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John SEMPLE
(Abt 1749 – )
Janet GRAY
(Abt 1751– )
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Alexander SEMPLE
(1796 –1874)

 

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1. Agnes CURRIE

2. Grace BRYAN

Alexander SEMPLE 1 2 4 5 6 7
  • Born: 1796, Coylton, Ayrshire, Scotland 5 6 7
  • Christened: 5 April 1796, Springs, Coylton, Ayrshire, Scotland
  • Marriage (1): Agnes CURRIE on 22 January 1822 in Ochiltree, Ayrshire, Scotland 1 2 3
  • Marriage (2): Grace BRYAN on 1 July 1853 in Ochiltree, Ayrshire, Scotland
  • Died: 6 December 1874, Stair, Ayrshire, Scotland at age 78 8

bullet   Cause of his death was "atrophy uncertain."

bullet   Other names for Alexander were Alexander SEMPHILL 9 and Alexander SEMPILL.9

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bullet  Recorded Events in His Life

  • He resided at Old Whitehill in Ochiltree, Ayrshire, Scotland on 6 June 1841. 5

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  • He appeared on the 1841 Census of Scotland on 6 June 1841 in Ochiltree, Ayrshire, Scotland. 5 10

1841 Census of Scotland - Piece: SCT1841/609
     Place:  Ochiltree-Ayrshire
     Enumeration District:  4
     Civil Parish:  Ochiltree
     Ecclesiastical Parish, Village or Island:  Ochiltree
     Parish Number:  609
     Folio:  4
     Page:   8

Address: Old Whitehill

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Surname  First name   Sex   Age   Birth Year   Occupation     Where Born   Remarks

SEMPLE   Alexander     M     40    abt 1801    Labourer       Ayrshire
SEMPLE   Agness        F     40    abt 1801    -              Ayrshire
SEMPLE   Margaret      F     15    abt 1826    -              Ayrshire
SEMPLE   Mary          F     10    abt 1831    -              Ayrshire
SEMPLE   Alexander     M      5    abt 1836    -              Ayrshire
SEMPLE   Robert        M      3    abt 1838    -              Ayrshire
SEMPLE   James         M      1    abt 1840    -              Ayrshire   

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  • He worked as a labourer on 6 June 1841 in Ochiltree, Ayrshire, Scotland. 5
  • He worked as a thatcher on 30 March 1851 in Stair, Ayrshire, Scotland. 11

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  • He appeared on the 1851 Census of Scotland on 30 March 1851 in Newton on Ayr, Ayrshire, Scotland. 6

Alexander Semple   Head     Wid   M   54   Thatcher            Ayrshire Coylton
Margaret    "      Daur     U     F   26   Straw Hat Maker        "     Stair
Mary        "      Daur     U     F   20          "               "     Ochiltree
Alexander   "      Son      U     M   16   Grocer (App)           "        "
Robert      "      Son      U     M   13   Iron Monger (App)      "        "
James       "      Son      U     M   11   Scholar                "        "
Elizabeth McEwen   Lodger   U     F   18   Hand Sewer             "     Maybole

  • He worked as a thatcher on 30 March 1851 in Newton on Ayr, Ayrshire, Scotland. 6
  • He resided at Main Street, Town of Newton in Newton on Ayr, Ayrshire, Scotland on 30 March 1851. 6
  • He appeared on the 1851 Census of Scotland on 30 March 1851 in Stair, Ayrshire, Scotland. 11

Janet Ramsen       Head       74   Coylton, Ayrshire   Farmer Of 10 Acres
Margret Ramsen     Daughter   30   Stair, Ayrshire
Helen Ramsen       Daughter   28   Stair, Ayrshire     Dressmaker
Alexander Semple   Lodger     52   Coylton, Ayrshire   Thatcher

  • He appeared on the 1861 Census of Scotland on 7 April 1861 in Stair, Ayrshire, Scotland.

Alexander Semple   65   Coylton, Ayrshire      Thatcher
Grace Semple       51   Auchinleck, Ayrshire

  • He worked as a thatcher on 7 April 1861 in Stair, Ayrshire, Scotland.
  • He appeared on the 1871 Census of Scotland on 2 April 1871 in Stair, Ayrshire, Scotland. 7 Alexander Simple       74
    Gray Simple       69
  • He resided at 29 Burn, Hamlet of Burn in Stair, Ayrshire, Scotland on 2 April 1871. 7
  • He worked as a thatcher on 2 April 1871 in Stair, Ayrshire, Scotland. 7
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Alexander married Agnes CURRIE, daughter of John CURRIE and Margaret BEAUMONT, on 22 January 1822 in Ochiltree, Ayrshire, Scotland.1 2 3 (Agnes CURRIE was born on 1 April 1799 in Ochiltree, Ayrshire, Scotland 5 12, christened on 7 April 1799 in Ochiltree, Ayrshire, Scotland 12 13 and died before 30 March 1851 in prob Ochiltree, Ayrshire, Scotland 6.)

