• Born: 7 June 1837, Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland ^{3 5}
• Christened: 26 June 1837, Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland ³
• Marriage (1): Elizabeth BLAIR on 3 September 1858 in Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland ¹
• Died: 25 May 1922, Rothesay, Bute, Scotland at age 84 ⁶

   Cause of his death was Arterio Sclerosis as cert. by J. Stewart Hall, M.B.Ch.B., D.P.H.

   Other names for James were James JAFFRAY and James JEFFREY.^{1 5}

  Birth Notes

• June.  James, son of Robert Jaffrey, weaver, Irvine, and Sarah Paton, spouses; was born seventh instant, and baptized twenty-sixth ditto, their fifth child.

  Christening Notes

Relief Congregation

  Death Notes

10h 0m AM, 6 Hillhouse Road, Rothesay

  Recorded Events in His Life

• He appeared on the 1841 Census of Scotland on 6 June 1841 in Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland.

• He appeared on the 1851 Census of Scotland on 30 March 1851 in Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland.

• He resided at the Quay in Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland on 8 December 1860. ⁴

• He worked as a fisherman on 3 April 1881 in Rothesay, Bute, Scotland.

• He appeared on the 1881 Census of Scotland on 3 April 1881 in Rothesay, Bute, Scotland.
  

James Jaffray       Head   42   Irvine, Aryshire         Fisherman
Elizabeth Jaffray   Wife   43   Irvine, Aryshire         Fisherman's Wife
Elizabeth Jaffray   Dau    16   Irvine, Aryshire         Cately Domestic Servant
James Jaffray       Son    12   Greenock, Renfrewshire   Scholar
Alexander Jaffray   Son     8   Rothesay, Buteshire      Scholar
Robert Jaffray      Son     6   Rothesay, Buteshire
Sarah Jaffray       Dau     2   Rothesay, Buteshire

• Namesake:  About Marion Hamilton Jeffrey...
  
  Marion Hamilton Jeffrey was born 18 May 1883 in Rothesay, Bute, Scotland, and died 1888 in Rothesay when she was only 4 years old. She was the daughter of James Jeffrey and Elizabeth Blair.
  
  Marion was named after her uncle Robert Jeffrey's wife, Marion Hamilton.  Robert was her father's youngest brother, born 22 Sep 1849 in Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland (12 years after her father James was born). On 21 Oct 1880, Robert married Marion Hamilton, the daughter of John Hamilton and Marion Paton, in Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland. Irvine is where James and Robert were both born, and where Marion Hamilton was born on 21 Jan 1856.
  
  When Robert got married he was a mercantile clerk, and although he was born in Irvine, he was then living in Georgetown, Guyana. So after they wed in Irvine, Robert took his new bride to Georgetown. She gave birth to an infant daughter in 1881. Likely the daughter was named Marion Jeffrey (perhaps Marion Paton Jeffrey, or Marion Hamilton Jeffrey), although since the records were in Guyana the name is not presently known. Unfortunately, both mother and infant daughter died of yellow fever in Georgetown on 17 Oct 1881, just a half-week shy of the mother's first year wedding anniversary.
  
  Robert erected a monument in Irvine Churchyard in memory of Marion Hamilton and his infant daughter. And so that's why Robert's brother James and his wife Elizabeth Blair named their last daughter Marion Hamilton Jeffrey.
  
  The story of Marion's name is a sad legacy, made even more sorrowful since she also died young.
  
  However, Marion's brother James Jeffrey (b. 1869 in Greenock, son of James Jeffrey and Elizabeth Blair) also had a daughter he named Marion Hamilton Jeffrey (in this case, named after his baby sister). This second Marion Hamilton Jeffrey was born in 28 March 1905 in Rothesay, and she lived to the age of 80 years old. She emigrated with her family to New Zealand in 1909 and married John Richard Callon in 1927.

• He worked as a retired fisherman on 2 April 1911 in Rothesay, Bute, Scotland. ⁵

• He appeared on the 1911 Census of Scotland on 2 April 1911 in Rothesay, Bute, Scotland. ⁵
  

Elizabeth Thomson   Head     F   44   W*      Fishmonger           Ayr Irvine
Elizabeth    "      Daur     F   19   S       Assist. Fishmonger   Bute Rothesay
Catherine    "      Daur     F   18   S         "         "          "     "
Mary         "      Daur     F   16   S         "         "          "     "
James Jeffrey       Father   M   74   Mar     Retired Fisherman    Ayr Irvine
Elizabeth "         Mother   F   75   Mar**                        Ayr Irvine
   * Married 20 years, 3 children born alive, 3 children still living
   **Married 54 years, 9 children born alive, 6 children still living

• He was employed on 6 August 1911 in Rothesay, Bute, Scotland. ¹

• He resided at 13 Bridge Street in Rothesay, Bute, Scotland on 6 August 1911. ¹

James married Elizabeth BLAIR, daughter of Alexander BLAIR and Mary DEAN, on 3 September 1858 in Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland.¹ (Elizabeth BLAIR was born about 1836 in Irvine, Dundonald Parish, Ayrshire, Scotland ^{1 5} and died on 6 August 1911 in Rothesay, Bute, Scotland ¹.). The cause of her death was Burns, Shock; As Cert by J. Burnett Lawson, M.D.