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Personal data Robert Blair 

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Household of Robert Blair

He had a relationship with Jane Prentice.


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Notes about Robert Blair

1. Jane and Robert Blair were not married!

2. Alloa Advertiser - Saturday 22 June 1867 FOLK IN ALLOA WHOM I HAVE KNOWN
Philemon Blair, who as grave-digger, and as the manner of the class is, had callously consigned so many of the townsfolk to the narrow house, himself died and was buried, and Edward his son was called to reign in his stead. The careers of Ned, and his brother and successor Robert, are too recent for me particularly to describe. ...

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Robert Blair

Philemon Blair
1764-????
Margaret McGowan
????-
Philemon Blair
1792-< 1862
Jean White
1791-????

Robert Blair
1831-1866


Jane Prentice
1828-1895

Robert Blair Prentice
1858-1861

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    1. Web: Scotland, General and Admission Registers for Asylums, 1858-1918, Ancestry.com, 1866 Record for Robert Blair Website: https://www.scottishindexes.com/mcsearch.aspx; Archive: Scottish Indexes; Archive Location: Glasgow, Scotland https://www.scottishindexes.com/institutions/33.aspx
      Record for Robert Blair
      NameRobert Blair
      Patient Number15267
      Admission/Transfer Date18 September 1866
      Death Date12 December 1866
      Institution (click for info)Hallcross House, Musselburgh
      CountyMidlothian
      NRS Ref (General Register)MC7/2 p. 303
      NRS Ref (Admission Form)MC2/92
      / Ancestry.com
    2. 1841 Scotland Census Scotlands People, 1841 BLAIR, PHILIMON (Census 465/ 3/ 19) Parish: Alloa 1841 Scotland Census [Scotlandspeople.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.
      1841 England, Wales & Scotland Census
      Kirkgate, Alloa (Clackmannan), Clackmannanshire, Scotland
      Household Members that resided in the household at the time of the census.
      First name(s) Last name Sex Age Birth year Birth place
      Philimon Blair Male 45 1796 Sexton Clackmannanshire, Scotland
      Jane Blair Female 50 1791 Clackmannanshire, Scotland
      Edward Blair Male 15 1826 Tinsmith Clackmannanshire, Scotland
      Robert Blair Male 15 1826 -
      Catherine Macgowan Female 75 1766 Clackmannanshire, Scotland
      James Macbeath Male 70 1771 Scotland
      Jane Macbeath Female 55 1786 Scotland
      James Younger Male 40 1801 Clackmannanshire, Scotland
      George Younger Male 45 1796 Clackmannanshire, Scotland
      Margaret Younger Female 70 1771 Clackmannanshire, Scotland
      William Thomson Male 30 1811 Clackmannanshire, Scotland
      Jane Thomson Female 20 1821 Clackmannanshire, Scotland
      Hannah Thomson Female 3 1838 Clackmannanshire, Scotland
      Jane Thomson Female 1 1840 Clackmannanshire, Scotland
      Jane Thomson Female 60 1781 Scotland
      Jane Williamson Female 20 1821 Scotland
    3. Scotland. Select Births and Baptisms. Ancestry,com. 1564 -1950, Ancestry.com, 1831 Record for Robert Blair 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 Blair
      Name: Robert Blair
      Gender: Male
      Birth Date: 24 Jun 1831
      Baptism Date: 30 Jun 1831
      Baptism Place: Alloa, Clackmannan, Scotland
      Father: Philemon Blair
      Mother: Jean White
      FHL Film Number: 1040207
    4. Scotlands People - Statutory Registers of Deaths (from 1855), 1866 BLAIR, ROBERT (Statutory Registers of Deaths 689/ 292) Inveresk and Musselburgh Downloaded from Ancestry @ https://www.ancestry.co.uk/mediaui-viewer/tree/23949161/person/12797777158/media/ee82622b-6439-4ba8-b5e6-6c6177bc4c76
      1866 BLAIR, ROBERT (Statutory Registers of Deaths 689/ 292) Inveresk and Musselburgh
      Deaths in the District of Inveresk and Musselburgh in the County of Edinburgh 1866.
      Robert Blair
      Labourer, Pauper, Lunatic from Alloa, Single
      1866 December Twelfth 8h 0m am
      Hallcross Assylum, Musselburgh M 34 Years
      Parents: Philemon Blair
      Sexton, Deceased
      Jean BlairMS White
      COD: Epilepsy, Months
      Apoplexy, Days
      As Cert by Henry Sanderson
      Surgeon Rit
      Inf. John Donaldson
      Attendant Present
      Registered
      1866 Twenty Sixth, Musselburgh
      DS M?
      Assist, Reg.
    5. 1851 Scotland Census Ancestry.com, Record for Jean Blair Parish: Alloa; ED: 5; Page: 40; Line: 1; Roll: CSSCT1851_75; 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 Jean Blair
      Name: Jean Blair
      Age: 60
      Estimated Birth Year: abt 1791
      Relationship: Head
      Gender: Female
      Where born: Alloa, Clackmannanshire
      Parish Number: 359
      Civil Parish: Alloa
      Town: Alloa
      County: Clackmannanshire
      Address: Kirkgate
      ED: 5
      Page: 40
      Household Schedule Number: 178
      Line: 1
      Roll: CSSCT1851_75
      Household Members:
      Name Age
      Jean Blair 60
      Edward Blair 28 Tinsmith
      Robert Blair 19 Labourer
    6. 1861 Scotland Census Ancestry.com, Record for Jane Blair Parish: Alloa; ED: 6; Page: 11; Line: 9; Roll: CSSCT1861_62 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 Jane Blair
      Name: Jane Blair
      Age: 70
      Estimated Birth Year: abt 1791
      Relationship: Head
      Gender: Female
      Where born: Alloa, Clackmannanshire
      Registration Number: 465
      Registration district: Alloa
      Civil parish: Alloa
      Town: Alloa
      County: Clackmannanshire
      Address: Kirkgate Street
      Occupation: Housekeeper
      ED: 6
      Household schedule number: 57
      Line: 9
      Roll: CSSCT1861_62
      Household Members Age Relationship
      Jane Blair 70 Head
      Robert Blair 28 Son
    7. 1851 Scotland Census Scotlands People, 1851 PRATICE, WILLIAM (Census 465/ 5/ 40) Parish: Alloa 1851 Scotland Census [Scotlandspeople.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. Downloaded from Ancestry @ https://www.ancestry.co.uk/mediaui-viewer/tree/105917225/person/270196884529/media/5db36630-94bd-49d8-a86b-bd4f8ab90804
      Name: William Prentice
      Age: 60
      Estimated Birth Year: abt 1791
      Relationship: Head
      Gender: Male
      Where born: Alloa, Clackmannanshire
      Parish Number: 359
      Civil Parish: Alloa
      Town: Alloa
      County: Clackmannanshire
      Address: Kirkgate
      Occupation: Labourer
      Household Members:
      Name Age
      William Prentice 60
      Catherine Prentice 60
      James Prentice 24
      Jane Prentice 23
      Catherine Simpson 10 Grandaughter

