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  1. Scotland. Select Births and Baptisms. Ancestry,com. 1564 -1950, Ancestry.com, 1783 Record for May Forbes 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 May Forbes
    Name: May Forbes
    Gender: Female
    Birth Date: 04 Feb 1783
    Baptism Date: 09 Feb 1783
    Baptism Place: Elie, Fife, Scotland
    Father: David Forbes
    Mother: Margaret Henderson
    FHL Film Number: 1040110
  2. Scotlands People - Old Parish Registers of Births and Baptisms, 1783 FORBES, MAY (Old Parish Registers Births 427/ 20 60Elie) Not downloaded
    FORBES, MAY (Old Parish Registers of Births 09/02/1783 427/ 20 60Elie)

Historical events

Birthday February 4, 1783

  • The temperature on February 4, 1783 was about 7.0 °C. Wind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: zeer betrokken. Source: KNMI
  • Erfstadhouder Prins Willem V (Willem Batavus) (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1751 till 1795 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
  • In the year 1783: Source: Wikipedia
    • January 20 » The Kingdom of Great Britain signed preliminary articles of peace with France, setting the stage to the official end of hostilities in the American Revolutionary War later that year.
    • February 3 » Spain–United States relations are first established.
    • February 7 » American Revolutionary War: French and Spanish forces lift the Great Siege of Gibraltar.
    • June 4 » The Montgolfier brothers publicly demonstrate their montgolfière (hot air balloon).
    • June 8 » Laki, a volcano in Iceland, begins an eight-month eruption which kills over 9,000 people and starts a seven-year famine.
    • August 4 » Mount Asama erupts in Japan, killing about 1,400 people. The eruption causes a famine, which results in an additional 20,000 deaths.

Christening day February 9, 1783

  • The temperature on February 9, 1783 was about 7.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south-southwest. Weather type: zeer betrokken. Source: KNMI
  • Erfstadhouder Prins Willem V (Willem Batavus) (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1751 till 1795 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
  • In the year 1783: Source: Wikipedia
    • January 20 » The Kingdom of Great Britain signed preliminary articles of peace with France, setting the stage to the official end of hostilities in the American Revolutionary War later that year.
    • April 18 » Three-Fifths Compromise: the first instance of black slaves in the United States of America being counted as three fifths of persons (for the purpose of taxation), in a resolution of the Congress of the Confederation. This was later adopted in the 1787 Constitution.
    • June 4 » The Montgolfier brothers publicly demonstrate their montgolfière (hot air balloon).
    • August 18 » A huge fireball meteor is seen across Great Britain as it passes over the east coast.
    • November 4 » Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Symphony No. 36 is performed for the first time in Linz, Austria.
    • November 21 » In Paris, Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent d'Arlandes, make the first untethered hot air balloon flight.


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