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John TOPPING
(Abt 1762 – )
Margaret McKEAN
(Abt 1765 – )
James BOYD
(1776 – )
Mary JAFFREY
(1775 –1851)
David TOPPING
(1798 –1886)
Mary BOYD
(1802 –1872)
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Anne TOPPING
(1833 –1905)

 

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1. Capt. Thomas Brown FERGUSON

Anne TOPPING 2 3 4 5 6
  • Born: 13 May 1833, Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland 7
  • Christened: 29 May 1833, Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland 7
  • Marriage (1): Capt. Thomas Brown FERGUSON on 2 February 1863 in Tradeston, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland 1
  • Died: 1 October 1905, Blantyre, Lanarkshire, Scotland at age 72 6 8
  • Buried: 1905, Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland

bullet   Other names for Anne were Annie FERGUSON, Ann TOPPIN,7 Ann TOPPING 1 and Annie TOPPING.

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bullet  Birth Notes

  • May. Ann, daughter of David Toppin shipmaster halfway near Irvine, and Mary Boyd spouses, was born thirteenth instant, and baptized twenty ninth ditto, their fifth child,

bullet  Christening Notes

Relief Congregation

bullet  Burial Notes

Irvine Old Parish Churchyard, Gravestone U46

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bullet  Recorded Events in Her Life

  • She appeared on the 1841 Census of Scotland on 6 June 1841 in Dundonald, Ayrshire, Scotland.

Mary Topping      38   Ayrshire, Scotland   Sewer
Mary Topping      14   Ayrshire, Scotland
Margart Topping   12   Ayrshire, Scotland
David Topping     10   Ayrshire, Scotland
James Topping      8   Ayrshire, Scotland
Ann Topping        6   Ayrshire, Scotland
John Topping       4   Ayrshire, Scotland
Robert Topping     2   Ayrshire, Scotland

  • She appeared on the 1861 Census of Scotland on 7 April 1861 in Govan, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland.

Mary Topping      Head   58   Irvine, Ayrshire   Shipmaster's Wife
Margt Topping     Dau    32   Irvine, Ayrshire  
Anne Topping      Dau    27   Irvine, Ayrshire  
John Topping      Son    25   Irvine, Ayrshire   Shipbuilders Cl
Robert Topping    Son    23   Irvine, Ayrshire   Sewd Musling Desegner
Barbara Topping   Dau    15   Irvine, Ayrshire   Scholar

  • She appeared on the 1871 Census of Scotland on 2 April 1871 in Hamilton, Lanarkshire, Scotland.

John Topping           Head      35   Cromer, Ayrshire       Iron Faunder
Anne Ferguson          Sister    37   Cromer, Ayrshire
Mary B Ferguson        Niece      6   Glasgow, Lanarkshire
Elizabeth D Ferguson   Niece      4   Glasgow, Lanarkshire
Janet Hamson           Servant   17   B Subject, New York


William Goodwin       8 Mo
Sarah Hill       15
William Campbell       9

  • She appeared on the 1881 Census of Scotland on 3 April 1881 in Dalziel, Lanarkshire, Scotland.

David B Topping           Son               8   Mid Lothian, Edinburghshire   Scholar
Maggie G Topping          Dau               7   Motherwell, Lanarkshire       Scholar
John Topping              Son               6   Motherwell, Lanarkshire       Scholar
Mary Elizabeth Topping    Dau               4   Motherwell, Lanarkshire
Edith F Topping           Dau               3   Motherwell, Lanarkshire
Gertrude A Topping        Dau               1   Motherwell, Lanarkshire
Robert J Topping          Son            4 Mo   Motherwell, Lanarkshire
Ann Ferguson              Sister Visitor   47   Ayrshire, Irvine
Elizabeth G Ferguson      Niece Visitor    14   Glasgow, Lanarkshire
Elizabeth F MacSkimmeny   Servant          19   Ayrshire, Irvine              General Serv (Domestic)
Maggie Fairless           Servant          19   Wishaw, Lanarkshire           General Serv (Domestic)

  • She appeared on the 1891 Census of Scotland on 5 April 1891 in Blantyre, Lanarkshire, Scotland.

Ann Ferguson           Head       57   Irvine, Ayrshire
Mary B Ferguson        Daughter   26   Glasgow, Lanarkshire
Elizabeth G Ferguson   Daughter   24   Glasgow, Lanarkshire
Margaret Topping       Relative   62   Irvine, Ayrshire
Robert Mcg Topping     Relative   52   Irvine, Ayrshire       Iron Founder

  • She appeared on the 1901 Census of Scotland on 31 March 1901 in Blantyre, Lanarkshire, Scotland.

Annie Ferguson         Head   67   Irvine, Ayrshire
Elizabeth G Ferguson   Dau    34   Glasgow, Lanarkshire
Robert Mc G Topping    Bro    62   Irvine, Ayrshire         Retired Iron Founder
Letitia Davies         Ser    17   Blackwood, Lanarkshire   Servant Domestic


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  • She was buried at the Irvine Old Parish Churchyard in Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland in 1905.

