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Personal data Janet Balfour 

Sources 1, 2, 3, 4

Household of Janet Balfour

She is married to David Mortimer.

They got married on June 3, 1833 at Wemyss, Fife, Scotland, she was 29 years old.Source 6


Child(ren):

  1. Alexander Mortimer  1834-1920 
  2. Helen Mortimer  ± 1844-1923 
  3. Andrew Mortimer  1839-???? 

Event (Proclamation of Marriage) on May 17, 1833 in Wemyss, Fife, Scotland .Source 6

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Janet Balfour

David Balfour
± 1764-1843
Helen Lawson
± 1772-1846

Janet Balfour
1804-1874

1833

David Mortimer
1809-????

Alexander Mortimer
1834-1920
Helen Mortimer
± 1844-1923
Andrew Mortimer
1839-????

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  1. 1861 Scotland Census Ancestry.com, Record for David Mortimer Parish: Scoonie; ED: 4; Page: 4; Line: 13; Roll: CSSCT1861_60 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 David Mortimer
    Name: David Mortimer
    Age: 51
    Estimated birth year: abt 1810
    Relationship: Head
    Spouse's name: Janet Mortimer
    Gender: Male
    Where born: Scoonie Parish, Fife
    Registration Number: 456
    Registration district: Scoonie
    Civil Parish: Scoonie
    County: Fife
    Address: No 4 Murray Place
    Occupation: Gardener
    ED: 4
    Household schedule number: 20
    Line: 13
    Roll: CSSCT1861_60
    Household Members:
    Name Age
    David Mortimer 51 Scoonie
    Janet Mortimer 54 Cupar
    Helen Mortimer 16 Flax Mill Worker. Scoonie
  2. 1871 Scotland Census Ancestry.com, Record for David Mortimer Parish: Scoonie; ED: 3; Page: 26; Line: 24; Roll: CSSCT1871_78 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 David Mortimer
    Name: David Mortimer
    Age: 62
    Estimated birth year: abt 1809
    Relationship: Head
    Spouse's name: Janet Mortimer
    Gender: Male
    Where born: Leven, Fife
    Registration Number: 456
    Registration district: Scoonie
    Civil Parish: Scoonie
    Town: Leven
    County: Fife
    Address: 4 Murray Place
    Occupation: Gardener
    ED: 3
    Household schedule number: 165
    Line: 24
    Roll: CSSCT1871_78
    Household Members:
    Name Age
    David Mortimer 62 Head. Gardener. Scoonie
    Janet Mortimer 63 Wife. Cupar
    Helen Mortimer 25 Daughter. Scoonie. Mother of David Mortimer
    David Mortimer 1 Grandson. Mother Helen Mortimer
  3. 1841 Scotland Census Ancestry.com, Record for David Mortimer Parish: Scoonie; ED: 4; Page: 17; Line: 1190; 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 David Mortimer
    Name: David Mortimer
    Age: 25
    Estimated birth year: abt 1816
    Gender: Male
    Where born: Fife, Scotland
    Civil Parish: Scoonie
    County: Fife
    Address: Rabbil Row
    Occupation: Gardener
    Parish Number: 456
    Household Members:
    Name Age
    David Mortimer 25
    Janet Mortimer 25
    Alexander Mortimer 7
    Andrew Mortimer 1
  4. 1851 Scotland Census Ancestry.com, Record for David Mortimer Parish: Scoonie; ED: 4; Page: 4; Line: 9; Roll: CSSCT1851_94; Year: 1851 1851 Scotland Census [Ancestry.com] The 1851 Census for Scotland was taken on the night of 30/31 March 1851. 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 David Mortimer
    Name: David Mortimer
    Age: 60
    Estimated birth year: abt 1791
    Relationship: Head
    Spouse: Janet Mortimer
    Gender: Male
    Where born: Scoonie, Fife
    Parish Number: 456
    Civil Parish: Scoonie
    County: Fife
    Address: Murray Place
    Occupation: General Labourer
    ED: 4
    Page: 4
    Household schedule number: 510
    Line: 9
    Roll: CSSCT1851_94
    Household Members:
    Name Age
    David Mortimer 60 Head
    Janet Mortimer 44 Wife
    Helen Mortimer 7 Daughter
    Andrew Mortimer 10 Son
  5. Scotlands People - Old Parish Registers of Births and Baptisms, 1804 BALFOUR, JANET (Old Parish Registers Births 420/ 30 216 Cupar)
    01/04/1804 BALFOUR, JANET (Old Parish Registers Births 420/ 30 216 Cupar)
    April 1 1804,
    Balfour, David Balfour Labourer & Helen Lawson a Daughter born on the 27th} Janet
  6. Scotlands People - Old Parish Registers of Banns and Marriages, 1833 MORTIMER, DAVID (Old Parish Registers Marriages 459/ 60 366 Wemyss)
    03/06/1833 MORTIMER, DAVID (Old Parish Registers Marriages 459/ 60 366 Wemyss)
    David Mortimer and Janet (Jess) Balfour

