Harrower Family Tree » Margaret Rankeillor (1817-1885)

Personal data Margaret Rankeillor 

Sources 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
  • She was born in the year 1817 in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland.Sources 1, 2, 3, 5
  • Occupations:
    • in the year 1871 Grocer in Broad Street, Alloa, Clackmannanshire, Scotland.Source 5
    • in the year 1881 Formerly Grocer in Broad Street, Alloa, Clackmannanshire, Scotland.Source 1
  • Resident:
    • in the year 1861: Alloa, Clackmannanshire, Scotland.Source 2
    • in the year 1851: Collectors Opening, Alloa, Clackmannanshire, Scotland.Source 3
    • in the year 1871: Broad Street, Alloa, Clackmannanshire, Scotland.Source 5
    • in the year 1881: Broad Street, Alloa, Clackmannanshire, Scotland.Source 1
  • (Informant at Death) on April 20, 1885 in Alloa, Clackmannanshire, Scotland: Andrew Ross Son-in-law, Present.Source 4
  • She died on April 20, 1885 in Broad Street, Alloa, Clackmannanshire, Scotland, she was 68 years old.Source 4
    age: 67
    Oorzaak: Apoplexy, 4 days
  • A child of James Rankeillor and Janet Blair

Household of Margaret Rankeillor

She is married to William Blair.

They got married on June 24, 1839 at Barony, Lanarkshire, Scotland, she was 22 years old.Source 6


Child(ren):

  1. Jane Blair  1846-???? 
  2. Margaret Blair  1842-????
  3. Janet Blair  1849-????


Notes about Margaret Rankeillor

1. No record of birth can be found in SP.

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Margaret Rankeillor

Margaret Rankeillor
1817-1885

1839

William Blair
1818-????

Jane Blair
1846-????
Margaret Blair
1842-????
Janet Blair
1849-????