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bullet  Marriage Notes

Ochiltree, Ayrshire, Scotland (OPR Marriages 609/00 0040 0154).
Marriages A.D. 1822. Semple & Currie. Alexander Semple and Agnes Currie both in this parish were regularly married on the Twenty Second day of January Eighteen hundred and twenty two ---

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Alexander next married Grace BRYAN, daughter of James BRYAN and Agnes McKERROW, on 1 July 1853 in Ochiltree, Ayrshire, Scotland. (Grace BRYAN was born in 1802 in Auchinleck, Ayrshire, Scotland 7, christened on 17 April 1802 in Auchinleck, Ayrshire, Scotland and died in 1875 in Stair, Ayrshire, Scotland 14.)


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bullet   Sources   bullet

  1. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, International Genealogical Index (R) [database on-line] (Copyright © 1980, 2002), Parish Records, Batch No. M116094  (Ochiltree, Ayr, Scotland), 1820 –1854.
  2. Scotland, Marriages, 1561–1910. Index, FamilySearch (http://FamilySearch.org : 2013. Index based upon data collected by the Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah), entry for Alexander Semple and Agnes Currie, 22 Jan 1822 (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XT2N-QZ3 : accessed 4 May 2016); citing Ochiltree, Ayrshire, Scotland; FHL microfilm 1,041,401.
  3. Marriage Certificate (digital or paper copy of official marriage record privately held by Kirsty M. Haining), Alexander Semple and Agnes Currie marriage in Ochiltree on 22 January 1822.
  4. Kirsty M. Haining.
  5. National Records of Scotland and brightsolid Online Publishing Ltd., ScotlandsPeople (https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/), 1841 Census of Scotland; digital images (Edinburgh, Scotland: General Register Office for Scotland. Reels 1–151. © Crown copyright), Alexander Semple household, Old Whitehill, Parish of Ochiltree (609), Ayrshire, Scotland, enumeration district (ED) 4, page 8.
  6. National Records of Scotland and brightsolid Online Publishing Ltd., ScotlandsPeople (https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/), 1851 Census of Scotland; digital images (Edinburgh, Scotland: General Register Office for Scotland. Reels 1– 217. © Crown copyright), Alexander Semple household, Main Street, Parish of Newton on Ayr, Town of Newton, Ayrshire, Scotland.
  7. Ancestry.com, 1871 Scotland Census [database on-line] (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007). Original data: Scotland. 1871 Scotland Census. Reels 1–191. General Register Office for Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland, Alexander Semple household, 29 Burn, Stair, Ayrshire, Scotland.
  8. Death Certificate (digital or paper copy of official death record privately held by Kirsty M. Haining).
  9. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, International Genealogical Index (R) [database on-line] (Copyright © 1980, 2002), Parish Records, Batch No. C116094  (Ochiltree, Ayr, Scotland), 1819 –1855.
  10. FreeCEN (https://www.freecen.org.uk/), 1841 Census of Scotland (FreeCEN search engine, layout and database Copyright © 2003-2012 The Trustees of FreeCEN. Scottish Census Data - Crown Copyright © General Register Office for Scotland. Reproduced with the permission of the Controller of HMSO and Queen's Printer for Scotland), Alexander Semple household, Old Whitehill, Ochiltree, Ayrshire, Scotland, Parish 609, Enumeration District 4, page 8.
  11. Ancestry.com, 1851 Scotland Census [database on-line] (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006). Original data: Scotland. 1851 Scotland Census. Reels 1– 217. General Register Office for Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland.
  12. Achievements Ltd. to John Boyd Craven, letter, 19 June 1975; privately held by Craven.
  13. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, International Genealogical Index (R) [database on-line] (Copyright © 1980, 2002), Parish Records, Batch No. C116092.
  14. Statutory Registers of Scotland, Index of Deaths, 1855 – 2012 (Edinburgh, United Kingdom: General Register Office for Scotland).


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