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Personal data Robert Balfour 

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  • He was born on June 24, 1818 in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland.
  • He was christened on June 30, 1818 in Saint Cuthberts, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland.
  • Occupations:
    • Chartered Accountant.
    • between 1848 and 1869 Chartered Accountant - Company Secretery in City of Glasgow Life Assurance Company, 19 St Andrew Square, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom.
    • between 1848 and 1869 Chartered Accountant - Company Secretery in City of Glasgow Life Assurance Company, 19 St Andrew Square, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom.
  • Resident:
    • in the year 1818: Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland.
    • in the year 1841: St Cuthbert'S, Midlothian, Scotland, St Cuthbert'S, Midlothian, Scotland, St Cuthbert'S, Midlothian, Scotland.
    • between 1848 and 1858: 17 Claremont Crescent, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom, 17 Claremont Crescent, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom, 17 Claremont Crescent, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom.
    • between 1859 and 1869: 10 Claremont Crescent, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom, 10 Claremont Crescent, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom, 10 Claremont Crescent, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom.
  • He died on August 14, 1869 in Moffat, Scotland, United Kingdom, he was 51 years old.
  • He is buried in the year 1869 in Western Dean Cemetery, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom.
  • A child of James VII Balfour and Anne Mackintosh

Household of Robert Balfour

He is married to Frances Grace Blaikie.

They got married on September 21, 1847 at Craigiebuckler, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, he was 29 years old.


Child(ren):

  1. Jane Garden Balfour  1850-1905
  2. Ann Louisa Balfour  1853-1945
  3. Robert John Balfour  1856-1891
  4. Edith Balfour  1860-1930


Notes about Robert Balfour

First cousin once removed of the writer Robert Louis Stevenson

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    1. Scotland, Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950
      Robert Balfour<br>Gender: Male<br>Birth: June 24 1818<br>Christening: June 30 1818 - Saint Cuthberts, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland<br>Residence: 1818 - Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland<br>Father: James Balfour<br>Mother: Anne Mackintosh<br>Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C11987-7<br>System Origin: Scotland-VR<br>GS Film number: 1066756<br>Reference ID: 2:17RZ3QX
    2. Chelberg Web Site, Peter Chelberg, Robert Balfour, C.A., March 30, 2021
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      Robert Balfour C.A.<br>Gender: Male<br>Birth: 1818 - Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland<br>Christening: June 30 1818 - Saint Cuthberts, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland<br>Marriage: Spouse: Frances Grace Blaikie - Sep 21 1847 - Craigiebuckler, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, United Kingdom<br>Residence: 1818 - Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland<br>Residence: 1841 - St Cuthbert'S, Midlothian, Scotland<br>Residence: Between 1848 and 1858 - 17 Claremont Crescent, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom<br&gt;Residence: Between 1859 and 1869 - 10 Claremont Crescent, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom<br>Death: Aug 14 1869 - Moffat, Scotland, United Kingdom<br>Burial: 1869 - Western Dean Cemetery, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom<br>Occupation: Chartered Accountant - Company Secretery - Between 1848 and 1869 - City of Glasgow Life Assurance Company, 19 St Andrew Square, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom<br>Parents: James Balfour, Anne Balfour (born Mackintosh)<br>Wife: Frances Grace Balfour (born Blaikie)<br>Children: Jane Garden Balfour, James Francis Balfour, Ann Louisa Balfour, , Frances Elizabeth Balfour, Edith Jones (born Balfour), William Adrian Alexander Balfour, Dr Margaret Ida Balfour<br>Siblings: Margaret Paul (born Balfour), John Mackintosh Balfour-Melville, Jane Balfour, James Balfour, Anne Balfour<br>  Additional information:

      LifeSketch: on the 21st of September but was also registered in Edinburgh two days later.86 (FR2486)
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    4. Vidal Web Site, Sally Morris, Robert Balfour, August 22, 2016
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    • The temperature on June 24, 1818 was about 15.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west. Weather type: half bewolkt 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 1818: Source: Wikipedia
      • January 15 » A paper by David Brewster is read to the Royal Society, belatedly announcing his discovery of what we now call the biaxial class of doubly-refracting crystals. On the same day, Augustin-Jean Fresnel signs a "supplement" (submitted four days later) on reflection of polarized light.
      • February 5 » Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte ascends to the thrones of Sweden and Norway.
      • February 12 » Bernardo O'Higgins formally approves the Chilean Declaration of Independence near Concepción, Chile.
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      • July 29 » French physicist Augustin Fresnel submits his prizewinning "Memoir on the Diffraction of Light", precisely accounting for the limited extent to which light spreads into shadows, and thereby demolishing the oldest objection to the wave theory of light.
    • The temperature on June 30, 1818 was about 17.0 °C. There was 198 mm of rainWind direction mainly west. Weather type: half bewolkt. Special wheather fenomena: . 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 1818: Source: Wikipedia
      • February 5 » Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte ascends to the thrones of Sweden and Norway.
      • March 30 » Physicist Augustin Fresnel reads a memoir on optical rotation to the French Academy of Sciences, reporting that when polarized light is "depolarized" by a Fresnel rhomb, its properties are preserved in any subsequent passage through an optically-rotating crystal or liquid.
      • April 4 » The United States Congress, affirming the Second Continental Congress, adopts the flag of the United States with 13 red and white stripes and one star for each state (20 at that time).
      • April 19 » French physicist Augustin Fresnel signs his preliminary "Note on the Theory of Diffraction" (deposited on the following day). The document ends with what we now call the Fresnel integrals.
      • July 29 » French physicist Augustin Fresnel submits his prizewinning "Memoir on the Diffraction of Light", precisely accounting for the limited extent to which light spreads into shadows, and thereby demolishing the oldest objection to the wave theory of light.
      • October 20 » The Convention of 1818 is signed between the United States and the United Kingdom, which settles the Canada–United States border on the 49th parallel for most of its length.
    • The temperature on September 21, 1847 was about 12.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south-southeast. Weather type: 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 1847: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 3.1 million citizens.
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    • The temperature on August 14, 1869 was about 13.6 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 93%. 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 June 4, 1868 till January 4, 1871 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Bosse - Fock with the prime ministers Mr. P.P. van Bosse (liberaal) and Mr. C. Fock (liberaal).
    • In the year 1869: Source: Wikipedia
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