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Rev. James CAIRNCROSS
(Abt 1791–1851)
Hannah Hedley McKAY
(1795-After 1851)
James Edmund CAIRNCROSS
(1830 –1893)
Elizabeth LINDSAY
(1835 –1928)
Robert Lindsay CAIRNCROSS
(1868 –1940)

 

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Spouses & Children

1. Madge Bell WRIGHT

Robert Lindsay CAIRNCROSS 2 3
  • Born: 1868, Shakespeare, Perth County, Ontario, Canada 4
  • Marriage (1): Madge Bell WRIGHT about 1910 in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA 1 2
  • Died: 1940, prob Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA at age 72
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bullet  General Notes

Robert. Went to Chicago. D. 1940, no issue.  Married Madge Bell Wright, born circa 1886.  Wedding Chicago. For many years worked on the Railroad. Invented a device to tie rails together. Became an executive and salesman for a Railroad Equipment Company. Had stories published about the Railroad.

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Manitoba Morning Free Press (Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada)
Thursday, 22 June 1893
pg 8, col 1

"Mr. R. Cairncross, one of the conductors on the Gulf, Colorado and Sante Fe railroad, who has been doing the World's Fair, is in the city, en route to Birtle, where his parents reside. Mr. Cairncross was surprised on reaching here to learn that Manitoba was making an exhibit in Chicago. During all his stay there he had never heard of a Manitoba exhibit."

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bullet  Recorded Events in His Life

  • He worked as a Railway official. 3
  • He appeared on the 1910 US Federal Census in 1910 in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA. 5
  • He has conflicting death information of 1941 and prob Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA. 4
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Robert married Madge Bell WRIGHT about 1910 in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA.1 2 (Madge Bell WRIGHT was born on 26 May 1885 in Texas, USA 5 6 and died in February 1980 in prob Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA 6.)

bullet  Recorded Events about their Marriage


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bullet   Sources   bullet

  1. Kirsty M. Haining, Estimated date. Estimates are based off of known event dates (birth dates, christening dates, marriage dates, graduation dates, retirement events, death dates, etc.) from the lives of the individual's immediate ancestors or descendants. Women are estimated to be roughly 20 years older than the birth of the first child; men are about 5 years older than their wives; siblings are estimated at 2 years apart.
  2. Kirsty M. Haining.
  3. Personal knowledge of John Boyd Craven (1930 – 2014), family historian.
  4. John B. Craven, “The Hainings and the Cravens: A Twentieth Century Family History” (mss. privately published in 1995, but it was a work in progress. John continued to update, add content, and re-write his manuscript up until his death in 2014.), Chapter 19:  The Cairncrosses and the Lindsays.
  5. Ancestry.com, 1910 United States Federal Census [database on-line] (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006. Original data: Thirteenth Census of the United States, 1910. NARA microfilm publication T624, 1,178 rolls. Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, DC).
  6. Ancestry.com, Social Security Death Index [database on-line] (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2011. Original data: Social Security Administration. Social Security Death Index, Master File. Social Security Administration).


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