• Born: 23 November 1816, Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland ²
• Christened: 3 December 1816, Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland ²
• Marriage (1): Hugh ALEXANDER on 19 June 1853 in Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland
• Died: 21 December 1881, Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland at age 65
• Buried: 1881, Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland

   Cause of her death was Apoplexy.

  Birth Notes

[1816, Date of Baptisms]  December third Eighteen hundred and Sixteen   Janet. Daughter of Robert Jaffrey weaver in Irvine and Isabella Fergusson. Spouses. born the twenty third ultimo. there Third child

  Christening Notes

Relief Congregation

  Burial Notes

Irvine Old Parish Churchyard

  Recorded Events in Her Life

• She has conflicting birth information of 23 December 1816 and Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland. ³

• She appeared on the Census of the Town and Parish of Irvine and Halfway in December 1820 in Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland. ⁴ District 8, number 27 (North end of Cotton Row):  Robert JAFFREY household.  2 males, 3 females.  Born in Irvine.  Occupation: Weaver.  Member of the Relief Church.  Healthy and not likely to need assistance.

• She worked as a gentlewoman housekeeper to her brother the Free Church Minister at Holytown on 30 April 1851 in Edinburgh St. George, Midlothian, Scotland.

• She appeared on the 1851 Census of Scotland on 30 April 1851 in Edinburgh St. George, Midlothian, Scotland.
  

Mary Kelly         Head      29   Borthwick, Midlothian   Lodging House Keeper
Henrietta Carins   Servant   14   Glasgow, Lanark         Gen Serv
Andre K H Boyd     Lodger    25   Auchinleck, Ayrshire    Assistant To The Minister At The Parish Of St George's Fidinbro
Anne Ferguson      Visitor   56   Irvine, Ayrshire        Propietrix Of House
Janet Jeffrey      Visitor   32   Irvine, Ayrshire        Gentlewoman House Keeper To Her Brother The Free Church Minister At Holyton

• She appeared on the 1881 Census of Scotland on 3 April 1881 in Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland.

• She was buried at the Irvine Old Parish Churchyard in Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland about 23 December 1881.
  
  Inscription in Old Parish Churchyard, Irvine:
  
  IN AFFECTIONATE REMEMBRANCE
  OF
  JOHN FERGUSON JAFFREY
  SON OF ROBERT JAFFREY AND ISABELLA FERGUSON
  WHO DIED 23RD MAY 1876
  IN HIS FIFTY FOURTH YEAR
  MATT XXIV 44
  JANET JAFFREY WIFE OF H. ALEXANDER
  B. 23d DECr 1816
  D. 21t DECr 1881
  ALSO THE ABOVE HUGH ALEXANDER
  WHO DIED 12TH JUNE 1888
  AGED 75 YEARS
  AND JANE BISSET HIS SISTER
  RELICT OF JOHN BISSET LATE OF
  KIRKBY, LANCASHIRE
  WHO DIED 26TH JANUARY 1892
  AGED 81 YEARS

Janet married Hugh ALEXANDER, son of John ALEXANDER and Jean McDOWALL, on 19 June 1853 in Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland. (Hugh ALEXANDER was born about 1813 in Kilwinning, Ayrshire, Scotland, died on 12 June 1888 in Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland and was buried in 1888 in Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland.). The cause of his death was Pneumonia 8 days, heart failure 4 days.