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Ancestors (and descendant) of Alexander Mortimer

David Mortimer
1809-????
Janet Balfour
1804-1874
David Pride
1811-1861
Margaret Briggs
1815-< 1834

Alexander Mortimer
1862-????


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    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. 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
    3. 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

    Historical events

    Birthday January 4, 1862

    • 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.
      • January 16 » Hartley Colliery disaster: Two hundred and four men and boys killed in a mining disaster, prompting a change in UK law which henceforth required all collieries to have at least two independent means of escape.
      • June 20 » Barbu Catargiu, the Prime Minister of Romania, is assassinated.
      • 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 5 » American Civil War: The Army of Northern Virginia crosses the Potomac River at White's Ford in the Maryland Campaign.
      • September 17 » American Civil War: The Allegheny Arsenal explosion results in the single largest civilian disaster during the war.
      • November 5 » American Civil War: Abraham Lincoln removes George B. McClellan as commander of the Army of the Potomac.
    

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