Harrower Family Tree » Robert Morris (1837-1893)

Personal data Robert Morris 

Sources 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
  • He was born on January 4, 1837 in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland.Sources 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7
  • Occupations:
    • in the year 1871 Engine Fireman in Castleblair, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland.Source 7
    • in the year 1881 Factory Engine keeper in 35 North Inglis Street, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland.Source 2
    • in the year 1891 Factory Engine keeper in 18 Victoria Street, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland.Source 6
    • in the year 1861 Engine Keeper Coa in 13 Blair Row, Carnock, Fife, Scotland.Source 5
  • Resident:
    • in the year 1871: Castleblair, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland.Source 7
    • in the year 1881: 35 North Inglis Street, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland.Source 2
    • in the year 1891: 18 Victoria Street, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland.Source 6
    • in the year 1841: Swallowdrum, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland.Source 3
    • in the year 1861: 13 Blair Row, Carnock, Fife, Scotland.Source 5
  • (Informant at Death) on May 6, 1893 in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland: John Morris Son, Present.Source 8
  • He died on May 5, 1893 in 18 Victoria Street, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland, he was 56 years old.Source 8
    Oorzaak: Phthisis Pulmonalis 3 Months
  • A child of John Morris and Janet Beveridge

Household of Robert Morris

He is married to Janet Leitch.

They got married on March 25, 1859 at Carnock, Fife, Scotland, he was 22 years old.Source 4


Child(ren):

  2. Barbara Morris  1866-????
  3. Elisabeth Morris  1868-????
  4. Margaret Morris  1861-????
  5. Grace Morris  1873-????
  6. John Morris  1875-????
  7. Robert Morris  1878-????

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Robert Morris

John Morris
1791-< 1893
Janet Beveridge
1801-< 1893

Robert Morris
1837-1893

1859

Janet Leitch
1837-1906

Janet Beveridge Morris
1861-????
Barbara Morris
1866-????
Elisabeth Morris
1868-????
Margaret Morris
1861-????
Grace Morris
1873-????
John Morris
1875-????
Robert Morris
1878-????

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Sources

  1. Scotland. Select Births and Baptisms. Ancestry,com. 1564 -1950, Ancestry.com, 1837 Record for Robert Morris Ancestry.com. Scotland, Select Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014. Original data: Scotland, Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013.
    Record for Robert Morris
    Name: Robert Morris
    Gender: Male
    Birth Date: 4 Jan 1837
    Birth Place: Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland
    Father: John Morris
    Mother: Janet Beveridge
  2. 1881 Scotland Census Ancestry.com, Record for Robert Morris Parish: Dunfermline; ED: 3; Page: 25; Line: 17; Roll: CSSCT1881_117 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 Robert Morris
    Name: Robert Morris
    Age: 43
    Estimated Birth Year: abt 1838
    Relationship: Head
    Spouse's Name: Janet Morris
    Gender: Male
    Where born: Dunfermline, Fife
    Registration Number: 424
    Registration district: Dunfermline
    Civil parish: Dunfermline
    Town: Dunfermline
    County: Fife
    Address: 35 North Inglis Street
    Occupation: Factory Engine keeper
    ED: 3
    Household schedule number: 138
    Line: 17
    Roll: CSSCT1881_117
    Household Members Age Relationship
    Robert Morris 43 Head
    Janet Morris 44 Wife
    Margaret Morris 20 Daughter
    Janet Morris 18 Daughter
    Barbara Morris 15 Daughter
    Lizzie Morris 13 Daughter
    Grace Morris 8 Daughter
    John Morris 6 Son
    Robert Morris 3 Son
  3. 1841 Scotland Census Ancestry.com, Record for John Morris Parish: Dunfermline; ED: 6A; Page: 18; Line: 1270; 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 John Morris
    Name: John Morris
    Age: 50
    Estimated Birth Year: abt 1791
    Gender: Male
    Where born: Fife, Scotland
    Civil parish: Dunfermline
    County: Fife
    Address: Swallowdrum
    Occupation: Coal Miner
    Parish Number: 424
    Household Members Age
    John Morris 50
    Janet Morris 40
    Arthur Morris 20
    Janet Morris 13
    Elisabeth Morris 10
    Robert Morris 4
  4. Scotland, Select Marriages, Ancestry.com, 1561-1910, Ancestry.com, 1859 Record for Robert Morris & Janet Leitch Ancestry.com. Scotland, Select Marriages, 1561-1910 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014. Original data: Scotland, Marriages, 1561-1910. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013.
    Record for Robert Morris & Janet Leitch
    Name: Robert Morris
    Gender: Male
    Marriage Date: 25 Mar 1859
    Marriage Place: Carnock, Fife, Scotland
    Spouse: Janet Leitch
    FHL Film Number: 280225
    / Ancestry.com
  5. 1861 Scotland Census Ancestry.com, Record for Robt Morris Parish: Carnock; ED: 6; Page: 4; Line: 1; 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 Robt Morris
    Name: Robt Morris
    Age: 25
    Estimated Birth Year: abt 1836
    Relationship: Head
    Spouse's Name: Janet Morris
    Gender: Male
    Where born: Dunfermline,Fife
    Registration Number: 414
    Registration district: Carnock
    Civil parish: Carnock
    County: Fife
    Address: 13 Blair Row
    Occupation: Engine Keeper Coal
    ED: 6
    Household schedule number: 13
    Line: 1
    Roll: CSSCT1861_54
    Household Members Age Relationship
    Robt Morris 25 Head
    Janet Morris 24 Wife
    Margt C L Morris 6 Mo Daughter
  6. 1891 Scotland Census Ancestry.com, Record for Robert Morris Parish: Dunfermline; ED: 6; Page: 47; Line: 5; Roll: CSSCT1891_128 1891 Scotland Census [Ancestry.com] The 1891 Census for Scotland was taken on the night of 5/6 April 1891. 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 Robert Morris
    Name: Robert Morris
    Age: 53
    Estimated Birth Year: abt 1838
    Relationship: Head
    Spouse's Name: Janet Morris
    Gender: Male
    Where born: Dunfermline, Fife
    Registration Number: 424
    Registration district: Dunfermline
    Civil parish: Dunfermline
    Town: Dunfermline
    County: Fife
    Address: 18 Victoria Street
    Occupation: Factory Engine Keeper
    ED: 6
    Household schedule number: 250
    Line: 5
    Roll: CSSCT1891_128
    Household Members Age Relationship
    Robert Morris 53 Head
    Janet Morris 54 Wife
    John Morris 16 Son
    Robert L Morris 13 Son
  7. 1871 Scotland Census Ancestry.com, Record for Robert Morris Parish: Dunfermline Burgh; ED: 5; Page: 7; Line: 20; Roll: CSSCT1871_72 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 Robert Morris
    Name: Robert Morris
    Age: 33
    Estimated Birth Year: abt 1838
    Relationship: Head
    Spouse's Name: Janet Morris
    Gender: Male
    Where born: Dunfermline, Fife
    Registration Number: 424/1
    Registration district: Dunfermline Burgh
    Civil parish: Dunfermline Burgh
    County: Fife
    Address: Castleblair
    Occupation: Engine Fireman
    ED: 5
    Household schedule number: 39
    Line: 20
    Roll: CSSCT1871_72
    Household Members Age Relationship
    Robert Morris 33 Head
    Janet Morris 34 Wife
    Janet Beveridge Morris 10 Daughter
    Barbara Morris 5 Daughter
    Elisabeth Morris 3 Daughter
  8. Scotlands People - Statutory Registers of Deaths (from 1855), 1893 MORRIS, ROBERT (Statutory registers Deaths 424 181)
    1893 MORRIS, ROBERT (Statutory registers Deaths 424 181)
    Deaths in the District of Dunfermline in the County of Fife 1893.
    Robert Morris
    Engineman
    Damask Factory
    Married to Janet Leitch
    1893 May Fifth 8h 55m P.M.
    18 Victoria Street, Dunfermline M. 56 years
    Parents: John Morris
    Coal Miner (Deceased)
    Janet Morris
    M.S. Beveridge (Deceased)
    COD: Phthisis Pulmonalis 3 months
    As cert. by Arch. Fairlie M.B.
    Inf. John Morris, Son Present
    Registered
    1893 May 6th Dunfermline
    James Walls
    Registrar

