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Personal data Edward Spence Jr. 

Sources 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Household of Edward Spence Jr.

He is married to Mary West.

They got married on December 3, 1852 at Pathhead, Fife, Scotland, he was 24 years old.Source 8


Child(ren):

  1. Edward Spence  1855-????
  2. Janet Spence  1860-????
  3. Isabella Spence  1862-????
  4. Margaret Spence  1853-1864

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Edward Spence

John Spence
1775-< 1857
Agnes Strang
1776-1857
Edward Spence
1801-1883
Margaret Thomson
1796-< 1862

Edward Spence
1828-1875

1852

Mary West
1833-1865

Edward Spence
1855-????
Janet Spence
1860-????
Isabella Spence
1862-????
Margaret Spence
1853-1864

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    1. Scotland. Select Births and Baptisms. Ancestry,com. 1564 -1950, Ancestry.com, 1828 Record for Edward Spence 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 Edward Spence
      Name: Edward Spence
      Gender:Male
      Birth Date: 11 May 1828
      Baptism Date: 25 May 1828
      Baptism Place: Carnock, Fife, Scotland
      Father: Edward Spence
      Mother: Margaret Thomson
      FHL Film Number: 1040154
    2. 1861 Scotland Census Ancestry.com, Record for Edward Spence Jr Parish: Carnock; ED: 1; Page: 7; Line: 19; Roll: CSSCT1861_54 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 Edward Spence Jr
      Name: Edward Spence Jr
      Age: 32
      Estimated Birth Year: abt 1829
      Relationship: Head
      Spouse's Name: Mary Spence
      Gender: Male
      Where born: Carnock, Fife
      Registration Number: 414
      Registration district: Carnock
      Civil parish: Carnock
      County: Fife
      Address: 14 Dunfermline Road
      Occupation: Mason's Labourer
      ED: 1
      Household schedule number: 42
      Line: 19
      Roll: CSSCT1861_54
      Household Members Age Relationship
      Edward Spence Jr. 32 Head
      Mary Spence 28 Wife
      Margaret Spence 8 Daughter
      Edward Spence 6 Son
      Janet Spence 1 Daughter
    3. 1851 Scotland Census Ancestry.com, Record for Edward Spence Parish: Carnock; ED: 4; Page: 5; Line: 8; 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 Edward Spence
      Name: Edward Spence
      Age: 48
      Estimated Birth Year: abt 1803
      Relationship: Head
      Spouse: Margt Spence
      Gender: Male
      Where born: Dunfermline, Fife
      Parish Number: 414
      Civil Parish: Carnock
      Town: Carnock
      County: Fife
      Address: Smithy
      Occupation: Labourer Agricultural
      ED: 4
      Page: 5
      Household Schedule Number: 17
      Line: 8
      Roll: CSSCT1851_85
      Household Members:
      Name Age
      Edward Spence 48
      Margt Spence 55
      Edward Spence 22
      Ann Spence 18
      Jane Wight 17 Visitor Dressmaker
    4. 1841 Scotland Census Ancestry.com, Record for Edward Spence Jr. Parish: Carnock; ED: 1; Page: 3; Line: 1140; 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 Edward Spence
      Name: Edward Spence
      Age: 13
      Estimated Birth Year: abt 1828
      Gender: Male
      Where born: Fife, Scotland
      Civil parish: Carnock
      County: Fife
      Address: Outhouse
      Occupation: Agr Servant
      Parish Number: 414
      Household Members Age
      William McLake 20
      Andrew Piton 20
      Edward Spence 13
    5. 1871 Scotland Census Ancestry.com, Record for Edward Spence Jr. Parish: Carnock; ED: 1; Page: 11; Line: 19; Roll: CSSCT1871_71 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 Edward Spence
      Name: Edward Spence
      Age: 42
      Estimated Birth Year: abt 1829
      Relationship: Head
      Gender: Male
      Where born: Carnock, Fife
      Registration Number: 414
      Registration district: Carnock
      Civil parish: Carnock
      County: Fife
      Address: Carnock
      Occupation: Mason
      ED: 1
      Household schedule number: 69
      Line: 19
      Roll: CSSCT1871_71
      Household Members Age Relationship
      Edward Spence 42 Head
      Edward Spence 16 Son
      Janet Spence 11 Daughter
      Isabella Spence 9 Daughter
    6. Scotlands People - Old Parish Registers of Births and Baptisms, 1828 SPENCE, EDWARD (Old Parish registers Births 414/ 30 44) Carnock Not downloaded
      1828 SPENCE, EDWARD EDWARD SPENCE/MARGARET THOMSON M 25/05/1828 414/ 30 44 Carnock
    7. Scotlands People - Statutory Registers of Deaths (from 1855), 1875 SPENCE. EDWARD (Statutory registers Deaths 414/ 19) Carnock (Fife) Downloaded from Ancestry @ https://www.ancestry.co.uk/mediaui-viewer/tree/171895672/person/122230698506/media/886ba695-9d9c-4eca-8a60-a75f52eaa1f6
      1875 SPENCE. EDWARD (Statutory registers Deaths 414/ 19) Carnock (Fife)
      Deaths in the Parish of Carnock in the County of Fife 1875.
      Edward Spence, Mason
      Widower of Mary West
      1875 October Fifth 2h. 30m P.M.
      Carnock Village M 47 years
      Parents: Edward Spence, Labourer
      Margaret Spence
      M.S. Thomson (Deceased)
      COD: Pulmonary Consumption (TB)
      Several Months
      As cert by A. Dewar Durie M.D.
      Inf. Edward Spence, Son (Present)
      Registered
      October 9th, Carnock
      Robert Bridgett
      Registrar
    8. Scotlands People - Old Parish Registers of Banns and Marriages, 1852 SPENCE, EDWARD MARY WEST (Old Parish registers Marriages 414/30 250 Carnock Downloaded from Ancestry @ https://www.ancestry.co.uk/mediaui-viewer/tree/171895672/person/122230698506/media/5ee697cf-67e8-4909-aa47-563148670f9d
      1852 SPENCE, EDWARD MARY WEST (Old Parish registers Marriages 414/30 250 Carnock
      1852 Spence & West
      Edward Spence & Mary West both in this Parish having been regularly proclaimed in the Parish Church here in order to marriage on the 15th, 22nd & 29th November were married at Pathhead by the Rev'd J.B.Baxter minister there on the 3rd December 1852