    Monumental Inscriptions on the various sides of the David Topping and Mary Boyd family obelisk (gravestone U46):

    Side A
    SACRED
    To The Memory Of
    MARY BOYD
    THE BELOVED WIFE OF
    DAVID TOPPING
    SHIP MASTER GLASGOW,
    DIED 23RD NOVEMBER 1872,
    AGED 70 YEARS
    The Above
    DAVID TOPPING
    DIED 15TH DECEMBER 1886
    AGED 89 YEARS
    ROBERT McG. TOPPING their Son
    DIED 2ND DEC. 1916 AGED 79 YEARS

    Side B
    ALSO
    In Memory of Their Children
    BARBARA;
    DIED 25TH NOV., 1843, AGED 11 MONTHS.
    DAVID;
    DIED 15TH APRIL 1844, AGED 14½ YEARS.
    Also of
    JAMES TOPPING;
    SHIP MASTER,
    WHO WAS DROWNED ON THE MARGATE SANDS,
    JANY. 20 1855, AGED 23 YEARS.
    Much regretted.

    Side C
    ALSO
    MARGARET TOPPING, THEIR DAUGHTER
    DIED AT BLANTYRE 19TH JANUARY 1895
    AGED 65 YEARS
    IN MEMORY OF
    CAPT. T. B. FERGUSON
    WHO DIED AT CALCUTTA 7TH MARCH 1866
    Also
    MARY B. FERGUSON HIS DAUGHTER
    WHO DIED AT BLANTYRE 29TH JUNE 1902
    AGED 37 YEARS
    ALSO ANNIE TOPPING HIS WIFE
    WHO DIED AT BLANTYRE 1ST OCTOBER 1905
    AGED 72 YEARS
    AND ELIZABETH G. FERGUSON THEIR DAUGHTER
    WHO DIED AT BLANTYRE 28TH JUNE 1951
    AGED 84 YEARS

    Side D
    No monumental inscription on this panel.
  • She had an estate probated on 8 December 1905 in London, England. 6

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Anne married Capt. Thomas Brown FERGUSON, son of Alexander FERGUSON and Elizabeth GRAY, on 2 February 1863 in Tradeston, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland.1 (Capt. Thomas Brown FERGUSON was born on 5 February 1837 in Saltcoats, Ardrossan Parish, Ayrshire, Scotland 9 10 11, christened on 26 February 1837 in Ardrossan, Ayrshire, Scotland, died on 7 March 1866 in Calcutta, Bengal, India and was buried on 8 March 1866 in Calcutta, Bengal, India.)


bullet  Marriage Notes

Paisley Road

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bullet   Sources   bullet

  1. The Ardrossan & Saltcoats Herald (Ardrossan, Scotland, UK), “Ardrossan & Saltcoats Herald BDM Intimation Database 1856 –1899,” database, AyrshireRoots.com  (http://www.ayrshire-roots.co.uk/ : 2005), accessed 24 August 2009), Ann Topping marriage to Thomas B. Ferguson, Paisley Road, Glasgow; 07 Feb 1863 edition of the newspaper.
  2. Kirsty M. Haining.
  3. Ancestry.com, 1861 Scotland Census [database on-line] (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006). Original data: Scotland. 1861 Scotland Census. Reels 1–150. General Register Office for Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland.
  4. FamilySearch Historical Record Collections, Scotland Marriages, 1561–1910.
  5. FamilySearch Historical Record Collections, Scotland Births and Baptisms, 1564 –1950.
  6. Ancestry.com, England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858 –1966 [database on-line] (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010. Original data: Principal Probate Registry. Calendar of the Grants of Probate and Letters of Administration made in the Probate Registries of the High Court of Justice in England. London, England © Crown copyright.), Anne Topping death in Blantyre, Scotland on 1 Oct 1905.
  7. Irvine Relief Church (Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland), Baptisms 1778 –1790 and 1807 –1855 and Session Minutes 1777 –1877. The National Archives of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1833 birth and baptism of Ann Toppin; FHL microfilm 0889478.
  8. Statutory Registers of Scotland, Index of Deaths, 1855 – 2012 (Edinburgh, United Kingdom: General Register Office for Scotland).
  9. Ancestry.com, 1841 Scotland Census [database on-line] (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006. Original data: 1841 Scotland Census. Edinburgh, Scotland: General Register Office for Scotland. Reels 1–151), Alexander Ferguson household, Dockhead Street, Village of Saltcoats, Ardrossan Parish, Ayrshire, Scotland; Parish: Ardrossan; ED: 12; Page: 2; Line: 500; Year: 1841.
  10. 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, Elizabeth Ferguson household, Kirkwood's Land, Saltcoats, Stevenston Parish, Ayrshire, Scotland; Parish: Stevenston; ED: 8; Page: 20; Line: 10; Roll: CSSCT1851_139; Year: 1851.
  11. Ancestry.com, UK and Ireland, Masters and Mates Certificates, 1850 –1927 [database on-line] (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012. Original data: Master's Certificates. Greenwich, London, UK: National Maritime Museum.), Thomas Brown Ferguson's exam application paperwork for his Certificates of Competency as First Mate (1858) and as Master (1863); certificate no. 16,587.


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