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Personal data Thomas Storar 

Sources 1, 2, 3

Household of Thomas Storar

He is married to Margaret Shepherd.

They got married on July 23, 1841 at Beath, Fife, Scotland, he was 31 years old.Sources 1, 5


Notes about Thomas Storar

1. Death at Oakfield, 1858, register has no wifes name, but states Father as Richard Storrar and Mother as Ann Braid. This Death cannot yet be confirmed as the correct Thomas Storrar.
Adding to this death record being the correct one, Margaret Shepherd is living with her family in 1861 census at Norton 2 Kelty, Beath.

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Sources

  1. Scotland, Select Marriages, Ancestry.com, 1561-1910, Ancestry.com, 1841 Record for Thomas Storrar and Margaret Shepherd 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 Thomas Storrar and Margaret Shepherd
    Name: Thomas Storrar
    Gender: Male
    Marriage Date: 23 Jul 1841
    Marriage Place: Beath, Fife, Scotland
    Spouse: Margaret Shepherd
    FHL Film Number: 1040150
    / Ancestry.com
  2. 1841 Scotland Census Ancestry.com, Record for Thomas Storrar Parish: Cleish; ED: 3; Page: 5; Line: 1260; Year: 1841 1841 Scotland Census [Ancestry.com] The 1841 Census for Scotland was taken on the night of 6 June 1841. The following information was requested: name, age, gender, profession, and birthplace. Database online.
    Record for Thomas Storrar
    Name: Thomas Storur
    Age: 30
    Estimated birth year: abt 1811
    Gender: Male
    Where born: Scotland
    Civil Parish: Cleish
    County: Kinross
    Address: Village of Kelty
    Occupation: Agricultural Labourer
    Parish Number: 460
    Household Members:
    Name Age
    James Hart 40
    Maria Hart 40
    David Hart 11
    Andrew Hart 8
    Charles Hart 6
    Euphemia Hart 3
    Marian Hart 1
    Thomas Storur 30
  3. 1851 Scotland Census Ancestry.com, Record for Thomas Storrars Parish: Beath; ED: 1; Page: 23; Line: 18; Roll: CSSCT1851_85; 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 Thomas Storrars
    Name: Thomas Storrars
    Age: 41
    Estimated birth year: abt 1810
    Relationship: Head
    Spouse: Margaret Storrars
    Gender: Male
    Where born: Falkland, Fife
    Parish Number: 410
    Civil Parish: Beath
    Town: Oakfield
    County: Fife
    Address: Oakfald
    Occupation: Labourer at Colliery
    ED: 1
    Page: 23
    Household schedule number: 87
    Line: 18
    Roll: CSSCT1851_85
    Household Members:
    Name Age
    Thomas Storrars 41
    Margaret Storrars 42
    George Wilson 18 Coal Miner
  4. Scotlands People - Statutory Registers of Deaths (from 1855), 1858 STORRAR, THOMAS (Statutory registers Deaths 410/ 28)
    1858 STORRAR, THOMAS (Statutory registers Deaths 410/ 28)
    Deaths in the Parish of Beath in the County of Fife 1858.
    Storrar Thomas (Labourer)
    (married)
    1858 December Eighteenth 6h. 30m,P.M. M. 49 Years.
    Parents: Richard Storrar Labourer (dead)
    Ann Storrar maiden name Braid (dead)
    COD: Injury of Abdomen from accident when working at Railway. Twentyeight hours
    certified by Dr Mungall M.D. who saw him on 18th Inst.
    Burial Place: Beath as certified by James Wilkie Undertaker.
    Inf. Mathew Ireland Weaver Oakfield
    Registered 1885 December 19, Beath
    Thomas Scott
    Registrar
  5. Scotlands People - Old Parish Registers of Banns and Marriages, 1841 STORRAR, THOMAS (Old Parish Registers Marriages 410/ 20 160 Beath)
    23/07/1841 STORRAR, THOMAS (Old Parish Registers Marriages 410/ 20 160 Beath)
    Register of Marriages 1841, Beath.
    Storrar and Shepherd
    Thomas Storrar in the parish of Cleish and Margaret Shepherd in this parish gave in their names to be proclaimed in order to marriage
    on the 4th July 1841, and after regular proclamation were married on the 23rd
    3 Sab's Pd. 1/- to Beadle Pd. 2/6 to the poor

Historical events

Day of death December 18, 1858

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