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      Jean Blair Head Widow 60 Alloa
      Edward Blair Son U 28 Tinsmith Alloa
      Robert Blair Son U 19 Labourer Alloa
    8. Newspaper Article, 1866 Robert Blair Alloa Advertiser 22 Dec 1866 https://www-britishnewspaperarchive-co-uk.nls.idm.oclc.org/viewer/bl/0001604/18661222/075/0004
      Alloa Advertiser 22 Dec 1866
      Death of Robert Blair,-
      On Sunday last, Robert Blair, who had for some years officiated as sexton in Alloa Church-yard, and whose ancestors for several generations had discharged the same duties, was interred in the burial-ground here. Blair had been in indifferent health for a considerable time past, and he died in Musselburgh Asylym.
    9. Newspaper Article, 1855 Robert Blair 1 September 1855 Alloa Advertiser. https://www-britishnewspaperarchive-co-uk.nls.idm.oclc.org/viewer/bl/0001604/18550901/047/0003
      1 September 1855 Alloa Advertiser.
      Within the last few days. Captain Harvey has erected a monumental stone in Alloa Churchyard, to the memory of his father and mother. The circumstance is here alluded to on account of the workmanship being of a very superior order, and coming from the hands of a young self taught native of AIloa, Robert, Blair, son of the late sexton. We hope his talents in this department of sculpture will not be overlooked by our local readers.
    10. Newspaper Article, 1864 Robert Blair Alloa Advertiser - Saturday 15 October 1864 Robert Blair Search (britishnewspaperarchive) https://www-britishnewspaperarchive-co-uk.nls.idm.oclc.org/search/results?basicsearch=robert%20blair&exactsearch=false&retrievecountrycounts=false&newspapertitle=alloa%2Badvertiser&page=1#
      Alloa Advertiser - Saturday 15 October 1864
      NARROW ESCAPE OF A GRAVEDIGGER
      On Tuesday last, while Robert Blair, the sexton, and his assistant, were employed in excavating a grave in the old churchyard, one side of the grave gave way, and falling in, completely buried the former, who was working in a stooping position at the time. The assistant, being buried up to the breast, could render no assistance, and in all probability the sexton, who was entirely covered with earth, would have been smothered, but for the presence of two gentlemen, who, having witnessed the occurrence, lost no time in having extricated (him) from his perilous position. We are glad to say he has now entirely recovered from the effects of his premature entombment.
    11. Newspaper Article, 1859 Edward & Robert Blair Alloa Advertiser 10 Dec 1859 https://www-britishnewspaperarchive-co-uk.nls.idm.oclc.org/viewer/bl/0001604/18591210/049/0004
      Alloa Advertiser 10 Dec 1859
      ALLOA CHURCH YARD.
      We are glad to notice that those having the superintendence of the Alloa Churchyard-the brothers Blair - have been improving the amenities of the old burial-ground, where, as well as in the new, there repose dust precious to almost every family amongst us. The improvements are not completed, but what has been done in the way of levelling the ground and improving the pathways, is indicative of a commendable desire on the part of the sextons to render the spot more agreeable to visitors and less of a reproach to us than it has formerly been. One of the more recent tombstones erected in the new cemetery is to the memory of Mr George Walker, surgeon, who, it may be remembered, came to Alloa at once to assist Mr Brotherson, and gain experience in his profession, at a time when Mr B. was laid aside for a few months from typhus fever. Mr Walker, however, in the discharge of his duties, caught the infection himself, and died, after a short illness, in the house of Dr. Brotherson. The following is the inscription, and the lettering is creditable to Robert Blair
    12. Newspaper Article, 1858 Jane Prentice or Pratice Robert Blair Probably about the birth of Robert Blair Prentice or Pratice in March 1858 Prentice or Pratis Alloa Advertiser Jul. 3 1858 1st Column Mid
      Prentice or Pratis Alloa Advertiser Jul. 3 1858 1st Column Mid

