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Personal data James Ritchie 

Sources 1, 2, 3, 4
  • He was born on September 1, 1830 in Torryburn, Fife, Scotland.Sources 1, 2, 3, 4
  • He was christened on October 3, 1830 in Torryburn, Fife, Scotland.Source 1
    Age: 0
  • Occupations:
    • in the year 1855 Labourer ; marriage to Elizabeth.Source 5
    • in the year 1857 Labourer ; birth of son Thomas in Oakfield, Kelty, Fife, Scotland.Source 6
    • in the year 1851 Bover (mineral) in Torryburn, Fife, Scotland.Source 3
    • in the year 1861 General Labourer in Norton 2, Beath Parish, Fife, Scotland.Source 2
  • Resident:
    • in the year 1861: Norton 2, Beath Parish, Fife, Scotland.Source 2
    • in the year 1841: Torryburn, Fife, Scotland.Source 4
    • in the year 1851: Torryburn, Fife, Scotland.Source 3
    • in the year 1857: Oakfield, Kelty, Fife, Scotland.Source 6
    • in the year 1855: Torryburn, Fife, Scotland.Source 5
  • (Informant at Death) on June 2, 1862 in Beath, Fife, Scotland: Peter Robertson? Brother in Law ?.Source 7
  • He died on June 1, 1862 in Lassodie Colliery, Beath, Fife, Scotland, he was 31 years old.Source 7
    Oorzaak: Low Nervous Fever, as Certified by Jas Morris Surgeon
  • A child of Thomas Ritchie and Mary Ritchie

Household of James Ritchie

He is married to Elizabeth Wilson.

They got married on November 22, 1855 at Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland, he was 25 years old.Source 5


Child(ren):

  1. Mary Ritchie  1859-1860
  2. Thomas Ritchie  1856-1931
  3. Margaret Ritchie  1854-????

Event (Witness at Marriage) on November 22, 1855 in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland : James Balfour, James Wilson.Source 5


Notes about James Ritchie

1. Elizabeth, James Ritchies wife, was born 17 September, 1830, at Roy Yards, Airdrie, (Rawyards) and the birth was registered at Beath, dated 17 September, 1830, (See marriage register for James Ritchie and Elizabeth Wilson, 22 November, 1855)

2. James Ritchie was born, and birth registered, 1 September 1830, at Torryburn, (See marriage register for James Ritchie and Elizabeth Wilson, 22 November, 1855)

3. In the 1851 Census, Catherine Ritchie, age 22, and Janet Ritchie, age 24, are living with their Brother, James in Torrie Village. James is now head of family, as they lost both parents in 1849 to Cholera. James's nephew, James Stenhouse is also living in house. One of the sisters are probable mother's.

4. There is no record of James Stenhouse birth in Torryburn around 1845.

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Ancestors (and descendant) of James Ritchie

Peter Ritchie
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Barbara Graham
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Mary Ritchie
1787-1849

James Ritchie
1830-1862

1855

Elizabeth Wilson
1830-1860

Mary Ritchie
1859-1860
Thomas Ritchie
1856-1931
Margaret Ritchie
1854-????

