1861 Scotland Census Ancestry.com, Record for Christina Sime Parish: Alloa; ED: 5; Page: 18; Line: 2; Roll: CSSCT1861_62 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 Christina Sime Name: Christina Sime Age: 28 Estimated birth year: abt 1833 Gender: Female Where born: Alloa, Clackmannan Registration Number: 465 Registration district: Alloa Civil Parish: Alloa Town: Alloa County: Clackmannan Address: Old Bridge Occupation: Housekeeper ED: 5 Household schedule number: 106 Line: 2 Roll: CSSCT1861_62 Household Members: Name Age James Gillies 29 Christina Sime 28 John Gillies 5 Mo
Scotland. Select Births and Baptisms. Ancestry,com. 1564 -1950, Ancestry.com, 1860 Record for John Gillies 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 John Gillies Name: John Gillies Gender: Male Birth Date: 3 Nov 1860 Birth Place: Alloa, Clackmannan, Scotland Father: James Gillies Mother: Christina Syme FHL Film Number: 6035516
The temperature on November 3, 1860 was about -1.8 °C. The air pressure was 0.5 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the east-northeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 90%. Source: KNMI
From March 18, 1858 till February 23, 1860 the Netherlands had a cabinet Rochussen - Van Bosse with the prime ministers J.J. Rochussen (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. P.P. van Bosse (liberaal).
From February 23, 1860 till March 14, 1861 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Hall - Van Heemstra with the prime ministers Mr. F.A. baron Van Hall (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. S. baron Van Heemstra (liberaal).
March 24 » Sakuradamon Incident: Assassination of Japanese Chief Minister (Tairō) Ii Naosuke.
May 3 » Charles XV of Sweden–Norway is crowned king of Sweden.
May 18 » Abraham Lincoln wins the Republican Party presidential nomination over William H. Seward, who later becomes the United States Secretary of State.
September 8 » The steamship PSLady Elgin sinks on Lake Michigan, with the loss of around 300 lives.
October 17 » First The Open Championship (referred to in North America as the British Open).
October 18 » The Second Opium War finally ends at the Convention of Peking with the ratification of the Treaty of Tientsin, an unequal treaty.
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