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Hij is getrouwd met Jean White.
Zij zijn getrouwd op 16 april 1814 te Alloa, Clackmannanshire, Scotland , hij was toen 22 jaar oud.Bron 1
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1. BLAIR, PHILEMON PHILEMON BLAIR/MARGARET MCGOWAN M 26/02/1792 465/ 50 189 Alloa
2. https://www-britishnewspaperarchive-co-uk.nls.idm.oclc.org/viewer/bl/0001604/18670622/053/0003
Alloa Advertiser - Saturday 22 June 1867 FOLK IN ALLOA WHOM I HAVE KNOWN
Philemon the 2nd reigned in the stead of his father. He came into office about the time of the fall of Napoleon Bonaparte (i.e. 1814), and was a real chip off the old block. He was very useful for many purposes, and was pretty generally employed by the merchants in the town. He was a capital “bottler,” and was allowed to be a fair judge of quality. In his chief occupation of grave-digger he used to have some quaint remarks. I remember on one occasion of a party who had a relative died, and who, before dying, had expressed a wish to be interred in another parish. Philie, on hearing of this, used the freedom of recommending surviving friends to “try her in Alloa first.” The advice was taken, and so far I have heard there has never been any complaints. Philie was a well-known character, and a considerable amount of liberty was taken with him. On one occasion, a person said to him, “I am afraid ye’ll no be lang in getting me, Philie.” “No a word about that,” he would kindly reply, “I would rather have either twa.” As stories about grave-diggers are very acceptable, I may mention that in his capacity of custodian of the old steeple, Philie's duty was to ring the old church bell every night at ten o’clock. From causes which need not be particularly alluded to, Phillie sometimes rung the bell the wrong hour, and clocks and watches were not so plentiful then as they are now, people sometimes went to their beds an hour earlier than they intended. On one occasion when he was ringing the bell, two of your young Alloa swells (now no more) went in by the gate and locked the steeple door from the outside. It was a dark winter night and Philie was perplexed what to do. Looking over the opening above the dial plate, he called lustily to a passer-by to come and open the door. But the passer-by, thinking he was spoken to by a resurrectionist, took to his heels and ran. At length, seeing no way of escape from his unpleasant place of confinement, Philie had recourse to the expedient of ringing the “fire bell.” Very soon crowds gathered, and everybody was crying “fire, fire!” Where, where ?” At length several people went to the steeple itself, and loud overhead Philemon was heard howling "here, here,” and having given explanations, he was soon extricated from his prison. The end came at last, however. Philemon Blair, who as grave-digger, and as the manner of the class is, had callously consigned so many of the townsfolk to the narrow house, himself died and was buried, and Edward his son was called to reign in his stead. The careers of Ned, and his brother and successor Robert, are too recent for me particularly to describe. ...
3. Philimon is not in 1851 Census. There is no record of death.
Record for Philemon Blair & Jane White/ Ancestry.com
Name: Philemon Blair
Gender: Male
Marriage Date: 16 Apr 1814
Marriage Place: Alloa, Clackmannan, Scotland
Spouse: Jane White
FHL Film Number: 1040207
Record for Philemon Blair
Name: Philemon Blair
Gender: Male
Birth Date: 23 Feb 1792
Baptism Date: 26 Feb 1792
Baptism Place: Alloa, Clackmannan, Scotland
Father: Philemon Blair
Mother: Margaret Mcgowan
FHL Film Number: 1040206
1841 England, Wales & Scotland Census
Kirkgate, Alloa (Clackmannan), Clackmannanshire, Scotland
Household Members that resided in the household at the time of the census.
First name(s) Last name Sex Age Birth year Birth place
Philimon Blair Male 45 1796 Sexton Clackmannanshire, Scotland
Jane Blair Female 50 1791 Clackmannanshire, Scotland
Edward Blair Male 15 1826 Tinsmith Clackmannanshire, Scotland
Robert Blair Male 15 1826 -
Catherine Macgowan Female 75 1766 Clackmannanshire, Scotland
James Macbeath Male 70 1771 Scotland
Jane Macbeath Female 55 1786 Scotland
James Younger Male 40 1801 Clackmannanshire, Scotland
George Younger Male 45 1796 Clackmannanshire, Scotland
Margaret Younger Female 70 1771 Clackmannanshire, Scotland
William Thomson Male 30 1811 Clackmannanshire, Scotland
Jane Thomson Female 20 1821 Clackmannanshire, Scotland
Hannah Thomson Female 3 1838 Clackmannanshire, Scotland
Jane Thomson Female 1 1840 Clackmannanshire, Scotland
Jane Thomson Female 60 1781 Scotland
Jane Williamson Female 20 1821 Scotland
1866 BLAIR, ROBERT (Statutory Registers of Deaths 689/ 292) Inveresk and Musselburgh
Deaths in the District of Inveresk and Musselburgh in the County of Edinburgh 1866.
Robert Blair
Labourer, Pauper, Lunatic from Alloa, Single
1866 December Twelfth 8h 0m am
Hallcross Assylum, Musselburgh M 34 Years
Parents: Philemon Blair
Sexton, Deceased
Jean BlairMS White
COD: Epilepsy, Months
Apoplexy, Days
As Cert by Henry Sanderson
Surgeon Rit
Inf. John Donaldson
Attendant Present
Registered
1866 Twenty Sixth, Musselburgh
DS M?
Assist, Reg.
BLAIR, PHILEMON PHILEMON BLAIR/MARGARET MCGOWAN M 26/02/1792 465/ 50 189 Alloa
BLAIR, EDWARD (Statutory Registers of Deaths 465/ 116) Alloa (Clackmannan)
Deaths in the Parish of Alloa in the County of Clackmannan 1862.
Edward Blair, Sexton
Married to Margaret Hart
1862 July Seventh 3h 45m A.M. M 39 Years
Parents: Philimon Blair
Sexton (Deceased)
Jane Blair
M.S. White
COD: Disease of the Heart
Several years
As Certified by John Allan,
Surgeon, Menstry
Inf. Margaret Blair, Widow, Present
Registered
1862 12th July, Alloa
Rob. D Bruce
Registrar