    Historical events

    Birthday May 11, 1828

    • The temperature on May 11, 1828 was about 14.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south-southwest. Weather type: half bewolkt winderig. Source: KNMI
    •  This page is only available in Dutch.
      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 1828: Source: Wikipedia
      • January 8 » The Democratic Party of the United States is organized.
      • April 14 » Noah Webster copyrights the first edition of his dictionary.
      • May 19 » U.S. President John Quincy Adams signs the Tariff of 1828 into law, protecting wool manufacturers in the United States.
      • August 27 » Brazil and Argentina recognize the sovereignty of Uruguay in the Treaty of Montevideo
      • October 7 » Morea expedition: The city of Patras, Greece, is liberated by the French expeditionary force.
      • November 16 » Greek War of Independence: The London Protocol entails the creation of an autonomous Greek state under Ottoman suzerainty, encompassing the Morea and the Cyclades.

    Christening day May 25, 1828

    • The temperature on May 25, 1828 was about 19.0 °C. Wind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: omtrent helder. Source: KNMI
    •  This page is only available in Dutch.
      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 1828: Source: Wikipedia
      • April 20 » René Caillié becomes the second non-Muslim to enter (and the first to return from) Timbuktu, following Major Gordon Laing.
      • May 19 » U.S. President John Quincy Adams signs the Tariff of 1828 into law, protecting wool manufacturers in the United States.
      • August 27 » Brazil and Argentina recognize the sovereignty of Uruguay in the Treaty of Montevideo
      • October 7 » Morea expedition: The city of Patras, Greece, is liberated by the French expeditionary force.
      • November 5 » Greek War of Independence: The French Morea expedition to recapture Morea (now the Peloponnese) ends when the last Ottoman forces depart the peninsula.
      • December 1 » Argentine general Juan Lavalle makes a coup against governor Manuel Dorrego, beginning the Decembrist revolution.

    Day of marriage December 3, 1852

    • The temperature on December 3, 1852 was about 2.6 °C. There was 1 mm of rain. The atmospheric humidity was 97%. Source: KNMI
    •  This page is only available in Dutch.
      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 Netherlands , there was from November 1, 1849 to April 19, 1853 the cabinet Thorbecke I, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1852: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 3.3 million citizens.
      • February 5 » The New Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia, one of the largest and oldest museums in the world, opens to the public.
      • March 17 » Annibale De Gasparis discovers in Naples the asteroid Psyche from the north dome of the Astronomical Observatory of Capodimonte
      • July 3 » Congress establishes the United States' 2nd mint in San Francisco.
      • August 3 » Harvard University wins the first Boat Race between Yale University and Harvard. The race is also the first American intercollegiate athletic event.
      • October 11 » The University of Sydney, Australia's oldest university, is inaugurated in Sydney.
      • November 4 » Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour, becomes the prime minister of Piedmont-Sardinia, which soon expands to become Italy.

    Day of death October 5, 1875

    • The temperature on October 5, 1875 was about 13.6 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. The air pressure was 5 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 94%. 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.
      • March 3 » Georges Bizet's opera Carmen receives its première at the Opéra-Comique in Paris.
      • March 3 » The first ever organized indoor game of ice hockey is played in Montreal, Quebec, Canada as recorded in the Montreal Gazette.
      • April 10 » India: Arya Samaj is founded in Mumbai by Swami Dayananda Saraswati to propagate his goal of social reform.
      • August 22 » The Treaty of Saint Petersburg between Japan and Russia is ratified, providing for the exchange of Sakhalin for the Kuril Islands.
      • August 25 » Captain Matthew Webb becomes the first person to swim across the English Channel, traveling from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in 21 hours and 45 minutes.
    

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