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Personal data Rachel Wooff 

  • She was born on November 30, 1795 in St. Bees, Whitehaven, Cumberland, England.
    NAME: Rachael Wooff
    GENDER: Female
    BIRTH DATE: 30/11/1795 (30 Nov 1795)
    BAPTISM DATE: 06/12/1795 (6 Dec 1795)
    BAPTISM PLACE: Saint Bees,Cumberland,England
    FATHER: Thomas Wooff
    MOTHER: Isabella
    FHL FILM NUMBER: 496432, 90658, 90659
  • She was baptized on December 6, 1795 in St. Bees, Whitehaven, Cumberland, England.
    Birth
    Rachel Woof
    1795–1876
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    Fact Details
    30 Nov 1795
    St Bees, Cumberland, England
    NAME: Rachael Wooff
    GENDER: Female
    BIRTH DATE: 30/11/1795 (30 Nov 1795)
    BAPTISM DATE: 06/12/1795 (6 Dec 1795)
    BAPTISM PLACE: Saint Bees,Cumberland,England
    FATHER: Thomas Wooff
    MOTHER: Isabella
    FHL FILM NUMBER: 496432, 90658, 90659
  • Profession: in the year 1871 Shop Keeper.
  • Resident:
    • in the year 1841: St. Bees, Whitehaven, Cumberland, England.
      Name: William Gare
      [William Gair]
      Age: 45
      Estimated Birth Year: abt 1796
      Gender: Male
      Where born: Cumberland, England
      Civil Parish: St Bees
      Hundred: Allerdale above Derwent
      County/Island: Cumberland
      Country: England
      Street Address:
      Occupation:
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      Registration District: Whitehaven
      Sub-registration District: St Bees
      Neighbors: View others on page
      Piece: 158
      Book: 12
      Folio: 16
      Page Number: 2
      Household Members:
      Name Age
      William Gare 45
      Rachel Gare 45
      Isabella Gare 15
      Rachel Gare 15
      William Gare 14
      Thomas Gare 11
      Margaret Gare 8
      John Gare 5
    • in the year 1851: 7 Mount Pleasant, Preston Quarter, Whitehaven, Cumberland.
      Name: William Gair
      Age: 58
      Estimated Birth Year: abt 1793
      Relation: Head
      Spouse's Name: Rachel Gair
      Gender: Male
      Where born: Sandwell, Cumberland, England
      Civil Parish: Preston Quarter
      Ecclesiastical parish: Mount Pleasant
      County/Island: Cumberland
      Country: England
      Street Address:
      Occupation:
      Condition as to marriage:
      Disability:
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      Registration District: Whitehaven
      Sub-registration District: St Bees
      ED, institution, or vessel: 2g
      Neighbors: View others on page
      Household Schedule Number: 8
      Piece: 2437
      Folio: 158
      Page Number: 3
      Household Members:
      Name Age
      William Gair 58
      Rachel Gair 56
      William Gair 24
      Thomas Gair 21
      Margarett Gair 18
      John Gair 14
    • in the year 1861: Mount Pleasant, Preston Quarter, Whitehaven, Cumberland.
      Name: Rachel Gay
      Age: 67
      Estimated Birth Year: 1794
      Relation: Wife
      Spouse's Name: William Gay
      Gender: Female
      Where born: St Bees, Cumberland, England
      Civil Parish: Preston Quarter
      Ecclesiastical parish: Mount Pleasant
      County/Island: Cumberland
      Country: England
      Street Address:
      Occupation:
      Condition as to marriage:
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      Registration District: Whitehaven
      Sub-registration District: St Bees
      ED, institution, or vessel: 6
      Neighbors: View others on page
      Household Schedule Number: 12
      Piece: 3949
      Folio: 72
      Page Number: 3
      Household Members:
      Name Age
      William Gay 67
      Rachel Gay 67
      Sarah Ann Gay 6
      Isabella Gay 2
    • in the year 1871: Mount Pleasant, Preston Quarter, Whitehaven, Cumberland.
      NAME: Rachael Gair
      AGE: 77
      ESTIMATED BIRTH YEAR: 1794
      RELATION: Head
      GENDER: Female
      WHERE BORN: Whitehaven Cumberland England
      CIVIL PARISH: Preston Quarter
      ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH: Mount Pleasant
      TOWN: Whitehaven
      COUNTY/ISLAND: Cumberland
      COUNTRY: England
      REGISTRATION DISTRICT: Whitehaven
      SUB-REGISTRATION DISTRICT: St Bees
      ED, INSTITUTION, OR VESSEL: 5d
      HOUSEHOLD SCHEDULE NUMBER: 10
      PIECE: 5258
      FOLIO: 66
      PAGE NUMBER: 2
      HOUSEHOLD MEMBERS:
      Name Age
      Rachael Gair 77
      Rachael Gair 14
  • She died on July 27, 1876 in Whitehaven, Cumberland. England, she was 80 years old.
    Name: Rachel Gair
    Estimated Birth Year: abt 1792
    Registration Year: 1876
    Registration Quarter: Jul-Aug-Sep
    Age at Death: 84
    Registration District: Whitehaven
    Parishes for this Registration District:
    Inferred County: Cumberland
    Volume: 10b
    Page: 350
  • A child of Thomas Wooff and Isabella Stephenson
  • This information was last updated on November 3, 2022.

