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Persoonlijke gegevens James Balfour 

• Hij is geboren op 20 augustus 1705.
• Hij is gedoopt op 31 augustus 1705 in South Leith, Midlothian, Scotland.
• Beroep: Of Pilrig. Professor of Moral Philosophy at Edinburgh. Philosopher..
• Hij is overleden in het jaar 1795, hij was toen 89 jaar oud.
• Een kind van James Balfour en Louise Hamilton

Gezin van James Balfour

Hij is getrouwd met Cecilia Helen Elphinstone.

Zij zijn getrouwd in het jaar 1737, hij was toen 31 jaar oud.

Kind(eren):

1. James (or John) Balfour  1740-1814 

Notities over James Balfour

NOTE: He also had a son James, a merchant of Leith, who had lots ofissue (Burke's Colonial Gentry). It looks as if this James wasthe 1st son and the LDS Vital Records of births confirms this.[TFPL, Nov 2002: It now looks as if this James, merchant ofLeith, was in fact Henry and James was and remained ofPilbrig...]

niveau d'instruction: Edinburgh univ.
These are the various documents he left behing summarising his

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1 SOUR @S29@ - His own article
1 SOUR @S87@ - Births of Balfours: FHL Film 1067773
1 SOUR @S174@ - James Balfour's 1760 matriculation, Vol 1, Folio 125
1 SOUR @S22@ - 19th Edn, Vol 1 (Scotland), pub 2001, Balfour article, p. 45
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1 TYPE Book
1 AUTH Reginald Cecil Lybbe Powys-Lybbe
1 PERI Powys-Lybbe genealogy
1 TEXT researches.  They included:
1 TEXT (1) His master tree of all families married by our forebears.
1 TEXT (2) His formal pedigree of the Powyses, in the style of Burke.
1 TEXT (3) His two pages of trees of various descents from medieval
1 TEXT royalty, including the Trotters back to the Scottish Stewarts.
1 TEXT (4) His trees of the recent Trotter marriages.
1 TEXT
1 TEXT Remarkably most of this has proved to be confirmed by publicly
1 TEXT available documents and some of it is a remarkable set of
1 TEXT findings.  One or two errors have appeared, mainly where he got
1 TEXT the wrong wife as the ancestor.  Perhaps only 20% of this
1 TEXT remains to be checked, principally the families married into by
1 TEXT the Trotters in the 18th and 19th centuries.
1 TEXT
1 TEXT However his besetting and frustrating fault is his almost
1 TEXT invariable omission of sources and similarly of dates.
1 TEXT
1 TEXT I suspect he relied heavily on Burke's Extinct Peerage, judging
1 TEXT by the heavily thumbed copy in APL's possession in 1999.  But
1 TEXT there is also evidence that went to various libraries and paid
1 TEXT handsomely for primary documentary evidence of some 16th and
1 TEXT 17th century families.
1 TEXT
1 TEXT Nevertheless most of my work has been to extend and verify his
1 TEXT enormous efforts.  He really was a serious genealogist (like
1 TEXT Martin but who follows the stricter regime of the last quarter
1 TEXT of the 20th century) and I have considerable admiration for what
1 TEXT he found out.

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