Historical events

Birthday January 4, 1837

  • The temperature on January 4, 1837 was about 3.0 °C. Wind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: betrokken mist. 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 1837: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 2.9 million citizens.
    • January 26 » Michigan is admitted as the 26th U.S. state.
    • March 4 » The city of Chicago is incorporated.
    • July 25 » The first commercial use of an electrical telegraph is successfully demonstrated in London by William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone.
    • November 7 » In Alton, Illinois, abolitionist printer Elijah P. Lovejoy is shot dead by a mob while attempting to protect his printing shop from being destroyed a third time.
    • November 22 » Canadian journalist and politician William Lyon Mackenzie calls for a rebellion against the United Kingdom in his essay "To the People of Upper Canada", published in his newspaper The Constitution.
    • December 25 » Second Seminole War: American general Zachary Taylor leads 1,100 troops against the Seminoles at the Battle of Lake Okeechobee.

Day of marriage March 25, 1859

  • The temperature on March 25, 1859 was about 9.8 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 16 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 82%. 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).
  • From March 18, 1858 till February 23, 1860 the Netherlands had a cabinet Rochussen - Van Bosse with the prime ministers J.J. Rochussen (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. P.P. van Bosse (liberaal).
  • In the year 1859: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 3.3 million citizens.
    • January 24 » The United Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia (later named Romania) is formed as a personal union under the rule of Domnitor Alexandru Ioan Cuza.
    • June 15 » Ambiguity in the Oregon Treaty leads to the "Northwestern Boundary Dispute" between American and British/Canadian settlers.
    • June 24 » Battle of Solferino (Battle of the Three Sovereigns): Sardinia and France defeat Austria in Solferino, northern Italy.
    • June 28 » The first conformation dog show is held in Newcastle upon Tyne, England.
    • August 28 » The Carrington event is the strongest geomagnetic storm on record to strike the Earth. Electrical telegraph service is widely disrupted.
    • October 22 » Spain declares war on Morocco.

Day of death May 5, 1893

  • The temperature on May 5, 1893 was about 11.0 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 71%. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • Regentes Emma (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1898 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from August 21, 1891 to May 9, 1894 the cabinet Van Tienhoven, with Mr. G. van Tienhoven (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1893: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
    • February 1 » Thomas A. Edison finishes construction of the first motion picture studio, the Black Maria in West Orange, New Jersey.
    • July 11 » A revolution led by the liberal general and politician José Santos Zelaya takes over state power in Nicaragua.
    • July 11 » The first cultured pearl is obtained by Kōkichi Mikimoto.
    • September 16 » Settlers make a land run for prime land in the Cherokee Strip in Oklahoma.
    • September 28 » Foundation of the Portuguese football club FC Porto.
    • November 28 » Women's suffrage in New Zealand concludes with the 1893 New Zealand general election.


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