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James BALMER
(Abt 1779-After 1855)

 

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1. Deborah McCALLUM

2. Jane SMITH

James BALMER 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
  • Born: Abt 1779, Ireland 7 8
  • Marriage (1): Deborah McCALLUM about 1808 in prob Ireland 1
  • Marriage (2): Jane SMITH after 1841 in prob Ayrshire, Scotland
  • Died: After 19 October 1855, prob Ayrshire, Scotland
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bullet  Recorded Events in His Life

  • He worked as a blacksmith on 6 June 1841 in Monkton, Ayrshire, Scotland. 7 8
  • He appeared on the 1841 Census of Scotland on 6 June 1841 in Monkton, Ayrshire, Scotland. 7 8

1841 Scotland Census -

         Address:  Village of Monkton
    Civil parish:  Monkton and Prestwick
          County:  Ayrshire
   Parish Number:  606
              ED:  1
            Page:  22

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                       Estimated   Birth                                                   Parish
Name         Sex  Age  Birth Year  Place     Occupation    Civil Parish            County     No.

James Balmer   M   62   abt 1779   Ireland   Black Smith   Monkton and Prestwick   Ayrshire   606
Debora Balmer  F   53   abt 1788   Ireland        --       Monkton and Prestwick   Ayrshire   606
George Balmer  M    8   abt 1833   Ayrshire, Scotland --   Monkton and Prestwick   Ayrshire   606

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

    James Balmer         71     Ireland     Pauper-formerly Blacksmith
    William Balmer       41     Ireland     Ag Labourer
    Elizabeth Balmer     29     Ireland     Labourers Wife
    Mary Balmer          12     Renfrew, Renfrewshire     Scholar
    James Balmer          1 yr 6 mo     Monkton, Ayrshire
  • He worked as a Blacksmith, Tarbolton in 1855 in Ayrshire, Scotland. 4 9
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James married Deborah McCALLUM about 1808 in prob Ireland.1 (Deborah McCALLUM was born about 1788 in Ireland 7 8 and died before 30 March 1851 in prob Monkton, Ayrshire, Scotland.)


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James next married Jane SMITH after 1841 in prob Ayrshire, Scotland. (Jane SMITH was born about 1807 in prob Ayrshire, Scotland 1 and died before 1910 in prob Ayrshire, Scotland.)


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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. Achievements Ltd. to John Boyd Craven, letter, 02 February 1973; privately held by Craven.
  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.).
  5. Maybole Parish Church (Maybole, Ayrshire, Scotland), Birth, Marriage, and Death Records. Digital images. (National Records of Scotland and brightsolid Online Publishing Ltd. ScotlandsPeople. https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/ : © Crown copyright.), "OPR Births & Baptisms," James Balmer birth on 15 April and baptism on 5 May 1822 (OPR Births 605/ 0040 0024 Maybole); accessed 15 March 2009. The Old Parish Registers are church records of births, baptisms, banns, marriages, deaths, and burials that were kept by individual parishes within the Church of Scotland ("the Established Church") from 1553 until 1855 when civil registration began. All original registers are now held by the National Records of Scotland (NRS) at New Register House in Edinburgh, Scotland.
  6. Saint Quivox Parish Church (St Quivox, Ayrshire, Scotland), Birth, Marriage, and Death Records. Digital images. (National Records of Scotland and brightsolid Online Publishing Ltd. ScotlandsPeople. https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/ : © Crown copyright.), "OPR Births & Baptisms," George Balmer birth on 05 November 1832 (OPR Births 612/001 0020 0115 St Quivox); accessed 27 March 2008. The Old Parish Registers are church records of births, baptisms, banns, marriages, deaths, and burials that were kept by individual parishes within the Church of Scotland ("the Established Church") from 1553 until 1855 when civil registration began. All original registers are now held by the National Records of Scotland (NRS) at New Register House in Edinburgh, Scotland.
  7. 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), James Balmer household, Village of Monkton, United Parish of Monkton & Prestwick (606), Ayrshire, Scotland, enumeration district (ED) 1, page 22.
  8. 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), James Balmer household, Village of Monkton, United Parish of Monkton & Prestwick, Ayrshire, Scotland.
  9. Achievements Ltd. to John Boyd Craven, letter, 02 February 1973; privately held by Craven, 1855 marriage record of George Balmer & Elizabeth Allan.


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