date & COD from Ancestry @ https://www.ancestry.co.uk/family-tree/person/tree/166282339/person/112162732622/facts
    1901 BIRD, ROBERT (Statutory Register Deaths 439/ 4 Kinghorn)
    08 January 1901 Age 72
    COD: Paralysis (3 mos) as certified by James Welsh, Surgeon
  4. Scotlands People - Statutory Registers of Marriages (from 1855), 1884 BIRD, ROBERT, MARGARET WILSON (Statutory registers Marriages 442/ 45)
    1884 BIRD, ROBERT, MARGARET WILSON (Statutory registers Marriages 442/ 45)
    Marriages in the District of Kirkcaldy and Abbotshall in the County of Fife 1884.
    1884 Fourth April,
    Harbour Head, Kirkcaldy,
    After Publication According to the Forms of the Church of Scotland
    (Signed)
    Robert Bird
    Yarn Dyer (Widower)
    Age 51 High Street, Kirkcaldy
    Parents: Alexander Bird
    Shoemaker (Deceased)
    Mary Bird
    M.S. Gibson (Deceased)
    (Signed
    Margaret Wilson
    Flax Mill Worker (Spinster)
    Age 38 Harbour Head, Kirkcaldy
    Parents: James Wilson
    Flax Dresser (Deceased)
    Marjory Wilson
    M.S. Aitken, (Deceased)
    (Signed)
    John Spark
    St James' Parish, Kirkcaldy
    (Signed)
    William Millar, Witness
    Alexander Bird, Witness
    Registered
    1884 April 7th, Kirkcaldy
    John Foreman
    Assistant Registrar
    S.M.M.

Historical events

Day of marriage November 17, 1862

  • The temperature on November 17, 1862 was about 7.8 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 0.5 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 90%. 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 March 14, 1861 till January 31, 1862 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt - Loudon with the prime ministers Mr. J.P.P. baron Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. J. Loudon (liberaal).
  • 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 1862: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
    • February 21 » American Civil War: Battle of Valverde is fought near Fort Craig in New Mexico Territory.
    • May 20 » U.S. President Abraham Lincoln signs the Homestead Act into law, opening 84million acres of public land to settlers.
    • August 17 » American Civil War: Major General J. E. B. Stuart is assigned command of all the cavalry of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia.
    • August 19 » American Indian Wars: During an uprising in Minnesota, Lakota warriors decide not to attack heavily defended Fort Ridgely and instead turn to the settlement of New Ulm, killing white settlers along the way.
    • September 18 » The Confederate States celebrate for the first and only time a Thanksgiving Day.
    • December 17 » American Civil War: General Ulysses S. Grant issues General Order No. 11, expelling Jews from parts of Tennessee, Mississippi, and Kentucky.

Day of death January 8, 1901

  • The temperature on January 8, 1901 was between -9.4 °C and -0.6 °C and averaged -4.9 °C. There was 1.9 hours of sunshine (24%). Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1897 to August 1, 1901 the cabinet Pierson, with Mr. N.G. Pierson (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from August 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1901: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.2 million citizens.
    • January 1 » The British colonies of New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania, and Western Australia federate as the Commonwealth of Australia; Edmund Barton is appointed the first Prime Minister.
    • January 22 » Edward VII is proclaimed King after the death of his mother, Queen Victoria.
    • July 4 » William Howard Taft becomes American governor of the Philippines.
    • August 14 » The first claimed powered flight, by Gustave Whitehead in his Number 21.
    • November 27 » The U.S. Army War College is established.
    • December 3 » In a State of the Union message, U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt delivers a 20,000-word speech to the House of Representatives asking Congress to curb the power of trusts "within reasonable limits".


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Source: Wikipedia


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