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    1. Scotland. Select Births and Baptisms. Ancestry,com. 1564 -1950, Ancestry.com, 1830 Record for James Ritchie 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: 1040387
      Record for James Ritchie
      Name: James Ritchie
      Gender: Male
      Birth Date: 1 Sep 1830
      Baptism Date: 3 Oct 1830
      Baptism Place: Torryburn, Fife, Scotland
      Father: Thomas Ritchie
      Mother: Mary Ritchie
      FHL Film Number: 1040387
    2. 1861 Scotland Census Ancestry.com, Record for Elizabeth Strang Parish: Beath; ED: 1; Page: 20; Line: 16; Roll: CSSCT1861_53 Ritcha changed to Ritchie 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 Elizabeth Strang
      Name: Elizabeth Strang
      Age: 76
      Estimated birth year: abt 1785
      Relationship: Grandmother, Grandma (Grandmother)
      Gender: Female
      Where born: Dunfermline, Fife
      Registration Number: 410
      Registration district: Beath
      Civil Parish: Beath
      County: Fife
      Address: Norton 2
      ED: 1
      Household schedule number: 105
      Line: 16
      Roll: CSSCT1861_53
      Household Members:
      Name Age
      James Ritchie 30
      Thomas Ritchie 4
      Margaret Ritchie 7
      Margaret Shephard 53
      Elizabeth Strang 76
      John Cannel 36
      Alexander Hodge 34
    3. 1851 Scotland Census Ancestry.com, Record for James Ritchie Parish: Torryburn; ED: 2; Page: 5; Line: 13; 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 James Ritchie
      Name: James Ritchie
      Age: 20
      Estimated birth year: abt 1831
      Relationship: Head
      Gender: Male
      Where born: Torryburn, Fife
      Parish Number: 458
      Civil Parish: Torryburn
      Town: Torrie
      County: Fife
      Address: Torrie Village
      Occupation: Bover (mineral)
      ED: 2
      Page: 5
      Household schedule number: 23
      Line: 13
      Roll: CSSCT1851_94
      Household Members:
      Name Age
      James Ritchie 20 Head
      Janet Ritchie 24 Sister
      Catherine Ritchie 22 Sister
      James Stenhouse 6 Nephew
    4. 1841 Scotland Census Ancestry.com, Record for Thomas Ritchie Parish: Torryburn; ED: 2; Page: 7; Line: 820; 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 Thomas Ritchie
      Name: Thomas Ritchie
      Age: 55
      Estimated birth year: abt 1786
      Gender: Male
      Where born: Fife, Scotland
      Civil Parish: Torryburn
      County: Fife
      Address: Torrie or New Mills
      Occupation: Agricultural Labourer
      Parish Number: 458
      Household Members:
      Name Age
      Thomas Ritchie 55
      Mary Ritchie 50
      Catherine Ritchie 12
      James Ritchie 10
    5. Scotlands People - Statutory Registers of Marriages (from 1855), 1855 RITCHIE, JAMES, WILSON, ELIZABETH (Statutory registers Marriages 424/1 116)
      1855 RITCHIE, JAMES, WILSON, ELIZABETH (Statutory registers Marriages 424/1 116)
      Marriages in the Burgh of Dunfermline in the County of Fife 1855,
      November Twenty Second 1855, Dunfermline.
      Marriage after Banns was solemnised between us according to the rites and Ceremonies of the Free Church of Scotland.
      (Signed)
      James Ritchie, Torryburn, Age 25,
      Labourer Bachelor
      Born and Registered 1st September 1830, Torryburn
      Parents: Thomas Ritchie Labourer, (Deceased)
      Mary Ritchie (Deceased)
      (Signed)
      Elizabeth Wilson. Oakfield Age 25
      Labourer Spinster
      Born in Roy yards Airdrie, on 17th September 1830 & Registered at Beath
      Parents: Robert Wilson Coal Miner (Deceased)
      Margaret Wilson
      maiden name Shepherd now Storrar
      (Signed) James Mackenzie Minister
      (Signed James Balfour Witness
      Registered 1855 November 23rd Dunfermline
      Ro. Wilson Assist. Registrar
      William Wilson Registrar
    6. Scotlands People - Statutory Registers of Births (from 1855), 1857 RITCHIE, THOMAS (Statutory registers Births 410/ 5)
      1857 RITCHIE, THOMAS (Statutory registers Births 410/ 5)
      Births in the Parish of Beath in the County of Fife 1857.
      Ritchie, Thomas
      1856 December Fourteenth 10h35m A.M. Oakfield M.
      Parents: James Ritchie, Labourer
      Elizabeth Ritchie
      maiden name Wilson
      Inf: James Ritchie Father not Present
      Registered
      1857 January 19th Beath
      Thomas Scott
      Registrar
    7. Scotlands People - Statutory Registers of Deaths (from 1855), 1862 RITCHIE, JAMES (Statutory registers Deaths 410/ 16)
      1862 RITCHIE, JAMES (Statutory registers Deaths 410/ 16)
      Deaths in the Parish of Beath in the County of Fife 1862.
      James Ritchie
      Labourer. Widower of Elizabeth Ritchie
      M.S. Wilson
      1862 June First 5h. ?m. A.M.
      Lassodie Colliiery Parish of Beath
      M. 31 Years
      Parents: Thomas Ritchie Labourer (dead)
      Mary Ritchie M.S. Ritchie
      COD: Low nervous fever 14 Days as certified by Jas Morris Surgeon
      Inf: Peter Wilson Brother in Law
      Registered 1862 June 2nd Beath
      Thomas Scott
      Registrar

