Leedom Family Tree » Robert Rankin (1759-1840)

Personal data Robert Rankin 

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Household of Robert Rankin

He is married to Mary Polly Cusick.

They got married about 1790.

They got married in the year 1781 at Guilford, North Carolina, United States, he was 21 years old.

They got married on November 22, 1803 at Guilford, North Carolina, he was 44 years old.


Child(ren):

  1. George Rankin  1782-1828 

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Robert Rankin

George Rankin
1729-1761
Lydia Steele
1733-1789

Robert Rankin
1759-1840

± 1790

Mary Polly Cusick
1759-1803

George Rankin
1782-1828

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Sources

  1. Ancestry Family Trees, Ancestry Family Tree
    http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=73104272&pid=616
    / Ancestry.com
  2. U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
  3. U.S. Veterans Gravesites, ca.1775-2006, National Cemetery Administration / Ancestry.com

Historical events

Birthday May 29, 1759

  • The temperature on May 29, 1759 was about 14.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west-southwest. Weather type: geheel betrokken. Source: KNMI
  • Erfstadhouder Prins Willem V (Willem Batavus) (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1751 till 1795 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
  • Regentes Anna (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1751 till 1759 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
  • In the year 1759: Source: Wikipedia
    • January 11 » The first American life insurance company, the Corporation for Relief of Poor and Distressed Presbyterian Ministers and of the Poor and Distressed Widows and Children of the Presbyterian Ministers (now part of Unum Group), is incorporated in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
    • May 1 » Josiah Wedgwood founds the Wedgwood pottery company in Great Britain.
    • August 1 » Seven Years' War: The Battle of Minden, an allied Anglo-German army victory over the French. In Britain this was one of a number of events that constituted the Annus Mirabilis of 1759 and is celebrated as Minden Day by certain British Army regiments.
    • August 19 » Battle of Lagos Naval battle during the Seven Years' War between Great Britain and France.
    • September 13 » Battle of the Plains of Abraham: the British defeat the French near Quebec City in the Seven Years' War, known in the United States as the French and Indian War.
    • December 31 » Arthur Guinness signs a 9,000 year lease at £45 per annum and starts brewing Guinness.

Day of death December 21, 1840

  • The temperature on December 21, 1840 was about -5.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northeast. Weather type: helder. Special wheather fenomena: noorderlicht. Source: KNMI
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    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 1840: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 2.9 million citizens.
    • February 6 » Signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, establishing New Zealand as a British colony.
    • May 1 » The Penny Black, the first official adhesive postage stamp, is issued in the United Kingdom.
    • May 20 » York Minster is badly damaged by fire.
    • May 22 » The penal transportation of British convicts to the New South Wales colony is abolished.
    • June 20 » Samuel Morse receives the patent for the telegraph.
    • October 11 » The Maronite leader Bashir Shihab II surrenders to the Ottoman Empire and later is sent to Malta in exile.


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