      PRENTICE AND PRATICE.
      Is the name Pratice a corruption of the name Prentice. This is a question on which the Sheriff-Substitute of the county is at present called upon to give judgement. An action was raised at the instance of a woman designed Jane Prentice, against Robert Blair, both residing in Alloa. The defence offered by the defender's agent was that the persuer's name was not Prentice but Pratice. The Sheriff ordered proof to be led on this question which was proceeded with on Wednesday last, and his Lordship intimated that be would shortly give his decision. Agent for the persuer : J. G. Wallace ; agent for the defender: John Watson.

    Historical events

    Birthday June 24, 1831

    • The temperature on June 24, 1831 was about 19.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west-southwest. Weather type: omtrent betrokken bui. Source: KNMI
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      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 1831: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 2.9 million citizens.
      • April 7 » Emperor Pedro I of Brazil resigns. He goes to his native Portugal to become King Pedro IV.
      • July 13 » Regulamentul Organic, a quasi-constitutional organic law is adopted in Wallachia, one of the two Danubian Principalities that were to become the basis of Romania.
      • August 8 » Four hundred Shawnee people agree to relinquish their lands in Ohio in exchange for land west of the Mississippi River in the Treaty of Wapakoneta.
      • September 1 » The high honor of Order of St. Gregory the Great is established by Pope Gregory XVI of the Vatican State to recognize high support for the Vatican or for the Pope, by a man or a woman, and not necessarily a Roman Catholic.
      • September 8 » William IV and Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
      • November 17 » Ecuador and Venezuela are separated from Gran Colombia.

    Christening day June 30, 1831

    • The temperature on June 30, 1831 was about 20.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north-northwest. Source: KNMI
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      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 1831: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 2.9 million citizens.
      • July 21 » Inauguration of Leopold I of Belgium, first king of the Belgians.
      • August 12 » French intervention forces William I of the Netherlands to abandon his attempt to suppress the Belgian Revolution.
      • September 1 » The high honor of Order of St. Gregory the Great is established by Pope Gregory XVI of the Vatican State to recognize high support for the Vatican or for the Pope, by a man or a woman, and not necessarily a Roman Catholic.
      • September 8 » November uprising: The Battle of Warsaw effectively ends the Polish insurrection.
      • December 5 » Former U.S. President John Quincy Adams takes his seat in the House of Representatives.
      • December 31 » Gramercy Park is deeded to New York City.

    Day of death December 12, 1866

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    • 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 Netherlands , there was from February 10, 1866 to June 1, 1866 the cabinet Fransen van de Putte, with I.D. Fransen van de Putte (liberaal) as prime minister.
    • From June 1, 1866 till June 4, 1868 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt - Heemskerk with the prime ministers Mr. J.P.J.A. graaf Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt (AR) and Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief).
    • In the year 1866: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
      • January 12 » The Royal Aeronautical Society is formed in London.
      • May 1 » The Memphis Race Riots begin. In three days time, 46 blacks and two whites were killed. Reports of the atrocities influenced passage of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
      • June 2 » The Fenians defeat Canadian forces at Ridgeway and Fort Erie, but the raids end soon after.
      • June 24 » Battle of Custoza: An Austrian army defeats the Italian army during the Austro-Prussian War.
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