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Sources

  1. 1881 Scotland Census Ancestry.com, Record for Philemon Blair Parish: Alloa; ED: 8; Page: 7; Line: 7; Roll: CSSCT1881_129 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
    Record for Philemon Blair
    Name: Philemon Blair
    Age: 26
    Estimated Birth Year: abt 1855
    Relationship: Cousin in Law (Cousin)
    Gender: Male
    Where born: Alloa, Clackmannanshire
    Registration Number: 465
    Registration district: Alloa
    Civil parish: Alloa
    Town: Alloa
    County: Clackmannanshire
    Address: Broad Street
    Occupation: Potter Thrower
    ED: 8
    Household schedule number: 29
    Line: 7
    Roll: CSSCT1881_129
    Household Members Age Relationship
    Andrew Ross 32 Head
    Jane Ross 34 Wife
    Margaret Rankeillor Ross 5 Daughter
    Margaret Blair 64 Mother - in - law
    Philemon Blair 26 Cousin - in - law
  2. 1861 Scotland Census Ancestry.com, Record for William Blair Parish: Alloa; ED: 7; Page: 14; Line: 2; 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 William Blair
    Name: William Blair
    Age: 42
    Estimated Birth Year: abt 1819
    Relationship: Head
    Spouse's Name: Margaret Blair
    Gender: Male
    Where born: Alloa, Clackmannanshire
    Registration Number: 465
    Registration district: Alloa
    Civil parish: Alloa
    Town: Alloa
    County: Clackmannanshire
    Address: 43
    Occupation: Seaman
    ED: 7
    Household schedule number: 74
    Line: 2
    Roll: CSSCT1861_62
    Household Members Age Relationship
    William Blair 42 Head
    Margaret Blair 44 Wife
    John Hellanx 30 Boarder
    Jane Hellanx 20 Boarder
  3. 1851 Scotland Census Ancestry.com, Record for Margaret Blair Parish: Alloa; ED: 6; Page: 55; Line: 17; Roll: CSSCT1851_96; 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 Margaret Blair
    Name: Margaret Blair
    Age: 34
    Estimated Birth Year: abt 1817
    Relationship: Head
    Gender: Female
    Where born: Glasgow, Lanarkshire
    Parish Number: 465
    Civil Parish: Alloa
    Town: Alloa
    County: Clackmannanshire
    Address: Collectors Opening
    ED: 6
    Page: 55
    Household Schedule Number: 217
    Line: 17
    Roll: CSSCT1851_96
    Household Members:
    Name Age
    Margaret Blair 34
    Margaret Blair 9
    Jean Blair 4
    Janet Blair 2
  4. Scotlands People - Statutory Registers of Deaths (from 1855), 1885 RANKEILLOR, MARGARET (Statutory Registers Deaths 465/ 70) Alloa (Clackmannan) Downloaded from Ancestry @ https://www.ancestry.co.uk/mediaui-viewer/tree/14158571/person/939556800/media/ea5f9264-6448-4a48-a9ab-6e98f49ce7c0
    1885 RANKEILLOR, MARGARET (Statutory Registers Deaths 465/ 70) Alloa (Clackmannan)
    Deaths in the Parish of Alloa in the County of Clackmannan 1885
    Margaret Blair
    Married to William Blair, Seaman
    1885 April Twentieth 0h 30m AM
    Broad Street, Alloa F. 67 Years
    Parents: James Rankeillor
    Boilermaker Dec'
    Janet Rankeillor
    MS Blair Dec'
    COD: Apoplexy, 4 Days
    as certified by J Home Hay MD Ed.
    Inf. Andrew Ross
    Son-in-law, Present
    Registered
    1885 20th April, Alloa
    Wm D Bruce
    Registrar
  5. 1871 Scotland Census Ancestry.com, Record for Philemon Blair Parish: Alloa; ED: 7; Page: 23; Line: 15; Roll: CSSCT1871_80 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 Philemon Blair
    Name: Philemon Blair
    Age: 16
    Estimated Birth Year: abt 1855
    Relationship: Nephew
    Gender: Male
    Where born: Alloa, Clackmannanshire
    Registration Number: 465
    Registration district: Alloa
    Civil parish: Alloa
    Town: Alloa
    County: Clackmannanshire
    Address: Broad Street
    Occupation: Potter
    ED: 7
    Household schedule number: 122
    Line: 15
    Roll: CSSCT1871_80
    Household Members Age Relationship
    Margaret Blair 55 Head
    Jane Blair 25 Daughter
    Philemon Blair 16 Nephew
    Alexander Archibald 74 Lodger
  6. Scotlands People - Old Parish Registers of Banns and Marriages, 1839 BLAIR, (Old Parish Registers Marriages 622/ 170 664) Barony Not downloaded
    1839 BLAIR, WILLIAM MARGARET RANKEILLOR 24/06/1839 622/ 170 664 Barony

Historical events

Day of marriage June 24, 1839

  • The temperature on June 24, 1839 was about 17.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west-southwest. Weather type: half bewolkt . 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 1839: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 2.9 million citizens.
    • January 6 » The Night of the Big Wind, the most damaging storm in 300 years, sweeps across Ireland, damaging or destroying more than 20% of the houses in Dublin.
    • April 19 » The Treaty of London establishes Belgium as a kingdom and guarantees its neutrality.
    • June 14 » Henley Royal Regatta: the village of Henley-on-Thames, on the River Thames in Oxfordshire, stages its first regatta.
    • July 2 » Twenty miles off the coast of Cuba, 53 kidnapped Africans led by Joseph Cinqué mutiny and take over the slave ship Amistad.
    • November 17 » Oberto, Giuseppe Verdi's first opera, opens at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Italy.
    • November 27 » In Boston, Massachusetts, the American Statistical Association is founded.

Day of death April 20, 1885

  • The temperature on April 20, 1885 was about 16.1 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the northeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 49%. 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 1885: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
    • January 17 » A British force defeats a large Dervish army at the Battle of Abu Klea in the Sudan.
    • February 18 » Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is published in the United States.
    • March 26 » The Métis people of the District of Saskatchewan under Louis Riel begin the North-West Rebellion against Canada.
    • March 30 » The Battle for Kushka triggers the Panjdeh Incident which nearly gives rise to war between the Russian and British Empire.
    • March 31 » The United Kingdom establishes the Bechuanaland Protectorate.
    • July 23 » President Ulysses S. Grant dies of throat cancer.


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