Household of Rachel Wooff

She is married to William Gair.

They got married about 1819 at Whitehaven, Cumberland. England.Source 1

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Rachel Wooff
1795-1876

± 1819

William Gair
1795-1867


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Historical events

Birthday November 30, 1795

  • The temperature on November 30, 1795 was about 7.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south-southeast. Weather type: regen dampig. 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)
  •  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 1795: Source: Wikipedia
    • January 23 » After an extraordinary charge across the frozen Zuiderzee, the French cavalry captured 14 Dutch ships and 850 guns, in a rare occurrence of a battle between ships and cavalry.
    • February 7 » The 11th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified.
    • June 16 » French Revolutionary Wars: In what became known as Cornwallis's Retreat, a British Royal Navy squadron led by Vice Admiral William Cornwallis strongly resists a much larger French Navy force and withdraws largely intact, setting up the French Navy defeat at the Battle of Groix six days later.
    • October 24 » Poland is completely consumed by Russia, Prussia and Austria.
    • October 27 » The United States and Spain sign the Treaty of Madrid, which establishes the boundaries between Spanish colonies and the U.S.
    • December 28 » Construction of Yonge Street, formerly recognized as the longest street in the world, begins in York, Upper Canada (present-day Toronto).

Christening day December 6, 1795

  • The temperature on December 6, 1795 was about 9.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west-northwest. Weather type: 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)
  •  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 1795: Source: Wikipedia
    • February 7 » The 11th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified.
    • March 28 » Partitions of Poland: The Duchy of Courland and Semigallia, a northern fief of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, ceases to exist and becomes part of Imperial Russia.
    • April 5 » Peace of Basel between France and Prussia is made.
    • May 31 » French Revolution: The Revolutionary Tribunal is suppressed.
    • June 16 » French Revolutionary Wars: In what became known as Cornwallis's Retreat, a British Royal Navy squadron led by Vice Admiral William Cornwallis strongly resists a much larger French Navy force and withdraws largely intact, setting up the French Navy defeat at the Battle of Groix six days later.
    • October 27 » The United States and Spain sign the Treaty of Madrid, which establishes the boundaries between Spanish colonies and the U.S.

Day of death July 27, 1876

  • The temperature on July 27, 1876 was about 18.7 °C. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 79%. 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 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 1876: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
    • January 15 » The first newspaper in Afrikaans, Die Afrikaanse Patriot, is published in Paarl.
    • March 7 » Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the "telephone".
    • April 20 » The April Uprising begins. Its suppression shocks European opinion, and Bulgarian independence becomes a condition for ending the Russo-Turkish War.
    • June 4 » An express train called the Transcontinental Express arrives in San Francisco, via the First Transcontinental Railroad only 83 hours and 39 minutes after leaving New York City.
    • July 8 » The Hamburg massacre prior to the 1876 United States presidential election results in the deaths of six African-Americans of the Republican Party, along with one white assailant.
    • September 7 » In Northfield, Minnesota, Jesse James and the James–Younger Gang attempt to rob the town's bank but are driven off by armed citizens.


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