    Mortimer, Balfour, David Mortimer, 17 May 1850, Gardener, Dubbiside, Parish of Markinch, and Jess Balfour, Parish of Kirkland. m. 3 June 1850
  7. Scotlands People - Statutory Registers of Deaths (from 1855), 1874 BALFOUR, JANET (Statutory registers Deaths 456/ 43)
    1874 BALFOUR, JANET (Statutory registers Deaths 456/ 43)
    Deaths in the Parish of Scoonie in the County of Fife 1874
    Janet Mortimer - Married to David Mortimer. Gardener.
    1874 August Sixteenth 2h. A.M. Murray Place, Leven. F. 69 Years.
    Parents: David Balfour Ploughman (Deceased)
    --------- (Helen) Balfour. M.S. Lawson (Deceased)
    COD: Heart Disease - years - Ab several months.
    As cert. by John Balfour, Surgeon.
    Inf. David Mortimer (Husband) (Present)
    Registered
    1874 August 19th at Leven
    M, J. Wallace
    Ass. Registrar

Historical events

Birthday March 27, 1804

  • The temperature on March 27, 1804 was about 5.0 °C. There was 4 mm of rainWind direction mainly south. Weather type: zeer betrokken. 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 1804: Source: Wikipedia
    • March 4 » Castle Hill Rebellion: Irish convicts rebel against British colonial authority in the Colony of New South Wales.
    • March 21 » Code Napoléon is adopted as French civil law.
    • May 14 » William Clark and 42 men depart from Camp Dubois to join Meriwether Lewis at St. Charles, Missouri, marking the beginning of the Lewis and Clark Expedition's historic journey up the Missouri River.
    • June 15 » New Hampshire approves the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratifying the document.
    • September 1 » Juno, one of the largest asteroids in the Main Belt, is discovered by the German astronomer Karl Ludwig Harding.
    • September 25 » The Teton Sioux (a subdivision of the Lakota) demand one of the boats from the Lewis and Clark Expedition as a toll for allowing the expedition to move further upriver.

Christening day April 1, 1804

  • The temperature on April 1, 1804 was about -0 °C. There was 92 mm of rainWind direction mainly west. Weather type: betrokken sneeuw. 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 1804: Source: Wikipedia
    • March 4 » Castle Hill Rebellion: Irish convicts rebel against British colonial authority in the Colony of New South Wales.
    • April 25 » The western Georgian kingdom of Imereti accepts the suzerainty of the Russian Empire.
    • May 14 » William Clark and 42 men depart from Camp Dubois to join Meriwether Lewis at St. Charles, Missouri, marking the beginning of the Lewis and Clark Expedition's historic journey up the Missouri River.
    • October 9 » Hobart, capital of Tasmania, is founded.
    • November 30 » The Democratic-Republican-controlled United States Senate begins an impeachment trial of Federalist Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase.
    • December 2 » At Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself Emperor of the French.

Day of marriage June 3, 1833

  • The temperature on June 3, 1833 was about 14.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northwest. Weather type: betrokken regen winderig. 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 1833: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 2.9 million citizens.
    • January 3 » The United Kingdom claims sovereignty over the Falkland Islands.
    • April 1 » The Convention of 1833, a political gathering of settlers in Mexican Texas to help draft a series of petitions to the Mexican government, begins in San Felipe de Austin.
    • May 11 » The Lady of the Lake strikes an iceberg off Newfoundland and sinks with the loss of up to 265 passengers and crew.
    • May 25 » The Chilean Constitution of 1833 is promulgated.
    • July 5 » Admiral Charles Napier vanquishes the navy of the Portuguese usurper Dom Miguel at the third Battle of Cape St. Vincent.
    • July 5 » Lê Văn Khôi along with 27 soldiers stage a mutiny taking over the Phiên An citadel, developing into the Lê Văn Khôi revolt against Emperor Minh Mạng.

Day of death August 16, 1874

  • The temperature on August 16, 1874 was about 21.1 °C. The air pressure was 6 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 57%. 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 July 6, 1872 till August 27, 1874 the Netherlands had a cabinet De Vries - Fransen van de Putte with the prime ministers Mr. G. de Vries Azn. (liberaal) and I.D. Fransen van de Putte (liberaal).
  • From August 27, 1874 till November 3, 1877 the Netherlands had a cabinet Heemskerk - Van Lijnden van Sandenburg with the prime ministers Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) and Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (AR).
  • In the year 1874: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
    • February 28 » One of the longest cases ever heard in an English court ends when the defendant is convicted of perjury for attempting to assume the identity of the heir to the Tichborne baronetcy.
    • May 16 » A flood on the Mill River in Massachusetts destroys much of four villages and kills 139 people.
    • May 27 » The first group of Dorsland trekkers under the leadership of Gert Alberts leaves Pretoria.
    • July 1 » The Sholes and Glidden typewriter, the first commercially successful typewriter, goes on sale.
    • July 14 » The Chicago Fire of 1874 burns down 47 acres of the city, destroying 812 buildings, killing 20, and resulting in the fire insurance industry demanding municipal reforms from Chicago's city council.
    • August 5 » Japan launches its postal savings system, modeled after a similar system in the United Kingdom.


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