Harrower Family Tree » Benjamin Murdoch (1860-< 1921)

Personal data Benjamin Murdoch 

Source 1
  • He was born in the year 1860 in Fyvie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.Source 1
  • Occupations:
    • before 1921 Distillery Miller: Daughter Isabella marriage.Source 2
    • in the year 1901 Corn Miller, Oatmeal in Blaikie Mill, Aberlemno, Angus, Scotland.Source 1
  • Resident in the year 1901: Blaikie Mill, Aberlemno, Angus, Scotland.Source 1
  • He died before 1921.Source 2
    Daughter Isabella marriage

Household of Benjamin Murdoch

He is married to Catherine Morrison.

They got married on December 3, 1881 at Monimail, Fife, Scotland, he was 21 years old.Source 3


Child(ren):

  1. Isabella Brown Murdoch  1901-1978 
  2. Maggie Murdoch  1892-????
  3. Agnes Murdoch  1894-????
  4. Jessie Murdoch  1896-????
  5. William Murdoch  1898-????

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Benjamin Murdoch

Benjamin Murdoch
1860-< 1921

1881

Catherine Morrison
1866-< 1921

Isabella Brown Murdoch
1901-1978
Maggie Murdoch
1892-????
Agnes Murdoch
1894-????
Jessie Murdoch
1896-????
William Murdoch
1898-????

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Sources

  1. 1901 Scotland Census Ancestry.com, Record for Benjamin Murdoch Parish: Aberlemno; ED: 6; Page: 6; Line: 13; Roll: CSSCT1901_85 1901 Scotland Census [Ancestry.com] The 1901 Census for Scotland was taken on the night of 31 March/1 April 1901. 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 Benjamin Murdoch
    Name: Benjamin Murdoch
    Age: 41
    Estimated birth year: abt 1860
    Relationship: Head
    Spouse's name: Catherine Murdoch
    Gender: Male
    Where born: Fyvie, Aberdeenshire
    Registration Number: 269
    Registration district: Aberlemno
    Civil Parish: Aberlemno
    County: Angus
    Address: Blackiemill
    Occupation: Corn Miller Oat Meal
    ED: 6
    Household schedule number: 33
    Line: 13
    Roll: CSSCT1901_85
    Household Members:
    Name Age
    Benjamin Murdoch 41
    Catherine Murdoch 35
    Maggie Murdoch 9
    Agnes Murdoch 7
    Jessie Murdoch 5
    William Murdoch 3
    Isabella Murdoch 2 mo
  2. Scotlands People - Statutory Registers of Marriages (from 1855), 1921 RANKINE, ALEXANDER MORTIMER, ISABELLA BROWN MURDOCH (Statutory registers Marriages 447/2 3)
    1921 RANKINE, ALEXANDER MORTIMER, ISABELLA BROWN MURDOCH (Statutory registers Marriages 447/2 3)
    Marriages in the District of Windygates in the County of Fife 1921.
    1921 Eighteenth February
    Gladstone Cottage, Windygates
    After Banns according to the Forms of the United Free Church of Scotland.
    (Signed)
    Alexander Mortimer Rankine
    Coal Miner (Bachelor)
    Age 17 New Road, Kennoway
    Parents: Alexander Rankine
    Colliery Fireman
    Jessie Balfour Rankin
    M.S. Mortimer
    (Signed)
    Isabella Brown Murdoch
    Distillery Yeast Worker (Spinster)
    Age 20 Gladstone Cottage, Windygates
    Parents: Benjamin Murdoch
    Distillery Miller (deceased)
    Catherine Murdoch
    M.S. Morrison
    (Signed)
    David Forbes
    Minister of United Free Church, Windygates
    (Signed)
    Jessie Rankin, Witness, Alexander Duncan, Witness
    Registered
    1921 February 21st
    Windygates
    RN Anderson
    Registrar
  3. Scotlands People - Statutory Registers of Births (from 1855), 1901 MURDOCH, ISABELLA BROWN (Statutory registers Births 269/ 1)
    1901 MURDOCH, ISABELLA BROWN (Statutory registers Births 269/ 1)
    Births in the Parish of Aberlemno in the County of Forfar 1901.
    Isabella Brown Murdoch
    1901 January Fifteenth 10h. 0m. P.M.
    Blaikie Mill, Aberlemno. F.
    Parents: Benjamin Murdoch, Corn Miller
    Catherine Murdoch M.S. Morrison
    m. 1881, December 3rd, Monimail
    Inf. Benjamin Murdoch Father (Present)
    Registered February 2nd
    Aberlemno
    James Stewart
    Registrar

Historical events

Day of marriage December 3, 1881

  • The temperature on December 3, 1881 was about 5.9 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south. The airpressure was 77 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)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from August 20, 1879 to April 23, 1883 the cabinet Van Lijnden van Sandenburg, with Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (conservatief-AR) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1881: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
    • March 13 » Alexander II of Russia is assassinated.
    • April 11 » Spelman College is founded in Atlanta, Georgia as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary, an institute of higher education for African-American women.
    • May 21 » The American Red Cross is established by Clara Barton in Washington, D.C.
    • June 14 » The White Rajahs territories become the British protectorate of Sarawak.
    • July 1 » The world's first international telephone call is made between St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada, and Calais, Maine, United States.
    • November 19 » A meteorite lands near the village of Grossliebenthal, southwest of Odessa, Ukraine.

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