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Personal data Alexander Mortimer 

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Alexander Mortimer

Janet Balfour
1804-1874
David Pride
1811-1861
Margaret Briggs
1815-< 1834

Alexander Mortimer
1862-????


Household of Alexander Mortimer

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Sources

  1. 1871 Scotland Census - Find my Past, Record for Alexander Mortimer 1871 Scotland Census - FindmyPast, Methilhill Farm House, Wemyss, Fife, Scotland 1871 Scotland Census [FindmyPast] 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.
    1871 England, Wales & Scotland Census
    Methilhill Farm House, Wemyss, Fife, Scotland

    First name(s)Last nameRelationshipMarital statusSexAgeBirth Year OccupationBirth place
    Alexander Mortimer HeadMarried Male371834 Mill TenderFife, Scotland
    IsabellaMortimer WifeMarried Female351836 -Fife, Scotland
    Margaret Mortimer Daughter UnmarriedFemale161855 Mill WorkerKirkland, Fife, Scotland
    DavidMortimer Son-Male141857 Mill WorkerFife, Scotland
    Alexander Mortimer Son-Male91862 ScholarKirkland, Fife, Scotland
    AndrewMortimer Son-Male51866 -Fife, Scotland
    IsabellaMortimer Daughter -Female31868 -Fife, Scotland
    JessieMortimer Daughter -Female11870 -Fife, Scotland
  2. Scotland. Select Births and Baptisms. Ancestry,com. 1564 -1950, Ancestry.com, 1862 Record for Alexander Mortimer 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. FHL Film Number: 6035516
    Record for Alexander Mortimer
    Name: Alexander Mortimer
    Gender: Male
    Birth Date: 4 Jan 1862
    Birth Place: Wemyss, Fife, Scotland
    Father: Alexander Mortimer
    Mother: Isabella Pride
    FHL Film Number: 6035516
  3. 1881 Scotland Census Ancestry.com, Record for Alexander Mortimer Parish: Wemyss; ED: 6; Page: 14; Line: 8; Roll: CSSCT1881_127 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 Alexander Mortimer
    Name: Alexander Mortimer
    Age: 48
    Estimated birth year: abt 1833
    Relationship: Head
    Spouse's name: Isabella Mortimer
    Gender: Male
    Where born: Scoonie, Fife
    Registration Number: 459/2
    Registration district: Buckhaven
    Civil Parish: Wemyss
    County: Fife
    Occupation: Coal Pit Banksman
    ED: 6
    Household schedule number: 74
    Line: 3
    Roll: CSSCT1881_127
    Household Members:
    Name Age
    Alexander Mortimer 48
    Isabella Mortimer 49
    Alexander Mortimer 19
    Andrew Mortimer 14
    Isabella Mortimer 13
    Janet Mortimer 11
    John Mortimer 9
    Helen Mortimer 7

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Historical events

  • The temperature on January 4, 1862 was about 2.1 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the north-northwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 89%. 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 March 14, 1861 till January 31, 1862 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt - Loudon with the prime ministers Mr. J.P.P. baron Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. J. Loudon (liberaal).
  • 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 year 1862: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
    • February 22 » Jefferson Davis is officially inaugurated for a six-year term as the President of the Confederate States of America in Richmond, Virginia. He was previously inaugurated as a provisional president on February 18, 1861.
    • March 7 » American Civil War: Union forces engage Confederate troops at the Pea Ridge in northwestern Arkansas.
    • June 19 » The U.S. Congress prohibits slavery in United States territories, nullifying Dred Scott v. Sandford.
    • August 5 » American Civil War: Battle of Baton Rouge: Along the Mississippi River near Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Confederate troops attempt to take the city, but are driven back by fire from Union gunboats.
    • September 2 » American Civil War: United States President Abraham Lincoln reluctantly restores Union General George B. McClellan to full command after General John Pope's disastrous defeat at the Second Battle of Bull Run.
    • September 17 » American Civil War: The Allegheny Arsenal explosion results in the single largest civilian disaster during the war.


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