    Historical events

    Birthday September 1, 1830

    • The temperature on September 1, 1830 was about 18.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west. Weather type: betrokken regen. 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 1830: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 2.6 million citizens.
      • February 3 » The London Protocol of 1830 establishes the full independence and sovereignty of Greece from the Ottoman Empire as the final result of the Greek War of Independence.
      • March 10 » The Royal Netherlands East Indies Army is created.
      • March 26 » The Book of Mormon is published in Palmyra, New York.
      • June 14 » Beginning of the French colonization of Algeria: Thirty-four thousand French soldiers begin their invasion of Algiers, landing 27 kilometers west at Sidi Fredj.
      • September 24 » A revolutionary committee of notables forms the Provisional Government of Belgium.
      • November 29 » November Uprising: An armed rebellion against Russia's rule in Poland begins.

    Christening day October 3, 1830

    • The temperature on October 3, 1830 was about 12.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south east. Weather type: half bewolkt. 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 1830: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 2.6 million citizens.
      • February 3 » The London Protocol of 1830 establishes the full independence and sovereignty of Greece from the Ottoman Empire as the final result of the Greek War of Independence.
      • May 13 » Ecuador gains its independence from Gran Colombia.
      • May 28 » U.S. President Andrew Jackson signs the Indian Removal Act which denies Native Americans their land rights and forcibly relocates them.
      • September 11 » Anti-Masonic Party convention; one of the first American political party conventions.
      • September 15 » The Liverpool to Manchester railway line opens; British MP William Huskisson becomes the first widely reported railway passenger fatality when he is struck and killed by the locomotive Rocket.
      • November 29 » November Uprising: An armed rebellion against Russia's rule in Poland begins.

    Day of marriage November 22, 1855

    • The temperature on November 22, 1855 was about 3.2 °C. The atmospheric humidity was 93%. 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 April 19, 1853 till July 1, 1856 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Hall - Donker Curtius with the prime ministers Mr. F.A. baron Van Hall (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. D. Donker Curtius (conservatief-liberaal).
    • In the year 1855: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 3.3 million citizens.
      • February 12 » Michigan State University is established.
      • June 1 » The American adventurer William Walker conquers Nicaragua.
      • June 4 » Major Henry C. Wayne departs New York aboard the USSSupply to procure camels to establish the U.S. Camel Corps.
      • July 4 » The first edition of Walt Whitman's book of poems, Leaves of Grass, is published In Brooklyn.
      • September 29 » The Philippine port of Iloilo is opened to world trade by the Spanish administration.
      • November 16 » David Livingstone becomes the first European to see the Victoria Falls in what is now Zambia-Zimbabwe.

    Day of death June 1, 1862

    • The temperature on June 1, 1862 was about 20.3 °C. The air pressure was 0.5 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 64%. 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 19 » American Civil War: Battle of Mill Springs: The Confederacy suffers its first significant defeat in the conflict.
      • May 31 » American Civil War: Peninsula Campaign: Confederate forces under Joseph E. Johnston and G.W. Smith engage Union forces under George B. McClellan outside Richmond, Virginia.
      • July 1 » The Russian State Library is founded as the Library of the Moscow Public Museum.
      • September 4 » American Civil War Maryland Campaign: General Robert E. Lee takes the Army of Northern Virginia, and the war, into the North.
      • October 11 » American Civil War: Confederate troops conduct a raid on Chambersburg, Pennsylvania.
      • December 26 » The largest mass-hanging in U.S. history took place in Mankato, Minnesota, where 38 Native Americans died.
    

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